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Neil Gaiman's Sandman is the most imaginative and transfixing book in mainstream comics today--and also the most radical. It tells eerie, loopy, sometimes desolating tales about capricious, ill-starred gods and frail humans, and it pulls off the rather neat trick of making Death, at long last, something to die for: Yet even in his most otherworldly moments, Sandmans's greatest (and most disturbing) strength is that all its horrors, and all it's hopes, are only as profound and familiar as the human heart itself. To read The Sandman is to read something more than an imaginative new comic: it is to read a powerful new literature, fresh with the resonance of timeless myths.
-- Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone "One of the basic things that runs all the way through Sandman is the male/female dichotomy, male/female friction and the difference in men's and womens's outlooks on the world. I like writing women. I feel that women are far more sensible than men and I like the sensible characters. Death is a million times more sensible than Dream himself." -- Neil Gaiman 
"The Sandman is not a superhero...he is an observer, occasionally a catalyst, rarely the focus of the action. He rules the kindom of dreams and his motives are not ours to understand. Neil Gaiman...is the best (at)...combining compassion with gruesome horror (and), delicate characterization with exhaustive research."
-- Lewis Shiner, Slam "The Sandman is Neil Gaiman's own inventory of the books of hell, personally rewritten with no small measure of ambition or cockiness." -- Steve Erickson, LA Weekly "If Watchmen deserved a Hugo nomination, this deserves a World Fantasy award." -- Tom Whitmore, Locus Gaiman has invented out of whole cloth, a mythology not just of the comics but of storytelling itself ..." -- Frank McConnell, Commonweal Magazine "Far and above the most inventive and most human comic of the decade." -- Samuel R. Delany 
"Gaiman spins a tale that spans worlds, from the urban inhabitants of a grungy walk-up, to those of a Narnia-type land endangered by an enemy only known as the Cuckoo. Gaimans adroit sampling of world mythos gives the series its scope and sense of timelessness, but as usual it's the characters who stand out. This time the wonderfully motley crew includes a drag queen, a punky lesbian couple, several talking animals, one talking decapitated head, the confused heroine Barbie and, of course, Morpheus himself, The Sandman's eponymous dreammeister... If you haven't read the Sandman yet, this is as good a place as any to start. Shawn McManus' drawings are marvelous, the story is marvelous and, by the end, Gaiman's splendid writing even managed to coax a tear from these tired old eyes. The Sandman remains the standard by which other fantasy works, graphic and otherwise, will be measured in the 90's. Great stuff."
-- Elizabeth Hand, Detroit Metro Times "The story... is one of Gaiman's most manifold and inventive, and also one of his most linear. Neil Gaiman is on a plane all his own. Nobody in his field is better than this. No one has as much range, depth, and command of narrative. Gaiman is a master, and his vast, roomy stories, filled with every possible shade of feeling, are unlike anyone else's. If this isn't literature, nothing is." -- Peter Straub "These are great stories, and we're lucky to have them. To read now, and maybe again. Then, later on, when we need what only a good story has the power to do: to take away to worlds that never existed, in the company of people we wish we were...or thank God we aren't. -- Stephen King "...the immediate pleasures of these stories to the first-time reader are many. It's the rare reader who does not respond to Gaiman's imaginative breath, coupled with his simple accuracy of observation." -- Samuel R. Delany "You hold in your hands one of the most stunning stories of the last half century - in any medium. Gaiman would hate this comparison, being a modest fellow, but he`s done for comics what Duke Ellington did for jazz in the thirties: produced work of such overwhelming magnificence that even the invincibly snobbish and the terminally tone-deaf have to dig it." -- Frank McConnell |
| Special vom: | 13.10.2001 |
| Autor dieses Specials: | Bernhard Billinger |
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