The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes

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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman #1)

by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author), Sam Kieth (Illustrator), Mike Dringenberg (Illustrator), Malcolm Jones III (Illustrator), Todd Klein (Letterer), Karen Berger (Introduction/Editor)

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A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a glass bottle for decades. After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On the way, Morpheus encounters Lucifer and demons from Hell, the Justice League, and J...more

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Published December 1st 1998 by DC Comics (first published January 1st 1991)

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Jul 17, 2012 Brooke rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In the foreword and the afterword, both the editor and Gaiman indicated that this isn't the strongest volume in the Sandman series; Gaiman was still finding his vision for the series, it's essentially a fetch quest, etc. I'm inclined to agree with them, although it was still enjoyable (as any video game fan will tell you, a fetch quest can still be fun, but it's not the strongest narrative device). I'm halfway through Volume 2: The Doll's House and I'm already finding the story much more interes...more

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Jan 30, 2008 Abigail rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Neil Gaiman Fans, Graphic Novel Readers

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Sep 23, 2012 Osho rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012

Surprisingly good, with some illustrations (covers?) that are simply gorgeous. The last story sounded like Gaiman, and indeed, in the afterward he says that he found his voice in that installment. This first volume concerns the ensnaring of the god of dreams and his subsequent quest to re-acquire his symbols and sources of power. Sandman is portrayed as a sympathetic protagonist. Interactions with humans are sometimes limited by the genre (horror), sometimes formal, and often funny because of th...more

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Nov 27, 2008 Matt rated it 4 of 5 stars

At the height of this publication's popularity (early 90's), I picked up a couple of issues to see what all the fuss was about. At that time I was totally blown away by the artwork but found the storyline completely incomprehensibile as I had missed the first fifty issues. Things are going much better now since this title rediscovered me and I had the good sense to start from the beginning.

I still love the artwork, especially the original covers. I'm glad that they are included in these volumes....more

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Jul 29, 2012 Dante rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, imaginative-lit, comic, history-of-literature, graphic-novel

The stories were interesting, but dark and disturbing. There were also scenes which were graphic and violent (especially in "24 Hours"). This is not something I can recommend to my son when he grows up.

The volume has 8 parts:

Sleep of the Just (#1)
Imperfect Hosts (#2)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (#3)
A Hope in Hell (#4)
Passengers (#5)
24 Hours (#6)
Sound and Fury (#7)
The Sound of Her Wings (#8)

The plot (Spoilers ahead!)

The protagonist is Dream, the personification of the unconscious or subconscious mi...more

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Oct 23, 2007 Keely rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, fantasy, reviewed, contemporary-fantasy

Though Gaiman had already made his mark with Black Orchid, Sandman is where he really begins to fall into his style, which sometimes becomes his downfall in its predictability.

Here, he plays for perhaps the first time at mixing mythology, spirituality, and strange real events into a story beyond the ken of other fairytale rewrites and new age mysticism. There is a sense here that the characters and story are still undeveloped in his mind, which provides the reader with some welcome ambiguity, as...more

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May 22, 2012 Kirstine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-and-graphic-novels, fantasy

"I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, Gods, worlds... of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?"

"I am hope."

This is my favourite quote from this book, and one of my favourite quotes in general. It's beautiful. And true, thank god, so true.

I really liked this book. I've wanted to read The Sandman for a long time, and after this I'm beginning to grasp why it's become so popular. I really, really hope I can find the rest o...more

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Jan 16, 2009 Nikki rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, graphic-novels-and-manga, based-on-myth-saga-etc

I thought at first I wasn't going to be able to get into the art. Most of my experience with reading graphic novels comes from manga, with pretty boys and pretty art all the time, not like this. Which isn't to say that I didn't see the value of this art, I'm just a sucker for pretty things. Now I've actually read this first volume and I'm used to the art style, I can see how perfect it is and I'm quite enjoying it. I like Dream's character design, but so far his sister, Death, is my favourite in...more

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Mar 29, 2009 Mark rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Reading "Sandman" has been a long time coming for me. Some of my friends in high school were so enthralled by it that they could quote lines, or they would be drawing out images of the various characters. I should have known then that the series would be good.

The first book didn't really do it for me, but it did get me hooked. I have to say that I agree with Neil Gaiman's own thoughts, as well as that of Karen Berger, who wrote the introduction. The novel doesn't really find itself, but there a...more

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Jan 16, 2013 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars

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#1 re-read 1/6/2012 thru 1/23/2012

latest re-read 12/23/2011 - 12/30/2011

#1 Sleep of the Just -- the cabal captures Dream while trying to capture his sister, Death. Oops. They keep him entrapped for 70 years.

#2 Imperfect Hosts -- discovering WHAT happened to his tools and planning what's needed to hunt them down

#3 Dream a Little Dream of Me -- with John Constantine (The Hellblazer)'s help, Morpheus searches out his magical sand pouch

#4 A Hope in Hell -- while in Hell to reclaim his DreamHelm a pl...more

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Aug 11, 2008 Rhea rated it 4 of 5 stars

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After spending $ 0.50 on the “The Absolute Sandman” introduction to The Sandman from Neil Gaiman I decided to take the plunge into the entire series. I just finished reading The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1 while sitting in the car after I had a tumble down the front stoop.

The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes is the first trade paperback collection of the comic book series The Sandman. It collects issues #1-8.

#1 Sleep of the Just
#2 Imperfect Hosts
#3 Dream a Little Dream of Me
#4 A Hope in H...more

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Jun 09, 2008 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Okay. This was a good one. I read the entire sandman series-all 75 issues-- in about a week, because I pirated them in .cbr format off the web because my college library doesn't have them.
At any rate, I liked it, overall. Most of the art, particularly in the beginning, was absolutely terrible. I mean, I know it was deliberately stylized-- I know that the whispiness and the scratchiness was intentional-- but I can't say that I think such things should be done at all, even if on purpose. Furthermo...more Okay. This was a good one. I read the entire sandman series-all 75 issues-- in about a week, because I pirated them in .cbr format off the web because my college library doesn't have them.
At any rate, I liked it, overall. Most of the art, particularly in the beginning, was absolutely terrible. I mean, I know it was deliberately stylized-- I know that the whispiness and the scratchiness was intentional-- but I can't say that I think such things should be done at all, even if on purpose. Furthermore, it was very difficult to keep track of what was going on when the characters' hair and clothes would change so many times in one scene-- even on pne page-- in the early comics. I did enjoy the bolder-lined art in 'The Kindly Ones,' yes. But I absolutely detested most of the rest of the art in the series.
The writing, of course, was rather superb, since it's Gaiman. However, there are a few bones I would like to pick.
1) He seems to be incapable of writing a single issue-- all right, so there are plenty of issues without this, but still-- without a scene where two people ACTUALLY have sex IN the comic. They don't just talk about it, or hint at it, or refer to it-- they actually have sex in the frame of the comic. All right. It was effective a few times, but I've got to say that it did become a little gratuitous. I don't have a problem with it, but after a while it did begin to seem like a grasping attempt to superfluously flout the Comics Code as many times as possible.
2) After a while, it just seemed like Gaiman was adding as many gay characters as possible for the exact same reason. I know that during that era and during the political environment in which he wrote these comics this would have been more compelling, but now, in 2008, when I look back at the series and realize that something like 50% or more of all the characters were gay, transsexual, or bisexual, it seemed a bit like his attempts to flout the comics code as well as general societal codes were just a little too over-the-top to be compellingly reasonable.
3) Yes, I did get tired of all the random characters after a while. I know it was the form of the comic-- all these stories with Morpheus in like one panel max, or all the stories where they just refer to him and barely even show him were deliberate, and they were the kinds of stories Gaiman wanted to tell, and he thought this was interesting and great, and I acknowledge that he did a very good job of weaving critical elements of the plot into these seemingly-disparate stories-- but still. It got a little tedious.

Aside from that, I thought the whole series was actually excellent. It wasn't earthshakingly excellent, but it was very high-quality.(less)

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Mar 20, 2010 Brad rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel, horror, fantasy, popular-culture, weird, speculative

Since joining goodreads, I’ve been baffled by the Neil Gaiman love fest. American Gods, Neverwhere, Stardust, The Graveyard Book, they appear to be universally loved, and I’ve been skeptical of this emotion that borders on worship. These books are good and all, and I recognize their general accessibility, but I don’t personally find any of them mind blowing literature. Gaiman’s prose is no match for China Mieville’s or Iain M. Banks’ or Ursula LeGuin’s (and countless others who write speculative...more

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Mar 22, 2008 Kevin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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In an attempt to enslave Death and claim her power as their own, a group of occultists, led by "Daemon King" Roderick Burgess, recites an incantation only to instead capture Death's younger brother Dream -- AKA Sandman. During the Sandman's subsequent 70-year enslavement, his sources of power -- a gemstone, his helmet, and his pouch -- wind up distributed around the globe and the dreamworld is relegated to chaos, which also wrecks havoc on the world of the living. To restore order to both worlds...more

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Oct 09, 2012 Dichotomy Girl rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels, 2012, fantasy, library, 5-stars

Graphic Novels are not usually my forte, but I like to consider myself a diverse and well-rounded partaker of the written word. After finding The Graveyard Book so enjoyable, I thought that I would give this oft mentioned series a try.

The first collection did not disappoint. The story and mythology was engaging, and left me with the feeling that we have barely broached the first page of a massive tome filled with an amazing world of mysterious beings.

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Apr 24, 2012 Sunil rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Thoughts on a Re-Read Six Years Later

This introductory volume is stronger than I remember, perhaps because I can view it in context and see the characters and story threads that are being set up this early on. I have a newfound appreciation for the way Gaiman plays in the DC sandbox, taking the hosts of various horror comics to populate his world, but I still think the more blatant DC cameos are awkward and distracting. The volume is largely notable for "24 Hours," which is a horrific masterpiec...more

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Mar 23, 2009 Keith rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm going through the series again, I'll just encapsulate it here rather than comment on each volume individually. It's good. I tend to get a bit prickly about Neil Gaiman, not because I don't like him, but because there is this contingent that seems to be convinced he's the greatest writer the english language has produced and has revolutionized comics and storytelling and can do no wrong. This annoys me. Okay, maybe he has been pretty influential in improving the state of things in the comics...more

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Feb 18, 2009 Flissy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008

Hubs and I had a fantastic date visiting the library today. I was perusing the graphic novels section, intending to check out Persepolis but it was already out, so I picked up The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes instead.*

Well, here I am. I totally devoured it in one sitting this afternoon. I was really surprised by how much I liked it and I'm now going to have to hunt down the rest of the series ASAP.

I do enjoy graphic novels/comics, but I have a hard time finding ones that aren't blatantly dude...more

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Feb 16, 2009 Mary Overton added it · review of another edition

The 1st 8 magazine issues from DC Comics -- Morpheus, the Sandman, King of Dreams, brother to Death and Desire and one of the Endless, is summoned quite by accident to the material plane and imprisoned 72 years in a glass globe -- a lovely metaphor for the reluctant soul trapped inside the body -- His captor taunts, 'You're nothing special. You know that? You're nothing at all. A naked man in a glass box. That's all you are.' (37) -- Escaped, Morpheus goes on a quest to recover his tools and his...more

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May 06, 2013 vester rated it 4 of 5 stars

Always heard of it, never actually read it. I'm one of those guys who think that books come in your life when they exactly mean to - and this was no exception.
Neil starts this volume giving you hints that something's happening, but what IS exactly happening? I don't know. You know that you want to know more, that is scary but you still want to go there. It is creepily unknown, but you still want to adventure yourself into it. And once Gaiman trapped you into his webs of storytelling, the story u...more

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Apr 10, 2013 Terry Stevenson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mar 20, 2013 Matija rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: graphic-novel, comic, fantasy, horror

The best thing about Sandman is the unusual (super)hero protagonist. The Dream Master is a far cry from your traditional Justice League Let's-Pound-The-Bad-Guy superhero.

Not least of all because he is basically a god and because at least half the story takes place in the Dream-Realm, or some other ethereal place. This sometimes gets weird of course, since, you know, one can dream basically about anything, but on the other hand, for example, Gaiman's and artist Sam Keith's rendition of hell in s...more

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Mar 09, 2013 Cameron rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was the first graphic novel (actually a collection of comic book issues—someone correct me if I am wrong here) that I have ever read. It cam recommended by my brother-in-law who is quite the connoisseur of such things. Not having ever read anything like this before, I do honestly feel as though I couldn't have started with anything better. It took some getting used to, and there are things that would normally upset me (wildly divergent characters and story lines between issues, unnatural an...more

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Mar 04, 2013 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: graphic-novels, read-in-2013

"If you need me, me and Neil'll be hanging out with the Dream King. Neil says "Hi!" by the way..."

So go the lines to Tori Amos' song 'Tear In Your Hand' and having now hung out with the Dream King myself, I can say it was definitely worth the ride.

It's amazing considering what a fan I am of Neil Gaiman's prose, comic books in general and the song stylings of Miss Tori Amos (who mentions her good friend Neil and his creation The Sandman a few times in her songs) that it's taken me this long to ge...more "If you need me, me and Neil'll be hanging out with the Dream King. Neil says "Hi!" by the way..."

So go the lines to Tori Amos' song 'Tear In Your Hand' and having now hung out with the Dream King myself, I can say it was definitely worth the ride.

It's amazing considering what a fan I am of Neil Gaiman's prose, comic books in general and the song stylings of Miss Tori Amos (who mentions her good friend Neil and his creation The Sandman a few times in her songs) that it's taken me this long to get around to reading Sandman. Gaiman's 10 volume graphic novel epic is always hailed as one of the best comic book series ever made and a cultural touchstone to fans of the medium. So is it worth the hype? My answer is yes.

Preludes and Nocturnes is the introductory tale. Giving us the origin of Dream. Dream is The Sandman. One of The Endless. An immortal family - of well - personifications of various timeless qualities. Death. Dreams. Desire. Delirium. And many more...

Dream rules over the dreamworld; he is the mythical man who slips into our dreams and awakens our nightmares. He's The Sandman. Unfortunately he's hit a problem. A cabal of turn of the 20th century occultists have imprisoned him in the mortal realm and stolen his artifacts of power - a ruby dreamstone, a helm and a pouch of his dreaming sand. Now he must free himself and get them back.

The story itself may read as a simple quest - but it's the depth and magic of Gaiman's storytelling that makes Dream and his world so compelling. Neil Gaiman has an incredible imagination and whilst the author himself admits that he was still finding his voice in this first volume - he certainly did enough to get me hooked.

Dream and his adorable sister Death are depicted like Eighties Goths - sporting an all black wardrobe and shaggy black hair. It's impossible not to love the quirky adorable Death as she waxes lyrical about Mary Poppins and attempts to get her brother out of his existential funk. If she was there to help me cross over, I don't think I'd mind going very much.

Longtime DC/Vertigo Comics fans will enjoy British magician John Constantine's appearance in the third story. I've certainly become enamoured with his irascible punky nature and I'm looking forward to reading his own comic book series 'Hellblazer' at some stage. His team-up with Dream is a memorable and fun outing with a bittersweet ending. Also interesting is Dream's adventures in Hell and his encounter with Lucifer - The Morningstar.

Artists Sam Keith, Mike Dringenberg and Malcolm Jones bring their own unique style to the tales and Dave McKean's cover artwork is absolutely stunning and eerie to look at.

I can totally see why everyone raved about this comic when it first hit the stands in 1988. It has a mythic, gothic quality that stands out and whilst this volume is a simple beginning, I'm looking forward to reading on soon.

For one thing, my dreams are going to be a whole lot more interesting from now on...(less)

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Feb 03, 2013 Miranda Richardson rated it 4 of 5 stars

This graphic novel is good in a technical sense-- the concept was intriguing, and the narrative moved at a good pace; it was neat and, I felt, well-organised. Very intelligent.

Unfortunately, Gaiman's work has never engaged me emotionally, and there is no difference with this piece. At the times I felt most connected with the text, I felt I could attribute this to the artwork rather than the narrative. The art definitely lifted the whole piece. I just feel that Gaiman has all these interesting id...more

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Feb 02, 2013 Allen Smith rated it 5 of 5 stars

Author Neil Gaiman arrived in North American comics in the admired wake of Alan Moore who was heralded as the wunderkind who ingeniously rebuilt the Swamp Thing from a hackneyed comic book into a sophisticated suspense series. After Moore had a falling out with D.C. Comics (the first of many decried decampments), Editor Karen Berger persued other talented writers from the U.K., namely Jamie Delano who scripted Hellblazer, and Neil Gaiman, along with artistic colloborator Dave McKean, whose limit...more Author Neil Gaiman arrived in North American comics in the admired wake of Alan Moore who was heralded as the wunderkind who ingeniously rebuilt the Swamp Thing from a hackneyed comic book into a sophisticated suspense series. After Moore had a falling out with D.C. Comics (the first of many decried decampments), Editor Karen Berger persued other talented writers from the U.K., namely Jamie Delano who scripted Hellblazer, and Neil Gaiman, along with artistic colloborator Dave McKean, whose limited series Black Orchid lead to the further pairing in D.C. Comics revision of The Sandman.

Gaiman followed Moore in creatively refashioning known comic characters in grand mythological basis, whereby Gaiman extended the offer by Berger to reconceptualize the given comic figure from the recognized costuming written by Joe Simon and Michael Fleisher with illustrations by Jack Kirby and Ernie Chua of the series run from 1974-76.

Though admitted by Gaiman of having a awkward emergence the pale black garbed character would come to be moulded as the King of Dreams, the God of Sleep, Morpheus(among myriad titles), and it is in issue #11 where Gaiman,with the artistic team of Mike Dringenberg and Malcolm Jones III really begins to coalesce. Incorporating past silver age comic figures with age old mythic forces such as The Furies, dubbed "The Kindly Ones", drawn by Gaiman of a translation of "Eumenides", a collective name the potent forces earned during the events of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy.

In a apt comparision the inherent prince Gaiman would earn his advanced title as following in the creative order of Jack 'King' Kirby, and wordsmith Alan Moore, learning to negotiate certain rights to his graphic creations with D.C. Comics that were nearly unprecedented, giving him control of future use to a considerable degree.

Such creative inclusion allowed Gaiman to weave a broader mythic tapestry into a normally tightly controlled comic universe primarily licensed with recognizable super-heroes, gaudily draped and staidly affixed.

Gaiman's reknitting of the varied realms wherein 'The Dreaming' housed past beloved horror comic figures, as well as extending to a epic family of emblamatic relations reached beyond mainstream themes for North American comic books; appealing to a female readership by a record amount of half the calculated range. The unique series became the flagship title for D.C. Comics Vertio imprint, marketed for mature readers, and is deservedly awarded as a landmark sequential venture where Gaiman honed his exemplary scripting abilities in poignant and subtle turns. (less)

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Jan 24, 2013 Jamie Sigal rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Since the day before forever I've had people telling me that I just HAD to read this series. Makes sense: I'm a comic book nerd and I love Neil Gaiman, but I was always wary of the Sandman - Maybe because I just figured it was going to be yet another Silver or Golden Age retread. Also, most of the people telling me how awesome it was were spazzy little Goth kids, so I admit that I didn't take them too seriously because, well, honestly, goths are a little too whiney, emotional, and dramatic for m...more

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Jan 22, 2013 Shay rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Preludes and Nocturnes is volume one of ten in the Sandman tradepaper slipcase set released by Vertigo in November 2012. It contains the first eight issues of the Sandman comics, which were originally published between 1988 and 1989. The first seven issues tell the story of Dream (also known as Morpheus), a member of the Endless who is captured by a magician and held prisoner for over seventy years. The artefacts that give him power over sleepers and the Dreamtime are stolen and lost. When he fi...more Preludes and Nocturnes is volume one of ten in the Sandman tradepaper slipcase set released by Vertigo in November 2012. It contains the first eight issues of the Sandman comics, which were originally published between 1988 and 1989. The first seven issues tell the story of Dream (also known as Morpheus), a member of the Endless who is captured by a magician and held prisoner for over seventy years. The artefacts that give him power over sleepers and the Dreamtime are stolen and lost. When he finally escapes from his captors, he must track down his lost artefacts and reclaim control of the Dreamtime. To do so he must travel through the earthly realms and to the gates of Hell itself. The eighth issue is the odd story out in this volume, as it introduces Dream’s sister, Death, the intended victim of the magician’s spell in issue one.

The series gets off to a slow start, as Gaiman explores the implications of imprisoning Dream, which manifests as a strange sleeping sickness. The action begins when Dream’s patience pays off and he is able to escape and begin his quest to find his lost objects of power. He meets a number of DC Universe characters, including John Constantine, The Scarecrow, and members of the Justice League. Overall, these comic book heroes and villains feel out of place in Gaiman’s darker, more mythology based world. The highlight of this initial sequence is issue four, A Hope in Hell, in which Dream must travel to Hell to try and find the demon that now possesses his helm. Here we are first introduced to Lucifer Morningstar, who co-rules Hell with Azazel and Beelzebub. Sam Keith’s dark, oozing Hell has a sickening aspect, but it is also perhaps the only section of the book which is not greatly improved by the recolouring work done for this edition.

The eighth issue, The Sound of Her Wings marks a turning point in both the art and the tone of the story. Mike Dringenberg, the inker for issues 1-5, became the penciller beginning with issue 6. His version of Dream is more solid and present, whereas Sam Keith’s Morpheus always seemed to be on the verge of melting off the page. Gaiman also hits his stride, blending the dark ruminations on mortality with light references to Mary Poppins in his strangely happy-go-lucky version of Death. For new readers, this story is an awkward place to end a volume, as it doesn’t fit with the previous issues, and offers little idea of how the story will proceed. However, for fans of the series, it is the story in which Sandman begins to stand apart from the DC Universe, for the better.

Physically, the tradepaper editions are much less appealing than the Absolute Sandman editions. The glue bindings are much less sturdy, and as is common with box sets, it becomes harder to fit the volumes back into the slipcase after reading. However, the paperbacks are much more reasonably sized and priced than the Absolute Sandman volumes, making them a good value proposition.

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Jan 07, 2013 Sash Uusjärv rated it 5 of 5 stars

Valgekraede pildiraamat*
Minu selle aasta suurimaks elamuseks on päris kindlasti Neil Gaimani “Sandman”. Kui aus olla, siis polegi tegelikult tegu mitte “päris” raamatu, vaid koomiksiga, aga mingil kummalisel moel raputas see mind põhjalikult. Ja ma ei ole kunagi koomiksite sõber olnud – reeglina on need minu jaoks tüütud. “Sandman” on erand suure algustähega.
On isegi raske öelda, mis mind selle teose/koomiksisarja puhul enim köidab – Gaimani geniaalne loojutustamise ja maailma loomise oskus, v...more

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Dec 30, 2012 Mkeirsbi rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I recently go introduced to Gaiman's novels. I was very intrigued and consider myself a fan. I wondered how his comic/graphic novel writings would relate to his novels. I noticed there was a box-set released containing 10 chapters of the Sandman series, thought of Christmas, and a present later, I'm completely immersed in the series.

This first part immediately came as a shock. I had no idea I would've been able to lose myself in a comic book. I've been schooled and trained as a literary scholar,...more

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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman #1)

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