![]() A shapeshifter endowed through an accident with the ability to turn himself into sand, he started out as a recurring adversary to the superhero Spider-Man, has been slowly redeemed over time, eventually. The scope of "The Sandman" is vast, as it incorporates myth and fantasy to create an interconnected story with equally great one-off tales, bringing historical figures into the mix to make things even more intriguing. Flint Marko) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Last year Netflix made it into a show, and to celebrate the occasion, the powers that be released the entire run of. After all, "The Sandman" is not just Morpheus' story, as the comics deftly weave a world surrounding the titular character that is dense and interesting in its own right. Its a seminal comic series written by Neil Gaiman that ran from 1989 to 1996. While it remains to be seen whether the Netflix series is able to capture the dizzying, visceral nature of the comics, the show needs to progress the story organically while setting up key characters convincingly. I feel like that actually translated beautifully onto the screen." ![]() "I think that sensibility of, we can go anywhere, that sensibility of, you do not know where the next episode is going to take, you don't even know the genre of the next episode and whatever the next episode is, you're not prepared for it. Per Gaiman, this aspect of the comics has been faithfully depicted in the Netflix adaptation, as the episodic nature of the series helped capture the varying tones and genre-hybridity of the comics: ![]()
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