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This is where Sandman really starts to kick into high gear. Season of Mists is fantastic. I love where Dream returns to Hell prepared for battle only to have it all handed to him. It's genius. Plus, it lays the groundwork for Mike Carey's excellent Lucifer comic. A Game of You is Gaiman's ode to childhood fantasy worlds like Narnia or Middle Earth. Yet, it's also about self identity and being true to oneself even when your own family hates you for it. Then there's the first 5 solo stories that m...
As much as parts of "A Game of You" bothers me - it's obviously written by a cis person. I can deal with Wanda's identity not being totally accepted by a bunch of fallible characters (because even the gods we encounter in Sandman are fallible beings, and so we can read even the Moon not accepting her as a woman as the Moon's bias, not Gaiman saying "trans women are not women", despite the place people who we'd now call trans held in the cultures Gaiman draws on); however, when she's dead, and Ba...
"The Season of Mists" is truly the story that set Sandman apart and in the process defined a whole new genre of comic writing. It's extremely innovative, but still remains a fine story all these years later, rich in characters, interesting in plot [10/10]. “Thermidor” is a nice continuation of the Orpheus subplot [8/10]. “August” offers a more thoughtful discussion of personal responsibility and rule [9/10]. But “Three Septembers and a January” is the best of the set, with its look at a man unbe...
Nothing very different from my review of #1 just more of the same in a very good way. :) Please see my review of Volume 1.
If the first Sandman collection was near perfection, then this volume achieves it. Stunning.
Clearly 5 Stars - as this is the type of Neil Gaiman that I'm realizing I like the best!The start of this volume finds Dream being put in his place by Death, and I loved it so. And, we see his continuing adventure from the first volume from there. We also see a lot of side stories (do they end up being necessary, I'm not sure, and I'm not a critical enough reader to find the connections - TBH), but I enjoyed each of them in their own ways.The first of these side stories, we follow a young boy, w...
Another outstanding read. The first half of this volume contains the whole of the Lucifer/Hell storyline, one which has major repercussions throughout not only Sandman but leads into the Lucifer comic series. The second half of the volume contains some shorter, more low key stories. This being Sandman though, all of these stories are important and feed in to the overall plot. Some of the storylines started here wont be resolved until the end of the storyThe artwork is much better in this volume,...
I read volumes 2-4 in a row, hardly stopping for breath in between. It makes it harder to review each individually, with my memories of them running together. But that hardly matters. I've loved nearly every moment I've ever read Sandman, from the first time fifteen years ago (or so) right down to this re-reading, which is at least the fourth. There are very few things that are truly magical reads, and Sandman is, for me, one of them.
The story continues, and introduces more themes and characters. If you have this, you already have Vol. 1, so any info here is superfluous.
These books are beautiful, fans of the series certainly can't go wrong with them. I did get the new, also huge, annotated version out of the library to give it a try first, but had to return it because it was even heavier and wider than this one, of course, because they put the annotations to the sides of every page by making them even wider. So it's a huge square that doesn't fit on my book stand at all. I don't know how other people read these heavy books without a stand. I guess they can bend...
