nik9000

I've read a bunch from both authors and think your point checks out. Gainan has much more variety. I'm not sure it matters though.

My guess, worthless as it is, is that Gaiman's best works celebrated the marginalized. Loved them and taught you to love them. Respected them. His work taught people that his actions are terrible.

On the other hand, Stardust. Maybe my guess is totally wrong. Shrug

We're two years out from the API apocalypse. I think. That's how I got here.

There's a book called Catch 22. Looks like the made a movie of it. The book is the funniest thing I've ever read. Made me think about how crazy fighting is. Sort of like a funny Slaughterhouse-Five.

Neither mentioned illegal orders as far as I remember. Was the movie quite different?

I think time wasn't super kind to it. And I don't remember how clear it was in the movie that Scott's just not a good dude. My memory of the story is that the core is: Scott is bad. Scott accepts that. Scott starts doing better. But maybe that's just my headcannon.

It's a good lesson though! Just because you were bad doesn't mean you are bad. You can change. Life isn't a simplistic video game. It's a lesson I've needed from time to time.

This image from the Wikipedia page is great.

Certainly hypole comparing it to the Hamadian massacres. Still. Good image.

It's weird I said "men" here. In the US women usually change their names once and men never. But adoption and grandma and going by initials are all changes I've seen and understand.

The story reads as totally normal. Not many men change their name that much but, "I want the same last name as my grandma who I love very much and not my second dad who I don't talk to" feels right and good and maybe even sweet. The man's a monster. This is fine.

I heard someone reply to that argument once with, "ask The Taliban". I'm not sure I agree. But it did make me think.

Would we remember Batman the Animated a series without Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill? Maybe.

I worry it would have fallen off. Now we can always dream of what could have been.

My what?