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A review by midici
Sandman: Dream Hunters (Prose Version) by Neil Gaiman
4.0
Someone is going to protest the 'comic' tag - I'm aware it's not technically a comic, but honestly the illustrations are very pretty and just as important as the text, therefore, it's a comic to me.
The Dream Hunters is a very soft story, of a fox who falls in love with a monk and ventures into the dream world to speak to the King of Dreams to save the monk's life. The monk, equally in love, makes his own journey into the world of Dreams to see if he can save the fox. There is a villain, of course, and there is vengeance. But that is not really the most important part of the story. And the story continues on in the land of dreams, after those who lived are no longer left to live out the story.
It had a very dreamlike quality to it. The illustrations all seem to be (at least in part) water coloured - soft, blended, layered images; a few were too dark for me to make out any details, which I thought was a shame, especially the first image we see of the giant black fox.
The Dream Hunters is a very soft story, of a fox who falls in love with a monk and ventures into the dream world to speak to the King of Dreams to save the monk's life. The monk, equally in love, makes his own journey into the world of Dreams to see if he can save the fox. There is a villain, of course, and there is vengeance. But that is not really the most important part of the story. And the story continues on in the land of dreams, after those who lived are no longer left to live out the story.
It had a very dreamlike quality to it. The illustrations all seem to be (at least in part) water coloured - soft, blended, layered images; a few were too dark for me to make out any details, which I thought was a shame, especially the first image we see of the giant black fox.