6/8/2023 0 Comments Sandman absolute 1There’s little hint of just who and what will become relevent later on (the answer is quite a lot). It sets up the scene and introduces us to all the key players, but in lightning fast succession. The opening arc – Preludes and Nocturnes– is probably one of the less interesting arcs of Gaiman’s magnum opus. Still, Gaiman is crafting a sort of modern fable and fairytale, and – as one of his characters reminds us – the fairy tales we tell our children today are heavily sanitized. There’s quite a lot of disturbing images and ideas thrown into the mix here – perhaps more than later on. There’s very little light or reassuring in the volume, but the lightest element Gaiman uses is quite surprising – his personification of Death as… well, a nice person. Nightmares and demons are frequent guests, but few are as evil as some of the humans we encounter. The tales call to mind some weird hybrid of Tim Burton and the Twilight Zone.
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