21.Jun.2009 The Sandman Vol 2: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
Gory. Gruesome. Eerie. Made me sick to my stomach.
I know now why Neil Gaiman no longer writes such sick stories. Because it’s going to scare his kids to death. (If they can first sneak in to get the book and understand the perversity.)
Having said that, I kept reading. Perhaps I do like sick stories once in a while.
Sick bastard keeps a little kid like an animal in the basement and a convention of ‘collectors’ (and by collectors, they mean serial killers. Guess what they collect.) are a couple of examples of what you should expect.
The ones I especially enjoyed was Part One: Tales in the Sand, in which it tells the story of a woman that Morpheus falls in love with; and Part Four: Men of Good Fortune, in which it tells the story of Morpheus’s possibly only friend, a man that was made immortal who he meets every 100 years. But looks like both stories don’t really relate to the mainline story of the series. Mmh.
I’m not a fan of the illustrations. Or the coloring of to be exact. It looks very old style with the bright pink, blue, purple, and yellow colors. If Morpheus wasn’t drawn based on Neil Gaiman himself, I’d eat my hat. They look freakin’ similar.
1989-1990, 256 pp
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