colleen doran – Cosmic Need

June 17, 2022June 24, 2022

Re-Enter Sandman: A Game of You

A portion of the cover for an early edition of The Sandman: A Game of You. Art by Dave McKean

I wish A Game of You was a couple of issues longer. And while as much as I want to stop saying “Neil Gaiman doesn’t know how to end these story arcs properly” well, there’s much of that here too. At only six issues, A Game of You brings up a lot of ideas without fully developing them. I still like this storyline but I always want more from it than what we got.

June 10, 2022June 24, 2022

Re-Enter Sandman: Dream Country

The top portion of the first cover for The Sandman: Dream Country. Art by Dave McKean

Dream Country is the shortest of The Sandman volumes — it’s just four single-issue stories, plus the script for one of them. But because of that, it’s actually a good sampler of The Sandman. It doesn’t require a lot of prior knowledge (do you know who Dream is? Do you know who Death is? You’re pretty well caught up). To me, it’s where Neil Gaiman actually established what he was doing with The Sandman.