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| Original Title: | The Sandman: Endless Nights |
| ISBN: | 140120113X (ISBN13: 9781401201135) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Sandman #Collection of stories |
| Characters: | Dream of the Endless, Destiny of the Endless, Desire of the Endless, Death of the Endless, Despair of the Endless, Delirium of the Endless, Destruction of the Endless |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative (2003), Locus Award for Best Art Book (2004), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Short Story ("Death"), Best Anthology (2004) |
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Endless entertainment! This volumen is a special presenting short stories featuring each member of The Endless. The general rating is an average sum of the ratings given to each story contained in this comic book. All stories are written by Neil Gaiman. A very amusing thing is that while each story is focused in a member of The Endless (the family of Morpheus, the Lord of Dream), you may be able to appreciate how each other member of The Endless causes some level of impact in some way or another, and without a doubt while The Endless are the protagonist of their short stories, you can’t deny the importance of people. Without people, The Endless are nothing, they couldn’t even exist. DEATH AND VENICE Rating: **** ( 4 stars ) Illustrator: P. Craig Russell I missed you… so badly. In this story, Death is waiting for a door to be open again and getting throught it, a very special door. A man who has been blessed with watching Death (when it’s not still his time) will be key to this. An interesting tale about various lives when they encounter a perfect day. How tempting is to live always in a perfect day? WHAT I’VE TASTED OF DESIRE Rating: ***** ( 5 stars ) Illustrator: Milo Manara Follow your heart. A woman wants to be loved by someone in the same way that she’d love that someone too. Ooooh, that’s good that she didn’t want anything hard! Geez! Desire meets that woman and he/she shows to the woman her inner nature. That helped her to define her path in life. Is it possible to have anything you want in life? DREAM THE HEART OF A STAR Rating: ***** ( 5 stars ) Illustrator: Miguelanxo Prado Just because a name is used by the young doesn’t make it foolish. Easily the best story in the bunch. Morpheus invites his girlfriend, Killalla of the Glow, to a very important parliament where the high powers will discuss and delimitate their own reaches, domains, responsibilities and obligations. All the Endless are invited, along with many other high powers, like Stars, Faerie, Dimensions. Organic life is quite at minimum in the universe. Most planets are asleep yet. Dream and Desire are still close to each other, but you will find out the reason of their distancing. Delight is still Delight, not yet Delirium. Destruction is still in his post. Despair, mmh… Despair is there too. Destiny and Death will do brief appearances. You will have a real treat meeting the stars of Rao, Sto-Oa, Sol, etc… How to refuse such priceless invitation? FIFTEEN PORTRAITS OF DESPAIR Rating: ** ( 2 stars ) Illustrator: Barron Storey (with such last name, he shouldn’t be a writer?) Original design: Dave McKean Her sigil is the hooked ring. A very bizarre graphic narrative that I guess its intention is to provoke a sense of despair. Well, what else could you expect from this Endless member? DELIRIUM GOING INSIDE Rating: ** ( 2 stars ) Illustrator: Bill Sienkiewicz She’s still inside. A very delirious tale about pain and how to deal with it. Certainly, you hadn’t expected anything coherent from her, mmh? DESTRUCTION Rating: **** ( 4 stars ) Illustrator: Glenn Fabry Hey. Have you had any experience? With ruins? I’ve certainly made my share of them. A female arqueologist is invited to investigate a strange mountain, a mountain that it wasn’t there just a year ago, and where you find impossible things while digging. Destruction already left his post, but he is still around and he finds to develop an interest on the arqueologist. How Destruction can resist a woman who makes a living on digging destroyed things? DESTINY ENDLESS NIGHTS Rating: **** ( 4 stars ) Illustrator: Frank Quitely He did not create the path you walk. A simple but effective tale explaining the role and the burden of the oldest member of The Endless. How could you resist to take a peek in a book where you could know everything that happened but also everything that will happen about you or anybody else?Declare Epithetical Books The Sandman: Endless Nights (The Sandman #Collection of stories)
| Title | : | The Sandman: Endless Nights (The Sandman #Collection of stories) |
| Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2004 by Vertigo (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fantasy. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics. Horror. Comic Book |
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I'm wordless. This was stunning. Delirium's tale took my breath away. And Destiny's final pages were haunting.I thought I'd read all of the (non-spin-off) Sandman comics years agobut I recently (re)discovered an unread and forgotten volume on my shelf, and it felt like Christmas morning! Endless Nights made history; it was the first graphic novel to ever make the New York Times Bestseller List. Each of the Endless get their own chapter, and each tale is illustrated by a different artist in an often experimental style that you wouldn't have seen in the main series. The stories are stand-alones and
Endless Nights is an enjoyable, albeit unnecessary, addendum to The Sandman epic: seven unrelated tales, each one of which featuring one the Endless, the group of seven sisters and brothers which includes the Sandman (AKA Dream, AKA Morpheus) himself. I did not find any of them particularly memorable (I had to pick up the volume again to remember exactly what they were about) but my favorites are the one about Death (which features a singularly decadent party hosted by a degenerate 18th century
Okay, I really enjoyed this. I always felt that Neil Gaiman liked Death the most and so I was really happy to see that each sibling got an individual beautiful story... except for maybe Despair, but Despair is not supposed to beautiful either way.Death in Venice was interesting. It was another of these mind-fucking moments of "how can times and places overlap" (are the concepts of past, present and future really just man-made and non-existent)? Of course every mail protagonist has to fall for
I thought that Sandman was over... how happy am I that there is more? I'm ecstatic! This is absolutely fabulous; I really need more! Death: I really liked this one, but I was slightly confused at first. Desire: For some reason, I have a sense of déjà vu. Was this story already featured somewhere? Because I would swear that I already read this one. Dream: It's fascinating that I almost forgot that before Delirium there was Delight, at first I thought that it was a mistake. Despair: This one
Endless Nights is a gem. Beautifully illustrated and wonderfully told it is yet another example of why I think so highly of Neil Gaiman. This is a collection of short stories about the Endless. Each story covers a different member of the Endless family. Each story has its own unique art style.Follow the stories of Death, Desire, Dream, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny. I enjoyed the Death, Dream and Desire stories the most-though none of these stories is bad. The Despair and Delirium
This is wonderful collection of graphic shorts - one for each of the Endless. I particularly enjoyed the darkness of Despair's story.
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