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The Corinthian escaped the Dreaming by possessing the body of a shell-shocked soldier (Stefen Wasserman), a comrade of Charles Constantine, who Constantine was unable to kill. For whatever reason, The Corinthian decided that it was his new mission to haunt Constantine and force him to kill him. There's really not too much in the way of explaination for that.


In the next issue, he corners Charles...whose wife (the flapper chick) apparently believes herself the incarnation of Pestilence and insists on being treated as a different woman every day of the week. She's also got a boytoy named Amedeo.






The Corinthian posesses Amedeo's body and pairs up with Pestilence. They (presumably) have naked time before running off to a masquerade...it's Venice, after all. It's all about masks and murder (and pigeons).




She does. The Corinthian then kills her ("Still...being no one will be better than being me," she says, and offers no resistance) and runs about happily for a while killing off a few of the other minor characters and rejoicing in his puberty.... 

Then he's successfully killed by Charles Constantine, and comes back in yet another body.

The storytelling beggar guy recounts the real story behind his missing eye, in what's probably the most disturbing sequence of the issue:


Ahh! And he wraps his narration with this:
"This is how I learned the story, signore--through a dead eye of a living man."

....And THAT, my friends, is how The Corinthian got his (rather awesome) name. Is that lame or what? It makes Puck's comment from the Kindly Ones (something like "are you named after the people, the verses, the leather, the pillars, or the mode of behavior?") seem pointless, especially if you consider that 'corinthian' is essentially a synonym for 'licentiousness' and actually tells you something relevent about his character. Besides, Morpheus is the lord of stories - you'd assume he'd come up with a name as fitting for one of his creations as a Dickens character. So I'm just going to tell myself that the blind guy here (Leo) was actually picking up on The Corinthian's innate corinthian-ness and not simply naming him after a fucking marble pillar.

The Corinthian 2.0 is freaking awesome. He still kills people and eats their eyeballs, sure, but he's not entirely evil and provides a surprising amount of comic relief for a monster. He and Matthew are, like, my favorite team-up ever. "It was like a bad TV show - he's a reincarnated serial killer. His partner's a bird. They're cops." ....I would so watch that show!


This is what you get when you look up The Sandman on Uncyclopedia.org:

*snickers*

And finally, one of my own doodles, done after watching Pan's Labyrinth last week:

While the Pale Man is certainly creepy, he's not exactly much of a threat...even if you're stupid enough to wake him up, he just kind of staggers after you groaning. Once you consider that he's effectively blind the moment he grabs hold of you, he kind of loses his edge.