Sandman

Sandman by Neil Gaimen is who I wanted to talk about for this week instead of for European graphic novel. This beautiful sloppy ink work shows the perfect representation of 80s goth and the rest of the era sandman visits often enough as “modern time”. We follow the story of our main character who is the god of dreams. He has first been kiddnapped for his power and in doing so destroyed his kingdom and lost his dream gear and has had a string of bad luck. He takes his revenge with the punishment of eternal nightmares. I love this mysterious goth character. He is like if the lead singer of the Cure had a creepy edgy super power other then music. Sandman struggles to find himself among the other gods like lust, greed, Satan, and even his sweet sweet sister, death. Who is also a 80s goth beauty queen. Sandman becomes larger then life at times making him like many other super hero comics from this era, the only difference is that he is a brooding, dark character with a personal agenda that happens to do the right thing when he can. He doesn’t make dreams to be this magical whimsical thing but more like a curse, a burden he must carry and seek out. I love his form of punishment and torture of the brain. The villians he drives mad within them selves is the absolute best way to defeat them in my opinion. If I had to ask my self the age old, child question of what super hero super powers I would want, it would be sandman. I love th worlds he explores, the gods and people he meets, his pain and suffering are different compared to most hero’s, he travels space and time and dreams.

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