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RE: First Trip to My New Local Comic Shop... The Origin Story of My Wallet's Arch Enemy!
Awesome haul! I don't know why but that Hill Billy cover reaaallly intrigues me.
I'm super lucky, live in Hoboken right next to NYC so I've popped over to buy comics a few times. Most notably for The Sandman Overture issues, which to this day remain my favorite comics of all time.
I've yet to read Overture! I believe I have all the issues around, I picked them up sporadically and was waiting to read them all together. But at the moment I have no clue where they each are. I'm sure I'll be picking up a nice hardcover collection at some point, but I think I'll reread the whole Sandman series as a lead in!
If you've never read anything by Eric Powell, I highly recommend it. He's best known for The Goon and also created Chimichanga.
If you've been looking for a story about a tough as nails wanderer who was born blind, gifted with sight as a witch cut eyes into his head before she murdered his mother, his bloody tears staining his cheeks never to wash away, armed with a cleaver stolen from Satan's kitchen, traversing the hills of Appalachia helping defend the poor folk from the dark things that inhabit the woods, with only a gigantic talking bear named Lucille as his companion... then you found the right thing to read in Hillbilly!
I'm going to guess you haven't been looking for a story with all those criteria... what sane person would be? But it may have piqued your interest and put you on the hunt now!
You have piqued my interest and I am on the hunt now haha.
As for the Sandman yes, I think you will like overture best if you read all the other comics first. The Overture is amazing though and defies reason, it is simultaneously a prequel, sequel, and sidequel to the original sandman story.