So, having been an intense admirer of @neilhimself and #Sandman since the nineties, I certainly have Thoughts about #SandmanonNetflix. 1/12

My early reaction to knowing that a live-action series was greenlit was muted. Of course I wanted these beautiful stories brought to as many people as possible; I've never been a "You'll ruin it!" or "You won't understand it!" jerk. 2/12

Instead I was thinking about the fantastic artwork by a broad array of artists, as much a part of the comics series as the scripts. Rather than live action, I wished for an animated series, with the style changing from story to story, matching the original artists' visions. 3/12

Such things have been done before, after all. But the fact is that the audience for something like that is far smaller than that for live action. The more people who experience the show, the more will seek out the original pages, so I accepted it. 4/12

I'm sure many did not. News about things like casting has led to foolish outrage-spasms from those who live for spasming in outrage. Far more Sandman readers disregarded that nonsense and looked forward to seeing the story in new lights. 5/12

On reflection, it occurred to me that the entire discussion about how to tell the story - both my original disagreement and the more recent kerfuffles - could have come out of an unwritten issue of the comic. 6/12

Sandman has always been a story about stories, their tellers, and their audiences. How they teach and pass on knowledge, and how they change us and help us to imagine what could be. And how they can be the same and yet different from one telling to the next. 7/12

I'm two episodes into #SandmanonNetflix, and it is both the same story I've loved for decades and a completely new experience, and as a Sandman reader I should have expected nothing else. Because that's what they always are. 8/12

Every time you hear the same story, it's a different experience, as Heraclitus could tell you. @neilhimself is a different teller than he was years ago, and he has new collaborators now, but I'm a different audience than I was then as well - and I live in a different world. 9/12

So far I'm thrilled with what I've seen of the series, startled by how the (necessary) story changes change things and add new texture, and wildly guessing about what's to come. This first season, I'm sure, will be over too soon. 10/12

The main thing is that now I can point people to the TV series with as much energy as I ever have with the comics and the audio series. And I can tell them honestly that they are all different, and all worthy experiences. 11/12

That's all. Pleasant dreams . . . 12/12

P.S. After @neilhimself's too-kind RT, let me just say that his Brazilian fans put us native English speakers to shame for sheer enthusiasm!