I am expecting and hoping both series will be in graphic novel format
and do look forward to reading both very much.
I am expecting and hoping both series will be in graphic novel format
and do look forward to reading both very much.
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Eh, the problem with a lot of modern graphic novels is that there are no stopping points, no chapters. Chapters help in processing the book and also provide a natural on/off point. Collected editions of comics have natural chapters because they were originally sold as individual issues.
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What length is a graphic novel usually ? If it's like The Hiketeia, I can see why there wouldn't be a need for chapters, since it could break the flow of the story, but longer, I think it help readers transitioning from one part of the story to another, especially if ellipses are used.
My understanding is that a graphic novel is usually the equivalent of between 4-6 individual issues - so anywhere from 80 to 132 pages. You also have the Deluxe sized, which are the equivalent of two trades - so those are usually between 12-14 issues (240-300 pages). Lastly you have the massive, massive collections of big storyarcs, like War Games or Knightfall - or the Absolute Editions. Those get really up there - 800-1000 pages. But at that point, because comic paper is so heavy, the book itself gets almost unreadable.
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800 to 100 pages ? Oh man... And here I was, thinking that Watchmen and the deluxe edition of Darksei War were big... And yet, I would like Historia to be that big, I must be crazy.
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You are thinking trade paper backs, those are collected editions of individual issues and will be that size. Actual graphic novels run 48-64 pages generally and have on very fee rare occasions gone to 80.
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"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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Most of the time, when I was reading SANDMAN, I just naturally thought of Lyta as the granddaughter of Hippolyta. So it had that "oomph" for me. Prior to SANDMAN, for most of her short mainstream DC life, that's who she was. There was never many stories about Lyta re the "original" Fury (her supposed biological mother). So it was easy to let that slip my mind. And I don't think Gaiman ever highlighted the matter. The more important thing was that Daniel was the son of Hector Hall when he was in his Sandman form.
In terms of Dream of the Endless, you can have it both ways. Gaiman did make a point of that--that the waking worlds were many--and in the Dreaming all realities were equivalent. I think this is made most clear duirng "The Wake."
And in Morrison's JLA run, when Daniel appears in "Perchance to Dream" (issues 22 & 23), he makes some cryptic comments, that I read as him paying off a debt to Hippolyta his great grandmother and thus to his mother. Which suggested to me that Daniel can remember it that way--that Lyta was Diana's daughter in one of the waking worlds.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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