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major_kerinaGood pace for 2009. Of course, it is a graphic novel, but still.
*Editted for typos. Sorry, I jotted it down late at night before I sent the book off*
I've been reading the Sandman series for a couple of months. It feels like an eternity has stretched out since I first started reading it. The volumes are dense with ideas as varied as dreams themselves. Dealing with the Endless, personifications of what basically amount to human memes, the series involves deeply-human stories again and again.
This volume showcases this idea in its wholeness. While the volume is best understood in the context of the others, it can be read on its own. There are elements which carry over from the previous volumes, but they are explained within the context of the narrative.
This probably one of the most focused volumes of Sandman. In it, we get to know the character of Delirium a lot better. Imagine a curious child, only with a tinge of menace of the little girl in the wheelchair in Elfen Lied. She comes to Dream seeking their sibling, Destruction, who has been up his mantle and duties to human choice.
There is an interesting feeling of the inescapability of change in this work. Things don't stay the same way forever. The volume has Gods and Goddesses living in the modern world, trying to find a living in a world that no longer empowers them through worship. There are humans who have lived for thousands of years (a rare few) and their lives are ending. The book presents, at its crux, the concept that we know so much, but to escape from the despair of that knowledge, we must pretend to forget we know (and this applies to Gods, Personifications, and humans, equally). Fighting the knowledge of change but eventually coming to acceptance.
It is near to the end of the series. The book culminates on an event which will lead to the end. I'm just bummed I may need to buy the next two books to figure out what happens, due to the fact the Bookswim seems to no longer really carries the series now. Shame. I'll get to those last books eventually. But I must say, this book was a great note to leave on for now.
Book 2 - Hidamari Sketch manga #1 (almost done too...soooo cute!).
*Editted for typos. Sorry, I jotted it down late at night before I sent the book off*
I've been reading the Sandman series for a couple of months. It feels like an eternity has stretched out since I first started reading it. The volumes are dense with ideas as varied as dreams themselves. Dealing with the Endless, personifications of what basically amount to human memes, the series involves deeply-human stories again and again.
This volume showcases this idea in its wholeness. While the volume is best understood in the context of the others, it can be read on its own. There are elements which carry over from the previous volumes, but they are explained within the context of the narrative.
This probably one of the most focused volumes of Sandman. In it, we get to know the character of Delirium a lot better. Imagine a curious child, only with a tinge of menace of the little girl in the wheelchair in Elfen Lied. She comes to Dream seeking their sibling, Destruction, who has been up his mantle and duties to human choice.
There is an interesting feeling of the inescapability of change in this work. Things don't stay the same way forever. The volume has Gods and Goddesses living in the modern world, trying to find a living in a world that no longer empowers them through worship. There are humans who have lived for thousands of years (a rare few) and their lives are ending. The book presents, at its crux, the concept that we know so much, but to escape from the despair of that knowledge, we must pretend to forget we know (and this applies to Gods, Personifications, and humans, equally). Fighting the knowledge of change but eventually coming to acceptance.
It is near to the end of the series. The book culminates on an event which will lead to the end. I'm just bummed I may need to buy the next two books to figure out what happens, due to the fact the Bookswim seems to no longer really carries the series now. Shame. I'll get to those last books eventually. But I must say, this book was a great note to leave on for now.
Book 2 - Hidamari Sketch manga #1 (almost done too...soooo cute!).
