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marlowe164. The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman & artists - On the cover is "volume 2" and the other one afterwards is "The Dream Hunters" which is I think I read as well. I actually forgot I read this one mostly because there are two very memorable stories and some forgettable ones. Or more accurately, I read two of the stories and instantly recognized them as stories that I had read. I had forgotten the Desire story where she tells her entire life story as the lover of a Viking lord including the part where the enemy soldiers presented his head and she didn't flinch.
The two stories that I recognize are Death and Dream, which makes sense as the Death story about the party that never ends before the soldier kicks in a magic door and then everyone gets their fates read to them. They are merely in place repeating the day and how they decide to spend the day ranges from orgies to extreme repentance in the Catholic sense. It really is quite beautiful.
The Dream one is the one where we get introduced to the seven in their earlier forms. Despair is much more ambitious and a different version (did Neil ever write about how that original Despair died) with Desire and Dream as the two friendly siblings with Death scaring the fuck out of everyone (all the stars). It's a social comedy and a new way to see things. Dream isn't amused by Desire making his girlfriend fall in love with a star. It's one of the better Sandman stories.
Oh holy shit. Despair is telling the Kryptonian sun to blow up. Nice in-joke there.
65.The Sandman Overture by Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams & Dave Stewart - This is a beautiful comic. Every page looks painted and absorbing. The story itself, well it moves along but it doesn't make a lot of sense. That's partially by design with Dream being part of a greater whole but every version of Dream should be the same. So Morpheus comes to investigate a death of another planet's Dream. And then there are the parents of the Endless who are Time and I forget. But also Dream has to return something to Time only Daniel returns it, with Morpheus kind of letting it go. Also I think the ending is about turning the universe off and on. With an ending that suggests that Desire pretended to be a giant cat version of Dream in order to help Dream out. So that's nice. Only Desire forgets about it and keeps on trying to get Dream killed.
So definitely worth reading. And of course it ends with the panel from issue 1 where Dream is stuck in a circle in Burgess' house.
66Dreaming Waking Hours by G. Willow Wilson and others - This one makes up for the "Kill Your Gays (actually trans)" trope adherence from A Game of You in a big way by having a transgender character being the most powerful character in many ways, not just magic strength but also in rejecting her family's bullshit and then at the very end when Puck shows up to read her "real name". Of course, since her "real name" is her dead name and not really going to be part of any spell. Now the rest of it is really G. Willow Wilson's show with Ruin, a nightmare, falling in love with a mortal and learning his place in the world. Daniel shows up as a possible source of failure but not really. There is also an angel and a ton of stuff about Nuala taking over Faery but not necessarily doing a good job of it (she owes way too much to some very unfriendly Seelies)
It's a great series and I hope to see more from G. Willow Wilson in the Sandman universe. she did great things with Ms. Marvel.
The two stories that I recognize are Death and Dream, which makes sense as the Death story about the party that never ends before the soldier kicks in a magic door and then everyone gets their fates read to them. They are merely in place repeating the day and how they decide to spend the day ranges from orgies to extreme repentance in the Catholic sense. It really is quite beautiful.
The Dream one is the one where we get introduced to the seven in their earlier forms. Despair is much more ambitious and a different version (did Neil ever write about how that original Despair died) with Desire and Dream as the two friendly siblings with Death scaring the fuck out of everyone (all the stars). It's a social comedy and a new way to see things. Dream isn't amused by Desire making his girlfriend fall in love with a star. It's one of the better Sandman stories.
Oh holy shit. Despair is telling the Kryptonian sun to blow up. Nice in-joke there.
65.The Sandman Overture by Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams & Dave Stewart - This is a beautiful comic. Every page looks painted and absorbing. The story itself, well it moves along but it doesn't make a lot of sense. That's partially by design with Dream being part of a greater whole but every version of Dream should be the same. So Morpheus comes to investigate a death of another planet's Dream. And then there are the parents of the Endless who are Time and I forget. But also Dream has to return something to Time only Daniel returns it, with Morpheus kind of letting it go. Also I think the ending is about turning the universe off and on. With an ending that suggests that Desire pretended to be a giant cat version of Dream in order to help Dream out. So that's nice. Only Desire forgets about it and keeps on trying to get Dream killed.
So definitely worth reading. And of course it ends with the panel from issue 1 where Dream is stuck in a circle in Burgess' house.
66Dreaming Waking Hours by G. Willow Wilson and others - This one makes up for the "Kill Your Gays (actually trans)" trope adherence from A Game of You in a big way by having a transgender character being the most powerful character in many ways, not just magic strength but also in rejecting her family's bullshit and then at the very end when Puck shows up to read her "real name". Of course, since her "real name" is her dead name and not really going to be part of any spell. Now the rest of it is really G. Willow Wilson's show with Ruin, a nightmare, falling in love with a mortal and learning his place in the world. Daniel shows up as a possible source of failure but not really. There is also an angel and a ton of stuff about Nuala taking over Faery but not necessarily doing a good job of it (she owes way too much to some very unfriendly Seelies)
It's a great series and I hope to see more from G. Willow Wilson in the Sandman universe. she did great things with Ms. Marvel.
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Date: 2023-06-26 10:57 am (UTC)