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4.44 AVERAGE
4.44 AVERAGE
This is the volume in which Sandman reveals its scope. We meet the Endless, and Morpheus hosts emissaries from Heaven, Hell, faerie, order, chaos, Norse myth and more. I love Lucifer's retirement speech, and the two angels at the end give me chills.
And yet, Morpheus faces few real challenges in this volume, and Seasons of Mists is more about the pageantry of power than plot or character growth. Not my favorite volume, though there are moments that shine.
And yet, Morpheus faces few real challenges in this volume, and Seasons of Mists is more about the pageantry of power than plot or character growth. Not my favorite volume, though there are moments that shine.
Here we meet the rest of The Endless, beings more than humans but less (or more, it's not clear) than gods. They are Destiny, Desire, Despair, Delusion, and Death to go along with The Sandman, or Dream. It appears that Dream is destined to go to Hell in order to free a woman he loved but condemned there. So what happens when he gets there? He finds Lucifer has closed Hell and is turning over the realm to Dream.
Heady stuff that. What's more is that everyone knows it's happened. The damned return to Earth. So Faries, demons, and gods from Norse, Egyptian, Chinese mythologies along with personifications of Order and Chaos want Sandman to turn over the keys to hell to them.
Mr. Gaiman just keeps delivering. What an amazing imagination. I especially love his take on Thor. This may very well be my favorite of the series so far. You do have to read volumes 1-2 before this one. Though volume 3 could be skipped without missing a beat.
Heady stuff that. What's more is that everyone knows it's happened. The damned return to Earth. So Faries, demons, and gods from Norse, Egyptian, Chinese mythologies along with personifications of Order and Chaos want Sandman to turn over the keys to hell to them.
Mr. Gaiman just keeps delivering. What an amazing imagination. I especially love his take on Thor. This may very well be my favorite of the series so far. You do have to read volumes 1-2 before this one. Though volume 3 could be skipped without missing a beat.
I always leave one of Neil Gaiman's works feeling the need to go on and on about he is our modern day Chaucer. However, I tried to tell him this myself once at a book signing and he bit my head off...so...I'll stick to saying, who knew Satan was so sexy?
Another winner in Gaiman's epic saga. Here, we see Dream attempting to make peace with his former lover, by trying to free her from Hell, only to find out that he has to give the land to someone. What follows is that much characters from various mythologies all want it for different mostly selfish reasons. In some ways, this reminds me of a reality show due to the fact everyone is backstabbing each other and trying to curry favor with Dream. Given the fact this is about a good decade before reality shows became popular, this was pretty funny too read. Not to mention that even though this is a DC series, here you can argue that this is connected to American Gods with multiple mythologies interacting together. At this point, most of the Endless family are revealed and even bring up another sibling who decided to leave them. A mystery that had yet to be solved.
Loki, Thor, Odin, and many other gods and goddesses appear in this storyline, all lining up to lay claim to Hell after Lucifer shuts it down. Dream must decide who should take over the realm and deal with a mistake from his own past. It was neat to all of Dream's brothers and sisters (minus one) gather together at the beginning of the story. Something big has been put in motion in this volume, but it's a cliffhanger to find out what that could be.
Det beste nr. av Sandman jeg har lest så langt, fikk nesten lyst til å gi fem stjerner - bare for å illustrerer hvor mye bedre det har blitt. Alt henger sammen, og alt gir mening. Elsker dette, og skulle uten tvil ha lest det for type ti år siden.
Gaiman writes so deeply and darkly sometimes it makes my head hurt to think about it . This was worth the read although it seemed to lag a bit.
I really enjoyed reading this, but the fact that Lucifer's huge revenge on Morpheus turns out to be just a really bad party and property dispute seems like a problem.
This is satisfactory, yes, this will do nicely.
I always thought that Nada deserved better... and it's good to know that she will get it, she will get all that she deserves.
I always thought that Nada deserved better... and it's good to know that she will get it, she will get all that she deserves.