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Volume Four of New York Times best selling author Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed creation, with updated coloring and new trade dress.
Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of his immortal family, The Endless, have convinced the Dream King that this was an injustice. To make it right, Morpheus must return to Hell to rescue his banished love — and Hell’s ruler, the fallen angel Lucifer, has already sworn to destroy him.
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Der Engländer Neil Gaiman, 1960 geboren, arbeitete zunächst in London als Journalist und wurde durch seine Comic-Serie "Der Sandmann" bekannt. Er lebt seit einigen Jahren mit seiner Familie in den USA, in Minneapolis.Der Engländer Neil Gaiman, 1960 geboren, arbeitete zunächst in London als Journalist und wurde durch seine Comic-Serie "Der Sandmann" bekannt. Er lebt seit einigen Jahren mit seiner Familie in den USA, in Minneapolis.
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A Great Storyteller's Best Work
21. September 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
In "Sandman: Season of the Mists" Neil Gaiman does what he does best, creating a mythology that runs parallel to reality as we live it, but here, he outdoes himself by not just telling an interesting story, but by revealing a truth inherent about our dominant myth system.
That bit above is the best way anyone can sum up the sense in Sandman: Season of the Mists without removing any reason you could have for actually reading it but it doesn't matter because the book is simply fantastic.
In this work, Gaiman weaves together love, hate, obligation and elements of literary Christian theology (i.e., a very Miltonian hell) and places them in a wrapper of storytelling using a mythology that encompasses theological and mythological concepts, some of which, like faerie, law and chaos, exist purely within the realm of fantasy literature and when he is done setting the stage using these ideas and populating it with characters who run true to imaginable form, he tells a story the ending of which is an unflinching examination of a single mind-bending question: "what would happen if Satan grew tired of ruling hell?"
The answer to this question is a kaleidoscopic shock.
Gaiman is a master storyteller on many levels and unlike nearly all other writers of fantasy, his best work can be read both for the raw pleasure of a good story, on the level of storytelling technique and even on the level of philosophy and the command of all aspects of the story which Gaiman displays on every page of this book is a cause for awe. Gaiman seems powerfully inspired in writing this story. This is true right down to the incidental levels of the sound-effects, and dialog: listen to how Mazikeen speaks then, figure out how Gaiman wrote her dialog and you will instantly know what I am talking about.
Look through other works of his, even one or two that have been (re-) made in other media like the novel Neverwhere, and you will see that Gaiman can simply "tell a story" using a set of techniques and themes and call it a day, but Sandman: Season of the Mists shows him melding technique with inspiration, so that instead of its being just a set of well-handled themes or tropes, there is a powerful and organic coming together of Ideas, technique and feeling in the story that make it like nothing else in the history of graphic novels.
After a youth spent reading comics, only to see them evolve into "graphic novels" and think that those were the limit of the innovation possible in mass-market graphic storytelling, Gaiman's writing in Sandman: Season of the Mists, coupled with artwork that is direct and surreal at the same time, has been a strong, charming indicator that the well of creativity in the field not only has not run dry but that it cannot.
It is impossible to recommend it enough.
That bit above is the best way anyone can sum up the sense in Sandman: Season of the Mists without removing any reason you could have for actually reading it but it doesn't matter because the book is simply fantastic.
In this work, Gaiman weaves together love, hate, obligation and elements of literary Christian theology (i.e., a very Miltonian hell) and places them in a wrapper of storytelling using a mythology that encompasses theological and mythological concepts, some of which, like faerie, law and chaos, exist purely within the realm of fantasy literature and when he is done setting the stage using these ideas and populating it with characters who run true to imaginable form, he tells a story the ending of which is an unflinching examination of a single mind-bending question: "what would happen if Satan grew tired of ruling hell?"
The answer to this question is a kaleidoscopic shock.
Gaiman is a master storyteller on many levels and unlike nearly all other writers of fantasy, his best work can be read both for the raw pleasure of a good story, on the level of storytelling technique and even on the level of philosophy and the command of all aspects of the story which Gaiman displays on every page of this book is a cause for awe. Gaiman seems powerfully inspired in writing this story. This is true right down to the incidental levels of the sound-effects, and dialog: listen to how Mazikeen speaks then, figure out how Gaiman wrote her dialog and you will instantly know what I am talking about.
Look through other works of his, even one or two that have been (re-) made in other media like the novel Neverwhere, and you will see that Gaiman can simply "tell a story" using a set of techniques and themes and call it a day, but Sandman: Season of the Mists shows him melding technique with inspiration, so that instead of its being just a set of well-handled themes or tropes, there is a powerful and organic coming together of Ideas, technique and feeling in the story that make it like nothing else in the history of graphic novels.
After a youth spent reading comics, only to see them evolve into "graphic novels" and think that those were the limit of the innovation possible in mass-market graphic storytelling, Gaiman's writing in Sandman: Season of the Mists, coupled with artwork that is direct and surreal at the same time, has been a strong, charming indicator that the well of creativity in the field not only has not run dry but that it cannot.
It is impossible to recommend it enough.
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The keys to Hell
6. Juni 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
Morpheus of the Endless has had many trials throughout the ages... but none quite as strange as the one he must face in "The Sandman, Volume Four: Season of Mists." The fourth collection of Neil Gaiman's classic Sandman series centers on sudden changes in the world of Hell, and the terrifying choice that the Lord of Dreams must make -- who does it go to?
After a disastrous meeting with the other Endless, Morpheus goes to Hell to set free his onetime lover, Nada. But when he gets there, he finds that Lucifer is tired of being the lord of Hell, and is shutting the whole place down -- and he gives ownership of it to Morpheus. In the meantime, the souls of the damned are roaming Earth, and the anguished demons have nowhere to go.
Morpheus isn't interested in ruling Hell, so soon various powers appear to claim Hell -- Norse, Japanese and Egyptian gods, a trio of powerful demons, Order, Chaos, a Faerie diplomat, and a pair of angels are sent to watch the proceedings. Threats, bribes and tricks ensue, leaving Morpheus with a seemingly-impossible choice to make.
Just a warning: This comic book, despite its brilliant storytelling, left me with a sort of squirmy feeling, because it bases itself on Christian theology that many people actually believe in (heaven, hell, Satan, angels, God, etc). But it isn't in line with those beliefs, so some parts of it come across as... uncomfortable.
However, you should always keep in mind that it is merely fiction. "Season of Mists" is epic in scope -- it encompasses different worlds, dimensions and lands in a seeemingly endless, wondrously terrifying universe. Gaiman is absolutely brilliant at conjuring the exquisite and the grotesque, the eerie and the strange -- and he manages all of those here.
And the art really helps here -- the bleak, raw wastes of Hell, the snowflake beauty of the angels, the visceral grotesqueness of the demons (one is a lumpen creature with a melting eyeless head and toothy mouths for nipples), and the twilit, mildly unnerving realm of Dreaming.
As for Morpheus himself, this story is a surprisingly personal one. He's given a realm he doesn't want, but doesn't seem to have any good way of ridding himself of it (at least, not at first). And the Lord of Dream has to face up to his own misdeeds -- namely, he FINALLY figures out that he was horrible to Nada, and that his punishment of her was cruel. The way their story is wrapped up is painful, but still very touching.
"The Sandman Volume Four: Season of Mists" made me uncomfortable with some of its handling of Christian theology, but there is no denying that it is a richly-imagined, powerful story by a master storyteller.
After a disastrous meeting with the other Endless, Morpheus goes to Hell to set free his onetime lover, Nada. But when he gets there, he finds that Lucifer is tired of being the lord of Hell, and is shutting the whole place down -- and he gives ownership of it to Morpheus. In the meantime, the souls of the damned are roaming Earth, and the anguished demons have nowhere to go.
Morpheus isn't interested in ruling Hell, so soon various powers appear to claim Hell -- Norse, Japanese and Egyptian gods, a trio of powerful demons, Order, Chaos, a Faerie diplomat, and a pair of angels are sent to watch the proceedings. Threats, bribes and tricks ensue, leaving Morpheus with a seemingly-impossible choice to make.
Just a warning: This comic book, despite its brilliant storytelling, left me with a sort of squirmy feeling, because it bases itself on Christian theology that many people actually believe in (heaven, hell, Satan, angels, God, etc). But it isn't in line with those beliefs, so some parts of it come across as... uncomfortable.
However, you should always keep in mind that it is merely fiction. "Season of Mists" is epic in scope -- it encompasses different worlds, dimensions and lands in a seeemingly endless, wondrously terrifying universe. Gaiman is absolutely brilliant at conjuring the exquisite and the grotesque, the eerie and the strange -- and he manages all of those here.
And the art really helps here -- the bleak, raw wastes of Hell, the snowflake beauty of the angels, the visceral grotesqueness of the demons (one is a lumpen creature with a melting eyeless head and toothy mouths for nipples), and the twilit, mildly unnerving realm of Dreaming.
As for Morpheus himself, this story is a surprisingly personal one. He's given a realm he doesn't want, but doesn't seem to have any good way of ridding himself of it (at least, not at first). And the Lord of Dream has to face up to his own misdeeds -- namely, he FINALLY figures out that he was horrible to Nada, and that his punishment of her was cruel. The way their story is wrapped up is painful, but still very touching.
"The Sandman Volume Four: Season of Mists" made me uncomfortable with some of its handling of Christian theology, but there is no denying that it is a richly-imagined, powerful story by a master storyteller.
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The Turning Point?
12. April 2012
Format:Taschenbuch
Volume 4 of the Sandman cycle collects #21-28 of the DC/Vertigo series.
While reading the previous volumes helps with nuances and smaller details it isn't necessary to enjoy this volume.
This one is often heralded as the best of the series. It is also the volume I point to as being the most problematic if ever this series is done on television as has been rumored for years.
In this book we find The Endless (7 beings who are not Gods but the embodiments of Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium, though Destruction is absent) meeting for the first time in the series. The purpose of this gathering seems to be to motivate Morpheus (Dream) to return to Hell to liberate a past lover he condemned for not being with him.
Morpheus is convinced he may well be on his way to his doom due to a disagreement between himself and Lucifer in Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes. Much to his surprise, however, Lucifer isn't going to destroy him in a classic sense. Instead, he shuts Hell down and hands Morpheus the key.
What happens next is an interesting story of many gods, demi-gods, angels and demons vying for the key (and therefore ownership) to Hell.
While there are many interesting things going on it is done mostly via dialogue. There is a lot of scheming and games going on while Morpheus struggles with the responsibility of making sure the right "person" gets the key. Meanwhile, on Earth, the damned and demons that were kicked out of Hell are running amok. This, as you can imagine, causes some serious problems.
While the events in the Dreaming are interesting I would like to have seen more of what was going on on Earth. There is only one chapter devoted to this (a boarding school where a boy had made friends with a dead child and is tormented by three others). There are also little comments tossed in but that is all we get. The rest is people talking and planning and back-stabbing to get the key.
While this isn't my favorite of the Sandman volumes it is an essential part of the saga, containing many things that will play out in the rest of the series in dramatic fashion. Gaiman handles his craft well and the blending of mythology, theology and fantasy. The artists, while varied, complement each other well and it's never distracting when they switch off.
While reading the previous volumes helps with nuances and smaller details it isn't necessary to enjoy this volume.
This one is often heralded as the best of the series. It is also the volume I point to as being the most problematic if ever this series is done on television as has been rumored for years.
In this book we find The Endless (7 beings who are not Gods but the embodiments of Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium, though Destruction is absent) meeting for the first time in the series. The purpose of this gathering seems to be to motivate Morpheus (Dream) to return to Hell to liberate a past lover he condemned for not being with him.
Morpheus is convinced he may well be on his way to his doom due to a disagreement between himself and Lucifer in Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes. Much to his surprise, however, Lucifer isn't going to destroy him in a classic sense. Instead, he shuts Hell down and hands Morpheus the key.
What happens next is an interesting story of many gods, demi-gods, angels and demons vying for the key (and therefore ownership) to Hell.
While there are many interesting things going on it is done mostly via dialogue. There is a lot of scheming and games going on while Morpheus struggles with the responsibility of making sure the right "person" gets the key. Meanwhile, on Earth, the damned and demons that were kicked out of Hell are running amok. This, as you can imagine, causes some serious problems.
While the events in the Dreaming are interesting I would like to have seen more of what was going on on Earth. There is only one chapter devoted to this (a boarding school where a boy had made friends with a dead child and is tormented by three others). There are also little comments tossed in but that is all we get. The rest is people talking and planning and back-stabbing to get the key.
While this isn't my favorite of the Sandman volumes it is an essential part of the saga, containing many things that will play out in the rest of the series in dramatic fashion. Gaiman handles his craft well and the blending of mythology, theology and fantasy. The artists, while varied, complement each other well and it's never distracting when they switch off.
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