Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s DC Comics classic series promises to be a faithful adaptation of the original, starting exactly where the first issue began in 1989. Following decades of imprisonment by mortals who wished to capture his sister Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), Morpheus (Tom Sturridge), the lord of dreams, finally escapes. Finding himself weak, and the dreamworld in disarray, he embarks on a quest to restore his kingdom and reclaim his power, descending into the depths of hell to play a deadly game with Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) and then face off against the nightmarish Corinthian.

We are eager to see if all of the Joy Division, Bauhaus, and Cure references from the comics made it into the show, like in issue six, which is named after the Joy Division song “24-Hours”.

Watch the trailer below:

During the panel at Comic-Con, Neil Gaiman also revealed that original Sandman cover artist Dave McKean came out of retirement to design unique end title credits for all ten episodes of the series.

The Sandman’s 10-episode season comes to Netflix on August 5th.

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The posters pay homage to Jaws, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Childsplay, The Lost Boys, Night of the Living Dead, Beetlejuice, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Reanimator, and Black Sunday.

 

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Tales From The Smith Part 2: The Reawakening

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Billy, not only has been the graphic art and comic ambassador of post-punk, but also caught the attention of Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, resulting in his illustrations ´being included part of the plot of several episodes of the Netflix series.

Order prints here, and see the full series of posters from Tales From The Smith Part 2: The Reawakening below:

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Billy, who has in recent years caught the attention of Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, resulting in his illustrations ´being included part of the plot of several episodes of the Netflix series, took to Instagram this morning to announce the new artworks, which follow his Marvel and DC Post-Punk comic covers.

 

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Post-Punk Paperbacks | The Series by Butcher Billy behance.net/gallery/82394625/Post-Punk-Paperbacks

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See the full gallery here at Butcher Billy’s Behance page.

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Created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg, The Sandman was a critically acclaimed comic book series published by DC Adult comic imprint Vertigo—which was recently announced to be discontinued in 2020.

The Sandman initially ran for 1989 to 1996, featuring an ensemble cast of characters, helmed by the Dream and his Endless siblings Destiny, Death, Destruction, Despair, Desire, and Delirium.

Being one of the first graphic novels to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list, it was natural for there to have been many attempts to adapt the series into a featuring length film, starting in the 1990s through Warner Bros, but all never got past initial development plans, such as a noteworthy version of the project announced by Gaiman in late 2013, where he set to team up with Joseph Gordon-Levitt for a feature film via Warner Bros.-owned studio New Line.

Eric Heisserer, the last screenwriter attached to the New Line production, had stated in November 2016 that he was no longer involved and suggested that The Sandman would be better off as a television series, possibly on HBO, the premium cable network owned by Warner.

“I … came to the conclusion that the best version of this property exists as an HBO series or limited series, not as a feature film, not even as a trilogy,” Heisserer told iO9 then. “The structure of the feature film really doesn’t mesh with this. So I went back and said here’s the work that I’ve done. This isn’t where it should be. It needs to go to TV.”

Given the success of Gaiman’s works such as Good Omens and American Gods on Amazon Prime, and Sandman spinoff character’s Lucifer eponymous 2016 TV series, which was revived by Netflix for 2 more seasons after it’s a cancellation by FOX, streaming seems to be the perfect fit for a premiere of The Sandman starting with a first season comprising scenes culled from the panels of Preludes and Nocturnes.

The series, rumored to potentially be the most expensive program that DC Entertainment has ever produced, will be written by Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman, Grey’s Anatomy), who will also serve as showrunner. Additionally, Gaiman himself will executive produce alongside David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight, NBC’s Constantine).

Who would you like to see cast as Morpheus? Or should he be recast from episode to episode, reflecting his changing character design, that is based on Goth legends Peter Murphy, Robert Smith, and Gaiman himself?

Who would you like to see cast as Death, who was based on a waitress Cinamon Hadley, known by both Gaiman and Dringenberg, whose’s iconic curly cue Goth eye makeup remains an iconic look to this day?

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Billy had gained notoriety for his Marvel post-punk crossover mock covers that featured music icons such as Robert Smith, Siouxsie Sioux, Morrissey.

In an interview with PARANÁ, Billy reminisced how  he had two years prior honored Stan Lee in Life, but isn’t sure if the Marvel Editor in Chief emeritus ever saw the work, but he is glad his designs can be associated with the icon of comic book history, who became a pop culture personality in his own right:

“He was a cartoon storyteller” says Billy, “he became an actor in live-action series, in movies, he became the voice and face of what he created.”

Billy has a special fondness for Spider-Man, whose very human struggles were in contrast to the godlike figures of DC comics:

People [had] been asking me to do a Marvel version since I released the first series.  I never thought it would be interesting until I started sketching the first drawings.  The Vision came quite naturally as I really wanted to add Gary [Numan] to the gang. However I didn’t think it would look as good as it was in my head 

When I decided to use DC characters in the first series it was because of the “god” status that they have. However with the Marvel characters I can explore other possibilities for the post-punk singers: for example – the Spider-Man from the 60’s and 70’s has gone through a lot of tragedy…he was funny but also very depressive.  His girlfriend died because of him, and he wanted to give up loads of times. He was always struggling between his life as a hero and his life as normal person, and I think that can parallel the life of a certain Joy Division singer

Marvel characters are a bit more fragile—because they mostly struggle with real life issues, and their issues are always quite personal, and I always found those concepts quite relatable.

According to Billy, he will be contributing illustrations in a article of the life of Stan Lee in the Los Angeles Times this week.

Original Marvel/Post-Punk crossover series:

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The Cure’s front man Robert Smith is certainly more adaptable to pop cultural references as Mozz, since he was honored in South Park in 1998, defeating Mecha-Streisand in his Moth-Ra incarnation, not without kicking Eric Cartman’s nuts (Roshambo!)—not to mention Neil Gaiman’s Sandman graphic novels that feature more than one character that drew a bit of inspiration (at least) from Robert Smith’s trademark look.

Previously unknown to me, The Cure song titles and lines make excellent captions for horror comics, but Butcher Billy is the one you should ask about inspiring stuff in graphic form. So let the excellent interpretations of Cure songs do the talking.

Before we close this case, one question: Siouxsie Sioux, where are you? (Zoinks!)

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These comics might be familiar to you if you’ve spent time on the internet though, the panels are modified from Ready-to-Use Office and Business Illustrations.

I think there should have been a followup panel to “How Soon is Now” stating that:

“I want to go home
I don’t want to stay
Give up cubicle employment
As a bad mistake”

Perhaps Morrissey should go back to University and become a Doctor…Dr. Mozz perhaps? (Hand in Glove, Some Girls are Bigger than Others, November Spawned a Monster, Girlfriend in a Coma, come on man…think about it…)

Special thanks to Dangerous Minds for originally sharing the comic!

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This book then inspired editor Todd Loren, writer Jay Allen Sanford, and artists  Greg Fox (cover art) and  Scott Jackson (panels) to ink and publish an “unauthorized history” of The Cure, through Revolutionary Comics, three years later. The premise poking fun at Robert Smith’s fear of flying on an airplane, and during a panic Death appears and his life flashes before his eyes…

Interestingly enough, Cure Frontman Robert Smith himself has actually read this comic as can be seen in CureNews #14 below:

We have included the full comic in this article. Just click on the next page to start reading!

h/t to Chain of Flowers

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