The Fall of Neil Gaiman
I’ve said this before and I’m saying it now. Power does not corrupt. Power only reveals. If you gain power you will do the things you always wanted to.
It’s finally happened. It was fascinating to watch the system failing to protect one of its chosen own.
It tried for a while. After all, there were too many high-cost projects with Gaiman’s name inextricably attached to them. It’s been possible to bury revolting antics before. It was certainly worth a try. Requests and demands were made of social media. Google’s algorithms were particularly determined to suppress. Facebook’s was worse but I will have to grant that X didn’t provide him any noticeable cover and that was pretty much all it took.
Vulture (how appropriate) has finally published an article detailing Neil Gaiman’s sadistic depravity. I won’t go into details of that here. I will only say that his tastes are as vicious as they are degrading. He demonstrates the behavior of a rapist who was trained in how to control the vulnerable by a cult. Scientology taught him well.
This was Gaiman after he gained power.
His behavior before gaining power was some of the most batshit delusional Gamma Male behavior I’ve ever heard of.
After Vulture fired its barrage the follow-on strikes began.
Neil Gaiman had an extraordinary career. And I mean that literally. It was Extra Ordinary.
Writers who’ve hit it big all have the same complaint. Some rando will come up to them and make the following offer; “I’ve got this absolutely amazing idea for a story. Here’s the deal, I’ll tell you about the idea, then you write the book and then we split the money.” Gaiman’s biggest successes were in getting people to actually do that for him. Anyone who’s read Terry Pratchett knows damn good and well who did all of the heavy lifting in Good Omens. Even Gaiman admitted it. As for Sandman, the most amazing comic book of all time, how much of that comic’s success was due to the artwork? Without Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, Bryan Talbot, and Michael Zulli, would anyone have the vivid impressions of that title that they do? They were the real storytellers, Gaiman just had the ‘amazing idea.’ Which half the time were retreads of somebody else’s work.
As for the King of Dreams, let’s be honest here, Morpheus was nothing more than a Mary Sue and a pretty obvious one at that. And one that no one can look at now without seeing the true horror it was masking. Sandman is about to be swept under the rug alongside his “creator.”
It is over. It is ended.
