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regalalgorithm's review
4.0
A good little collection of early work from Gaiman.
Definitely more conventional than his later work, but it's interesting to see his voice starting to form, and each story is certainly worth reaching in its own right even if none reach the highs of Gaiman's later work.
The hellblazer and Sandman bits were especially good, and this collection is worth going through if only for those.
Definitely more conventional than his later work, but it's interesting to see his voice starting to form, and each story is certainly worth reaching in its own right even if none reach the highs of Gaiman's later work.
The hellblazer and Sandman bits were especially good, and this collection is worth going through if only for those.
slipperbunny's review
5.0
Hold Me is a beautiful story and I loved all the other stories too. But Hold Me is definitely the comic which made me give this collection five stars.
elysareadsitall's review
2.0
I felt the majority of the stories in this collection were okay. I liked the Swamp Thing and John Constantine stories. I couldn't really get into the other ones. These comics are early works of Gaiman's, and I definitely see where his later stories come from. It was interesting to read this collection, but I likely won't return to it.
calistareads's review
3.0
A short story collection of early works of Gaiman's. Includes:
Jack in the Green
Brothers
Shaggy God Stories
Hold Me
Sandman Midnight Theatre
Welcome back to the House of Mystery
He started out with such a strong voice. The man is a storyteller. He has a way with words.
Jack in the Green is a swamp Thing type story.
Brothers was indeed strange. Something about hippies and aliens of some kind or rag dolls
Shaggy God Stories is another Swamp Thing type story. Psychedelic.
Hold me has John constantine in it. It was very moody.
the last two are tied into the Sandman stories that he wrote.
It is an interesting collection and I admit that I did not enjoy these stories as much as I have enjoyed other Gaiman works. I think I have a lot going on it not as much focus. Still, I'm glad I read these. It's good to know where an author comes from.
Jack in the Green
Brothers
Shaggy God Stories
Hold Me
Sandman Midnight Theatre
Welcome back to the House of Mystery
He started out with such a strong voice. The man is a storyteller. He has a way with words.
Jack in the Green is a swamp Thing type story.
Brothers was indeed strange. Something about hippies and aliens of some kind or rag dolls
Shaggy God Stories is another Swamp Thing type story. Psychedelic.
Hold me has John constantine in it. It was very moody.
the last two are tied into the Sandman stories that he wrote.
It is an interesting collection and I admit that I did not enjoy these stories as much as I have enjoyed other Gaiman works. I think I have a lot going on it not as much focus. Still, I'm glad I read these. It's good to know where an author comes from.
xan_van_rooyen's review
4.0
This is something different - a collection of stories Gaiman wrote when he was still fresh on the comic book scene. Some of these stories are awesome and some feel a little out of place. What is consistently awesome is the artwork which is the primary reason I picked up this graphic novel. Definitely not in the same league as Gaiman's Sandman series, this is still a fun collection of oddball stories for die hard fans.
nicolebookish's review
4.0
Loved this short story collection in sequential art!
A short story collection of early works of Gaiman's.
Includes:
Jack in the Green 5 star
Brothers 5 star
Shaggy God Stories 4 star
Hold Me 5 star
Sandman Midnight Theatre 5 star
Welcome back to the House of Mystery 3 star
I really enjoyed the art style in hold me & sandman midnight theatre. I liked how many of the stories connected to each other.
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Read as part of Buzzword readathon "Night"
A short story collection of early works of Gaiman's.
Includes:
Jack in the Green 5 star
Brothers 5 star
Shaggy God Stories 4 star
Hold Me 5 star
Sandman Midnight Theatre 5 star
Welcome back to the House of Mystery 3 star
I really enjoyed the art style in hold me & sandman midnight theatre. I liked how many of the stories connected to each other.
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Read as part of Buzzword readathon "Night"
octavia_cade's review against another edition
3.0
A collection of largely unrelated odds and ends written by Neil Gaiman - mostly comics, but there's one short graphic novel in here. I've given it three stars because I think it's the rough average of what I thought of the individuals pieces, though I've tended to give the novel more weight I think. Anyway, there were a couple of four stars reads that I really enjoyed. "Sandman Midnight Theatre" is the graphic novel piece, and it's atmospheric and creepy as most of the Sandman works are. Gaiman talks in his introduction to it about the nine pages of party talk, and as an example of largely irrelevant background work they're outstanding - I'd happily read an entire comic of this type of thing, I don't care how trivial it is! Credit to the artists working on this one too, there's a sort of muted submarine palette that almost looks crayoned in places. It's the pick of the artwork in the collection, although the art in the second four star read, "Hold Me", is also impressive. This short little comic is sad and creepy and touching, no wonder it has the reputation that it does.
The remainder, sorry to say, is unremarkable. Two stars for every other piece collected here, but both "Midnight Theatre" and "Hold Me" make Midnight Days well worth reading.
The remainder, sorry to say, is unremarkable. Two stars for every other piece collected here, but both "Midnight Theatre" and "Hold Me" make Midnight Days well worth reading.
ozshark's review
2.0
This collection of stories didn't do it for me at all. Hold Me was great, but the rest were either weird, boring or both. At least now I know that the Sandman comics aren't for me!