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    I saw this article in my feed this morning and immediately dropped my wake-up routine to dive into it. Sandman was the comic that first got me into comics and everything from LITTLE NEMO to ASTERIOS POLYP that I read afterwards is in some way a credit to this series.

    So I know everyone did this in film school or whatever and he's not really looking at himself in the mirror, but we can't leave out the infinite mirrors scene from Citizen Cain (http://www.youtube.com/watc… can we? Also, it's no longer The Greatest Movie Ever, so my comment is entirely justified.

    So I know everyone did this in film school or whatever and he's not really looking at himself in the mirror, but we can't leave out the infinite mirrors scene from Citizen Cain (http://www.youtube.com/watc… can we? Also, it's no longer The Greatest Movie Ever, so my comment is entirely justified.

    Don't forget Freud and Faulkner. I'm pretty sure he's read those too.

    Something to add to Stray Observations: "Why do you always have handcuffs?"

    I think that another one of the show's big ideas—I'm not really sure it's a "theme"—that comes up in this episode is playing with genre conventions. Episodes like this one and "Mushroom Samba" are almost impossible to get into without knowing something about the genres they're working within. So while "Mushroom Samba"…

    Neil Gaiman
    I first read SANDMAN when I was 18 and it hit me like no other book ever has. In the first volume, I was skeptical of Dream's vague quest to collect his lost power symbols. The stories were creative enough, but there didn't seem to be much point to them—it was like Gaiman was grabbing for some grander…

    The two moments with the greatest expressions of audience collectivity at my screening: 1) the end of Inception and 2) "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" Old Spice commercial. I'm not sure which moment had the audience more excited.

    Some days I think video games are art, some days I don't. I definitely think they are entertaining. It's bizarre because video games were the first narrative medium I really got into as a kid (anyone remember Super Mario RPG on the NES?) before novels, comic books, or movies. I say it's bizarre because I think…