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Today on Happy Second Fused, Neil Gaiman, creator, author, and visionary on The Sandman.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrow. It's a welcome to another edition of Happy, sad, confused.

And yes, we've got Neil Gaiman back on the show. For the die-hard listeners out there,

we've had him on before, five years ago, but this was a, this was a fun,

confluence of events. We got Neil Gaiman on talking about not just any project,

the project, the work that in many ways made him the name he is in the

literary world, in the comic book world, The Sandman. Born in late 88,

I believe it first was published, and ever since then, has been revered,

justifiably so, and has been developed non-stop, it seems, to be a film at times,

a TV show at times, and it's been a long road, guys, but we're here.

And The Sandman is on Netflix, and this is a case where I think the wait was

worthwhile. It was done the right way, and I think the audience is responding.

I mean, we know the audience is responding. If you haven't caught it yet,

truly, I recommend this one. I think it will play for the newcomer to The Sandman

Universe, but it will especially play to folks like me that have read the comic,

and it's worth your time in any respect. This is a really special piece of art,

the comic, and the TV show. The show has been a great success with critics,

great success with viewers, at the time we taped this. The big number that was

floating around was like 200 million hours watched, which yeah, like how do you

even wrap your brain around it? But suffice it to say, it's working.

It's working with audiences. It worked with me, and it made for a great

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