Mary Poppins

[Brooks A. Rowlett]

No: HPFGUIDX 2105

> 
> Brooks,
> The Endless?  Please explain further!


cf. _Sandman_, Neil Gaiman's magnificent comic book series that not only
transcends, but transforms the genre.  Something like the New york Times
creating the childrens' books category for  the best seller list, after
the Sandman special issue of _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ won the World
Fantasy Award one year, the rules were changed to clearly forbid a comic
book from winning.  Now THAT'S snobbery.

Go to your comic store and buy volume one of the bound reprints.  It's
the *least* good in some ways, and yet you will still 'boggle' when you
see Dream go to Hell and win - and when you meet his older sister.  She
is everybody's first friend - and last.

And what is really interesting is how Sandman is like Arabian Nights- it
is full of stories within the great story that it itself is.

-Brooks