The Sandman: Dream Country
This is the third collection in the Sandman comic book series by Neil Gaiman. It has four stories in it that are all completely independent of each other, without much of anything tying them together. Even Morpheus himself wasn’t in all of them, though his sister Death was in the last one.
In the first story, an imprisoned Muse is forced to give inspiration to a struggling writer. In the second, a cat tells of a dream she had. The fourth one brings Shakespeare back into the series, where he and his play troupe perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Auberon, Titania and a large host of fey. The fourth and final story tells of a shape-shifter who longs for death.
I have to say that I liked this collection a lot less than the previous two. Since each of the comics were standalones, it didn’t really give much time to really get into a story, and you didn’t get any character development. The only thing that was really really good were the illustrations in the comics.
The Bottom Line: Not as impressed with this as the others. It was okay, but not really super exciting. I really hope the rest in the series get better again.
