As they fade from the world's consciousness, Nurse Nikki's support group of marginalized myths and monsters gathers to discuss their shared crisis and forge a path to their former glory. When they decide that the best way to reclaim their power in the minds of men is to take to the streets to party, the motley parade of spirits, demons, and legends provokes an unimaginable existential hangover.
The issue is packed with ideas from the fight to retain one's identity in their twilight to the LGBTQ community's embrace of monsters as mascots. Read Full Review
It's not as epic as some of this series, but it's one of the most intriguing concepts in the story. Read Full Review
Of the Sandman Universe titles, The Dreaming is the one with the closest ties to Gaiman's Sandman. But it is telling a new story that sometimes recaptures the essence of the the earlier series, but also forges ahead into a new direction. This issue gives us a nice taste of the past before the story forges ahead again. Read Full Review
After a couple of rough issues of the main series where it became unreadable to me, this was a welcome diversion and reminder of why I like The Dreaming. Spurrier's story is solid if familiar and its execution is done well to get us interested if not caring for them directly over just a few pages. Dani's artwork is fantastic throughout with some really nice takes on the characters that has me quite enjoying Nikki in particular in both her forms but just the group in general as well. Definitely a nicely done book and one that I wish we had a little more of at times. Read Full Review
Here's these characters you never heard of before, now I'll make you sad about them.
This seems to also bring in a storyline from the Lucifer series about deities losing their power when they are forgotten and not worshipped. Same here for lends and folklore where they begin to vanish. This is very well done and also the folklore legends standing for pride and against the protesters was fantastic.
Aw no my heart.
A good issue. Maybe just do one-shots from now on. There's plenty of social issues you can exploit for ideas if you need the help. The least interesting thing about the Dreaming is the characters in the Dreaming. So I say, let's keep this one-shot train going.
A really good story, but I am at a loss to understand how it connects with the regular arc.