If you’d rather not, then don’t. But if you’re just a little intrigued about this, or any other work to come from the learned hands of genius-boy Gaiman, then pick this up. There’s a kind of snobbery about the whole medium, and if anyone had succeeded in breaking that, smashing that, replacing adolescent fantasies of imitative identity with adult experiences which heighten future identity…
Rating: 5 / 5

There are some comics which work better in black and white – note to DC (& Marvel, & whoever): just because you CAN colour something doesn’t mean you HAVE TO. This is wonderful, rich and dark, but utterly spoiled by the straight-out-of-the-crayola-box colouring. A similar thing happened to the collected Swamp Thing, although I was fortunate enough to buy the early black and white version.

You’ll notice that Alan Moore released ‘From Hell’ in black and white…
Rating: 2 / 5

So Sandman, this supposed to be one of the best comics in the world and this is the begging volume. Well this volume has recived some critcism which is upsetting. Not because the volume doesn’t deserve the criticism becasue it does, it’s not as good as other volumes. However I think this turns people of, of buying the book. I’ve only read one other Sandman so I can’t say how good the rest it is. However I think people are giving this so low marks becasue they are comparing to the rest of the volumes, which are meant to be really good.

I say this because this it’s self is a really good read, maybe not as good as the other volumes, I don’t know wince I’ve never read them. It is really good though. I wouldn’t say brilliant becasue there are some bits that I didn’t care for. Although I liked most bits fine, I won’t tell you what they are because I don’t want to ruin the plot. I will tell that the imagnation in this book is rivaled by none, never in my life have I read a book that is more imagnative then this one.

The chracters are also very good, you can understand why there feeling as they are, eve though there not they seem to be very human which I like. Another great thing about this is it’s not obsessed with violence, I like comics but almost always there resolved with people beating the crap out of each other, not in this one, in this one’s diffrences are talked through. Okay I know that sounds boring but it really isn’t.

The art annoys me, I’ve never been a fan of this kind of art, it doesn’t have the beuty of Jim Lee’s, even so I will say it goes along with the story and fits it well. One other thing is that Neil Gaiman is kind of inbetween worlds when he was writing this. I’m not sure if he thought he was trying to write a horror comic or something more. Since there glimpses into things very in depth, but some of it is just nothing but horror.

These two things knock the comic down, this is a very good read and I can only hope that the next volume entertains me more. Which would be a miracle since this one really did entertain me.
Rating: 4 / 5

“preludes and nocturnes” is the first of ten wonderful books!
if you like fantasy you’ll love this series for sure!
it’s not like all that other super-hero-comic-book crap…
this one’s different. it actually has a plot, unlike other comic books…
when reading the books of the “sandman” series it becomes clear to you how much thought and effort were put into making them.
well, in cunlusion…..it’s a must!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5

I loved the first 2 in the Sandman series but I found this very uninteresting. Maybe I was expecting too much with the first two books having set the scene so well but I just found all of the stories somewhat pedestrian and aimless. The last fifth of the book (the original script for the 1st story) is one of the biggest cop outs that i’ve ever come across. These books are more expensive than most and don’t last that long so to see such a large portion of the book devoted to satisfying the curiosity of a small proportion of the readership is scandalous.
Rating: 1 / 5