{"id":457,"date":"2010-06-09T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-06-09T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:39:03","slug":"beyond-neil-gaimon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few artists out there whom I believe to be the best at what they do. Being a writer I&#8217;m better able to talk about them then say architecture. For me Douglas Adams represents the style of writing I most wish to emulate. His flagrant mis-use of words came off as almost\u00a0Shakespearian in it&#8217;s originality. But when it comes to story telling it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> that has stolen the cake. The worlds he reveals rival Tolkien in their intricacies but surpass them in one key aspect: I <em><strong>want <\/strong><\/em>to believe in them. I don&#8217;t mean there were a lot of cool new things told. No, I mean I would rather live in his worlds then reality (at least while reading his books). He&#8217;s that good.<\/p>\n<p>It was maybe a year after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neverwhere\">Neverwhere <\/a>that tried to go back to <a href=\"http:\/\/comedity.com\/\">Comedity<\/a>. That comic has to be one of the great tragedies in our little world but at least the months of hiatus led us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finderskeepers.gcgstudios.com\/\">Finder&#8217;s Keepers<\/a>. I practically\u00a0squealed\u00a0with delight. Reading through the first 40 pages in about 30 seconds, I knew there had to be some Gaimon influence there. So as a little homage I had to make sure Door appeared somewhere in the FK jump and that&#8217;s who we see standing behind Life and opening the door for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Be assured there will be many more Mr. G references through DSA, not just this particular arc. Sit back and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few artists out there whom I believe to be the best at what they do. Being a writer I&#8217;m better able to talk about them then say architecture. For me Douglas Adams represents the style of writing I most wish to emulate. His flagrant mis-use of words came off as almost\u00a0Shakespearian in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventures.digitalstrips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}