Sleepwalker Saturday #1.

§ June 25th, 2011 § Filed under saturday § 10 Comments

TOTALLY

SANDMAN DONE RIGHT

from Sleepwalker #17 (October 1992) by Bob Budiansky, Bret Blevins & Mike Manley

10 Responses to “Sleepwalker Saturday #1.”

  • Anonymous says:
    June 25, 2011 at 12:12 AM

    And that’s why Gaiman had to totally keep doing it wrong for 75 issues, then!

  • Plastic Soul says:
    June 25, 2011 at 12:34 AM

    If I understand forced perspective right, darkhawk’s left thigh is approximately 4 feet long.

  • Leroy Hart says:
    June 25, 2011 at 2:11 AM

    That’s so 90’s it comes back around and is somehow amazing.

    Probably just my biased love of Darkhawk, though…

  • Joe Williams says:
    June 25, 2011 at 7:58 AM

    …OR SUFFER THE CONSE-
    QUENCES!

    That’s an odd hyphen. Did he eat something that was repeating on him?

  • Prankster says:
    June 25, 2011 at 8:35 AM

    …The A La King?

  • Bill Reed says:
    June 25, 2011 at 8:40 AM

    I have every issue of Sleepwalker and love it unconditionally.

    So, there’s that.

  • Sarah says:
    June 25, 2011 at 9:05 AM

    The problem with the 90s was that they were just too low-key and restrained. There’s “subtle,” and then there’s “invisible.” You can hardly tell that this panel is about challenging the hierarchy of text through subaltern homoerotic strategies!

  • C. Elam says:
    June 25, 2011 at 5:28 PM

    That is still one of the most hilarious quotes of the entire decade, and perhaps all time.

    The thing that stuns me about that panel is that both Bret Blevins and Mike Manley are GOOD artists, capable of better things. This is on par with Herb Trimpe’s Liefeld-style in sheer entertaining wrongness. The 90s were a strange time indeed.

  • Mitchell Craig says:
    June 25, 2011 at 9:13 PM

    And here we are in 2011, as…well, I know Darkhawk appeared in a couple of Marvel titles recently (I just can’t seem to recall where).

    Sleepwalker, meanwhile, is bundled up on a Yancy Street heating grate, wondering how he missed the cut for Nextwave.

  • Anonymous says:
    June 25, 2011 at 11:46 PM

    Gaiman was actually a fan of Sleepwalker. He began reading every issue religiously after hearing the “Sandman done right” quote until it was cancelled and he loved the fact that it showed him how NOT to write Sandman.