Don't listen to these naysayers, Sal. Midnight's Children was amazing, Satanic Verses was great, Shame was fantastic. Since then, though…well, we'll ignore that.

Another Earth is a great movie about loneliness and loss. It has a science fiction concept used purely as metaphor that exists in the deep background of most of the film. It's more a metaphysical conceit than it is a sci-fi conceit. It deals with that metaphysical conceit really intelligently—and is actually probably…

E. Buzz Miller: "That said, if you do that too much, it loses it's impact."

I always figured Destruction weakened his stance of distance when he decided to visit the new Dream in The Wake—this Dream was not the one he has a problem with, and he did say he might visit again, so they were in contact. Since Dream leads the charge to save Delirium, it made sense to me that he'd then turn around…

There's some interesting hinting at what the relationships between the Endless are. Despair mentions the division between the older three and the younger three, who are more interested (according to her) in meddling in human affairs (though for a guy who says he doesn't like to meddle in human affairs, Dream does a…

Look dad, it's a bear!

Some really fucking fascinating ideas about what's going on here can be found at this message board: http://neilgaimanboard.com/…

I really don't think it's Oberon. It's been suggested a number of times in Sandman that Oberon is nowhere near as important or powerful a fairy as Titania is, in all her aspects. And even if he was—he doesn't seem to be a guy who cares about his wife sleeping around—he certainly didn't mind seeing him portrayed as…

Well, I think it's more than that. Remember the conversation between Dream and Death—"I have made my preparations." "You've making making these preparations for a long time."

I'm surprised there was nary a mention of Fruitvale in your coverage, considering all the buzz surrounding it and the Weinstein buy and good press elsewhere.

Gaiman mentions the difference between boys' stories and girls' stories twice in the series—first in A Game of You, then here in World's End, but what's really interesting, and something I've never had a good answer for, is what he does with gendered stories in The Kindly Ones. Perhaps that discussion is best left…

That story—The Nearness of You—is fantastic. "No one forgets." It brings a tear to my eye every time I read it.

I also assumed it was because of the events in The Kindly Ones—that either World's End actually takes place after The Kindly Ones, or that the reality storm is causing time to shift (a la the characters from various time periods and dimensions being in the same place, we see the effects of TKO before they actually…

Do you think Destiny is goth? I'd say he and Destruction are not goth, the other five are.

Yeah, Destruction's balloon is bolded, I think showing the fierceness and shouting behind his voice. Instead, Death is the only one of the Endless whose word balloons are the same as normal people, showing how she is the one most in touch with and connected to humanity.

I love the Hob story—for me it thematically fits with Brief Lives, really. And while I find the Midsummer story to be overrated, I love The Tempest—it dealing with a bunch of issues surrounding why, 400 years later, Dream decides to die. I do think that The Wake goes on too long and overall isn't as interesting as it…

Many of the Endless are culpable in Orpheus's tragedy—I thought that was the point. Desire may or may not have forced Aristeas to attempt to rape Eurydice. Dream rebuffed his son's sadness (which, of course, implicates Despair as well). Destruction told Orpheus to talk to Death. And Death, probably the MOST culpable,…

His appearance as a hologram on election night 2008.

Tim Leider: There's also the fact that even though he grouses about the historical inaccuracies, Death as always sweetly and quickly negated it with her line about how much she loves the festival and how everyone is having such a good time. As much as Hob grouses that it wasn't like that, but how would she know…

Tim Leider: There's also the fact that even though he grouses about the historical inaccuracies, Death as always sweetly and quickly negated it with her line about how much she loves the festival and how everyone is having such a good time. As much as Hob grouses that it wasn't like that, but how would she know…