Well, I certainly didn't see that coming

[yendi]

Sandman: Overture has been delayed.

One can only imagine the delays if Neil Gaiman and Kevin Smith ever wrote a comic together.

Comments

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Gasp.

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

Time itself might reverse.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Didn't you know? They are. Started in '98.
Issue 1 will be out any time now...

[phantom_wolfboy]

What if they got together to work on a videogame with the developers of Duke Nukem: Forever?

[yendi]

Well, most of the stuff Gaiman's written over the last ten years have been about as good as DN:F, so that works.

(The first issue of the new Sandman was pretty solid, though.)

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

Given that the only logic I could find for the order of cities on his tour was "Is this the ways the flights came out cheapest with sales and schedules?" I'm not surprised. I wonder if he knew the order of cities when he initially planned to write scripts for the comic while on it. I was disappointed that we failed to make the Chicago signing, but was watching his blog while he was on it and looking at the list and couldn't help but think that whoever set the thing up held some sort of grudge against the man.

[yendi]

For big-name authors, there's usually some degree of ownership by the author, although I'd imagine that they might also have built the tour around events (either other NG commitments or big comic/genre related ones they wanted to tag onto; I'm pretty sure one of his signing was at a comic con, for example). Tours are also often broken up around other things (so an author might tour for four cities, fly home, then fly to the next leg, etc). But I don't know what happened here, alas.