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The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
by Neil Gaiman
from Vertigo

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A must-own book (treat it as a stand-alone!)
  Fables and Reflections is a collection of the 'throw-away' one-off stories that Gaiman mixed in with the rest of the Sandman series.
  As such, this volume makes an excellent stand-alone read. No other knowledge of the Sandman mythos or storyline is necessary - this is a short story collection for comic book lovers.
  I would even go further and say that two of the stories in here are so brilliant that they aren't just for comic book lovers - "Three Septembers and a January" (the tale of 'Emperor'... more info

• Sandman gets better and better
  These books by Gaiman simply get more profound, more interesting, and just more fun with each installment

• One of the best in the series!
  To me, this is one of the best volumes in the series. It's a collection of eight separate stories of varying lengths, almost all with an historical connection. (To more or less real people, that is.) And there's no frame story for a change. "Three Septembers and a January" is a lovely piece about Emperor Norton, the deluded mascot of San Francisco for several decades in the 19th century, while "Thermidor" is a somewhat less successful piece about Lady Johanna Constantine and her search for the living head... more info

• Graphic SF Reader
  This is perhaps the least interesting of the Sandman volumes so far, with each issue a different story of someone affected in one way or another by The Sandman. Even directly, in the case of Orpheus, his son, and his refusal to take any advice from any of The Endless. Stories of Ramadan, Caeasar, and even Lyta Hall's son Daniel being told a story in the House of Secrets.
  

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