Gaiman can write just about anything, and write it well -- comic books (Sandman), award-winning children's novels ("The Graveyard Book"), Dr. Who episodes ("The Doctor's Wife" won a Hugo).
The constant comic element in the letters — well, comic if it's not happening to you — lies in the Powers family's restless search for a home — the "suitable accommodation" of the title.
Con Man One of the more obscure trailers, Con Man is a crowdfunded web series about, well, Comic Cons.
"And now," he says, with a tenderness that seems as genuine as it is comic, "well now we're very happy together".
There may be violence, but insofar as it ends well, you might call it comic.
While not an overpowering blockbuster, with $205 million in domestic box office, it expanded the audience for Batman well beyond comic fans.
It was a look that worked well in comic pieces with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman.
In some ways, it is like a live animated cartoon, but it can address weighty dramatic subjects as well as comic ones.
It's all very well for comic-book writers to create characters with laser vision and the ability to leap tall buildings at a single bound, but until advances in CGI, it was nigh on impossible to recreate them on the big screen.
But dark as well as comic forces are in play here, the darker, perhaps, for being comic, because what Shylock is making merry with is inchoate Christian terror.
While this is perhaps a natural progression, it's also a well-worn comic target.
