"my year of gaiman" part 5 - the sandman, volumes 1-5
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 11:59PM it's been almost a month since my last post. i had thought about doing a post for each volume but i didn't want to interrupt the flow of the stories once i got into them.
i've never been a comic reader but this series has kept me engrossed from the very start. the story of dream and the rest of the endless is handled rather eloquently, and sometimes violently by neil and the immensley talented artists that were involved.
some of the stories are not for the faint of heart. from a masacre in a diner led by someone that i like to describe as "bat shit crazy" to convention of serial (cereal) killers to the skinning of a dead mans face.
the series is recommended for mature readers and for good reason the scenes described above are rendered uncomfortably beautiful. the depiction of hell by the artists are some of the most disturbing images i have laid eyes on. it seems the artists were in my head because that is what i picture hell to look like.
i've started with volume six so you can expect another post in this series in roughly a month.
neil gaiman,
the sandman in
my year of gaiman 
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