Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Winter's Edge by Neil Gaiman Journal. Why you should see WINTER'S TALE and other deep thoughts about stuff. Last night, I went to see WINTER'S TALE , Mark Helprin's remarkable novel, made into a film by writer (and now director) Akiva Goldsman. Firstly: I really, really enjoyed it. Akiva took a huge, sprawling novel that spans over a hundred years and took the elements he needed from it to tell the story he had to tell. He made it small, of necessity. It's a fantasy movie, with demons and angels and a flying horse: it contains a noble burglar, a beautiful dying pianist, an absolutely terrifying Russell Crowe, Will Smith stealing scenes as Lucifer, and New York, New York all the way. Secondly, I'd seen a trailer or two before I went to see it. And the trailer is, well it's wrong. It tells you it's going to be a specific kind of movie and it isn't that. It's not really a love story, small l about the love between two attractive people who want to do kissing, although it may be a Love story (capital L about Love, and who and what we love, and why, and what it means for those we love to die). If you like fantasy, or New York, or magical realism, you should see it. You really should. (You should also read the book. And John Crowley's novel Little, Big, which was published about the same time.) The screening audience loved it. My only qualm, cavil or beef is this. There's a thing that happens in Hollywood, when you hand in a script with magic in it, and the people at the studio who read it say "We don't quite understand. can you explain the rules? What are the rules here? The magic must have rules" and sometimes when they say that to me I explain that I am sure it does, just as life has rules, but they didn't give me a rule book to life when I was born, and I've been trying to figure it out as I go along, and I am sure it is the same thing for magic; and sometimes I explain that, yes, the magic has rules, and if they read again carefully they can figure out what they are; and sometimes I sigh and put in a line here and a line there that spells things out, says, YES THESE ARE THE RULES YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION and then everyone is very happy. And there were places in the film where it felt like Akiva was, either because he'd been asked, or preemptively, explaining the magical rules. And I trusted him and the film and would rather have just figured it out for myself. There. It's a real film -- it reminded me most of all of Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King . Which reminds me, I don't think I ever blogged (although I Twittered, back in those halcyon twittery days) about Tim's Vermeer , a documentary directed by Teller (of Penn and Teller) about a man who thinks he has figured out the optical principle by which Vermeer did his paintings, and sets out to reproduce it, and one of them. It's not a dry documentary about art. It's a glorious, challenging, funny film about being human. Here's a link to the website, which tells you where it's showing. GO AND SEE IT. You'll thank me later. For some years now, P. Craig Russell and some of the finest artists in comics have been beavering away on a two volume adaptation of THE GRAVEYARD BOOK. And it's coming out this year: Volume 1 comes out on July the 29th, Volume 2 on September the 30th. Different artists each take a chapter. VERTIGO - WINTER'S EDGE #1 NM, 2 VF/NM, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, 1998 2000. Condition: See more info in our description area. Vertigo - winter's edge #1 nm, 2 vf/nm, neil gaiman, garth ennis, 1998, 2000 more in store Vertigo - winter's edge #1 2. (2 issues in all). Name of Comic(s)/Title?: VERTIGO - WINTER'S EDGE #1 2.. Read More. Condition: See more info in our description area. Vertigo - winter's edge #1 nm, 2 vf/nm, neil gaiman, garth ennis, 1998, 2000 more in store. Vertigo - winter's edge #1 2. (2 issues in all). Name of Comic(s)/Title?: VERTIGO - WINTER'S EDGE #1 2. Publisher: Vertigo / DC Comics. Art by/featuring/stories?: featuring 2 issues of the vertigo - winter's edge comic. Artist(s): lots. Writer(s): lots. Cover art by : . Rated : pg13+ to mature reader. Story(s): "lots ". Grade of item? : these issues are in the following conditions. #1 = near mint (unread) condition. #2 = very fine / near mint condition. Created When?: 1998/2000. FRONT COVER DESCRIPTION : As new, with light handling and spine wear for the issue #2, and we hardly any wear at all on issue #1. BACK COVER DESCRIPTION : As new, with light handling and spine wear for the issue #2, and we hardly any wear at all on issue #1. Page Quality Description: As new. Tape or Writing?: No. HOW ARE Staples?: Staples are secure. Flat & Supple: Yes. DON'T GET CAUGHT NAPPING. NOTE: Will come bagged & boarded with the 2 comics per bag/board. So NOT individually bagged/boarded. .1st printings. Lots more vertigo, neil gaiman, & garth ennis items in our store. : here! Be sure to check out all of our current on-going auctions!! Lots of great product at affordable prices. Bookmark our listings with (control + d). Lots more coming in the next few weeks. Check out the scan(s). Our store name is highqualitycomics. Aka hqcomics. We have been doing mail-order since 1988. Be sure to check this out! (over 1/4 million items!) here! We guarantee absolute satisfaction on all orders! Shipping in a box. Combine auctions to save on postage. International customers : email us for international shipping rates & acceptable ways to pay. Californian residents add 8% sales tax. Visa, master card, american express, and paypal (with a confirmed address) accepted. Pay me securely with any major credit card through paypal! International customers : email us for acceptable ways to pay and shipping options, before you place an order. Thanks! Winter's Edge issue 3. What do you want for Christmas? Your answer could be influenced by Desire, cover featured on this year's VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE III, a holiday anthology sampler of current and upcoming projects from the acclaimed line of mature-readers titles. Story Titles. The Sandman: Desire - How They Met Themselves. Desire takes the lead story as well as the cover (a line-art creation by THE INVISIBLES' Philip Bond) in a wintry tale written by THE SANDMAN's Neil Gaiman, with art by THE SANDMAN: LOVE STREET penciller Michael Zulli. This period piece is set during a blizzard that forces a train to tumble, leaving many hearts and lives completely shattered. 100 Bullets - Silencer Night. The 100 BULLETS writer-artist duo of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso tell a story of the 1960s, where the recipient of Agent Graves's special briefcase and gun may be the missing link in the ultimate conspiracy theory. Books of Magic - Waiting for Good Dough. Writer Peter Gross and artist Michael Lark (SUPERMAN: WAR OF THE WORLDS, SCENE OF THE CRIME) open THE BOOKS OF MAGIC for a tale of the ever-inquisitive Dead Boy Detectives (last seen in THE SANDMAN), who breach Tim Hunter's safe haven at the Inn at the End of the World, rolling into town as a human snowball. Hellblazer - Another Bloody Christmas. WATCHMEN artist Dave Gibbons writes and draws a holiday story of HELLBLAZER's John Constantine , who encounters a man called Herod, searching London for a prostitute who is heavy with child. Only Constantine can stop the killing, but does he want to? The Dreaming - Borealis. Caitlín R. Kiernan, writer of THE DREAMING, teams with PROPOSITION PLAYER's Bill Willingham to share a Pleistocene winter's tale about one of Morpheus's former ravens. Transmetropolitan - Next Winters. The TRANSMETROPOLITAN team of writer Warren Ellis and artists Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos spread holiday cheer as outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem manages to have a millennial moment in the snow, even in a city where no one seems to know what year it is. The Great Satan (Later renamed to Outlaw Nation) - Minor Characters. Written by Jamie Delano (HELLBLAZER) with art by newcomer Goran Sadzuka, which introduces a clan of immortals in the American West. Deadenders - The Morning After. Written by Ed Brubaker (SCENE OF THE CRIME) with art by Warren Pleece (TRUE FAITH) and Richard Case (THE SANDMAN), which follows an unforgettable group of dead-end teenagers roaming through a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland. Swamp Thing (Vol.4) - Sow and Ye Shall Reap. Written by Brian Vaughn (X-Men, Wolverine) with art by Roger Petersen (SubHuman) and Joe Rubinstein, which reintroduces Tefe Holland as the 18-year-old half-Elemental, half-human searches out expert advice about her strange new powers, along the way learning about the deadly effects of mistletoe. The Witching Hour Exposed. Completing the Special is an interview with writer Jeph Loeb and artist Chris Bachalo on their new VERTIGO miniseries, THE WITCHING HOUR. Netflix takes us behind the scenes of The Sandman, and it’s spectacular. Neil Gaiman, Gwendoline Christie and others report from behind the scenes of Netflix’s The Sandman, which is looking as wonderful as I could have hoped.