Honestly, I worry about people who don’t like him.
I get that. I think all of us who grew up with genre fiction when it wasn’t as mainstream are probably feeling a bit torn about how popular they’re getting. I’m a huge Sandman fan, and I’m nervous about the show. I know that Neil Gaiman is deeply involved in it, so I’m sure it’s going to be great, but it also feels like I’m sharing something that’s really formative to who I am that was once part of a sort of subculture with the same mainstream culture that used to look down on that subculture…
I think what happened is that people like us ended up getting into academia and hollywood and trying to bring that to a larger audience - with mixed results.
Indeed! Sandman is rich with mythologies!
Well, no… expressing his opinion, which he’s entitled to. That’s pretty different from a teacher or professor using their position of expertise to dismiss literature. I may not fully agree with him, but he’s never acted like his opinion is fact, like some fanbois who pop up here from time to time like to do…
