D stands for Double Decade

[tzikeh]

It was twenty years ago today... well, twenty years plus ten days ago. But twenty years ago, the first issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman hit the stands.

Wow. I'm old. Not as old as some on my flist, but a good deal older than most.

Bonus track: Jonathan Coulton surprises his audience at a concert in Manchester by bringing Neil Gaiman on stage to sing "Creepy Doll" with him. That version has the awesome intro with the surprise, but you can't really see Gaiman, though you can hear him. This version starts after Gaiman has taken the stage, so doesn't include the first verse, but you can see him (and watch him play the creepy tambourine!).

Comments

[deejay.livejournal.com]

"Old"...?

*feh*

[iko.livejournal.com]

I got into Neil with *Black Orchid*. I missed the first few issues of *Sandman*, but read the series in high school. I thought it was brilliant and I loved it very much, even though at the time I was more into Stephen King, Clive Barker, William Gibson, Frank Herbert, and Heinlein. Neil was sort of... down a bit in my list but I still thought he was great. It's interesting to see him now, as an adult, as my hands-down favorite author and all the others, although I still love and respect them, are not as intense a love anymore.