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The Sandman by Dirk Maggs

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Endless are 7 immortal beings that are the anthropomorphic manifestations of concepts. Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium. A dark cult attempts to capture, imprison and therefore control Death. However, they get the incantation wrong and instead of Death they capture her younger Brother Dream. He's held captive for decades, causing havoc on the Dreaming and all who dream. Upon his escape he needs to retrieve the tools and trappings of his position as the Dream King, Lord Morpheus. Then he must set right what went wrong while he was gone.

*****

This is an audio adaptation of the first three graphic novels in the Sandman series (which are then collections of the first 20 volumes of the comic books).

I have been a deep fan of these books since the mid 90's, when I was handed Preludes and Nocturnes by a friend. I admit that I was leary going into this adaptation as we always have our own versions of the characters and how we "hear" them speak. But as the audio progressed I found that James McAvoy's voice as Dream grew on me. The only one I really did not agree with was Kat Dennings as Death. I find her voice to be too "little girl". I "hear" Death with a more mature sounding voice. I did enjoy Neil Gaiman being the narrator, which works as he is the original writer and creator of these characters.

If you are a fan of the Sandman graphic novels I highly recommend this version. However, if you are new to the world, I think I would recommend starting with the graphic novels before doing this, only because (to me anyway) the visualness of the graphic novels is a huge part of the Sandman Experience.

I cannot wait for the next installment.

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