Bring me a Dream: The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman
Written: Dec 02 '99
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Pros: Dark, sophisticated tales of wonder and dread; It ranks up there with Cerebus, Watchmen, Dark Knight, and the Moore Swamp Thing run for all-time comic greats.
Cons: It's a comic book, which might be a problem for some people (in which case, read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics instead)
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| kevincmurphy's Full Review: Gaiman, Neil |
Neil Gaiman is the creator (chronicler?) of Detective Comic's Morpheus, a.k.a the Sandman, the being that interrupts your sleep with visions of other worlds and gives the Andrews Sisters fits. After spending eighty-some-odd years trapped in a bottle in the London flat of mysticist Aleister Crowley (now you know why you've been sleeping so badly), the Sandman escapes and reclaims his rightful throne as Lord of Dream.
Holed up in the Dreaming, where he lives with Cain, Abel, and a host of sundry spirit servants, Morpheus hangs out with his sister Death and the rest of the Endless, mourns his dead son Orpheus, and generally shows slumbering mortals fear in a handful of dust. Morpheus is no longer with us (or, to be more precise, he's always been with us), but Gaiman's mysterious epic lives on in the memory like fragmented images of dream under the first rays of the sun.
For open-minded readers and/or fans of adult comic fare, Sandman is a can't-miss proposition. I recommend that you set aside a Saturday evening and read the ten-volume story in full...that is, if you don't mind having trouble sleeping.
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