From: krupski@ravel.udel.edu (James John Krupski)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: Preludes and Nocturnes TPB
Summary: Who has Lucifer's face?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:45:35 GMT

In article <lsmith.721332038@hecto> lsmith@hecto.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:
>In <1992Nov8.054122.23979@cheshire.oxy.edu> rooney@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael Sean Rooney) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Nov8.002143.28810@scott.skidmore.edu> jholstei@scott.skidmore.edu (jeremy holstein) writes:
>>>rooney@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael Sean Rooney) writes:
>>>> 	While browsing in the TPB edition of the first SANDMAN arc,
>>>> I noticed that the layout and art in part 4 ("A Hope in Hell") had
>>>> been redone at the point wherein Dream encounters Lucifer in the 
>>>> infernal palace.  The art is clearly not the work of Kieth -- its
>>>> either Dringenberg or McKean.  Can anyone give the reason this
>>>> sequence was altered?
>>>
>>>this sequence was not altered, that's the way it was originally
>>>printed.  Drinberg and keith weren't just a penciler inker team, they
>>>actually collaberated on the artwork.  For example, the two page
>>>demon spread contained in that issue is clearly not Drinberg's inks, but
>>>Keith's.  drinberg was in control for the sequence in question, tho.
>>>
>
>>	No, that's not what I was saying.  Look at issue 4 and then
>>look at the TPB collection of Preludes & Nocturnes.  The sequence
>>wherein we first see Lucifer has been completely altered.  There is
>>a different drawing of Lucifer, and it's not by Kieth.
>
>I checked and the sequence was altered between 4 and the collection. The
>only reason I can give is that in the original the artwork is spread
>across two pages, even though the dialogue runs sequentially. (That
>isn't really clear, is it?) In the collection the paging has changed (no
>full page ads) so that the same pages are now back to back. 
>

Sure, that's one possible reason.  But if so, then why change Lucifer's  
facial features so dramatically?  Those are two distinctly different faces.

So, I put it to the Net: WHOSE faces are those?

I think the first (unchanged) face looks like Neil's.  (I've never met him.)
(Maybe, on reflection, he didn't care to be associated so closely with
the character, and asked that it be changed for the TPB.)

So who was the face changed to?
IMO it looks sort of like Robert Plant.
Not that I think Robert Plant is Lucifer.
Anyone?
                                             -Slippery Jim

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Sarek:  "But why did they think I was evil?"
Amanda: "It was the ears, dear."
Sarek:  "You have said that before, my wife.  Now explain to me what it
         was about my ears that upset them so."
McCoy:  "Allow me..." (launches into extended discussion of iconography,
         pointed ears, barbed tails, and pitchforks)
Sarek:  "I see, then.  They thought I was a personification of entropy.
         Or resembled one."
McCoy:  "That's right.  If I may be so bold, does Vulcan culture have any
         similar notions?"
Sarek:  "We have many such legends, Doctor, and they ALL have pointed ears.
         We are wise enough to know that entropy needs no image but our own
         to do its will."
                                      -Diane Duane, _Spock's World_
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