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Loading... The Sandman: Fables & Reflections (1993)by Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham (Illustrator), Duncan Eagleson (Illustrator), Dick Giordani (Illustrator), Vince Locke (Illustrator) — 7 more, Shawn McManus (Illustrator), P Craig Russell (Illustrator), Bryan Talbot (Illustrator), Jill Thompson (Illustrator), John Watkiss (Illustrator), Kent Williams (Illustrator), Stan Woch (Illustrator)
   No current Talk conversations about this book. This was one set of stories I didn't remember much at all from my reading back when the comics were first published. I tend to prefer the contemporary tales to the historical/mythological ones collected here. These were spread out in the original run, and grouped together they made me anxious to return to the present. Still, they are very good, and I think I appreciate them more now that I'm older. "Ramadan," in particular, is exquisite. (  ) chaosfox | Feb 22, 2019 |  In the introduction, Gene Wolfe says: "... you will understand yourself and the world better for having read [this] and ... you will have been both ennobled and troubled by the experience ... this is not just art ... but great art." I can give no better or more accurate review than this. (  ) Zoes_Human | Dec 24, 2018 | Do you remember those days when you were young, singing in front of the campfire, listening to the stories those around you had to tell? Maybe a parent, maybe a grandparent or a sibling - but whoever it was who told the stories, they told them magnificently. You could close your eyes and see the past, not as it was, but as it should have been. You hung upon every word, and by the time the tale was over, for a day, two days, a week or more the images - the feelings - they stuck with you. They may not have been true stories, but still, the truth lived in them. Thus is Fables and Reflections. Each tale is woven carefully, fact and fiction melding together to create a new truth. The figures are very real, the settings likewise so - and what unfolds? Well, all writers are liars who still speak a truth. Magnificent. ( ) Lepophagus | Jun 14, 2018 | 3.5 stars. I love how Morpheus, or the Sandman, or the Dream King, is somehow entangled in so many stories throughout history, and in how many strange disguises he parades across them... He is such a great character; mysterious and powerful and yet, somehow, a little vulnerable. This volume, however, felt somewhat disjointed to me. Some of the stories I really enjoyed; some not so much... (  ) UDT | May 1, 2018 | Finished at work today (finally). Compared to the other Sandman works from Gaiman (#1-5 Overture) this one took me a little bit longer to finish. Not saying it was bad, just a bit different. I enjoyed the short story style with it covering the different religions. The Ramadan one was interesting, the Cain Abel one not so much. I liked the Augustus one, but the Orpheus one dragged a bit though was still pretty good. ( ) BenKline | Jan 11, 2018 | no reviews | add a review
Is contained inContainsThe Sandman #29: Thermidor by Neil Gaiman The Sandman #30: August by Neil Gaiman The Sandman #31: Three Septembers and a January by Neil Gaiman The Sandman #39: Soft Places by Neil Gaiman Has as a reference guide/companionHas as a supplement
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Nine stories about the Lord of Dreams as he touches the lives of kings, spies, emperors, actors, ravens and werewolves.
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