Ask Neil Gaiman

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Posted by Roblimo on Monday September 22, 2003 @05:17AM from the nights-are-endless-for-the-sandman's-gods dept.

A very special "call for questions" today: Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman, a series whose long-awaited resurrection was -- not coincidentally -- announced last week. Neil is also winner of the uncoveted Roblimo's favorite book of the 21st Century so far award for American Gods, and a free speech activist who has concentrated -- again, not coincidentally -- on comic book and graphic novel authors' and vendors' freedoms. Please read this interview, listen to this NPR interview, and check other material about Neil before you ask questions, in order to avoid triteness. We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Neil tomorrow, and post his answers when he gets them back to us.

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We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions t by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-22 05:22 · Score: -1, Flamebait

We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Neil tomorrow

Is this with a fucking fag +5 Troll karma modifier?

h4xin' NIGGERS SUCKCS11
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Re:The same Gaiman? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-22 05:35 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Pease read the article before posting, which obviously you didn't. In the NPR interview he talks about his experiences while working at DEC. Specifically, he worked with the VAX team. His job was to wait in the men's room and suck the dicks of any engineers who needed a stress relief. That is where he got the idea for his Sandman comics ... while looking into an unflushed toilet on day, he though "hhhmmmm ... shit. I bet if I put shit into comics form people would buy it." The rest is history.
Re:New Gods? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-22 05:38 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I was wondering, if you had to go back and rewrite American Gods today, are there any new gods that you would add?

I bet he'd include Todd McFarlane, Neil Gainman's longtime butt-buddy and fellow cum digester.
Re:Tattoos and other forms of fan appreciation by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-22 05:58 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Did you know that when you signed my girlfriend's lower back (at Vromans Book Store in Pasadena, 1999) that she went to a tattoo parlor right afterward to have the moment made permanent?

Neil,

Michael's girlfriend doesn't like it when I cum in her ass, so I pull out and shoot my load all over her back and your name. Has does it feel knowing that I am spunking my junk all over your signature every night?

Thanks,
A fan
Re:American Gods "book of the century"???? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-22 06:07 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Yeah, unlike Joyce, Gaiman writes good books.
Re:New Gods? by gaijin99 · 2003-09-22 07:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The most puzzling god that was almost completely missing from American Gods was the big one ... you know, the guy that most midwesterners really worship.

Very few of the so-called "Christians" actually worship either Jehovah or Jesus. They worship money, their social standing, the 1950's, and a multitude of other things (including, sometimes, the church organization they belong to, which is often confused with the deity), but not the deity himself (themselves if you're into the Trinity thing).
The vast majority of those who call themselves Christian haven't even read the Bible, much less follow the teachings of Jesus. They are "Christian" because its the easiest path, not because they truly believe in it. If Baalism was the popular/respectable religion they'd all be pseudo-Baalists just as easily as they're all pseudo-Christians now.

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