sandman-slow start?

[dude-1981]

I hope I got the right area for this thread. Does the sandman improve. I was looking forward to it, but I am really struggling witht the second trade. I find the dialogue really naff and embrassing in places and also I find the artwork quite off putting. I'm not sure if I can carry on with another trade but if anyone on this board wanted to argue the case I could be persuaded to give it a go. I think it just seems out-dated now. Art work fashions moving on and such like.

[Terry Verticchio]

I never got passed the first issue. I bought a couple issues here and there, but the series left me cold.

Invisibles was better.

[Cardiac]

I found the Sandman to be moderate to good, most of the time, but with spells which left me totally cold, and brief moments of genius in there too. It's good, but only if you have LOTS of money to spare, and have already read The Invisibles:).

[Blake Petit]

I'm just the opposite. I found Sandman to be totally captivating from the very beginning, whereas the Invisibles left me totally in the cold. I read the first volume of that series and there wasn't a single moment I liked.

[dude-1981]

I could not get through the first volume of the invisibles. I was expecting a bit more of an outcry an my questioning the brillance of the Sandman. Does the art change to a more modern style as the years go by?

[Blake Petit]

I don't agree with your assessment of Sandman, but I'm not gonna get mad about it. I certainly understand that it's not necessarily something that appeals to everyone.

[dude-1981]

Originally posted by Blake Petit
I don't agree with your assessment of Sandman, but I'm not gonna get mad about it. I certainly understand that it's not necessarily something that appeals to everyone.


Don't get me wrong I wasn't saying that I thought people were going to blast me for not liking it. I just thought I would be recieving passionate defences of it and people explaining its brillance and the first couple of posts were people saying they also weren't really into it.

[S.A. Parvaze]

Storywise, I don't think the series really picks up until Morpheus confronts Lucifer, which is the fourth trade. Until then, I think that as a lay reader you'd have to be patient with it.

[dude-1981]

hmm. Many thanks, I am certainly a lay reader. Maybe I'll give it a rest for a while and dip into the third trade when I have a clear deck of trades rather than the pile I have awaiting me at the moment.

[Blake Petit]

I thought the first TPB was really engaging, honestly. The whole story with the serial killer convention was probably the most horrific part of the entire series.

[dude-1981]

The serial killer convention is a great idea and you could do a whole comic series with an idea like that, its fantastic. That's in the second trade. Its just I find the Sandmans dialogue pretionus and clunky, to give another example of a book in which I didn't like the dialogue for the same reason: The Question, in particular, the title character. I can't quite put my finger on the exact language. If I still had the sandman I could actually quotew some. But I gave it back to the library.

[S.A. Parvaze]

I thought the first TPB was really engaging, honestly. The whole story with the serial killer convention was probably the most horrific part of the entire series.

Myself, I was sold after the Dr. Destiny story and I really dug the "Cereal Killer" convention, but I think that "Season of Mists" is where the series started shaping toward its end.