Sandman, Band 3 - Traumland

Von Neil Gaiman und Kelley Jones

SANDMAN ist aus gutem Grund die meistgelobte und mit Preisen ausgezeichnete Comic-Serie der 90er-Jahre: Die intelligente, tiefgründige Story, elegant geschrieben von Neil Gaiman und abwechselnd illustriert von den gefragtesten Künstlern der Comic-Branche, bietet eine reichhaltige Mischung moderner Mythen und finsterer Fantasy, in der zeitgenössische Literatur, historisches Drama und Legenden nahtlos ineinander übergehen. Die Saga des Sandman enthält eine Reihe von Erzählungen, die in der neunten Kunst einzig dastehen, und die Geschichte als solche werden Sie nie mehr vergessen. TRAUMLAND vereint vier packende Storys, die unter die Haut gehen. Die Geschichte über die Uraufführung von William Shakespeares Ein Sommernachtstraum gewann den World Fantasy Award. Die schöne Muse Calliope wird von einem jungen Schriftsteller gefangen gehalten, der Material für ein neues Buch benötigt. Die Tyrannei der Menschen, aus dem Blickwinkel einer Katze gesehen, ist das Thema der zweiten Geschichte, während die letzte von einer unsterblichen, unverwundbaren Frau handelt, die nichts anderes will, als tot sein. TRAUMLAND ist das dritte Buch aus der 10-bändigen SANDMAN-BIBLIOTHEK. Die SANDMAN-Bücher können sowohl in der Reihenfolge ihres Erscheinens als auch einzeln gelesen werden.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: DC COMICS bei Panini Comics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28. Jan. 2020
• ISBN: 9783736711518

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling and multi-award winning author and creator of many beloved books, graphic novels, short stories, film, television and theatre for all ages. He is the recipient of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and many Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner Awards. Neil has adapted many of his works to television series, including Good Omens (co-written with Terry Pratchett) and The Sandman. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College. For a lot more about his work, please visit: https://www.neilgaiman.com/

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[juva_3 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

In this collection Sandman helps rescue a Muse taken captive by amoral writers seeking to profit from her inspiration. A cat sage travels across the world urging her fellow felines to dream a world where cats are the dominant species. Sandman attends the performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" the first of two plays he commissioned from Shakespeare. Sandman invites the fairy court, of course. Finally, a woman grapples with her changed conditions after an encounter with the god Ra. She is a seemingly immortal freak and wishes to die, but cannot. Death pays her a visit to talk through her problems.A slightly less grim and more whimsical collection of tales.

[charrlygirl · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

The Dream Country contains 4 stand alone stories and Morpheus is mentioned only as a side character in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which won The World Fantasy Award.

Even though that story won a big award, it was not my favorite in the collection- I much preferred both Calliope and Facade. In Calliope, a man discovers and abuses his muse and in Facade we learn a lot about the faces we wear and the sister of Morpheus, Death, plays a role. How can an immortal commit suicide? If Death doesn't know, who does?

The second story, A Dream of a Thousand Cats was unique, but also brought with it the theme that Gaiman brings up in American Gods-how much do our beliefs shape the world around us? How is reality altered by our dreams and beliefs? On top of that, there's lots of cool cats. What's not to like?

The artwork in this volume was evocative-especially in Calliope. At the end of this volume, a script of Calliope was included-which was a cool peek behind how Neil Gaiman and the artists put an issue together. I didn't realize how much control over the panels the author had-for some reason I thought the author focused on the story only and then the artist's created their own versions of the author's vision, but that's not the case here. I learned a lot by perusing the script.

Overall, I didn't like the artwork in this volume as much as I did in The Doll's House, (volume 2.) However, I think the stories in this volume were just as good, if not better than that issue. So I hemmed and hawed and came up with a 4 star rating. I might up it to 4.5 over the next day or so as I reflect on these excellent tales.

Highly recommended for fans of Neil Gaiman, especially fans of American Gods!

*A big thanks goes out to my local library, as I couldn't afford to buy all of these issues right now. They kindly sent copies from around my state to my local branch and I think that's super cool.*

[drfuriosa · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

A terrific, vivid set of vignettes about The Sandman. I'm excited to see what comes next!

[tobinelliott · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Just keeps getting better and better. I loved the Kelly Jones art, I loved the one-off stories, each one so unbelievably different from the one before.

This stuff is magic.

[pdcread · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Following on from volume 2, these are four short stories that are themed around the characters from the first two books, but with a different feel and style. The stories are Calliope, A Dream of a Thousand Cats, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Facade.

The first concerns a girl being held against her will, but she is the source of stories. made offers a gift and takes her back to his place. But she really want to be freed so pleads for help. He is visited by Morpheus, who tell him that he must free her, but he claims to need her for the ideas. So Morpheus gives him what he asks for.

The dream of cats is very surreal, as Gaiman explores the feline world of dreams. Next is the play by Shakespeare; but this is watched by the King and Queen of the fairies and their subjects, who have moved between worlds to see it having had Morpheus recommend it. Facade is about a lady who dare not enter outside, and when she builds up the courage to do so, suffers a horrendous embarrassment in a restaurant. Morpheus's sister, the rock chick who is death, visits her, and relieves her suffering.

I really don't know how Gaiman comes up with these stories. They are always different, dark, sometimes creepy and sinister, but there is always a element of hope in them. Particularly liked Midsummer Night's Dream where the actual stars of the play see it, but they are all worth reading. The artwork is great too, and it add to the atmosphere of the story. In this edition there was the script that he passes to the artist, explaining the scene and the feel of each panel.

Great stuff, onto the next.

[booklove2 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Four standalone separate mini stories with the Dream King (or Death) making some sort of appearance in them. These four stories are definitely worth a change from the "graphic novel" format. Featuring Shakespeare, Element Girl, a couple novelists, and a bunch of cats. Includes the script to 'Calliope', which is a fun look behind the curtain of comic making. (I love that he asked Alan Moore to see his scripts for an example.)

[fancypantalons · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

A bit short, this is a series of standalone stories that show Gaiman's prowess for telling interesting tales set in the world he's created. Not much to say, here... solid, unique storytelling at its finest.

[ray_-1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Unlike the previous books of Sandman, this one doesn't follow the same plot-line in all of its issues, but rather each issue has its own story. And the dream lord wasn't exactly a main character in them, but he did make an appearance here and there.

1- Calliope:
Rating: 5 Golden Stars

This story is probably my favorite of all four stand-alones. Calliope follows the story of a writer who, after writing an incredibly successful first novel, couldn't come up with anything else to match it, and his publishers were at his throat. So he seeks another author's help and guess what? His secret is that he has freaking CALLIOPE in his basement!!!
So basically all he had to do to get inspiration was to RAPE poor Calliope.
I found that detail gruesome, I HATED that author but at the same time I loved his story and how he progressed.
And then Calliope was like ya know what? Let me call the three-faced goddess real quick. And they get word to Morpheus who is by the way Calliope's old husband.
And THEN the horrible author gets the horrible fate he deserves.
It was so fun to go through this, I felt for poor Calliope, I wanted to shoot the author, I was so happy when Morpheus showed up, it was just glorious.

2-A Dream of a Thousand Cats:
Rating: 5 Stars

Cats are everywhere around us, we either have them in our homes our in our neighborhood or in out schools or where we work. And honestly, I have wondered many times as I watched my cats sleep, what were they dreaming?
A Dream of a Thousand Cats tells us exactly that. The dreams of cats.
And it is exactly what one may think cats would dream of; World domination !
I really loved going through this one, especially because it was told exclusively from cats' points of view.

3-A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
Rating: 4 Stars

In this issue, we are reunited with a character that has made an appearance earlier in the series, who is William Shakespeare, who was asked by the Dream lord to write two plays for him.
He follows up on his promise and writes him the first play, while the Dream Lord brings him an audience to perform in front.
Said audience was a thing of dreams and nightmares tangled up together, and I really liked that.
Though it was quite confusing at some parts, it was fun to go through.

4-Façade:
Rating: 5 Stars

In this story Gaiman featured one of my absolute favorite Egyptian gods which is Raa!
I honestly didn't expect that he would make such an appearance, but it was such a delightful surprise!
The main character in this story was transformed into a meta-human by Raa himself but she wasn't exactly pleased by it so she only wished for one thing but she couldn't deliver it; death.
Though Morpheus doesn't make an appearance in this book, his sister Death does, and I really liked her appearance.


In general this was such an interesting set of stories, and I really enjoyed going through it!

[bobbybslax · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Best group of short stories yet. Calliope and the Shakespeare one is good, and the stories about cats and the lady with a mask are great.

[deslni01 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

The third Sandman volume, Dream Country is a collection of short stories following the Doll's House arc. While there is no overarching story arc in the collection, there is of course a sense of relevance as each part develops the Sandman's universe and other characters - especially his sister, Death, in the final part.Included with the set is an interest bonus - a copy of the script for one of the parts (Calliope). Neil introduces is as merely an example of one script, for one issue, in one comic series by one author. It is a fun little bonus, and he likens it to the curiosity of a magicians show - while it may ruin the illusion for some, most people have an insatiable, unquenchable thirst to see how it is done.As always, the artists change from story to story, or at least every few stories, offering different artistic styles that enhance each story and make them even more unique. This works particularly well in a collection such as this, where each story is really its own separate story.

[capiam1234 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

A great set of stand alone stories between stories. Gaiman's writing shows it's strength and the artist' interpretations are wonderful.

[sammii507 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

I love Neil Gaiman, and I love these graphic novels.

From this one, I particularly liked "Dream of a Thousand Cats" - love love love. :)

[cheriedooryard · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

This was a nice break from the previous two. By that I mean that I didn't have to look at a lurid illustration of an eyeball getting eaten. Somehow, despite this lack of gruesome, I still felt moved by and invested in the stories. Amazing.

[aitken_ka · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

A very mixed bag, even more confused and surreal than the first two books in the series. Each 'story' stands alone without creating a complete story arc and they are only vaguely connected by the presence of Dream. Still it's an interesting collection that will certainly reward future re-reading as it is far too rich in detail too fully absorb on one read.

[cromanelli927 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

SPOILERS AHEAD!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!I caught a lot of crap this weekend reading my graphic novel around a bunch of veteran comic book readers. Apparently, I am not to read the introductions, and it is absolutely ludicrous that I would read the published script at the end of Volume 3. It was an interesting reading environment; I am a very vocal reader, and when something is funny, I laugh out loud. When something is strange, I read it aloud to make sure it makes sense to me. The guys were quite amused I'm sure. In any case, I digress.Dream Country was unlike the previous two Sandman books because it was really a collection of short stories in which Dream makes an appearance rather than chapters in a story about Dream. The first story, "Calliope" was about a muse that had been captured by one famous author and given to another in order to inspire further best sellers. I enjoyed this story because I aspire to write, and I can certainly sympathize with the frustration the authors feel when they have no ideas. However, the really sad part of the story is the complete lack of respect both authors have for the muse. The one who captured her refers to her as a cow, and the one who obtains possession during the story rapes her and doesn't even feel guilty about it. Dream rescues her by cursing the latter author with a plethora of ideas, which he finds so all encompassing that he has to write them on the walls with his own blood in order to get them out.Incidentally, this is also the story for which the script is provided in the back of the book. It was really interesting to see how the artist, Kelley Jones, interpreted Gaiman's words. Gaiman's comments were really amusing too. At some point, he randomly apologized for being too tired to finish a certain number of pages in a night. He also makes several wry comments mid explanations. The script was quite long: several pages longer than the actual story. My boyfriend made the comment that perhaps the bloated scripts were one reason The Sandman series has a new artist for every book. I think not, but whatever.The second story features felines as the main characters, and it left me a little cold. I wanted the cats to change the world with their dream, as the afflicted cat promised their concurrent dreaming would. However, I guess I see the validity in the idea that cats cannot agree on anything and are therefore incapable of community action. Still, I think from the fantasy aspect, the story would be more subversive if the cats actually did manage to change the world. A theme that seems to be running through the books is that though things never happened, they can still be true. And in this case, our imaginations simply have to make the alternate universe true for the cats.The third story is the one about Shakespeare that seems to have attracted a great deal of critical attention. The writing was actually mostly Shakespeare's, and the twist to the story was that the actual characters were the audience. Once again, Gaiman seems to be playing with the idea of truth. The truth of the actual characters validates the truth of Shakespeare's version of human nature. It was interesting. I like the completely fictional idea that Shakespeare's son Hamnet hangs out with him for a while though. It increases my respect for Shakespeare as a man, even though I know it is completely untrue.The fourth story featured a character that I knew nothing about, and I really didn't find it that interesting, except that Death showed back up, and I like her. Rainie, or Element Girl (?), longs for death because she can no longer function in society. She goes out to lunch with a friend and loses her fake face she has put on for the occasion. Death leads her in the right direction for suicide, and it was a little touching maybe. But mostly, I was just interested in what her body was made of. I am sure that there is a running theme through traditional comics about the inconveniences and difficulties of being superhuman, but this story really didn't wrench my heart the way it could have.So, back to introductions (I'm tacking this on at the end--can you tell?) I did not enjoy the introduction to The Sandman: Dream Country as much as I enjoyed the previous intro (The Doll's House), but Steve Erickson did provide a nice anecdote about a dream he had about his father shortly after his death. I liked the previous intro because it was all about fantasy, and that is really my thing. And, so far, Dream Country is my least favorite of The Sandman series because I like Dream, and I missed him. Thank goodness I have another seven to read.

[mrslee_1 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

My heart is torn on this one between three and four stars. I loved two of the stories and found the other two very interesting and compelling, but the content is such that I couldn't recommend it to most of my friends, and I didn't enjoy that part either. I don't understand why the focus on the horrible things people do to each other and the graphic portrayal of it makes it worse for me. I probably won't read more of these, or only selected stories because I really don't care to have those images in my mind and they are hard to get out. It's too bad, because I love the idea of the stories of The Sandman and his sister, Death.

[iftyzaidi · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

Neil Gaiman has written that upon completing the Doll's House story arc he wanted to do some stand-alone short stories, hence the collection of 4 stories in this third volume of the complete Sandman Collection. One of these stories (A Midsummer Night's Dream) won the World Fantasy Award, but personally none of the storys here really stood out for me. Interesting, entertaining, bizarre, but not outstanding.

[theboylatham_1 · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

Four out of ten. CBR format.

This volume contains four independent stories. The imprisoned muse Calliope is forced to provide story ideas, a cat seeks to change the world with dreams, Shakespeare puts on a play for an unearthly audience, and a shape-shifting immortal longs for death.

[readingover50 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

I still really enjoy this series. My least favorite of the bunch was the Midsummer's Nights Dream. I am not that fond of Shakespeare, so I think that prejudiced me. The cat episode was cute, and thought provoking for me. I plan on continuing with this series and am excited to move on to book 4.

[crowyhead · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

A collection of shorter stories. I really love "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

[xicanti_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Four short stories set within the SANDMAN mythos.This is a pretty solid collection. It's short, but the stories pack a punch. My favourite is, without a doubt, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I'm a huge fan of the play, and I love what Gaiman and Vess did with it. The pacing is lovely, the humor is spot-on and the art is superb. It's a gorgeous production from start to finish, and is certainly worth of the World Fantasy Award it won.The rest of the stories are also quite good. "Calliope" adds to Dream's backstory even as it spins its frightening tale. "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" plays off the idea that the world can change without our involvement. It's sure to appeal to cat lovers. Finally, "Facade" provides the reader with a welcome reunion with Death.Dream himself has only a peripheral presence in these tales, but they still do a fair bit to flesh out the story as a whole. Through them, we gain further insight into the world the Endless inhabit. Events that play out here are certain to reverberate down through the rest of the series.Highly recommended. Despite its position as the third volume in a longer series, it can easily be read as a stand-alone.

[lostfrog_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

YES, this is perfect. Two of the most memorable Sandman issues are in this collection: A Dream of A Thousand Cats, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. These two are amazing, and you have to actually read them to get how amazing they are.

[leore_joanne · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

[close] This volume is, of course, as delicious as any other Sandman, but is a bit dissapointing. It is very thin, compared to the rest, and almost half of it isn't part of the comic at all, but the script for the first story of this volume, together with Neil's and other people's notes on it, which is kind of cool, but I would much rather they have put more stories there. My favourite story in this volume is the one about the cats. I always knew they ruled the world sometime, they sure do act like it :)

[luvdancr · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I didn't like this one as much as the first two so far, however the reinterpreting of midsummers night dream, and a thousand cats was really interesting and thought provoking.

[stipe168 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

some of the most excellent, creative, and woahing short stories you'll ever come across.

[ragwaine · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

Cool faeries in one story and the script thing was interesting. The 3rd story sucked bad the others were just ok.

[pru0lennon · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

this is the first graphic novel i've ever read and i was pretty pleased with it. very dark tones to it but it wouldn't be gaiman if it didn't have that.

[phredfrancis · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I enjoyed these four self-contained Sandman stories. This collection includes "Calliope," one of the most memorable stories from the series. That alone is worth the price of admission, but the other tales are good too.

[avoraciousreader · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

*Book source ~ LibraryFrom Goodreads:The third book of the Sandman collection, DREAM COUNTRY continues the fantastical mythology of Morpheus, the King of Dreams. In these centuries-spanning tales, the powerful entity known as the Sandman interacts with a diverse assortment of humans, fairies, heroes, and animals as he walks the mortal plane. Including an amazing encounter with William Shakespeare and an interesting take on the origin and first performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," this book depicts the dreaming world of cats, the tragic life of forgotten super-heroes and the folly of imprisoning and torturing a former lover of the King of Dreams.I actually didn’t like this one as much as the other two volumes I’ve read, yet I still give it a 4 for creativity, weirdness and artwork. I like Calliope’s story the best and A Midsummer Night’s Dream the least because it doesn’t make any sense to me and I’m really not a fan of Shakespeare. I only flipped through the script for Calliope because while it was interesting, it wasn’t so interesting I wanted to take the time to read it all.In this volume:Calliope ~ Poor CalliopeA Dream of a Thousand Cats ~ Very bizzareA Midsummer Night’s Dream ~ Shakespeare, Neil Gaiman-styleFaçade ~ Weird and a bit disturbingScript for Calliope ~ behind the stage of how this comic was written and drawn

[benkline · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Another good tradeback of the Sandman comics. Not quite as interesting as the Doll House (vol. 2) but some interesting stories. The Calliope muse start was kind of interesting, and its always an interesting subject (to me anyway) when authors describe and do stories about authors (which they all tend to do at some point.) The Shakespeare interlude story was a bit dull (possibly because I don't have a very intimate knowledge of Shakespearean lore and canon).