This time, it's still one of my favorite comic book stories of all time. While I loved The Doll's House, Seasons of Mist is where the Sandman really took off for me the first time around. Seasons of Mist: Dream goes to hell to retrieve Nada's soul but doesn't find what he's looking for.

The Dream of a Thousand Cats was light years ahead of the rest. Since originally reading this, I've of course read the series in its entirety and The Sandman: Overture so a few things make even more sense.ĭream Country: Tales of a muse, cats, Shakespeare, and Element Girl. The Corinthian and the Serial Killers convention are some of my favorite parts of the early days of the series and are just as interesting as when I first read about them back in the day. Rose Walker and Gilbert are great characters, and I love that Gaiman actually references the lame 1970's version of The Sandman. The second arc does a good job of fleshing out The Dreaming and what Morpheus actually does when he's not imprisoned. But what do the missing dreams have to do with the vortex that threatens the Dreaming? And how does an earth girl named Rose Walker figure into things? The Doll's House: Morpheus discovers four major dreams are missing from The Dreaming and dispatches Matthew the Raven to investigate. While this is far from the best Sandman volume, Gaiman hit the ground running and set the stage for future volumes, mining seldom-used corners of the DC universe and various mythologies to create what is essentially a revenge story.

In some ways, it was like coming home after a long time to find things haven't changed much. I'd forgotten some of the wrinkles of this tale in the years since I last read it. Funny considering how my 38 year old self thinks his art is the weakest part of the collection. 1 did the art on some of the early issues. My nineteen year old self was originally drawn to The Sandman because Sam Kieth of The Maxx, Vol. Preludes and Nocturnes: After decades of imprisonment at the hands of a group of magicians, Dream escapes and sets about reclaiming what is his. My mom unexpectedly bought me this big honkin' omnibus for Christmas so I've busted it into chunks for reviewing purposes. The Sandman was at the front of the pack for a long time. Once upon a time, a few years before the turn of the century, I decided I was too cool for super hero comics and read a lot of darker, mature readers only type of stuff.

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