Review - Dream Country (The Sandman)

Dream Country is an interlude between bits of ongoing plot, I'm told. You can actually read it without reading the other stuff, as long as you have some basic idea about what the Endless are. There are four stories: one about a captured Greek muse, one about cats and dreaming, one about Shakespeare, and finally one in which Death stars instead of Morpheus, and helps a metamorph to die.

They're interesting little stories: Calliope is my favourite. The cat one is interesting, cats dream too and they see Morpheus as a cat... The idea of Morpheus making a deal with William Shakespeare was brought up in an earlier volume and it's followed through on here. And finally, a story about Death... it's interesting because the main character is an interesting idea, and doubly interesting because Death is rapidly becoming my favourite character, despite her few appearances.

Review - Season of Mists (The Sandman)

Season of Mists is one single plotline throughout the volume without any real digressions. Enchanting as those tales can be, this is a really interesting volume. It picks up the tale of Nada, partially, which is again a thread from a previous volume woven into the main story. The part where Dream visits Hippolyta and tells her the baby is called Daniel is interesting, too, I can't wait to see where that's going.

The most interesting thing about this volume, for me, was meeting six of the seven Endless. I'm curious about the missing one. Delirium is a really interesting character. My fondest feelings are still for Death, though. Dream is sometimes quite difficult to sympathise with, given what he does to Nada -- it's good to see him making some reparations for that.

The other interesting thing was the stuff about the two angels becoming the rulers of Hell. It says really interesting things about people needing to be punished, and how things can be twisted.