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Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country

Title: Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country

Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: Vertigo 2010

Genre: Graphic Novel

Pages: 160

Rating:   4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Graphic Novel; Support Your Local LIbrary

How I Got It: Library loan

The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. In each of these otherwise unrelated stories, Morpheus serves only as a minor character. Here we meet the mother of Morpheus's son, find out what cats dream about, and discover the true origin behind Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream. The latter won a World Fantasy Award for best short story, the first time a comic book was given that honor.

This volume includes issues 17-20 of the original series and features completely new coloring, approved by the author, of issues 17 and 18.

Hmmm...  So I didn't like this volume as much as the first two.  We get appearances by Dream, but the stories are stories of others.  I did enjoy the story featuring Death.  She is fast becoming my favorite character in the series.  Her spunk is a great contrast to her job.  I think my favorite part of the volume was actually the extras at the back.  We get an actual manuscript from Gaiman detailing the stories to be included.  They read like a play script with stage directions and character descriptions.  I find the journey from story to comic to be an interesting one.

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