[ SECRET POST #2671 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2671 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think a big part of why it reads so "wannabe edgy" is because, measured by today's standards, it really can fall into the mold of other post 2000s "wannabe edgy" pseudo grimdark material.
Thing is: It wasn't written recently, or even 5 years ago but over 20. Measuring it by today's standards is like saying "Oh my, this 70's horror movie is really cheaply made and full of tired tropes" when it's actually one of the movies that was part of setting up the tropes that, by now, are overdone and tired.

That doesn't mean you have to like it, though. Either you like it or you don't. The Labyrinth and Pulp fiction are cult classics and I can't stand them. It's okay.

[mekkio]

Agreed. Sandman was a product of its time, fitting in the same era that gave us Poppy z. Brite's Lost Souls, The Crow and Clive Barker. The goth movement was in full swing and this was the comic book for them. Not to mention, it was unique in that it was very rare for one of the two major comic book companies, that is DC and Marvel, to put out a non-superhero comic. (Vertigo is under the DC flagship. It's why Death, herself, has popped up in Superman comics and hung out with Lex Luthor.)

As far as my opinion on the comic goes, the strange thing is out of all of the Endless siblings, Dream is my least favorite. I used to collect the spin offs like Death: The High Cost of Living. (Death and Delirium are my favorite Endless siblings.) Dream was too much of a jerk and a wet blanket for me to follow.

[cushlamochree]

I think Death is everyone's favorite Endless tbf, she is great. And Delirium is also awesome, as is Destruction.

Dream being an moody overgrown teenage dickhead jerk is pretty much textual imo. Like, that's pretty much the story of Sandman. Dream is a jerk and can't figure out how to stop being a jerk.

[(Anonymous)]

I always liked Destiny and Delirium best.

[type_wild]

*the only person in the world who likes Desire*

[i_paint_the_sky]

I love Desire! I am, in fact, (slowly) working on a painting of it to put on my wall.

[(Anonymous)]

Desire's fine, it's only David Bowie

[(Anonymous)]

I'd argue that David Bowie is Dream and Tilda Swinton is Desire (at least that would have been my dream casting ... if it was a few decades ago).

[(Anonymous)]

the whole raped a person thing turned me off to Desire permanently.

[mekkio]

Awww, I like Desire too. To me, he/she always looked like Brian Molko from the band, Placebo.

[elialshadowpine]

Headcanon accepted.

[cushlamochree]

Really? The thing with Destiny for me is that he always seemed like more of a plot device than an actual character - always being hooded and mysterious and all-knowing. Which is fine but it's hard for me to really get invested in that, you know?

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I liked about him. He was so... passive and neutral. I like neutral characters. It's a bit weird because he seems so very static, only doing what is written in his book and never interfering or actually having a personal agenda of any kind - but the fact that all of this is his nature is kind of interesting. He is not much of a "character" in terms of character traits, though, that's true. I still liked him - maybe more as a concept than as a character, if that makes any sense.

[truxillogical]

Yeah, Dream being a brooding, self-absorbed jerk is basically what drives the whole story. Gaiman summed up the entire run with: "The King of Dreams discovers one must either change or die and makes his choice."