*Book source ~ Library
Title ~ Dream Country
Series ~ The Sandman, Volume 3
Author ~ Neil Gaiman
Illustrator ~ Kelley Jones, Charles Vess,
Colleen Doran, Malcolm Jones III
Publisher ~ Vertigo
Published ~ 24 September 1991
Genre ~ Graphic Novel | Fantasy
Pages ~ 162
My Rating ~ 4 bites
From Goodreads:
The third
book of the Sandman collection, DREAM COUNTRY continues the fantastical
mythology of Morpheus, the King of Dreams. In these centuries-spanning tales,
the powerful entity known as the Sandman interacts with a diverse assortment of
humans, fairies, heroes, and animals as he walks the mortal plane. Including an
amazing encounter with William Shakespeare and an interesting take on the
origin and first performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," this
book depicts the dreaming world of cats, the tragic life of forgotten
super-heroes and the folly of imprisoning and torturing a former lover of the
King of Dreams.
I actually didn’t like this one as much as the
other two volumes I’ve read, yet I still give it a 4 for creativity, weirdness
and artwork. I like Calliope’s story the best and A Midsummer Night’s Dream the least because it doesn’t make any
sense to me and I’m really not a fan of Shakespeare. I only flipped through the
script for Calliope because while it
was interesting, it wasn’t so interesting I wanted to take the time to read it
all.
In this volume:
Calliope ~ Poor Calliope
A Dream of
a Thousand Cats
~ Very bizzare
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream ~ Shakespeare, Neil Gaiman-style
Façade ~ Weird and a bit
disturbing
Script for Calliope ~ behind the stage of how
this comic was written and drawn
I'm not much for Shakespeare either, so I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it much either :) A Dream of a Thousand Cats? That is so weird lol
ReplyDeleteIt was. lol I'm still enjoying this world though. I especially love Dream and his cool word bubbles. :D
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