tell me a story, game!

[solo_sword]

So with the new kids coming in and showing off their shiny new fandoms, I'm curious.

How'd you get into your canon?

Did you just pick it up one day and found yourself unable to put it down, or did someone (maybe from this game) drag you into it? How long have you been into it? Was there any one thing or character that hooked you on it? This is your chance to wax nostalgic and go on about what made your canon so cool for you. If there's a story behind it, tell us! And if there's not... tell us anyway!

Comments

[living_endless]

I was never a comics person. Comics intimidate the crap out of me most of the time. But back in 2003-04, I had this job where this guy Bryan wouldn't shut up about, like, Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man, and I borrowed a few graphic novels from him just out of curiosity. I loved them, and Bryan told me what I really had to do was read Sandman. (I had a vague nodding familiarity with Gaiman -- I'd read Neverwhere years before -- but nothing beyond that.)

I am a sheep, so I went and got the first volume. Didn't get it, didn't get it, didn't get it, was pretty much reading just so I could say I'd finished it ... and then I got to the last issue in the collection. The story where Death tells her brother off for being an idiot, and Dream watches her do her job. There's no drama; it's just a quiet day with two siblings.

And then I got it.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, yes. I've always kinda wished that Sandman had just been about Death because she's so... well... herself.

But then it wouldn't have worked (sadly). She's still my favorite, and that issue? Still the best.

[living_endless]

See, I think Sandman works in part because Dream is a (in a conventional, undone-by-his-own-flaw way) tragic hero, at the center of the series' main plot. Death, while my favorite, is fundamentally static -- I think a graphic novel with her at the center might end up feeling like all the interesting stuff was happening to other people.

Though, that said, a Death series would be a very sweet and comforting read, if one that wouldn't last 10 volumes.

[weldedtomyspine]

Yeah, it'd definitely be shorter because, in many ways, Death is stable. You get ten volumes of Morpheus because he's a character in flux. That doesn't work for Death because the core of what makes her so compelling is how grounded she is.

Of course I happen to find those kinds of stories really compelling, but I'm kinda weird.

Also: I do love that icon.