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Sandman Edição Definitiva, Vol. 4 (2013)

by Neil Gaiman(Favorite Author)

4.75 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8565484734 (ISBN13: 9788565484732)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Panini

review 1: I was a bit nervous beginning The Kindly Ones because it seemed like we were all over the place reintroducing characters just for the sake of cramming them all in. In the end, I see that was precisely what was happening and it was so appropriate and necessary. As this arc came to a close I dreaded having to put the book down. It was pushing you forward to the ending and then, when you got there, you were just stunned and left wanting more. And then, there was. Wake was really amazing. It feels like a reading in a dream-like trance, so surreal yet obviously true and there was a moment somewhere where I actually thought, is this really happening? It was an extremely fitting ending to the series (even though there are a few stories after this, I consider this "the end"). This... more was a really interesting ride and I'm really glad I got on board.
review 2: At the end, Shakespeare wrote the Tempest..."... and then, fighting to stay asleep, wishing it would go on for ever, sure that once the dream was over, it would never come back... you woke up." - The WakeThe ninth volume is an EPIC 13 issues, and how! This is the "best" if one can really qualify it as such of the series. Why? Everything comes together, and it's never inorganic. Even the strand that feels like it has least to do with the main thread - where the baby, Daniel, is taken away and his mother swears vengeance on the "one" who took him, Morpheus - with Rose Walker is still terribly engrossing, especially the seemingly not-much-ado-about-anything except crumpety English women telling fairy tales about a widow's children flying away from a cruel house. Everything here comes to a head, but not with a gigantic battle, but rather existential quandaries, for... whatever Morpheus/dream really is, among his family (including poor Delirium looking for her little doggie). The one downside is that if you haven't been reading the series like super continuously, a couple of the characters who come back from some of the way-back volumes may be a little obscurer. But some of them, like Lucifer playing Cole Porter songs in a piano lounge, are of course indelible, and even throughout the darkest contours there's some wicked humor to be had, or just at the expense of some sexual suggestions and true gallows humor among a wise-ass Pumpkin-man and a raven named Matthew who is my favorite character I think of the whole series: a critical character, but full of conscience, heart and dependability and loyalty till whenever. Whenever Matthew was talking, I was rapt. It's a very BIG story, but among the lot of them it's also just due to the struggle of Lytta, a page turner as well which was a pleasant surprise.The WAKE was a bit of a comedown from the high of the penultimate volume, but still very good, especially for the final-final issue that is meant, I think, for Gaiman to say 'thanks for sticking through so many of these issues where we've had to say goodbye to the hero - who is, sorta, kinda, really, reincarnated as the Dream of the Endless (nay Daniel grown up via orb) - there's one last time via the Bard. Maybe it's because it's just so much a downer, but the art is unique enough to get me through and a reminder of why this character was so fascinating, and awfully flawed (as a person, not in his creation). Overall, this is surely, after work by Alan Moore, THE example to show to people who think of the comics medium as just one simplistic thing as being art. Hell, Gaiman even has Shakesepare show up in two very major moments in the run of the series, and it doesn't feel cheap in the slightest. The artwork, of course, is revolutionary, evolving, as if Gaiman was pushing everyone just by the high quality of his dialog, world-building and destroying, and likely encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and pretty good knowledge of history and cultures and just names for weird shit. There's countless pages one could just take, enlarge, and hang up on a wall. And at the center is a character that, like King Mob in The Invisibles, one wonders if just by the look was patterned after its creator (though I'd hope Gaiman isn't as gloomy). After Dr. Manhattan, speaking of Moore, Dream is the most satisfying and enigmatic of Other-Worldly cold-clinical-thinking beings. Though of course over 75 issues one does get to know this guy and, most satisfying of all, see change occur. That counts.Though this volume isn't entirely perfect, I can even nitpick the Kindly Ones, I give it five stars and hold it up as something extraordinary, as what happens when you can take the basic level of storytelling as, say, talking around a campfire or telling a tale to a child in bed at night and amplifying it to a most epic level. less

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