The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #1

, #1

6 5/8 x 10 3/16, 32 pages

English language

Published by DC.

ASIN:
B09VJ7GMBJ
4 stars (1 review)

Sometimes, nightmares walk the Earth. Every night when you sleep, the Lord of Dreams chooses the path you’ll follow…into a sylvan Elysium, or down the hallways of your darkest fears. And sometimes, if it is Dream’s will, those nightmares escape those halls, and go out into the world. But it is not a choice he makes lightly. Today the Corinthian walks the Earth again. The most feared of all Dream’s nightmares, his ravenous mouths have made him a legend among serial killers. Letting the Corinthian out among mortals is the most dangerous thing Dream could possibly do. But he has no choice-because there is another nightmare walking the Earth, one that must be hunted…and this monster is one that Dream, lord of all nightmares, did not make. Horror-comics superstar James Tynion IV has waited his whole career to pay tribute to the mythos of The Sandman, the work that made …

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reviewed The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #1 by James Tynion (The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country, #1)

Bloody and intriguing

4 stars

As Jame Tyrion puts it, SU:NC is a horror story, an urban fantasy that takes grounded human characters, living grounded human lives and sees them brush up against the fantastic. I'm not familiar with the Sandman series so I didn't know what to expect really. So far, it's really good – creepy, bloody and intriguing like a nightmare where you don't want to wake up.