1 - Posted on 3/2/2022

" So, if you feel like giving me a lifetime of devotion I second that emption." :P

1 - Posted on 3/2/2022

Very nice!

1 - Posted on 3/2/2022

blessed the readers of Hempel's stuff

2 - Posted on 3/2/2022

A winter's day
In a deep and dark December
Gadling alone
Gazing at my Hempel of the graves below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I read a lot, I read Neil Gaiman

I've built walls
Packages deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of slowship, slowship causes pains
Disaster and no tracking I distain
I send to rocks I send to islands

Don't talk of love
Well Neil's wrote the word before
It's sleeping in One so Kindly
I won't disturb the slumber of Dreaming that have tried
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock I am an island

I have my books
And my D'Israeli to protect me
I am shielded in page turners
Hiding in my room safe within my tome
Art touches someone and Gaiman touches me
I post the art, It's not an island

Cuz' a rock knows no pain
And an island never cries

1 - Posted on 3/2/2022

Here's where Gaiman shines. The quiet moments. When Hempel took over as an artist I'll admit I didn't really like the art at the start but eventually it started to work for me. It's pages like this where his work shines. Congrats. 

1 - Posted on 3/2/2022

Simple and yet so elegant....

1 - Posted on 3/2/2022

Everyone has their favorite Sandman artist. This one is mine. Wonderful page. I hope to have one on my wall one of these days!

1 - Posted on 3/2/2022

Any Sandman page is a triumph! Congratulations!

1 - Posted on 3/2/2022

An amazingly moving sequence. Very touching. Congrats.

1 - Posted on 3/3/2022

Congratulations!

1 - Posted on 3/3/2022

Brilliant!  Thanks for sharing!

1 - Posted on 3/6/2022

The spare details Hempel uses expressed the sadness of Hob's dilemma perfectly. Cheers!

1 - Posted on 3/8/2022

Incredible score here, M L.  That first panel blows my mind with its breathtaking composition and execution.  Leaving the ground covered in snow like that, showing us only the headstones of all but the recently covered-with-earth grave, Hempel gives the illusion of the headstones falling from the sky along with the snowflakes, and shows us how Hob must feel at times like this: that everyone he knows falls around him so quickly, like snowflakes.  Insane level of storytelling on display here, by both writer and artist: the four words committed to the whole page in panel 4 (notwithstanding the story title) are plenty, letting the moment develop through the beautiful stylings of Marc Hempel.  What an add, M L - sincere congrats!

1 - Posted on 3/24/2022

Gorgeous Sandman page! Love that top splash with what appear, for a moment, to be headstones floating in empty space--It's almost dizzying. And that is followed by the two close ups of Hob placing flowers at the grave, bringing you back down to earth, so to speak. Very moving.