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Weekend Reading-- Beans and Dreams

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Driving in to work this morning, I was listening to Wood and Vince on the 11 O'Clock Comics podcast talk about Beanworld.  This made me both happy and sad.  I was happy to hear them talk about Larry Marder's fantastic comic but sad that I've had Dark Horse's three hardcovers sitting on a shelf and haven't been able to get to read through them yet.  I've read a lot of Beanworld but it's been while since I last dived into the series.  I really want to try and find a chunk of time to sit down and go through all three of the books, immersing myself in Marder's world.

The other night, I got to see Neil Gaiman do a reading out in Naperville.  While there, I picked up a copy of P.Craig Russell's adaptation of The Dream Hunters.  For some reason when it was coming out as a comic, Russell's version of this story, originally a novella illlustrated by Yoshika Amano, just didn't click with me.  But looking through this collection, I'm just completely in awe of Russell's lyrical style.  I just love his artwork and it looks fantastic in this book.