The search for her brother leads Rose to Florida, where she moves into a house filled with odd residents. Meanwhile, two of the escaped dreams reveal a bizarre connection to Jed, Rose’s brother, while the third dream continues their murder spree—and collects disturbing mementos from their victims.
aww I loved meeting the housemates (and Hal omg?? I didn't know he already did drag in the comics, these haters who've never read the series and are complaining about "wokeness" can go shut their faces) and I think it's amazing how much personality Rose shows just from her words in the letter. The panel where Dream is creating nightmares is incredible and seeing Morpheus absolutely pissed off is terrifying. Wouldn't want to get on his bad side. (but he looked so good though, I love his so much<3 I am also slightly amused haha)
ps: I saw a comment saying how the flames on his coat are directly proportional to his anger, which is really really cool and I wish we got to see that in the show too (apparently they did plan to add it, but unfortunately it did not look good enough in post, so they got rid of it. The markings for where the flames should be are still visible in the behind the scenes photo here).
Excellent continuation of what's turning out to be a great universe. I love how every tiny 25 pager end s on a cliffhanger (LOL KIDDING I HATE IT I LIKE CLOSURE)
The second part to the "The Doll's House" continues with "Moving In", where we follow Rose Walker begin her search for her long missing brother Jed. Turns out Jed is living in imposed squalor from his abusive foster family but copes by living a second life in his dreams in the company of Hector Hall (Doctor Fate) and his wife Lyta. It's gut-wrenching to see both Jed's living conditions and the tragedy behind Hector and Lyta, but it's artfully spun together to build a compelling narrative around the emerging dream vortex problem. Meanwhile, the Corinthian continues to carve his way through victims and lands a coveted spot in an upcoming convention for serial killers.
An excellent follow up to the previous issue, and Dringenberg really steps up here with the art duties. Some of the pages are homages to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, with Dringenberg adding just the perfect dose of horror and surrealism to make the homage land with the story at hand.
This is the first issue where I will begin to question myself on how I’m really rating these. From what I can remember, there is truly not an issue that I would rate less than 3 stars, as I enjoyed every single second of reading this story for the first time, and am enjoying it again in this re-read.
But, as a stand-alone issue, this is relatively weak compared to what I’ve read so far. But, at the same time it is incredibly important to setting up the main players for the Doll’s House arc, which is so fucking good.
Es ist eine Freude, Roses Nachbarn etwas kennenzulernen, aber das wahre Highlight ist die Binnenerzählung mit Jeds Träumen. Leider durchkreuzt der klischeetriefende Gassen-Zwischenfall etwas die Stimmung, die trotzdem kaum angespannter sein könnte und auf eine baldige Entladung hindeutet.
The story gets better and better as I progress through the comics. I'm so thrilled to be reading this and I'll definitely read more of Neil Gaiman's works once I'm done with Sandman.
Where?? Where does he draw his ideas from seriously ! He is eerily creative. His ideas are so out of the the ordinary and new. That’s it, never before seen ideas.