I loved Sandman (mostly) when I read it as a college student in the early 2000s, but it was also the first real fantasy graphic novel I'd read (as opposed to superhero comics, humor strips, or family history/memoir), and also it's so very much of its era. Like, it's not so much that the Suck Fairy has visited the series since (though it probably has) as that the 80s were a long time ago and I've read a lot more graphic novels, plenty of which were also influenced by Sandman, and it no longer seems FRESH AND EXCITING AND RELEVANT. But everything else -- I mean, it's fine? I've liked some! But something in his prose and characterization always makes me go "well, okay, that happened," and much of the time I just kind of wander away from the book without either ill-will or great interest.
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I loved Sandman (mostly) when I read it as a college student in the early 2000s, but it was also the first real fantasy graphic novel I'd read (as opposed to superhero comics, humor strips, or family history/memoir), and also it's so very much of its era. Like, it's not so much that the Suck Fairy has visited the series since (though it probably has) as that the 80s were a long time ago and I've read a lot more graphic novels, plenty of which were also influenced by Sandman, and it no longer seems FRESH AND EXCITING AND RELEVANT. But everything else -- I mean, it's fine? I've liked some! But something in his prose and characterization always makes me go "well, okay, that happened," and much of the time I just kind of wander away from the book without either ill-will or great interest.