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It's been more than ten years since I first read Sandman, and I've read it through probably close to a dozen times since. This is my first crack at The Absolute Sandman. Obviously, I love Sandman, or I wouldn't be reading it yet again. And yet, I never read exactly the same Sandman twice. I see more, and I see differently, every time I read it. So how can I possibly review Sandman? I just can't. All I can say is how very, very happy I am to get to read it again.
Yeah, I know Gaiman is God and Sandman is his avatar. Still didn't like it. Sorry.
When I first started reading Sandman, which was after I was introduced to Neil Gaiman through American Gods and Stardust, I had to interlibrary loan each volume, meaning (since I wanted to be able to keep track of them and ensure the loaning library got the books back in a timely fashion) I had to wait at least three weeks between volumes. It stretched out the time it took to read the entirety of the series to - well, quite a long time. But waiting for each one was sweet. I liked the anticipatio...
Sandman is one of my all-time favorite comics. No, it's not for everyone, but if you like fantasy and horror, there is a good chance you'll like this. It was one of the first comics written for adults at DC back in the 1980's. The story is about Dream, one of the Endless. They are not gods but the personification of certain intrinsic ideas. When it starts out Dream has been imprisoned for the last 70 years. He eventually escapes and must reacquire the totems he last which contain much of his pow...
1/31/17First read and reread of 2017. The below review still holds completely true.4/26/15Neil Gaiman is pure fucking magic when it comes to writing.I’m relatively new to his work, and I’m also pretty new to comics and graphic novels. So please feel free to take the following fangirl-gasming with a grain of salt. If you haven’t read this series yet, I highly freaking recommend you go to your library and start this, and soon. If this first Volume is any indication on what to expect from the futur...
I bought this oversized, slip cased hardcover back in 2011 during Komikon. The prospect of owning a first edition first volume tantalized me. I haven’t seen this volume in any of the larger branches of the main book store chain here in Philippines. It was always volume two onwards, never a complete set. The sweetener was I got this a slight discount which helped assuage the loss of frequent buyer points had I bought this from the book store chain.The collected edition of the Sandman series have
2010Absolutely fantastic2021Eleven years later I am rereading, and it's just as lovely as before. The oversized heft of it and the care in the bindings, embossings, endpapers, notes. The extras are fantastic, especially the full script of Midsummer's Night Dream laid out alongside Charles Vess's initial rough drawings. I saved up my Amazon credits for a full year and bought the complete (for now) set of five Absolute Sandman's (Sandmen?) ... looking forward to the journey.
This graphic novel is one of Neil Gaiman’s early major works, which catapulted him to his present fame, somewhere in the upper floors of the Dark Fantasy & Mythology Redux literary pantheon. This first issue of the Absolute Sandman is a massive volume, 600 pages!, that collects the first 20 chapters of the Sandman series — there are at least five or six other volumes after this one, in the Absolute Sandman saga, published by DC Comics / Vertigo.I hate to write a negative review, especially consi...
Considered by many, me included, to be the best comic book ever written, Neil Gaiman's now classic mix of Greek myth and modern dark fantasy remains as captivating today as when it was first published. Aided by some of the finest artists ever to grace the medium, Gaiman crafts a fantasy epic as unconventional as it is fascinating. The Sandman marks the point at which comics finally grew up.
Collects Issue 1-20 of Sandman:In the course of my life I have come across certain things from art to a classic book that are masterfully done. Neil Gaiman's Sandman is one of those things. It is many things all at once. Some parts of it, especially near the beginning , seem to be of a Gothic horror nature ,yet, in the middle part of the volume there is a shift towards a fantasy based romp through a dreamworld. It is a testament to Mr. Gaiman's staggering imagination.The story centers on Dream,
While I agree with this article that the coloring in Sandman needed to be touched-up for this definitive edition, I was very disappointed at the direction they decided to go with it. You can see from the various examples in the article that in every case, they have replaced the bright, otherworldly colors with bland, murky photoshop blends. It's very disappointing to see a book which had such remarkable, experimental art reduced to such generic choices. In every instance where a face was colored...
