6/27/2023 0 Comments Stardust dc comicsSet in two parallel worlds, a quaint Victorian village named Wall and the fantastical kingdom of Stormhold, and with a plot that involves both a witch and a posse of murderous princes chasing after a fallen meteorite that is really a young woman, “Stardust” is also written in a consciously old-fashioned manner. “Stardust (Being a Romance Within the Realm of Faerie)” was subsequently reissued as a hardback and trade paperback, and in 1999 was published in a text-only version, without the Vess illustrations. To begin with, though it was originally published in four installments by DC Comics in 1997, “Stardust” was never a comic book series with panels and dialogue, like, say, Gaiman’s famous “Sandman.” It’s a prose novel with Arthur Rackham-like illustrations by Charles Vess, and came out in a comics format only because traditional book publishers didn’t want to spring for so much color printing. 10, is a bit of an anomaly among the works that have made him a legend in the comics world. Neil Gaiman’s novel “Stardust,” the source for the new movie of the same name that opens Aug.
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