#Garrett Sanford

[doctorslippery]

Tom Derenick's Sandman Legacy

[writing-for-life]

The Annotated Sandman—Random Nuggets #12

Whenever we discuss an issue in our community, I finish off the week with a few tidbits of information from Leslie Klinger’s Annotated Sandman. So far, I’ve only posted them to the group (you can find the previous ones up until #11 collected under their requisite issue here), but I thought I’d change things up a bit and also post them to my blog.

So here we go with some additional info about “Playing House”—these are direct quotes, but by far not all of them (just a small selection per issue)…

About Lyta Hall…

NG comments in his notes, "The focus is on Lyta in the doll's house, so her existence becomes a metaphor for women trapped at home, tranquilized." In the final script, NG admits: "I'm getting sort of nervous now. Having begun this episode, I suddenly realised what it was about and how to tell it and so forth, which means I'm going back and starting again with not an awful lot of time to go, telling the story from Lyta's viewpoint.

What had been bugging me about this storyline was that it didn't quite seem to fit into “The Doll's House”, which is basically an extended essay about the roles of people and houses, and also about the role and treatment and ignoring of women in contemporary society.

And as I wrote I suddenly realised that there was one character in the storyline whom I was ignoring—Lyta, 'the wife,' who had become almost a cipher in the plot, just drifting in the background vaguely. And what was so irritating about my earlier attempts to write episode 12 was that they lacked focus in terms of whose story this was—Hector's, Jed’s, the baddies, whose? And suddenly I knew it was Lyta's and all the previous worries I'd had about the story were gone. To be replaced by a whole new set of worries—basically, how the hell to get this written in time....

Lyta is a rich girl, a second-generation superheroine who went into the family business because it was expected of her. She got pregnant, then discovered her apparently dead girlhood sweetheart was not dead but living in the dream world, and only able to come out for an hour a day. She married him, and went to join him in the dream world, and since then... since then she's been living in his dreamworld. She never sees any of her old friends. She never sees anyone except him. She dresses pretty, but she's six months pregnant, and she doesn't think he loves her any more.

She's vaguely looking forward to the birth of her child, but it's been a few years, and even though she knows that everything'll be better when they're a family again, and her husband isn't quite so busy, she's beginning to worry that maybe the baby isn't coming. And she has everything she wants, she supposes, or she is told, but she never gets to do anything, except tidy the dream dome, and she feels and acts like she's been lobotomized.

She walks around numb and unable to feel or to think clearly. And although this is highly fanciful comics stuff, it doesn't take a huge leap to see how it relates to real life; everyone's met one or two intelligent, able women whose lives simply stopped when they got married.

Sometimes, as with Lyta, they eventually got thrown back into the real world, and had to pick up the pieces, and sometimes they didn't.”

What About the Other Sandman?

Kirby's Sandman uses a device, the Universal Dream Monitor, to watch over the dreams of humans. As the “Universal Master of Dreams,” he is able to enter their dreams. He carries a pouch of sand on his belt, to put people to sleep.2

"Mister Sanford" is Garrett Sandford, who in Wonder Woman #300 (Feb. 1983) reveals that he is the Sandman of the Jack Kirby series. (The character's origin is not revealed in the Kirby series itself, and the "d" from the original spelling of "Sandford" was, presumably, dropped inadvertantly.) Dr. Sandford headed a sleep research project at U.C.L.A. There he created a "Dream Monster" machine that enabled him to "read" the dreams of participants in the project as they slept.

When the President of the U.S. was entrapped in the Dream Dimension, Sandford rescued him but was unable to return from the Dream Dimension. The government sent him the Universal Dream Monitor, and he took the identity of the "Golden Age" Sandman created by Wesley Dodds (see 1.18.4–that’s issue 1).

Adam West’s Sandman… or was it Batman?

NG comments in the script, "Incidentally, I just realised, my whole sort of mental casting for Hector Hall is Adam West playing Batman in the TV show, delivering really dumb lines as if he believes in them 100%."

About Hector Hall (and Lyta)…

Hector Hall is the son of Carter Hall (the Hawkman) and Shiera Hall (Hawkgirl), Golden Age superheroes.

As a child, he played with Lyta Trevor, daughter of Fury (see 11.5-5–that’s “Moving In”). Hector attended U.C.L.A. with Lyta, and they dated and eventually married. Hector was cursed with the doom of his parents and became the Silver Scarab, eventually fighting Infinity, Inc., the organization of superheroes that he and Lyta helped to organize; he died in the battle, with Lyta bearing his child.

Who Watches the Watchmen?

In this and the following panel we can see part of a slogan on the wall, "Who watches the.." Of course, “Who watches the watchmen?” (originally drawn from Plato's The Republic and the Roman poet Juvenal) is famously the slogan of Alan Moore's pioneering Watchmen.

She is Fury, After All…

"Lyta has thrown herself at the Sandman," comments NG in the script. "She is, as I remember, terrifyingly strong and fast."

NG continues, "Lyta has crashed into the opposite wall. What's actually happened is she's gone straight through the Sandman. He hasn't moved except to turn to look at her. She obviously hit the wall fairly hard, with her shoulder, and is on the floor."

[mostsanescarletspiderfan]

Has there been any team up or weird legacy thingies between sandman, dreamer, dream of the endless, dream boy and dream girl? It's weird that nothing has happened yet.

[christnarr]

fandom opinion but im not really a hater (blank under cut)

[ultraozzie3000]

Ring Ding

Back in the days before we had a zillion different entertainment options, almost anyone with a pair of ears would tune in to hear the radio broadcast of a heavyweight title fight. June 23, 1934 cover by Rea Irvin. Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney dominated the late 1920s, while Joe Louis, Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey were marquee names in the 1930s along with Max Baer and Primo Carnera, who met on…

[nevadas-night-time-novelist]

Master list

probably not got everything on it yet, but here's a list of my stuff

Reader gets pregnant with them

Hank, Sanford and Deimos, 2B

Jeb, Sheriff, Audi, Tricky

Church and Jorge, Phobos

Crackpot, Hofnarr

MAG Torture

Dave, QBert, Skinner

General romance

Hank, 2B, Sanford, Deimos

Audi, Tricky, Jeb, Crackpot

Burger Gil

Sanmos poly

Hofnarr / Tricky

Sanford x Chubby male reader

Love language is biting - Hank, San, Dei, 2B

Phobos x Other Place monster

Garrett Goyle

MAG Torture x depressed reader

Burger Gil again

Deimos x vamp former lover

White Hank x fluffy reader

2B x FTM reader

Jebus

Hank freeing tortured reader from AAHW

Dave, QBert - accents

Sheriff - nightmares

Female 2B

Pining for 2B

Pining for Sanford

2B x plague dr reader second part

Sanford the himbo

Cookin with San

Romantic little moment with Hank

MAG Hank

Jebediah caring for sick reader

Jebus x disciple reader

White Hank

2BHank poly

[madness-combat-confessions]

i love hank and sanford and deimos and victor and doc and jeb and tricky and crackpot and sheriff and phobos and gonne and auditor and bossman and bert and dave and skinner and chef pava and stygian and conductor and deliberator and church and jorge and garrett goyle and gil and torture and gambler and the maker and many more

I think you love the Madness combat characters I'm not sure

Same bro..same

[nevadasgreatest]

POTENTIALLY FINAL MATCHUPS!! Sorry to any Victor, Romp, and Sun fans. We had to kick them out in order to keep things even and mostly fair. And another apology to the Hofnarr fans, we had to mash him and Tricky into one. Sorry.

Hank J. Wimbleton VS 2BDamned

Sanford VS Deimos

Jebediah Christoff VS Tricky/Dr. Hofnarr

The Auditor VS Director Phobos

Subject 1v02P 6 VS MPN Player

The Machine VS Gestalt

Church VS Jorge

Torture VS Scrapeface

The Sheriff VS Dr. Crackpot

Garrett Goyle VS Dr. Skinner

Chopper Dave VS Quartermaster Bert

Rich VS Bossman

Hotdog Vendor VS Boombox Guy

The Gambler VS The Maker

If you have any feedback let me know!!

[imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs]

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[chrismangaming]

Why I made that post about little critter fallout, well that was to talk about my fallout characters that I had made for said story. Again they aren't main characters but still I want something a little more, so I had made a bunch of the mod itself have a bunch of companions but I can cut like a bunch of them to only be NPCs

Enough talking, I wanna get to the companion to talk about

"Stone" Aka Garrett Stone

His character is a simple stoic hitman/bodyguard for a group of New Californian Republic Funders who reside within a tall building that has rampant issues with druggies and raiders on the bottom floor, while the top floor holds the rich NCR V.I.P's and Stone. The quest itself has its own story but for now, I wanna ramble about Stone.

Stone worked with the new California Republic at the age of 18, coming from Cave Junction Oregon. Boy with a past with weapons and survival, ending up dealing with cannibals from the northwest, fending himself from them. NCR ends up taking in stone for military service, during his service and hard training he was shown to have serious combat skills. Earning him skills and training to become an NCR ranger, but thanks to NCR v.i.p's he ends up in their hands as their personal bodyguard. The V.I.P's have made stone do various actions ranging from assassination's to clearing out raider groups. Stone becomes nothing more than the school grunt to a bunch of scrawny rich people.

The quest name itself called "City Lights" either starts with listening to the dialogue of a poor man leaning on the streets of "goodmen's square" complaining about the NCR and how they've been a pain to this town, turning the area of goodmen's square into nothing but a trash den, while the wealthy Californians sit at the top of the goodmen building. Arriving to the top, past druggies and raiders. You'll be shaken down by Stone, taking away your weapons forcefully. Leaving you to the group of people that sit at a big table, facing an orchestra. A man by the name of Mr Crosby, assumes you're a hitman like Stone and begins to put you through quests to murder 2 rivaling enemies of Goodmen tower. An angry waiter by the name of Abraxo, located within the Portland postal office as a raider. Another being an old sour man by the name of Sanford. As the quests progress as you track them down, another person of the table talks to you privately. Mr Wooding begins to tell you that he wants to look into a matter of his own, people of the group have begun to stab at Wooding's business and need to find proof if they're planning to kill them. Depending on which route you'll go, you'll end up with most of the group in Goodmen tower dying because Wooding's worries are found true. Or Wooding dies all because of his worries.

By the completion of the quest, they end up giving you Stones contract. Which allows you to take stone with you throughout your journey around the wasteland killing. Overtime taking him to places begins to liven him up, but keeps his stoic hitman style of life.

I include him within my mafia story but his setting changes a whole lot.

[melindakucsera]

The Scribe's Reading Log

I saw something about how you can’t be a great writer unless you read, and I realized that I don’t talk about what I read. And I read a lot of books. So far this week, I listened to: Nine Lives Magic Mysteries boxed set (books 1-3) 😔 by Danielle Garrett Tell Her Story 😲 by Margot Hunt Zero Tolerance by James Patterson 😬 Crystal World by BV Larson 😁 Righteous Prey by John Sanford 🫣😱 Dark…

[countzeroor]

Hang on.

Wesley Dodds Sandman, Garrett Sanford Sandman, or Morpheus Sandman? 'Cause those are 3 very different stories, when crossing over with B:TAS.

(All possibly really good, mind you, but very different).

I got a question for you Mr Gaiman, have you worked on anything with the writer Paul Dini?

Not yet. We plotted some Sandman for the Batman Animated Series back in about 1993, even picked a voice actor, but it never happened.

[splooosh]

“No, Diana”

Gene Colan

[cgbcomics]

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Kamandi, Jed Walker, Tommy Tomorrow: The One split into Three, or The Three that are One. Who they are and what role they play in the fate of everything remains unclear.

Kamandi is the child of the Great Disaster, living among the ruins of the World That’s Coming in the old Electric City Command-D complex with his grandfather, the being once known as OMAC

Tomorrow is the child of the Cosmic Twilight, a vicious young man who dreams of conquering the stars. Inspired by the will of Ozymandias and Alexander Luthor, he claws away at a galaxy that fails to meet his expectations of it.

Jed is simply a Dreamer, asleep in the World of the Now but wide awake in that place called the Dreaming, The Sandman “Garrett Sanford” and the dream-demon Gault his constant companions.

Is Jed simply dreaming the distant futures of Kamandi and Tommy? Are Jed and Tommy the boys who Kamandi could have been? Is Tommy Tomorrow simply the unrealized apex of Jed and Kamandi? Are all three a perfect triangle, held between three worlds, never to meet and be reconciled into a Last, First, Only Boy on Earth?

Can Kamandi be the Tomorrow Walker?