Is this an actual issue of the Sandman?
November 29, 2011 6:37 AM Subscribe
Which Sandman story (if any) is this? Might be misremembered, but the story was about three sons of a king who went on the traditional Bildungsroman, and at some point discovered, each in a different way, the meaning of serendipity.
It's presumably from one of the "people sitting around telling each other stories" episodes, or from one of the spin-off series, but I heard the question being asked on social media and now have a mindworm where I feel like I can remember it, but I might be imagining it.
Hope me (where Hope is also the name of a young street kid homeless in San Francisco who sells her body to buy heroin, and has forgotten that she is in fact Elpis, the goddess of hope, until she meets Pandora, a youth worker whose absolute faith in her transforms her back into her divine form)!
It's presumably from one of the "people sitting around telling each other stories" episodes, or from one of the spin-off series, but I heard the question being asked on social media and now have a mindworm where I feel like I can remember it, but I might be imagining it.
Hope me (where Hope is also the name of a young street kid homeless in San Francisco who sells her body to buy heroin, and has forgotten that she is in fact Elpis, the goddess of hope, until she meets Pandora, a youth worker whose absolute faith in her transforms her back into her divine form)!
Could it be something from Soft Places or Exiles?
Definitely not Ramadan - that's got a very different plot (the King of Baghdad, during the Middle Ages, asks Morpheous to preserve Baghdad at its peak for all eternity; and Morpheous does, after a fashion).
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:57 AM on November 29, 2011
Definitely not Ramadan - that's got a very different plot (the King of Baghdad, during the Middle Ages, asks Morpheous to preserve Baghdad at its peak for all eternity; and Morpheous does, after a fashion).
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:57 AM on November 29, 2011
I'm pretty sure it's not from the main Sandman series—I've read it multiple times and that's not familiar. I don't really know the spinoffs, though, so it could be one of those.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:40 AM on November 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:40 AM on November 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
It's certainly some adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, though I've no idea what comic it would be.
posted by nicebookrack at 7:55 AM on November 29, 2011
posted by nicebookrack at 7:55 AM on November 29, 2011
Could it be from Fables? I have a vague memory of reading something like that story, and I encountered Fables more recently than Sandman.
posted by mlle valentine at 8:42 AM on November 29, 2011
posted by mlle valentine at 8:42 AM on November 29, 2011
is it definitely a comic? If so, what was the art like?
If not a comic, perhaps The White Hart by James Thurber? Gaiman is a Thurber fan and recently wrote a foreword to the NYRB edition of The Thirteen Clocks.
posted by Hogshead at 3:04 AM on March 14, 2012
If not a comic, perhaps The White Hart by James Thurber? Gaiman is a Thurber fan and recently wrote a foreword to the NYRB edition of The Thirteen Clocks.
posted by Hogshead at 3:04 AM on March 14, 2012
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posted by Grangousier at 6:54 AM on November 29, 2011