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A review by nkives
The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman
4.0
I didn't pay attention to the years this was originally published but being in the process of re-reading Sandman, and noticed a lot of cross over in story and characters used. Especially of the Baba Yaga character which was in the Sandman volume I finished just 3 days ago. It got me interested and realized this was written sometime in the middle of him writing Sandman.
Still a good book that introduces a new magic based character for DC comics, and I didn't really know who he was until recently when 11 years after (a few years after he was introduced he got his own series for a few years at Vertigo) he was introduced by Gaiman, he was used in the current Justice League Dark series (Justice League for magic characters). 4 part story each showing Tim a different section of the Magic worlds and beginning guided by a different character for each chapter. For example John Constantine (Hellblazer), and The Phantom Stranger.
Only real problem was the last book tended to drag on way to much in the end. You kind of know what is about to happen and are just waiting while it gets dragged out by other nonsenses.
Still a good book that introduces a new magic based character for DC comics, and I didn't really know who he was until recently when 11 years after (a few years after he was introduced he got his own series for a few years at Vertigo) he was introduced by Gaiman, he was used in the current Justice League Dark series (Justice League for magic characters). 4 part story each showing Tim a different section of the Magic worlds and beginning guided by a different character for each chapter. For example John Constantine (Hellblazer), and The Phantom Stranger.
Only real problem was the last book tended to drag on way to much in the end. You kind of know what is about to happen and are just waiting while it gets dragged out by other nonsenses.