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- The Continuity Pages: Neil Gaiman Miscellany
- The continuity page for Neil Gaiman's miscellaneous projects, including links relevant to Gaiman.
- The Continuity Pages: Swamp Thing
- The continuity page for Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, and Black Orchid. Not only did Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing revision Cain and Abel, in turn providing the material for Gaiman's revisioning of the Sandman, but Gaiman's Swamp Thing Annual, his Hellblazer issue, and his groundbreaking Black Orchid series (illustrated by The Sandman cover artist Dave McKean) -- as well as the original story in Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days -- fall under the greater Swamp Thing umbrella. In fact, as discussed on the Swamp Thing Continuity Page, Gaiman was slated to co-write Swamp Thing before the politics of that title caused him to withdraw.
- Neil Gaiman Chronology
- An annotated, hyperlinked chronology of Neil Gaiman's work.
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Off-Site
Please be aware that the continued quality, and even existence, of these sites cannot be guaranteed.
- Matt Wagner Comics
- The nicely-designed site of Matt Wagner, instrumental to Sandman Mystery Theatre.
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The Sandman, as well as its spin-offs and successors, present a
slight problem for The Continuity Pages: the stories do not entirely occur in chronological
order. I have assembled chronological listings of the stories from The Sandman and read
them in that order; their effect is remarkably lessened. The Sandman, as well as its
sequels, is not a strictly chronological novel -- or sequence of graphic novels. A story in a
super-hero comic book may have an prologue that occurs late in the story and I would have no
trouble listing it chronologically based on when the entire story, including the prologue,
occurs. If the opening issue of a multi-issue story was just such a prologue, I would similarly
list the entire story with the opening issue as the opening issue; art trumps continuity. The
Continuity Pages is an attempt to make sense of multiple series and other such occurences, to
deal with the structure of American comic book publishing, not to devalue or undermine art but
to bring that art out, to make the structure of that art visible and even viable for the ages.
The "problem" of The Sandman is therefore not a problem at all; like all subjects in The
Continuity Pages, the contents here are presented as a literary work, in an order artistically
intelligable.
