Contemporary Comics

One of the contemporary comics for this week that was on the resource page that I read was Neil Gaiman's Sandman. A very strange but well told story about one of the 7 entities of the afterlife. In the story some of the  cultists are trying to capture and own death, they accidentally end up catching the sandman instead, and end up becoming eternally tormented after the his release. The story follows the Sandman trying to re obtain his power, and encounter his brother death. The story is actually very initiative and easy to follow,, but its pacing is strange, it is always making callbacks to itself back together every other page. As a reader it made me feel pretty empowered to recognize when it was happening and remembering it . Which i think is something thats very powerful to use and have in a story. The images were everywhere, and it felt like a strange retelling from Dr. Seuss due to the abstractions and creative shapes in the art. The story seemed dark in both humor and telling, but had fairly vibrant colors. I would very much recommend anyone who hasnt taken a look at The Sandman to do so as soon as you can.