Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

46 reviews

theinvulnerabletide's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Physical abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, Drug use, and Cursing

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Medical content

emilymckay's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

liagatha's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Incest

drasticpear's review

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Homophobia, and Self harm

meganmagicmusings's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.75

2023 review - I didn’t love this as much as I used to on the third reread. I just think my tastes have changed and I’m not into dark subjects quite as much. 

2015 review - Still absolutely perfect. My favourite issues are the diner and our first encounter with Death. Such similar themes executed in wildly different ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Suicide, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

grey_jayne's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I'm rereading the Sandman comics, ahead of the show.  

This volume has my favorite two page panel of the demons in hell.  Dream spends much of the time returning to himself, collecting his items of power, and generally reentering his life and responsibility as the Lord of Dreams. It's a bit of a slow start but so much of what I think about does come from this first run of comics. Oh, and we're introduced to Death in the final issue. Tons of content crammed into this volume!

I was surprised by how much Sandman fits within the DC universe.  There are tons of references to places and people from Gotham and beyond. Martian Manhunter assists Dream at one point too. It's kinda fun to think about the Endless existing alongside the DC characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Suicide

Moderate: Drug abuse