The Dreaming #12

Another incredible issue that is beautiful, magical, and quite clearly making a statement about how plush comics can be. Read Full Review

If you were a fan of Gaiman's original comic, you owe it to yourself to pick up The Dreaming. It's the epic continuation of a story about personal responsibility, hubris, and imagination. If you're willing to partake on this journey, you will be rewarded. Read Full Review

This is a wild, deeply cosmic series that manages to deftly combine metaphysical storytelling with cold-blooded horror, and the addition of the new Lord of the Dreaming promises to continue evolving in unexpected ways. Read Full Review

This issue suggests that things may never be as they were in the Dreaming and pulls the veil back"if only slightly"on the puppetmaster causing the upheaval, drawing already engrossed readers further into the series' narrative web. Read Full Review

Out of the Sandman Universe titles, The Dreaming has the most to live up to, being the title that's a direct sequel to Neil Gaiman's classic Sandman series. But Spurrier has managed to capture a lot of the original title while giving us a new story that moves the book forward. Read Full Review

With a couple of pages of teases that have me hopeful that things are coming into focus, I'm still wary of where The Dreaming is going. I like what Wan is up to at this point by the end, assuming his position to play and all, and the end tease about what's really going on could be really interesting depending on what's going on. But Spurrier fills this with so much material that it feels like a slog to get through rather than interesting or intriguing as we dealt with all the other issues first. And that combined with the lettering style just makes me dread the book, which is not a good thing. Read Full Review

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln

Aug 09, 2019

Unsettling in a good way.

Azrael

Aug 07, 2019

This issue felt like a fever dream (no pun intended) with Wan. Is Dream really gone? Who really controls the Dreaming? What is happening to Wan?

Spacey Medicine

Sep 03, 2019

Cool.

Psycamorean

Aug 14, 2019

A pretty good issue. I feel like Wan isn't written like it should be if we're going for realism (in a comic book, yes, I know) and that sort of bothers me. It's incongruous with its established nature, if that makes sense. But otherwise, there's some neat things here. That ending is kind of lame though, not gonna lie.