The Sandman: Endless Nights
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Average rating4.2
Featuring the popular characters from the award-winning Sandman series, THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS reveals the legend of the Endless, a family of magical and mythical beings who exist and interact in the real world. Born at the beginning of time, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction are seven brothers and sisters who each lord over their respective realms. In this highly imaginative book that boasts a diverse styles of breathtaking art, these seven peculiar and powerful siblings each reveal more about their true being as they star in their own tales of curiosity and wonder. SUGGESTED FOR MATURE READERS.
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Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is held up by a lot of people to be the greatest example of comics as literature ever written. I don't know if that's quite accurate, but it does show a lot of what comics are capable of as literature.
That being said, this book specifically is Gaiman revisiting his Endless series 10 years after it finished, providing defining moments in their own personal history, and many of which provide glimpses of who the Endless are and why they occupy the roles that they do. As such, Delirium's story is kind of confusing, Despair's is difficult to read through in one setting because it's just that sad, and so on. Gaiman's poetic prose really makes the art come to life.
Speaking of the art, there's some amazing work going on here. Manara, Quitely, Sienkowitz, McKean - a veritable treasure trove of art, each one selected for the story that would work best for them. Beautiful, rich - I could go on with many other, more superlative adjectives, but the point is clear.
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10 primary books11 released booksThe Sandman is a 26-book series with 9 primary works first released in 1988 with contributions by Neil Gaiman, Glenn Fabry, and 29 others.
