Neil Gaiman's Sandman Dream Country is an interesting approach to a comic book. It takes a theme: dreams and dream lords, and explores it through an almost scholarly narrative. Perhaps its just because I read it before finals week, but it seemed too close to an essay for me to really enjoy.
The first story was about an author who receives a muse from another author who previously tricked her into being his slave. The most interesting parts of this short story was the mythology. Had this not been a comic book, and just been a short story, I wouldn't have finished it. The art was interesting enough for me to stick with it. I would have been more interested if the story had more mythology and was less on the life of writer. The main character of the story, a writer, doesn't show any real guilt about raping and imprisoning the muse. There is no interesting conflict with his relationship to the muse. When the lord of dreams attacks the writer I didn't feel any remorse for the main character as he went insane.
His going insane was my favorite part of the books, but not favorite enough to justify reading the whole story.
The next chapters were about cats, Shakespeare's midsummer night dream and a woman who looses her face because of the Egyptian dream lord.
Again there were moments in each story that were good:
Vultures from the cat story and the reactions of the demons to Midsummer's Night Dream.
My favorite story was the last one, the euthanasia debate is interesting and seems to have been surfacing a lot lately.
Friday NYU showed the first year graduate students of 2010's films. One of the documentaries showed a 92 year old woman in Switzerland who wanted to receive Euthanasia but couldn't because the Swiss government did not have sufficient proof that she was going to die soon.
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