It's not Neil Gaiman, but Simon Spurrier does a really good job of capturing much of what I loved about the original Sandman comic series by Gaiman. It's missing some of the true depth and complexity that Gaiman's story arcs featured, but Spurrier does a great job of pulling in old characters and storylines.

This book has been near perfect since the start and this volume continues to hit all the right notes. The art is my absolute favorite of anything out right now and if there’s a book deserving of some Eisner love, it’s this one. A great, complex story with stunning visuals. What more could you want? 5 out of 5.

Wow, I loved this book. Yes, the language is often flowery and on the verge of purple prose at times, but it fit the lush illustrations and the dreamy quality of the setting. If I hadn't been reading this at work, there are a number of times I would have cheered out loud. This entire thing is oddly satisfying, especially considering I don't remember exactly the details of the first two volumes. The first two issues leave you feeling off-kilter until later issues pull the threads together into on...

A really satisfying conclusion to that story. A bit on the nose in some situations that would normally be left more vague in the original iteration, but still very fun.

Simon Spurrier's Dreaming story comes to a close as Wan goes off the deep end, Cain and Abel find themselves swapping roles, Lucien faces Death head on, and the truth about Dora comes to light - will Dream return in time to save the Dreaming, or is all hope finally lost?Spurrier is one of my favourite writers. Easily top five. The guy can tell a multi-faceted story with a huge amount of moving parts, all while managing to weave thought provoking dialogue and narrations around it like a jaunty bo...

4.5. Brilliant turn around for the series and it really pulled it together for this arc. Honestly fantastic. RTC

I have to admit, this spin-off series seemed to take a while to find its feet, but damn this last volume was good! What a stunning resolution that suddenly made everything else come together. Really enjoyed this.

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to try and follow up Neil Gaiman's peerless masterpiece, the Sandman, but Si Spurrier didn't just try it, he actually succeeded in creating something that isn't quite as good as the best of Sandman but actually deserves to be spoken of in the same breath. I can't say enough about Bilquis Evely's gorgeous art or Mat Lopes' vibrant colours but the visual greatness of the Dreaming was never really in doubt with that level of artistic talent on (most of) the ser...

The end of a major story arc. I'm really loving this continuation of the Sandman universe. I have only kept up with this series and Books of Magic. I really need to go through and read the others to see how they all connect.

Answers! Always a good thing. Now we know where some people are from and where others went and the origin of others! Roll on the next storyline!

One Magical Movement concludes The Dreaming, and it does it with style. The only major criticism is that the end is fast. It could have gone on for one more issue in my opinion, but I’ll get to that later. This final volume consists of 8 issues. The first two serve as a prologue, with the following four, the arc called the Crown, establishing the final conflict, and the last two, One Magical Movement, serving as the climax of the volume as well as the series. The first issue, colorfully titled T...

Did love the part of using one demon to trick another and have a series of three boons. And the reveal of what Dora is

It is absolutely not fair that I have to wait to see how this ends. Spurrier and company have woven one hell of a story through these past 18 issues.

Absolutely genius. The first two volumes of The Dreaming had me thinking exactly what I had predicted about a resurrection of these characters and this world, that it would be (forgive the wording considering Daniel) pale in comparison to the original. However, with these stories Simon Spurrier has shown he can live up to Gaiman in almost every respect. Great storytelling. Emotional resonance. Wonderfully drawn out characters. Lovely.

Basic plot: The Dreaming is unraveling and it's affecting the waking world badly, but the denizens of the Dreaming work towards saving everything. This book is written so incredibly well, I'm still marveling at it. All of the different minor plot lines that seemed to be random digressions are coming together now to show the whole picture that the author has been creating. It really is brilliant. I can see why it takes so long for each issue to come out. The art is deliberate and designed to evok...

I have consistently loved Simon Spurrier's run on The Dreaming. Of all the Sandman Universe titles, it's the one that feels the most similar in tone to Neil Gaiman's original Sandman run. Much like Gaiman, Spurrier has been using his run on the title to muse on the very nature of storytelling. His run has been as much about the art of storytelling as it has been about the Dreaming, and its inhabitants. It's routinely been one of my favorite titles to return to and when I heard that this volume w...

This series, often meandering, and at times rather flowery, is surely not going to be everyone's taste. And trying to fill Gaiman's shoes with a follow-up to Sandman is far from the easiest of tasks anyway, and perhaps an insurmountable one. But, to my mind, this has improved as it's gone along, and the finale captures some of the mythic scope and metanarrative themes of the former work. It begins with a couple of one-issue stories about the effect on the waking world of events in the Dreaming,

Spurrier gets lost in flowery language and forgets how to tell a coherent story. This was just dumb. Now, not only does Bill Gates have these conspiracy theories going around that he he is going to use COVID-19 vaccines to implant tracking devices, his stand-in in this comic has conspired to control people's minds through the Dreaming. God this sucked so bad. Just go back and read Sandman again for the fifteenth time, you'll be much happier. Hopefully, G. Willow Wilson and Nick Robles will be ab...

Listen: It is every being's right to know pain. The point is not to fear it. The point is not to think worse than joy or delight, but to understand it is better than numbness. The point is simply to feel."*4.5*So thus concludes Si Spurrier's run on The Dreaming, and the series as a whole. I like the fact that this was a complete story with a beginning, middle and end. Whilst at times this series did feel a little dull with its writing and dialogue, everything came together well in this volume. T...

This volume does some serious heavy lifting in order to resolve the plots of the series, and also to touch on questions that I didn't realize I had even stretching back to the original Sandman. The new lord of Dreaming is doing the mortal world no favors, and the denizens of the Dreaming (and some other unique characters from the real world) must pull together to discover what the problem is and how to resolve it. The story manages to be both world-spanning and intensely personal, with clues pay...