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This Graphic Novel Brings Gaiman's 'American Gods' To Chilly Life

Artist Scott Hampton has a big job in this second volume of an ambitions, three-book adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Depict Gaiman's deadly serious characters without making them quaint.
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Scott Hampton has big work to do in , volume 2 of an ambitious, three-part graphic adaptation of Neil Gaiman's . Hampton's task duplicates the thorny one Gaiman set himself in the 2001 novel: To convince readers that figures out of myth and fable deserve deadly serious, unsentimental attention. shows these figures — Odin, Bast, Loki, even the personification of Easter – grappling with the failure of that attention. In the

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