Oh, and read it, not only it’s by Peter Straub, but it’s helpful to recollect your own thoughts after the reading of the story. In the review about the sixth volume, Fables & Reflections, I recommended that it was better to read the introduction after reading the TPB, and surprising enough in this seventh volume, Brief Lives, they just decided to putt he introduction at the end of the TPB. Illustrators: Jill Thompson & Vince LockeĬOINS, BUTTERFLIES, PONdS, QUESTS & FAMILIES

Of course, the main takeaway of this volume is that everyone gets a lifetime. There are some fun road trip moments here, but mostly it's about Dream beginning to question his place in the world, and maybe becoming a tad more human. And also what those types of changes would look like for those who are seemingly immortal. The whole story is about the way individuals change and grow and morph into new things. She seems to want to find her older brother because he was always good to her, and maybe even because he made her feel a bit more grounded? Streams of nonsense peppered with a few nuggets of profound sanity are all that you get out of her during the whole thing. Well, she's awful in a it's-not-her-fault kind of way.

Destruction is the cool brother, the one that everyone likes, and several hundred years ago he decided to call it quits and live life on his own terms. Partially because he just got dumped by a girl and partially because Death shames him into helping his little sister. He agrees to help his sister search for their missing brother, Destruction. Metaphorical and real.Īnd it's not a journey that he wants to go on. This is is the volume that seems to signal a real change in the character of Morpheus. These books can be read in order or as individual volumes. Their subsequent odyssey through the waking world, and their final confrontations with Destruction-as well as the resolution of Dream's painful relationship with his son, Orpheus-will change the Endless forever.īRIEF LIVES is the seventh volume of eleven in THE SANDMAN LIBRARY. In BRIEF LIVES, Delirium, youngest of the extended family known as The Endless, prevails upon her brother Dream to help find their missing sibling, Destruction. The saga of THE SANDMAN encompasses a series of tales unique in graphic literature and is a story you will never forget.

THE SANDMAN is the most acclaimed and award-winning comics series of the 1990s for good reason: a smart and deeply brooding epic, elegantly penned by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by a rotating cast of comics' most sought-after artists, it is a rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven.

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