#Matthew Cable

[fishfingersandscarves]

VOGUE [Matthew & Jessamy Edition]

prints now available!

[echosdaffodil]

When Morpheus vanishes for some days into a certain New Inn.

Heard of the homophobic dog? Be ready for the homophobic raven best friend.

[ibrithir-was-here]

Another very silly bit thats been bopping around my head x)

[thenightling]

The 2019 TV series of Swamp Thing is now available (for a limited time) to watch for free on Tubi.

What makes this significant for Sandman fans is the show had a version of Matthew Cable as a character.

Matthew Cable is the man who dies and becomes Matthew The Raven in The Sandman.

They even went back and added a scene of Matthew dying in the final episode because this was around the time there were early talks of adapting The Sandman into a Netflix series.

Obviously he's played by a different actor here than he is in The Sandman, mind you. Tubi is only available in the US so if you are outside of the US make sure you turn on your VPN and set it for a USA location.

[zal-cryptid]

DC characters - Matthew the Raven

[lesbianrobotwizard]

I’m fucking reeling how did I not know that Matthew the raven is Matt fucking Cable

this guy, who jerks off to visions of women in his hand he created

and gets upset that his wife has a job she's passionate about 

and commands that her clothes kneel before him

is the same person as this funny little bird guy

[victorianenby]

"Doth quoth the raven..." The Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)

[makiruz]

There are only 4 Matthew/Dream fics on AO3? And one isn’t in English!

Fuck you, he’s the best ship!

[zetterbabe]

😛 (05.10.24)

[femmehysteria]

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

[nicelytousled]

uh... baws?

[konvoluted]

[mannytoodope]

[thenightling]

The backstories of Morpheus’ Ravens

Matthew-  Formerly Matthew Cable. (Source Swamp Thing volume 2, mostly issue 84).    Matthew worked for the DDI (Department of defense intelligence) and was married to Abby Arcane (who would later be Swamp Thing’s Love interest). Matthew was not a very good man. He was an alcoholic and he was physically abusive to Abby.

Thanks to comic book shenanigans he briefly ended up with God-like powers.  But he ultimately ended up in a coma caused by a drunk driving accident.  While in his coma Matthew ended up in The Dreaming, in the cave owned by Eve (one of Morpheus’s minion, a former horror comics hostess who can look like a young woman, a middle aged woman, or an elderly woman at will). Her cave is not very far from The House of Mystery and The House of Secrets, near the Shores of the Seas of Night (The ocean of The Dreaming).  Eve likes to punish misogynistic men in their nightmares, it’s her specialty.  

 In the cave Matthew learns to not be so misogynistic and every time he becomes abusive toward Eve (who he dreams is his wife), she takes her crone form (which is improbably strong) and turns the tables on him.  

In The Waking World Abby discovers that Matthew was taken to a corrupt hospital that was harvesting his organs while he’s still alive.   She finds him kept only alive by machines.  HIs body ravaged.  Most of his vital organs taken, even his eyes are gone.  Abby goes to turn his life support off out of mercy... In The Dreaming Matthew leaves Eve’s cave, crawling out after having learned his lessons. Morpheus meets him at the mouth of the cave and offers him the chance to serve him as his raven but he has to let go of his dying mortal life.

Matthew briefly wakes up just in time to shut off his life support systems himself so Abby doesn’t have to do it.  As Matthew dies he tells Abby to forgive him and forget him.

As a raven Matthew comes to prefer being a bird to being a man, deciding he makes a better raven than a person.

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Jessamy - Not a lot is known about Jessamy’s past.  We know that she was Morpheus’s raven in the 1700s, and possibly earlier.   Her first appearance in the comics is in Thermador. She was very clever and helped to orchestrate the plan Johanna Constantine (eighteenth century character) needed in order to rescue Orpheus from the French revolutionaries. In the comics she’s a solid black raven.

_______________________________   Aristeas - Also known as Aristeas The Raven and Aristeas The Poet.  Aristeas was a poet in Ancient Greece. This one was a real historic figure and figure of mythology.   It is believed that after he died he became a raven and served Apollo.  It’s a running gag in The Sandman comics that Morpheus is repeatedly mistaken as Apollo since Apollo was often believed to be the father of Orpheus and in The Sandman Orpheus is Morpheus’s son.  After serving Morpheus for two hundred and forty years Aristeas chose to return to the human world in the form of a man but found he couldn’t re-adjust to being human so he asked to return to being a raven.

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Lucien - Lucien (Lucienne in the TV show) is the first raven.  Lucien’s current form is likely not Lucien’s original form.  Lucien can still take raven form at will, as revealed in The Sandman issue known as The Hunt.

  The Dreaming (1996-2002 comics) claimed that Lucien was a white raven who was punished for some offense and made black. And that he was probably also Adam from Adam and Eve but Neil Gaiman has since debunked the notion that Lucien was Adam. And that version of The Dreaming has been de-canonized and ignored.   No other comic has ever claimed Lucien was once a white raven.  He is, canonically, the first raven though. 

That version of The Dreaming also gave Daniel a white raven named Tethys made from the soul of a dead alien who resided in The House of Secrets sub-basement. She was created to replace Matthew after he was accidentally shot by Lucien and chose to stay dead. She does not exist in any other comic. And Matthew is very much alive in current Sandman canon.      

  Delirium believes there have been “eleven and a half” ravens.

All of Morpheus's ravens were once mortal.   And he usually pays them with some sort of boon.  If they ever decide to not be his raven anymore they get the choice to either move on into the afterlife, or become a new dream entity, or become human again or to remain a raven and roam in that form but no longer serving Morpheus.

[xmencovered]

X-Men Adventures TPB #3 / Published: 1994 / Artist: Matthew Ryan

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