The Incomparable, number 634, September 2022.

Welcome back to The Uncomparable.

Your regular host, Jason Snell has overslept.

I'm Tony Sindelar, filling in for him.

Tonight, today, this morning, whenever you're listening, we are talking about the

recent Netflix show, The Sandman, and assembled with me is a panel of lovely, wonderful guests

who have watched the show and come prepared to talk about it. Allow me to introduce them in an

order that I am choosing right now. First up,

it's Shannon Sutterth. Hi, Shannon.

Hola, freckis. Also joining us, Glenn Fleischman. Hey there. I don't think I've woken up yet,

but I'm still ready for duty. Next up, it's Dan Moran. As someone who is very sleep deprived, I feel that I'm in a

perfect state to talk about this. Also joining us, Sarah Bickerton. Oh, given the time in New Zealand,

I feel like I'm the most closest to sleep right now. And the second Sutterth of the panel, two Sutterth, no waiting, Chip Sutterth.

We begin in the podcasting world, which humanity insists on calling the real world.

Eh, does it?

Yeah, really?

Let's give you some spoiler-free overviews of the Sandman before we dive in and take it apart.

This is a recent Netflix series based on the, I want to call it legendary comic book from the late 80s, early 90s, written by Neil Gaiman and a rotating series of artists. This is a comic book that has,

people have been attempting to adapt this into a film or TV series for 30 years. There was

early talk of turning this into something as early as 1991, and here we are in 2022. It has happened.

It has been through all kinds of different places. Sometimes Neil Gaiman has been attached.

Sometimes he is not. He is now basically publicly discussed one adaptation that he basically

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