I can’t tell you how good it feels to have people checking in on me before this storm hits. But I feel like maybe I can save everyone a little time by posting here for everyone interested. Situation Report We are as ready as we can be. We always have a small Hurricane Supply at […]

I had a really great idea at a really bad time. I’d read an issue of Sandman and highlight something I learned from it as a creator. It’s my favorite series ever, so there’s a lot to learn. Too much actually. I had the ludicrous notion that I could read an issue a night and […]

Welcome back to Searching Sandman, my personal journey into my favorite comic series ever (well tied, as I have Bone and Locke and Key on my personal comic Mount Rushmore next to it) with the direct goal of learning from the Sandman team how they made anything this frigging good.  If this is the first […]

David hasn’t admitted he’s sick of me yet, so I’m continuing the conversation with him about the sixth issue of Sandman titled “24 Hour Diner.” At the end of our last talk (found here: http://www.kechalcomics.com/searching-sandman-6-david-brown-part-2/ ) I’d just asked David what he thought Gaiman did really well in this issue (spoilers ahead): David: What Gaiman got […]

My conversation with Horror writer David Brown continues. An introduction to David can be found here: http://www.kechalcomics.com/searching-sandman-issue-six-with-our-first-guest-star-david-m-brown/ I wanted to talk to him because I feel like Sandman 6 is the most effective horror issue in the entire series. I’m really not a huge horror aficionado, and am definitely not a horror writer, I wanted […]

The Last Show at the Wreck Bar   By Kevin Joseph   This is unusual for me. Usually, when I’m done with a story, I’m done with it. This time, however I have to write it again. I just keep getting stuck on the difference between the truth and the facts. If you happened to […]

The sixth issue of Sandman is in my memory, the most horrific issue in the entire series. When I introduced my girlfriend at the time (now my wife) to Sandman, this story nearly turned her off of the series. And rereading it I can see why. This issue seems to show Gaiman reaching down to find the most […]

I reread issue 5 and was worried. Nothing jumped out at me like it had in earlier issues, but then it hit me. Most of the things I’d noticed and written about were on a micro level. Canted angles to create the feeling of a dream state. Planting seeds which will pay off later. But […]

I usually start these essays with a spoiler warning. And so I’m sort of doing it now. But it really isn’t a big spoiler to say the following: DREAM IS A REAL DICK. In issue 1 Morpheus condemns (with good reason) the son of his captor to an everlasting nightmare. Brutally forcing him to forever “wake […]