The Flowers of Romance

Neil Gaiman, John Bolton

• Standalone story, originally printed in Vertigo: Winters Edge #1
• Audible Act III Chapter 3

Note: This stand-alone story originally appeared in the Vertigo: Winters Edge #1 anthology.

Page 1#

• Panel 1

  Our little goat footed man is a Satyr. The last Satyr we met was Aristaeus in The Song of Orpheus.

Page 2-3#

• The Blue ladies on the right hand side are presumably the Naiads - water nymphs, mentioned in the lower caption.

Page 4#

• Panel 1

  Here he's cavorting with a female satyr.

• Panel 3

  And this lady is a Harpy.

Page 6#

• Panel 1

  Any references to the Wedding in the Dawn of the World?

Page 7#

• Panel 2

  As with How They Met Themselves it's interesting to see Desire referred to as her rather than the usual it.

• Panel 5

  It's hard to know if this island is entirely fictional, or if Gaiman had a real island in mind. One possible contender is the isle of Eynhallow in the Orkneys, north of Scotland.

Credits

• Greg "elmo" Morrow created the Sandman Annotations.
• Originally collated and edited by Richard Munn.

Last modified by Richard Munn on 2023-09-07 - Added note questioning the Wedding in the Dawn of the World
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