Annotated Sandman HC Vol 01 (Sandman Annotated)

Offers a fascinating look at the celebrated comic book series written by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman. This annotated edition is a page-by-page, panel-by-panel journey through every installment of The Sandman, issues 1-20. Includes commentary, references, and hidden meaning presented side-by-side with the original comic book pages.

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LibraryThing member drasvola

I'm going slowly with the reading. It's a big book, difficult to handle and with so much detail that it has to be digested in small chunks. First impressions: when I read about its imminent publication, mention was made of a panel-by-panel annotation. It's not. Of course, not every panel has

something interesting to note but, nevertheless, I feel the annotation tends to be uneven. There's a lot having to do with DC antecedents and referents which perhaps are of interest to specialists. Gaiman is very helpful with clarifications coming directly from him or from the scripts. If you have the Absolute edition, the colour will be sorely missed. As it stands, imagine the comic book in black and white, opened flat, with wide, black margins attached left and right where the annotations go. Klinger provides a commentary which sometimes I find banal and other times over my head (sending you to search for information elsewhere). I would recommend as a companion The Sandman Papers edited by Joe Sanders and published by Fantagraphics. All in all, and because books about books are one of my favourites, I will complete the collection as it is published

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LibraryThing member davadog13

I'd been wanting to get into Gaiman's Sandman for quite a while so I was really excited to see that the university library had a copy of the annotated volume 1 (Issues 1-20). The annotations were really helpful in keeping me from getting lost. Gaiman draws from so many different sources of

inspiration that without this little road map, I don't know that I would have felt the full effect of the writing. I really loved the first 16 or so issues, the continuing stories were really interesting and there was some great suspense. However, when I got to the latter section of the book, they become one-off stories that didn't really interest me very much. I definitely want to continue and read more, but if it continues to just be one-offs, I don't know how much longer it can keep my interest.

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LibraryThing member pivic

This is a black-and-white first volume of the first 20 issues of "The Sandman", an epic series written by Neil Gaiman.

Leslie S. Klinger has annotated this volume, and will annotate the rest as well. The annotations range from historical - e.g. information on William Shakespeare's name and the

versions of it - to clerical, the arcane but foremost the explanative, i.e. sorting out everything that surrounds The Sandman canon, i.e. the characters, the places and places.

My first edition actually contained some misshapes, e.g. blackened annotations and huge smudges, but apart from that the binding is sublime. The fact that this book is in black-and-white - the original versions being in colour - just brings the annotations more to the front, in my eye.

Although Klinger's "annotated Sherlock Holmes" is much more interesting to me personally, especially considering its extreme depth, breadth and plethora, this book is definitely worth its money and I'm eagerly looking forward to the second volume.

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