#CBR4 Cannonball 30: The Sandman, Volume 4: Seasons of Mist by Neil Gaiman

{ April 23, 2012 @ 9:47 am } · { Cannonball! (Books) }
{ Tags: azazel, comic book, comics, death, desire, despair, destiny, dream, graphic novel, hell, loki, lucifer, neil gaiman, odin, seasons of mist, the sandman, thor, volume 4 }

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh, wow. Just… wow.

Season of Mists moves the story of Dream along. He is one of the Endless, along with his siblings, Death, Desire, Despair, and Destiny. Destiny calls them all together and, as a result of this meeting, Dream goes to Hell to free someone that he wrongfully condemned there ten thousand years ago. But the going won’t be easy because he offended Prince Lucifer (often referred to as “Satan”) the last time he was there.

Things aren’t difficult in quite the way that Dream expected. This volume subtly makes the point that the harder option isn’t always the punishment that we expect it to be, and that the easy road isn’t always the boon we think it is, either. Gaiman tells a very subtle allegory here, and it’s beautifully told.

Neil Gaiman is a serious genius. I can’t wait to see what the next volume is like.

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