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Sometime in 2003 when Endless Nights came out, I was over at Fully Booked at the Rockwell looking for the Sandman poster they had on sale months ago (as I would be asking for it as a wish-listed gift for Christmas from a good friend who happens to be Nevada, Death, and Rain Harper, all-in-one). To my demise, it had already been sold. Since I'm at the store already, might as well check out the latest TPBs they have. I asked the guy slouched on the floor with a bookstack facing the TPB shelves if they still had the Sandman poster on stock, and he said the one displayed is the only copy left and if it was not there anymore then maybe it had already been bought. Having searched the DC Comics website on the latest offerings for the month, I asked if there is by any chance a possiblity of them carrying the Frank Quitely poster of the Endless Family in connection with the then just-out Endless Nights. And he said, he'll try. And he bagan asking stuff about Sandman, much to my delight, and what story at Endless Nights I liked the most, and stuff about my collection. He said then that he is also gonna be trying to bring Neil Gaiman over. Whoa! Now, that would be great!

And so it happens, a little over a year later. Neil is coming. Long live the Dreamking! I've read there are a great many Gaiman fans in the country. Who would not be, after reading just maybe two of his works? Now, its just a matter of picking out from my loot which work of his I could bring over for him to sign. And I just realized I think I lost my first-ed TPB of The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish (ironically great gift for dads on father's day). Damn.

I've read his journal, aware of the do's and don'ts when going to booksigning events, refreshed my recall on his works by re-reading his works, bought some more old comicbooks. I could not be too ready for a surreal moment to see Neil face-to-face (and side-by-side in a photo keepsake) while he signs my books, woo-hoo-hoo!

posted by Fritz @ 10:52 PM