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Hello, and welcome to my last post for this year ...
already. Wow.
Anyway, I decided that I'm going to review "Twilight."
Whoo, relax. I'm just kidding!
What I want to review today, actually, is sort of dark fantasy similar to Twilight ...
... but actually completely different.
It's a series of graphic novels called, collectively, "Sandman."
"Sandman" is a series of nine volumes, full of very short stories.
They're all loosely related, centering around one character:
The Sandman, the King of Dreams, known mostly as Morpheus.
It's written by Neil Gaiman and ...
It's fascinating! Beautifully-written and beautifully-drawn. It's all perfect.
The stories wind through different times and places. For example, one story is set in England
in the Sixteenth Century.
A traveling troupe of actors arrives in the middle of nowhere and are puzzled.
Someone made a booking with them, but there's no one there. It's all farms and fields.
As you keep reading, you discover that one troupe member is named William Shakespeare,
and he's just finished a play called "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
And now they have a chance to perform it in front of a VERY unusual audience.
Other stories include the Sandman being magically trapped, causing people worldwide
to fall asleep for years and years, which leads to some tragic results.
The stories themselves are very unique and utterly engrossing.
They include all kinds of human conditions -- Death, destiny, desire, delirium, all sorts.
You meet those aspects of human life in physical form.
They look like people, but aren't; they are eternal.
They also make a lot of very true statements about people and life in general.
It's done through a lens of fantasy, but that doesn't make it any less true for all that.
The art is absolutely perfect and very beautiful, and the stories are amazing.
I really strongly recommend it during break.
That's it. Thanks, and see you next year!