Matt considers the impulse of Samuel Delany, and the rule or order of story in this week’s meditations on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.
Matt is back, continuing his journey through Neil Gaiman’s Sandman run with part 11 of The Kindly Ones.
Matt Cheney continues his issue-by-issue journey through Neil Gaiman’s Sandman run, still making his way through The Kindly Ones arc.
By the end of the ninth chapter of The Kindly Ones, some characters may have found things they were looking for: Rose Walker may have found…
Travels and transgressions. Emigrations and imbrications. Diffusion and osmosis. The eighth part of The Kindly Ones suggests that borders are breaking down, that walls once seemingly sturdy…
In the seventh part of The Kindly Ones, the growing sense we’ve had that Lyta’s story and Dream’s will intersect climactically is solidified by this chapter’s…
We have reached a sort of middle: the sixth part of The Kindly One’s thirteen parts. Thirteen, of course, being an odd number does not split evenly…
Given how complex the narrative of The Kindly Ones is revealing itself to be, I would be a fool to pretend to be able to come to…
When Carla comes to visit Rose in the fourth chapter of The Kindly Ones, Rose is getting ready to videotape an episode of the sitcom Roseanne. She tells…
The sadness of Hob Gadling is, for me, among the most poignant recurring elements of The Sandman. In the third part of The Kindly Ones, Hob’s sadness…
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