Title: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Illustrators: Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg & Malcolm Jones III
Publisher: Vertigo
Year: 2010
240 pages
Surprisingly good, with some illustrations (covers?) that are simply gorgeous. The last story sounded like Gaiman, and indeed, in the afterward he says that he found his voice in that installment. This first volume concerns the ensnaring of the god of dreams and his subsequent quest to re-acquire his symbols and sources of power. Sandman is portrayed as a sympathetic protagonist. Interactions with humans are sometimes limited by the genre (horror), sometimes formal, and often funny because of the disjunction of attitudes each party brings to the transaction.
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