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4.44 AVERAGE
4.44 AVERAGE
More truly impressive work by Gaiman and his collaborators. This time Gaiman traipses happily through the landscape that Moore left behind from Swamp Thing and overturns bunches of stuff. It's another piece of laying out the broader universe, Morpheus' place in it and how dreams interact with human nature. Or protagonists grows, little by little, as the world changes around him with great speed. All in all it's a good, solid, engaging read.
In which Dream receives the key to Hell and all bunch of gods from different pantheons come to petition him for it.
As usual I have mixed feelings. While I can appreciate it, I can't say I really enjoy it. It's horror and it's quite grotesque, often focusing on the more gruesome aspects of human nature.
As usual I have mixed feelings. While I can appreciate it, I can't say I really enjoy it. It's horror and it's quite grotesque, often focusing on the more gruesome aspects of human nature.
I thought The Doll's House was amazing. Then I picked up Season of Mists and I could not put it down. I really tried to take my time and enjoy the artwork but I ultimately had to find out what happens. I shouldn't even be trying to write any sort of review either. I am gushing. I am giddy. I am so happy I decided to read this series.
The fourth Sandman collection gathers myths, legends, gods, demons, Lucifer Morningstar out for revenge, and six of the seven Endless: Death, Delirium, Desire, Despair, Destiny, and Dream. (The seventh sibling is yet to be named.) I am Death's biggest fan thus far in this story of the Endless but then I meet Delirium: disturbing, unsettling, and all kinds of crazy. New favourite alert!
I really don't want to spoil anything because it is such a great story but I am just fan-girling all over the place. And, I fear I am too old to be doing that. The meat of the story is Lucifer empties hell, hands Morpheus the key, and goes on a permanent vacation/retirement. Epic battle averted.
Once again, impressive characters throughout, like:
*Breschau, an unforgettable damned soul. Breschau thinks he is this monster who deserves to be punished and tortured for all eternity, but Lucifer tells him point blank that no one remembers him or the country where he once lived. Get out!
Once again, what happens on one plane of existence has serious problems for our world. In particular, *Charles Rowland.
*Order, "Lord Kilderkin, a manifestation of order, here incarnated for us in the form of this cardboard box." (What is happening??!! 😍)
*Chaos, manifested in the form of a child dressed like a clown with a red balloon. "We is always more fun than the order people. Cardboard boxes. Nobody clever be's cardboard boxes." (hands down, she has the best lines in the whole volume 😍)
God to the rescue! Bring on Volume 5 😊
The fourth Sandman collection gathers myths, legends, gods, demons, Lucifer Morningstar out for revenge, and six of the seven Endless: Death, Delirium, Desire, Despair, Destiny, and Dream. (The seventh sibling is yet to be named.) I am Death's biggest fan thus far in this story of the Endless but then I meet Delirium: disturbing, unsettling, and all kinds of crazy. New favourite alert!
I really don't want to spoil anything because it is such a great story but I am just fan-girling all over the place. And, I fear I am too old to be doing that. The meat of the story is Lucifer empties hell, hands Morpheus the key, and goes on a permanent vacation/retirement. Epic battle averted.
Once again, impressive characters throughout, like:
*Breschau, an unforgettable damned soul. Breschau thinks he is this monster who deserves to be punished and tortured for all eternity, but Lucifer tells him point blank that no one remembers him or the country where he once lived. Get out!
Once again, what happens on one plane of existence has serious problems for our world. In particular, *Charles Rowland.
*Order, "Lord Kilderkin, a manifestation of order, here incarnated for us in the form of this cardboard box." (What is happening??!! 😍)
*Chaos, manifested in the form of a child dressed like a clown with a red balloon. "We is always more fun than the order people. Cardboard boxes. Nobody clever be's cardboard boxes." (hands down, she has the best lines in the whole volume 😍)
God to the rescue! Bring on Volume 5 😊
If I could steal anything in this world, I would steal Neil Gaiman's imagination.
By volume 4, Gaiman had put everything together for Sandman. He seems to have a clear plan on where he's taking the series, cameos by DC regulars have almost completely disappeared, the artists are fully in sync with Gaiman's intentions, and it all simply works.
Volume 4 deals with Dream's decision to atone for damning the woman he loved to Hell, after his family convinces him it was an injustice. But Lucifer Morningstar had swornd to destroy Morpheus for an earlier slight, so it will NOT be an easy affair.
This volume clearly showcases why Gaiman's Sandman won so many accolades.
Volume 4 deals with Dream's decision to atone for damning the woman he loved to Hell, after his family convinces him it was an injustice. But Lucifer Morningstar had swornd to destroy Morpheus for an earlier slight, so it will NOT be an easy affair.
This volume clearly showcases why Gaiman's Sandman won so many accolades.
Really wish we’d gotten more Nada, and in a modern telling of this story we might have. Despite that and the fact that I don’t think even the author understood how terrible the Dream King’s crimes were this was still an incredible comic and overall I loved it. 4.5/5 rounded up.
One of my new year's resolutions for this 2019 is reading, at long last, all of Sandman; I will write a complete review when I finish the entire saga.
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Uno dei miei buoni propositi per il 2019 è di leggere, finalmente, tutto Sandman; rimando quindi una recensione completa a quando finirò tutti i volumi.
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Uno dei miei buoni propositi per il 2019 è di leggere, finalmente, tutto Sandman; rimando quindi una recensione completa a quando finirò tutti i volumi.