![]() ![]() Where Sandman offered only brief vignettes of a few gods, American Gods fills its world with richly-drawn characters full of history.īut while American Gods excels at these sorts of character moments, it never feels as compelling or essential as the “Brief Lives” arc of Sandman that served as its inspiration. By expanding on the ideas first developed in The Sandman, we get a much better insight into what it means to be an aging god in a secular age. Ultimately, American Gods feels like a novel-length exploration of these ideas, told via a roadtrip to some of the United States’ oddest locales. While Sandman‘s Odin resides firmly within a traditional Norse pantheon, Wednesday is an American god, bereft of worshippers and relying on con games and scams to get by. Wednesday in American Gods, who spends the novel running a long con to increase his own power and extend his own life, at the expense of everyone around him. Unsurprisingly, there are remarkable similarities to Mr. ![]() The Sandman #26, art by Kelley Jones, George Pratt, and Daniel Vozzo. ![]()
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