You're right, and it's kinda killing me.
And I think there's something to be said here for things that can make people FEEL like monsters (when they aren't) as opposed to people whose actions mean they ARE in fact monsters.
I first encountered Gaiman's work in the late 80s in college. My visual media design teacher gave us the assignment to go to a comics store and find a book we *really* liked. Don't just pick the first men in tights book off the shelf, actually take the time to find something to be truly *engaged* by.
A conversation with the excellent and now long gone That's Entertainment of Worcester, MA where I went to school lead him to hand me Sandman #1 as well as an issue of Hellblazer.
I was in love.
Having physical deformities that are readily visible to anyone can put a bit of a headtrip on a kid. It's not like I'm Quasi-modo or anything but I walk funny and my partially blind eyes do funny things. I'm sure you can paint a picture.
Sandman really *spoke* to me, and I think I will now need to do some processing around the ways it spoke and what that means.
Why do humans have to suck so much?
Feoh
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