Neil Gaiman
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| Original Title: | The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two |
| ISBN: | 140121083X (ISBN13: 9781401210830) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Absolute Sandman #Two, The Sandman #4-6 |
| Characters: | Dream of the Endless |
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One of the most popular and critically acclaimed comic book titles of all time, New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's masterpiece The Sandman set new standards for mature, lyrical fantasy and graphic narrative. Now, Vertigo and DC Comics are proud to present the second of four definitive Absolute Editions collecting this groundbreaking series in its entirety. The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two reprints issues 21-39 of The Sandman and features remastered coloring prepared especially for this edition on all nineteen issues, as well as brand-new inks on The Sandman 34 by the issue's original penciller, Colleen Doran. This volume also includes two never-before-reprinted stories by Gaiman (a Desire story painted by John Bolton, and a prose Sandman story previously only available to buyers of the very first Sandman statue, released in 1991), a complete reproduction of the never-before-reprinted one-shot The Sandman: A Gallery of Dreams, and the original script and pencils by Gaiman and Kelley Jones for Chapter Two of "Season of Mists" from The Sandman 23.Specify Containing Books The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two (The Absolute Sandman #Two)
| Title | : | The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two (The Absolute Sandman #Two) |
| Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
| Book Format | : | Slipcased Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 616 pages |
| Published | : | October 31st 2007 by Vertigo (first published October 2007) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Graphic Novels Comics. Comic Book |
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Ratings: 4.69 From 7243 Users | 202 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two (The Absolute Sandman #Two)
So I know that 75% of comic readers and 80% of Goodreads users are gonna hate this review... but fuck it, I gotta express my thoughts here. At first I thought this series was pretty cool but it really goes downhill here and I think this comic is overrated as fuck.Whats it about?A bunch of weird artsy shit happens as Dream continues to do... whatever batshit insanity he ends up having to do.Pros:Most of the art is pretty good. There are some beautiful panels in this comic.I suppose this getsgreat characters, deep storyline
I really enjoyed Season of Mists, where Lucifer decides he's done with Hell and moves on, leaving Sandman the key. It was clever and an overall fun read. A Game of You was my least favorite, but still interesting. It just took me so damn long to get through due to some parts that were just plain creepy.
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
"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 unbent by
The colour work in this edition is remarkable and I found myself completely absorbed in Gaimans stories which are a seamless blend of myth, history, religion, fantasy, folk tale and, sometimes, horror. Theres also a whole wad of bonus features at the end of the book which give you a glimpse into the conception and evolution of some of the stories, as well as hilarious, somewhat postmodern and darkly ironic, biographies of the various contributors. I had one problem with one of the stories ("The
I've read and re-read these stories countless times, but I think this was my first go at one of the Absolute editions. Strangely I found the Season of Mists storyline considerably less satisfying than Game of You, which is the exact opposite of how I felt as a teenager, when Mists was probably my favorite arc after the Kindly Ones, and Game of You my least favorite. Mists has more outright mythology, and of course the central conceit is delicious: Lucifer gives up Hell. It also deals directly
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