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Panini Publishing Ltd Neil Gaiman's 1602
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Headline Review Stardust
There is a way into Faerie, beyond the fields we know, and it lies in a village called Wall, somewhere in the early Victorian era. Every nine years there is a fair on the other side of the wall, where Faerie sells its wares to the mundane. Farmer Duncan Thorne had his moment of mad love with a witch's bondservant; Tristan, his son, turned up in a basket nine months later. Now Tristan is old enough to fall in love, and promises Victoria a falling star... This is a fairy story in the tradition of George MacDonald and Hope Mirlees; a book of passion and terror and wit which reminds us that Faerie is not a safe place, or a fair one. And at its edges there lurk other stories--Neil Gaiman's work in comics and television has previously shown his capacity to evoke mystery and glorious magic by telling us just enough and no more, but he excels himself here. Charles Vess's illustrations, (Vess collaborated with Gaiman on key episodes of <I>The Sandman</I>), have charm and occasionally more--the stars dance, Pan looms from the forest, a witch queen rides a chariot driven by goats and Tristan journeys by candlelight leagues at a step. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Titan Books Creatures of the Night
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Titan Books The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman)
Wake up, sir. We're here. It's a simple enough opening line--although not many would have guessed back in 1991 that this would lead to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comics of the second half of the century. <p> In <I>Preludes and Nocturnes</I>, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of Death but who instead captures the King of Dreams. By Gaiman's own admission there's a lot in this first collection that is awkward and ungainly--which is not to say there are not frequent moments of greatness here. The chapter 24 Hours is worth the price of the book alone; it stands as one of the most chilling examples of horror in comics. And let's not underestimate Gaiman's achievement of personifying Death as a perky, overly cheery, cute goth girl! All in all, there is a roguish breaking of new ground in this book which is preferable to the often dull precision of the concluding volumes of the Sandman series. --<I>Jim Pascoe</I>
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Titan Books Stardust
There is a way into Faerie, beyond the fields we know, and it lies in a village called Wall, somewhere in the early Victorian era. Every nine years there is a fair on the other side of the wall, where Faerie sells its wares to the mundane. Farmer Duncan Thorne had his moment of mad love with a witch's bondservant; Tristan, his son, turned up in a basket nine months later. Now Tristan is old enough to fall in love, and promises Victoria a falling star... This is a fairy story in the tradition of George MacDonald and Hope Mirlees; a book of passion and terror and wit which reminds us that Faerie is not a safe place, or a fair one. And at its edges there lurk other stories--Neil Gaiman's work in comics and television has previously shown his capacity to evoke mystery and glorious magic by telling us just enough and no more, but he excels himself here. Charles Vess's illustrations, (Vess collaborated with Gaiman on key episodes of <I>The Sandman</I>), have charm and occasionally more--the stars dance, Pan looms from the forest, a witch queen rides a chariot driven by goats and Tristan journeys by candlelight leagues at a step. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Harper Torch Gaiman Mid Grade Novel
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HarperCollins Publishers The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish with CD (Audio)
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Titan Books The Sandman: The Wake (Sandman S.)
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Titan Books The Sandman: Dream Country (The Sandman)
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Titan Books The Quotable Sandman
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Fantagraphics Hanging Out with the Dream King: Interviews with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators
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Headline Review American Gods
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Titan Books The Sandman: Brief Lives (Sandman S.)
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Bloomsbury Wolves in the Walls
Truth be told, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's picture book <I>The Wolves in the Walls</I> is terrifying. Sure, the story is fairytale-like and presented in a jaunty, casually nonsensical way, but it is absolutely the stuff of nightmares. Lucy hears wolves hustling, bustling, crinkling and crackling in the walls of the old house where her family lives, but no one believes her. Her mother says it's mice, her brother says bats, and her father says what everyone seems to say: If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over. Lucy remains convinced, as is her beloved pig-puppet, and her worst fears are confirmed when the wolves actually do come out of the walls.<p> Up to this point, McKean's illustrations are spectacular, sinister collages awash in golden sepia tones evocative of the creepy beauty in <I>The City of Lost Children</I>. The wolves explode into the story in scratchy pen-and-ink, all jaws and eyes. The family flees to the cold, moonlit garden, where they ponder their future. Her brother suggests they escape to outer space where there's nothing but foozles and squossucks for billions of miles. Lucy wants to live in her own house...and she wants the pig-puppet she left behind.<p> Eventually she talks her family into moving back into the once-wolfish walls, where they peek out at the wolves who are watching their television and spilling popcorn on slices of toast and jam, dashing up the stairs and wearing their clothes. When the family can't stand it anymore, they burst forth from the walls, scaring the wolves, who shout And when the people come out of the walls, it's all over! The wolves flee and everything goes back to normal...until the tidy ending when Lucy hears a noise that sounded exactly like an elephant trying not to sneeze. Adult fans of this talented pair will revel in the quirky story and its darkly gorgeous, deliciously shadowy trappings, but the young or faint of heart, beware. The book is recommended for ages nine and above. <I>--Karin Snelson, Amazon.com</I>
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Bloomsbury Coraline (Audio book)
Despite being mostly known for his fantastical graphic novels and adult fiction, Neil Gaiman's first book for children is everything that you would expect from such a massive imagination as his. It's special and wonderful and very weird indeed. Described by some as the new <I>Alice in Wonderland</I>, <I>Coraline</I> is actually more bizarre than that, much more frightening and its modest length definitely adds to the book's undiluted potency. <p> Shortly after moving into an old house with strange tenants above and below, Coraline discovers a big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room. And it is locked. Curiosity runs riot in Coraline's mind and she unlocks the door to see what lies behind it. Disappointingly, it opens onto a brick wall. Days later, after exploring the rest of the house and garden, Coraline returns to the same mysterious door and opens it again. This time, however, there is a dark hallway in front of her. Stepping inside, the place beyond has an eerie familiarity about it. The carpet and wallpaper are the same as in her flat. The picture hanging on the wall is the same. Almost. Strangest of all, her mum and dad are there too. Only they have buttons for eyes and seem more possessive than normal. It's a twisted version of her world that is familiar, and yet sinister. And matters get even more surreal for Coraline when her other parents seem reluctant to let her leave.<p> Her attempted escape from this nightmare alternative reality sees Coraline experience a chilling series of ever more bizarre encounters. Some are plainly odd, others disturbingly spooky and together they combine to form an immensely readable story. It's like all the best bits of the <I>Goosebumps</I> books condensed into 160 pages. A unique reading experience guaranteed. (Ages 10 and over)--<I>John McLay</I>
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Titan Books The Matrix Comics
<I>The Matrix</I> comics, like all the other spin-offs from <I>The Matrix</I> films (such as <I>Animatrix</I> and <I>The Matrix</I> games), are meant to enhance the central storyline of the cinematic trilogy. In the world of <I>The Matrix</I> machines rule, but the vast majority of humans don't even know this. The world that most of us see is a supremely realistic virtual reality: in the real world, our sleeping bodies are kept alive (and dreaming) by the machines, who cultivate us as living fuel cells. Only a small number of humans--inhabitants of the underground city of Zion--inhabit the real world, acting as freedom fighters against the machines. <p> It's in this world that the 12 stories of <I>The Matrix</I> comics are set. Written and illustrated by some of the top names in comics--as well as some lesser-known creators--the stories don't focus on any particular characters or places, allowing for greater creative freedom. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Neil Gaiman's prose story about a heroic double-life outside of the Matrix is inspiring and beautifully written--it easily stands out amid the gloom and bleakness of the other stories. Conversely, <I>The Matrix</I> creators Larry and Andy Wachowski's back-to-basics science-fiction story (ably illustrated by Geoff Darrow) provides a gruesome and thought-provoking prologue to the whole <I>Matrix</I> trilogy. Other standouts include David Lapham's tragic tale There Are No Flowers in the Real World and Paul Chadwick's hopeful The Miller's Tale. The remaining stories are less successful. Though few are bad, several do suffer from the pretentiousness and bogged-down ideas of their cinematic counterparts--they're just not as clever as they think they are. Still, fans of <I>The Matrix</I> films will find this an entertaining addition to the canon. <I>--Robert Burrow</I>
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Titan Books Sandman: Endless Nights (Sandman S.)
Pages: 160, Paperback, Titan Books
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Titan Books The Sandman: Fables and Reflections (Sandman Library)
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Smoke and Mirrors
Best known for his <I>Sandman</I> graphic novels about Morpheus, Lord of Dreams, Neil Gaiman has also written the standalone books <I>Good Omens</I> (with Terry Pratchett), <I>Never Where</I> from his BBC TV series revealing a fantastic realm under London, and <I>Star Dust</I>, a poignant fairy tale. His shorter fantasies are regularly picked for Year's Best collections. <I>Smoke and Mirrors</I> assembles 36 of his favourite stories, prose poems, and verse pieces. Among the imaginative inventions here are a murder mystery set among angels in heaven; the discovery of the Holy Grail at Oxfam; warped retellings of fairy tales and folklore, including a Snow White that's black beyond belief; several clever variations on vampirism; a firm of contract killers with a very remarkable discount scheme; homages to Michael Moorcock and H.P. Lovecraft (one splendidly funny) that avoid mere pastiche; an SF world of rapid and reversible sex changes; <I>Beowulf</I> retold as a Baywatch episode; a tasty amalgamation of computers and black magic; a new final book of the Bible; and the grim wedding present that's simply a manuscript telling a bleakly different story of the recipients' unfolding marriage. SF/fantasy professionals themselves envy Gaiman's perpetual flow of new ideas and ability to put a fresh spin on old ones. <I>Smoke and Mirrors</I> is a dazzlingly varied and rewarding collection. --<I>David Langford</I>
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Titan Books Death: the Time of Your Life
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Titan Books Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
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Headline Review Anansi Boys
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Bloomsbury Coraline
Despite being mostly known for his fantastical graphic novels and adult fiction, Neil Gaiman's first book for children is everything that you would expect from such a massive imagination as his. It's special and wonderful and very weird indeed. Described by some as the new <I>Alice in Wonderland</I>, <I>Coraline</I> is actually more bizarre than that, much more frightening and its modest length definitely adds to the book's undiluted potency. <p> Shortly after moving into an old house with strange tenants above and below, Coraline discovers a big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room. And it is locked. Curiosity runs riot in Coraline's mind and she unlocks the door to see what lies behind it. Disappointingly, it opens onto a brick wall. Days later, after exploring the rest of the house and garden, Coraline returns to the same mysterious door and opens it again. This time, however, there is a dark hallway in front of her. Stepping inside, the place beyond has an eerie familiarity about it. The carpet and wallpaper are the same as in her flat. The picture hanging on the wall is the same. Almost. Strangest of all, her mum and dad are there too. Only they have buttons for eyes and seem more possessive than normal. It's a twisted version of her world that is familiar, and yet sinister. And matters get even more surreal for Coraline when her other parents seem reluctant to let her leave.<p> Her attempted escape from this nightmare alternative reality sees Coraline experience a chilling series of ever more bizarre encounters. Some are plainly odd, others disturbingly spooky and together they combine to form an immensely readable story. It's like all the best bits of the <I>Goosebumps</I> books condensed into 160 pages. A unique reading experience guaranteed. (Ages 10 and over)--<I>John McLay</I>
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Titan Books The Sandman: Game of You (The Sandman)
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Bloomsbury Coraline
Despite being mostly known for his fantastical graphic novels and adult fiction, Neil Gaiman's first book for children is everything that you would expect from such a massive imagination as his. It's special and wonderful and very weird indeed. Described by some as the new <I>Alice in Wonderland</I>, <I>Coraline</I> is actually more bizarre than that, much more frightening and its modest length definitely adds to the book's undiluted potency. <p> Shortly after moving into an old house with strange tenants above and below, Coraline discovers a big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room. And it is locked. Curiosity runs riot in Coraline's mind and she unlocks the door to see what lies behind it. Disappointingly, it opens onto a brick wall. Days later, after exploring the rest of the house and garden, Coraline returns to the same mysterious door and opens it again. This time, however, there is a dark hallway in front of her. Stepping inside, the place beyond has an eerie familiarity about it. The carpet and wallpaper are the same as in her flat. The picture hanging on the wall is the same. Almost. Strangest of all, her mum and dad are there too. Only they have buttons for eyes and seem more possessive than normal. It's a twisted version of her world that is familiar, and yet sinister. And matters get even more surreal for Coraline when her other parents seem reluctant to let her leave.<p> Her attempted escape from this nightmare alternative reality sees Coraline experience a chilling series of ever more bizarre encounters. Some are plainly odd, others disturbingly spooky and together they combine to form an immensely readable story. It's like all the best bits of the <I>Goosebumps</I> books condensed into 160 pages. A unique reading experience guaranteed. (Ages 10 and over)--<I>John McLay</I>
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Headline Review Neverwhere
Pages: 416, Paperback, Headline Review
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Bloomsbury The Wolves in the Walls
Truth be told, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's picture book <I>The Wolves in the Walls</I> is terrifying. Sure, the story is fairytale-like and presented in a jaunty, casually nonsensical way, but it is absolutely the stuff of nightmares. Lucy hears wolves hustling, bustling, crinkling and crackling in the walls of the old house where her family lives, but no one believes her. Her mother says it's mice, her brother says bats, and her father says what everyone seems to say: If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over. Lucy remains convinced, as is her beloved pig-puppet, and her worst fears are confirmed when the wolves actually do come out of the walls.<p> Up to this point, McKean's illustrations are spectacular, sinister collages awash in golden sepia tones evocative of the creepy beauty in <I>The City of Lost Children</I>. The wolves explode into the story in scratchy pen-and-ink, all jaws and eyes. The family flees to the cold, moonlit garden, where they ponder their future. Her brother suggests they escape to outer space where there's nothing but foozles and squossucks for billions of miles. Lucy wants to live in her own house...and she wants the pig-puppet she left behind.<p> Eventually she talks her family into moving back into the once-wolfish walls, where they peek out at the wolves who are watching their television and spilling popcorn on slices of toast and jam, dashing up the stairs and wearing their clothes. When the family can't stand it anymore, they burst forth from the walls, scaring the wolves, who shout And when the people come out of the walls, it's all over! The wolves flee and everything goes back to normal...until the tidy ending when Lucy hears a noise that sounded exactly like an elephant trying not to sneeze. Adult fans of this talented pair will revel in the quirky story and its darkly gorgeous, deliciously shadowy trappings, but the young or faint of heart, beware. The book is recommended for ages nine and above. <I>--Karin Snelson, Amazon.com</I>
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Bloomsbury The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
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Bloomsbury The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
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Bloomsbury Mirrormask
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Titan Books Harlequin Valentine
It's a rare storyteller that can create a story that is light and airy, yet utterly absorbing. It's therefore doubly fortunate, then, that <I>Harlequin Valentine</I> has two such storytellers: Neil Gaiman and John Bolton. <p><I>Harlequin Valentine</I> is a short update of the <I>Commedia dell'arte</I> legend of Harlequin and Columbine, giving the tale a contemporary setting while sacrificing none of its original magic, whimsy and romance. Having giving his heart freely, the lovestruck prankster Harlequin pursues his Columbine through her city, before the story gets a modern twist which wraps it up neatly. Gaiman's writing is relaxed and unforced as always, allowing the story to unfold at its own natural pace, and drawing the reader along all the while. Bolton's painted artwork, meanwhile, strikes just the right balance between fantasy and photo-realism, matching the dynamic of Gaiman's words. <I>Harlequin Valentine</I> is a short story, certainly, but it's no less affecting for it. <I>--Robert Burrow</I>
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Titan Books Spawn :Angela
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Titan Books The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (Sandman S.)
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Headline Review Anansi Boys
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Titan Books Black Orchid
Pages: 160, Paperback, Titan Books
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Titan Books Violent cases -10th Anniversary Edition
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Titan Books Constantine: The Hellblazer Collection
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Dark Horse Comics The Last Temptation
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Titan Books The Sandman: Dream Hunters (The Sandman)
<I>Sandman</I> fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki's film <I>Princess Mononoke</I>. At the same time, while preparing for the Sandman 10th anniversary, he met Yoshitaka Amano, his artist for the 11th Sandman book. Amano is the famed designer of the <I>Final Fantasy</I> game series. The product of Gaiman's immersion in Japanese art, culture and history, <I>Sandman: Dream Hunters</I> is a classic Japanese tale that he has subtly morphed into his Sandman universe. <p> Like most fables, the story begins with a wager between two jealous animals, a fox and a badger: which of them can drive a young monk from his solitary temple? The winner will make the temple into a new fox or badger home. But as the fox adopts the form of a woman to woo the monk from his hermitage, she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, in far away Kyoto, the wealthy Master of Yin-Yang, the onmyoji, is plagued by his fears and seeks tranquillity in his command of sorcery. He learns of the monk and his inner peace; he dispatches demons to plague the monk in his dreams and eventually kill him to bring his peace to the onmyoji. The fox overhears the demons on their way to the monk and begins her struggle to save the man whom at first she so envied.<p> Gaiman's narrative rings with a sense of timelessness and magic that gently sustains this adult fairy tale. The only disappointment here is that the book is so brief. One could imagine this creative team being even better suited to a longer story of more epic proportions. On the final page of <I>Dream Hunters</I>, in fact, Amano suggest that he will collaborate further with Mr Gaiman in the future. Readers of <I>Dream Hunters</I> will hope that Amano's dream comes true. --<I>Patrick O'Kelley</I>
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Headline Review Anansi Boys
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Headline Review American Gods
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Mirrormask
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Marvel Comics Marvel 1602
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DC Comics Mr. Punch
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Dc Comics Sandman: Dust Covers - The Collected Sandman Covers
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Titan Books Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Titan Books The Sandman: Dream Hunters (The Sandman)
When, in 1996, Neil Gaiman laid his acclaimed Sandman series to rest after seven extraordinarily successful years, the fans lamented. And with good reason: its influence on the comic book industry was immeasurable; the harbinger of a renewed literary acceptance for the medium. Gaiman had expertly fashioned a vivid Gothic fantasy world that mixed the majesty of folklore with the horrors of modern life. The rich tapestry of stories that unfolded focused on a lonely Byronic figure called Morpheus, ruler of the amorphous world of our dreams. With <I>The Dream Hunters</I>, fans can rejoice as Gaiman returns to his signature work with a haunting fable of love, devotion and betrayal set in Ancient Japan. A lone monk spends his days tending to his temple garden, when he meets a Fox, a beautiful woman in human form, who becomes trapped within the monk's dreams. To save her, the monk must travel to the Realm of the Sandman and face a terrible choice between love and death. Meanwhile, a sinister magician makes nefarious plans against the pair to achieve his heart's desire. On this occasion, Gaiman's evocative prose is paired with the ethereally beautiful paintings of Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano. And what a pairing it is; this is a prime example of creative symbiosis if ever there was one. True, the story is slight, but Gaiman weaves his own magic of letting simplicity harbour a wondrous complexity that lurks in the background, wonderfully rendered by Amano. Fans will be delighted by this comeback, while others can be captivated by Gaiman's assurance that popular culture cannot displace old-fashioned tales of magic and wonder. --<I>Danny Graydon</I>
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Titan Books Murder Mysteries
Pages: 64, Hardcover, Titan Books
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Titan Books The Sandman: Endless Nights: Endless Nights (Sandman S.)
With <I>The Sandman: Endless Nights</I>, bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to the characters (and medium) that made him famous. It's a collection of seven short stories, each illustrated by some of the best artists working in contemporary comics (eg, Frank Quitely, Glenn Fabry and Milo Manara) and focusing on the Endless--the anthropomorphic manifestations of seven universal concepts: Death, Desire, Dream, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny. So, it's a collection of fantasy stories, but don't let that put you off. Gaiman is much more than a typical fantasy storyteller--his strength has always been his ability to ground his epic concepts within a sympathetically human framework. That's one of the reasons why the original <I>Sandman</I> series was so successful--nowadays, thanks to the work of creators like Neil Gaiman (and, of course, Alan Moore), it's difficult to remember a time when comics (or graphic novels, or sequential storytelling, or whatever people want to call them nowadays) weren't taken very seriously as a grown-up medium. <p> That said, <I>Endless Nights</I> is a bit hit and miss. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the best story here is Dream (The Heart of a Star), where Gaiman and artist Miguelanxo Prado revisit the <I>Sandman</I>'s protagonist and tell a short, poignant love story from the character's past, carefully constructed to please fans without baffling newcomers. 15 Portraits of Despair, with Barron Storey's art and Dave McKean's designs, is not a story but a collection of darkly-toned, disturbing vignettes, while Bill Sienkiewicz's art for Delirium (Going Inside) is appropriately manic and unhinged. But, unfortunately, some of the stories here lack any real depth: Frank Quitely's art for Destiny (Endless Nights) adds a grandiose scale to a story that is little more than a character sketch (albeit a beautiful one), while the Destruction story (On the Peninsula) squanders what could have been an interesting idea if Gaiman had had more time and space to flesh it out. Still, <I>Endless Nights</I> should be enough to keep <I>Sandman</I> fans happy, while acting as a useful introduction to these characters for any newcomers. And if it gets more people reading <I>Sandman</I>, that can only be a good thing. <I>--Robert Burrow</I>
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Titan Books The Sandman: Doll's House
Pages: 256, Paperback, Titan Books
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Titan Books The Books of Magic: Transformations
Pages: 128, Paperback, Titan Books
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Titan Books The Sandman: Season of Mists (The Sandman)
Pages: 160, Paperback, Titan Books
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Titan Books Death: the High Cost of Living
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Titan Books Sandman Dustcovers
Pages: 208, Hardcover, Titan Books
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Titan Books Batman: Black and White
Good ideas are waiting to be discovered. Quite how an idea this good slipped the net for so long almost defies belief. Take a slew of industry legends, give them a dark, brooding comics icon, an eight-page limit and the stipulation that the art be solely black and white. The combustive result? Without doubt the finest, most incisive, eclectic and magnificent exploration of Batman for many years. In these 20 tales, Batman's world is expertly, lovingly rendered, from his Thirties beginnings to the far future, taking in the myth, the psychology and the vivid elements that have transformed him into a pop culture icon. In Ted McKeever's Perpetual Mourning Batman conducts an autopsy on a slain innocent, allowing the memory to live on inside him--the ones I'll mourn forever. A wishful, deluded loner plans Batman's murder in Brian Bolland's astonishingly beautiful An Innocent Guy. Batman entwines gracefully with Noir in Bruce Timm's Two-Face tale Two of a Kind and Matt Wagner's Heist. Things get surreal as Neil Gaiman collaborates with the explosive stylings of Simon Bisley in A Black and White World in which Batman and The Joker are mere actors, whose blood-thirsty feud is endlessly interrupted by script re-writes. Yet, the finest is the wonderful Heroes drawn by Gary Gianni and written by the late Archie Goodwin--an exhilarating pulp tale in which the Dark Knight foils a Nazi plot. Lush, wondrous and capturing the essence of Batman in a way that a two-year story arc could only dream of. Unmissable. --<I>Danny Graydon</I>
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Titan Books The Sandman: World's End (Sandman S.)
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