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The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
5.0
GREAT SANDMAN REREAD 2015!
7 volumes in and Gaiman starts gathering up all the carefully laid threads of the last 6 volumes. It's pretty impressive and signals that The Sandman is beginning a new arc. We finally get to spend some time with Destruction, some more tantalizing info on Delirium (who used to be Delight), and even get a better understanding of Despair.
It also contains what for me is one of the defining scenes of THE SANDMAN - a 15,000 year old man realizing he's about to die only has enough time to think "Not yet..." and then is standing there with the smiling, beautiful aspect of Death, first unbelieving then accepting. She reassures him "YOU LIVED WHAT ABYBODY GETS, BERNIE. YOU GOT A LIFETIME. NO MORE. NO LESS. YOU GOT A LIFETIME." For some reason over the years I had conflated this scene with another memorable scene from earlier in the series, where Dream is accompanying Death on her rounds and watches her collect a baby from its crib. The baby in her arms ask unbelieving "BUT... IS THAT ALL THERE WAS? IS THAT ALL I GET?" and she replies "YES, I'M AFRAID SO."
7 volumes in and Gaiman starts gathering up all the carefully laid threads of the last 6 volumes. It's pretty impressive and signals that The Sandman is beginning a new arc. We finally get to spend some time with Destruction, some more tantalizing info on Delirium (who used to be Delight), and even get a better understanding of Despair.
It also contains what for me is one of the defining scenes of THE SANDMAN - a 15,000 year old man realizing he's about to die only has enough time to think "Not yet..." and then is standing there with the smiling, beautiful aspect of Death, first unbelieving then accepting. She reassures him "YOU LIVED WHAT ABYBODY GETS, BERNIE. YOU GOT A LIFETIME. NO MORE. NO LESS. YOU GOT A LIFETIME." For some reason over the years I had conflated this scene with another memorable scene from earlier in the series, where Dream is accompanying Death on her rounds and watches her collect a baby from its crib. The baby in her arms ask unbelieving "BUT... IS THAT ALL THERE WAS? IS THAT ALL I GET?" and she replies "YES, I'M AFRAID SO."