The fourth Absolute Sandman volume completes the main story arc of the series, combining disparate elements and characters to produce a finale that I did not expect at all at the beginning. Initially I struggled with not being able to discern how anything related to anything else but the second half...
Well, this is of course, brilliant. But why? It occurs to me that the world Gaiman set up for himself was in fact the perfect tool for him: He could incorporate any mythology, religion, genre, location or time and still make it all self-consistent, hence allowing his imagination to go wherever it wa...
How good was Sandman, really? I asked myself. After all I was in my late teens and it was a long time ago. Also probably the first comic for adults I ever read. Should I take a risk on those gigantic anthologies, The Absolute Sandman or a lesser commitment on the comparatively tiddly first paperbac...
I had a hard time with this graphic novel. Since this is the second book in the series, this novel takes right off where the first novel ended and I had no problem following the beginning of this story as Lucien is counting the arcana in the dreaming world for the Dream Lord. Lucien finds there are ...
So this is the great Sandman I have been hearing about for years. I liked it. But can't say I was blown away by it though. Probably because for the most part I found the colors muddled and it was hard to read sometimes what characters were saying. And when I had to turn the graphic novel sideways to...
The concept behind these collections is to gather all the work by one legend, one storyteller who had a major impact on the series, or who simply wrote beautiful stories or drew gorgeous illustrations. And the illustrations were lovely, but unfortunately, I didn't connect with the stories. Loo...
What do you get when you cross Alice Cooper and Neil Gaiman? This graphic novel. You end up with The Last Temptation. My affinity for Gaiman knows no bounds. From children's books, to graphic novels, I eagerly snatch them all up if his name is on them. It's his writing. It's the way that he manages ...
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