My response to everything I ever read by Gaiman was “I liked this better when the author he was openly admitting to ripping off was doing it”. Except Sandman, which I always figured was good because he was good at getting his collaborators to fill in that certain something he couldn’t bring to a solo work. I’ve only read a bit of Lee (just “Don’t Bite The Sun”, which felt super prescient a month or two after I read it when AI art suddenly started looking super scary for my career as an artist) and should probably read more.
The Scientology part of the Gaiman expose, meanwhile, just feels like it goes along with all the other behavior all too well. It surprised me but it also did not surprise me at all, in some important way. Oh of course someone who acts like this got a master class in it as a kid.
My response to everything I ever read by Gaiman was “I liked this better when the author he was openly admitting to ripping off was doing it”. Except Sandman, which I always figured was good because he was good at getting his collaborators to fill in that certain something he couldn’t bring to a solo work. I’ve only read a bit of Lee (just “Don’t Bite The Sun”, which felt super prescient a month or two after I read it when AI art suddenly started looking super scary for my career as an artist) and should probably read more.
The Scientology part of the Gaiman expose, meanwhile, just feels like it goes along with all the other behavior all too well. It surprised me but it also did not surprise me at all, in some important way. Oh of course someone who acts like this got a master class in it as a kid.