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4.51 AVERAGE
4.51 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Loved rereading this along to the Audible adaptation! Brief Lives was my first intro to The Sandman back when I was eighteen years old.
Favorite volume thus far. The world is so brief which is why we should live presently in it.
Characters were complex and beautiful, each arch stunning and clear- but in a way that reveals itself.
Change, pain, mortality- big themes brought to a human level; even in the endless.
Also, have to add, this volume had my favorite art work and panel layout so far.
Characters were complex and beautiful, each arch stunning and clear- but in a way that reveals itself.
Change, pain, mortality- big themes brought to a human level; even in the endless.
Also, have to add, this volume had my favorite art work and panel layout so far.
I don't know if I'm just getting desensitized to sandman's gruesomeness or what but I wasn't put off by this story arc.
This is a slow burn. I was kind of bored by the road trip story but it gradually builds into a very touching resolution, of sorts, for the two siblings. I really enjoyed this.
Delirium, Dream's sister, decides she wants to find her brother who has left his duties and is gone. So she goes around asking her family and eventually lands on Dream, who surprisingly agrees mostly because he's heartbroken his love left him.
So together they begin to travel the world trying to find their brother. Going from strip bars, to meeting other gods, to taking a chance against the odds and losing, to crazy driving adventures, and eventually landing on Dream visiting his son and asking him for help. This crazy, zanny, heartbreaking adventure ends in such a way I was expecting yet oddly hit me hard.
This is easily my favorite volume. It's packed with plenty of emotional scenes, scenes you can think on for awhile, and some comedy bits that help keep it going. The relationship between Dream and Delirium is near perfect and I couldn't have loved it more. The other family members who pop in all do their duties and when you meet their brother Destruction you really feel a sense that this guy has been through some shit and just wants to live his life, and we can all understand that.
This is a deep volume, heavy, took me a few days to read, but I was adsorbed into this world every time I picked it up. The ending with Dream and his son is just...powerful. I loved everything about this volume.
A 5 out of 5.
So together they begin to travel the world trying to find their brother. Going from strip bars, to meeting other gods, to taking a chance against the odds and losing, to crazy driving adventures, and eventually landing on Dream visiting his son and asking him for help. This crazy, zanny, heartbreaking adventure ends in such a way I was expecting yet oddly hit me hard.
This is easily my favorite volume. It's packed with plenty of emotional scenes, scenes you can think on for awhile, and some comedy bits that help keep it going. The relationship between Dream and Delirium is near perfect and I couldn't have loved it more. The other family members who pop in all do their duties and when you meet their brother Destruction you really feel a sense that this guy has been through some shit and just wants to live his life, and we can all understand that.
This is a deep volume, heavy, took me a few days to read, but I was adsorbed into this world every time I picked it up. The ending with Dream and his son is just...powerful. I loved everything about this volume.
A 5 out of 5.
What I remember from reading it when it came out: I was riveted. I was rabid for this story when it was being released. I was madly in love with Delirium as a character back then because I was fully entrenched in puberty at the time and her brand of chaos felt very, very relatable to me. Jill Thompson's art moved me in a way I hadn't felt about a comic artist before. Everything about this arc was exciting and felt like it was for me, specifically.
What I feel about it now: My goodness, but it's STILL something that speaks to me on a personal level. I bet it does that for everyone who reads it. Now I'm older and Delirium still amuses me, but the world weariness of Destruction (and even Dream) speaks to me in a way it couldn't when I was a teen. Jill Thompson's art actually moves me in a deeper way; I can appreciate her framing so much more, now.
There's an argument to be made that this arc would top my list, if I absolutely had to order the collections into a ranking.
What I feel about it now: My goodness, but it's STILL something that speaks to me on a personal level. I bet it does that for everyone who reads it. Now I'm older and Delirium still amuses me, but the world weariness of Destruction (and even Dream) speaks to me in a way it couldn't when I was a teen. Jill Thompson's art actually moves me in a deeper way; I can appreciate her framing so much more, now.
There's an argument to be made that this arc would top my list, if I absolutely had to order the collections into a ranking.