SANDMAN

I am blogging today to recommand a wonderful series of 10 comic books, SANDMAN. If you are one of those who snorts when the word "comics" is mentioned, it's time to change your attitude.
SANDMAN is a story about the life of DREAM, or MORPHEUS (same as my fav character from Matrix!!! *screams*) and many other names that people call him, but essentially, he's the Dream of the Endless. Throughout the book, we get to know about stories of different individuals and how they eventually swirl and twirl into one whole great SANDMAN story. Being the Prince of Dreams, Dream can travel in our dreams and nightmares and he abd his subordinates collect them as stories. In his realm, there's an entire library of dreams and stories, every dream we may have dreamt and forgotten, the Library of Dreams keeps record.
Beautiful illustrations, lovely stories, some sex and love here and there, mostly it's about Dream and at the end of the day, we learnt that Dream never dies. Dream also has some sisters and brothers. They are Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium who was once Delight, and Destruction, the one who turned his back on his duties. Their names describe their function and the realms that they are in charge of.
It's a series wonderfully enchanting books and I cant describe to you how great and enjoyable it is to sit down and read those creations by Neil Gaiman. It makes you part of it, because everyone dreams, one way or another.
Out of so many comic books I've read these few months, both English and Chinese ones, SANDMAN is the one who touched me most. I had to fall in love with Dream, the solemn and skinny guy, and his sisters, the fetish Death and Cutish Delirium.
Before you read this book, be prepared to leave everything you thought you knew about Dreams and Death and other Endless things behind you. You have never seen anything like this before.
Be warned, it's going to be dark yet funny, sadist yet touching. Everyone's part of it.
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:: Neil Gaiman ::