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.Present Based On 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 ReviewsEvaluation Based On Books The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two (The Absolute Sandman #Two)
If the first Sandman collection was near perfection, then this volume achieves it. Stunning.The second volume of the Absolute Sandman series contains two of my favourite stories: Seasons of Mist and A Game of You. In Seasons of Mist, Dream realises that sentencing someone to an eternity in hell for not loving him was perhaps a mite mean and nasty, so he decides he must confront Lucifer so that Nada can be released. He expects a battle and worries that he will not win, but when he goes to Hell, everything is empty? Turns out Lucifer is quite done after a few tens of thousands of years
Coming back to these stories after more than a couple decades is like reconnecting with an old friend, in the best possible way. Gaiman really is a master, and I'm reminded of how much this series affected me the first time I read it, and how well it all holds up. There is a depth and breath of imagination far beyond average, and a deeply compassionate and thoughtful approach to the portrayal of the characters. The mix of horror meshes cleanly with the weird, dark fantasy, and the concepts
Gaiman is a master storyteller, and I've only read two of Five volumes so far and already I'm more impressed with SANDMAN than I was with American God's, the only connection between the two is that there's alot of mythologies and folklore involvedI disliked the Barbie story? Well chapter one and two were fine, but The land and Wilkinson.. Etc was just lame and that's the sole reason why this volume didn't get a solid 5 stars from meLooking forward to read the remaining volumesAs for now.. Drink
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
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