![]() ![]() His mother has gone to a conference to present a paper. In Fortunately, the Milk, a boy narrator checks the fridge and finds no milk for his Toastios. And fortunately for everybody, there's milk. Adult Gaiman fans who read Fortunately, the Milk to their children will also notice these themes resonating with his recent adult book The Ocean at the End of the Lane. There are vampires, or possibly one-pires, there are interstellar dinosaur police, and there's a happy ending. He has a nearly fatal encounter with a volcano god, there's a ridiculous amount of time travel. It's the story of a father who goes out to bring back milk for his children and, at least according to him, on the way is kidnapped by aliens, kidnapped again by pirates, rescued by a stegosaurus in a hot-air balloon. Neil Gaimans Fortunately, the Milk is at the exact opposite. Throughout the rest of the book there are vampyrs, time traveling dinosaurs, exploding volcanoes, oh-so-self-fulfilling prophecies, and other fun things. And I'm damned proud of it," Gaiman says. Dad escapes by breaking the time space continuum and lands himself on a 17th a pirate ship, and here - things get a little weird. ![]() ![]() "It's the silliest, strangest, most ridiculous book I've ever written. But at long last, the author has broken his silence in a video introduction from SFX. Beyond a vague description of it as “a very silly children’s book,” we've been given scant details about Fortunately, the Milk, the upcoming collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Skottie Young (for the U.S. ![]()
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