Midnight Days

Posted by Dylan on 02 August 2008

Midnight days is really more of a mish mash collection of Neil Gaiman’s previous works. These are 5 never seen before tales. These were works when Gaiman was young, in every sense of that word.

In Sandman Midnight Theatre, the golden age Sandman investigates an age-old mystery - and, for the only time, comes face to face with his namesake, Dream of the Endless.

In Hold Me, trench coated mystic John Constantine faces a ghost haunted by a very modern kind of loneliness. In Brothers, the Swamp Thing’s extended family meets a flower-power loving geek and the decidedly unamused U.S. government. In SHAGGY GOD STORIES, a half sane plant-man plumbs the mystery of existence. And finally, in the never-before-published JACK-IN-THE-GREEN, the Swamp Thing of another time confronts the horrors of his world - large and small.

“Sandman Midnight Theatre,” is a masterpiece. Gaiman proves his ability to seamlessly incorporate other DC characters within his milieu while retaining there inherent characteristics. Truly inspired stuff, if you don’t mind wading through the rest. Jack-In-The-Green was quite complicated and fans with no prior Swamp Thing background would most likely be left scratching their heads.

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