Sandman Box Set

Very happy to own my personal collection

How can one fathom the meaning of The Sandman when something that is meant to inherently be so abstract and dreamlike unfold like a flash before your eyes and vanish? Where does one begin to contemplate the strangeness and look for rationality in whatever goes on in the dream state? Trying to explain the experience of reading The Sandman is very much like waking up from a dream full of mirth and beauty and sorrow and horror and wonder and ultimately, hope, and reeling from it all. But I am going to try and put into words the journey that was and is The Sandman. Neil Gaiman must have been haunted by his own imagination and I wonder what led to conceiving the idea of the Endless. In essence, this is a story about dreams and how dreams shape our individual and collective realities. We are all dreamers after all. And our dreams are forged and shaped by His Darkness Lord Morpheus, or Oneiros, or Lord Shaper, or Kai’ckul, or Lord L’Zoril, or Dream of the Endless.Dream, as he is so often called is essentially a good guy, but terribly flawed. He is unlike any of his other siblings who (while not all entirely pure at heart) may have already dealt with the travails that beset our titular Sandman. Dream is cold, apathetic towards others at times and removed from his own existence. He is a victim of his own doing and chained by the rules he wilfully abides by at his own peril. This makes his turmoil all the more relatable and real. Dream makes so many grave mistakes and causes himself more pain and suffering rectifying his misdeeds. This makes him all the more sympathetic. I absolutely and unabashedly saw a lot of my own reflection in Dream (almost like my own dark mirror of sorts). Which is why perhaps this story resonated with me so deeply in my soul.Neil Gaiman has intricately created the story as a meta narrative about the subconscious, gods and angels, the devil himself and many demons, immortals dwelling among mortals and simultaneously suffering through the harsh realities of life, and the mere passers-by whose lives are momentarily touched by and who in turn, shape Morpheus as an entity. The Sandman is both a comedy and a tragedy (in a Shakespearean sense), it is a dark fairy tale of old with historical events and references, mythologies interwoven within its mythology and with a healthy amount of witchcraft and occultism. This is a story about stories, about the power of stories, it has stories within stories, the characters are all so believable and well fleshed-out, the artwork is gorgeous and creates a mood fit for each tale, and Neil Gaiman’s writing is poetically breath-taking. Like all timeless works of art, the themes in The Sandman are universal. Such a masterpiece must be cherished by all, for our lives are enriched by it. To quote an exiled in a soft place, “Only the phoenix arises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”

I love it. Everything is perfect. Worth every rupees.The box set was torn from couple of corners, but the box is pretty fragile and must've gotten torn during transit, so no major inconvenience.

The media could not be loaded. I waited to tet this for months and when I finally got it, I was delighted. The box is beautiful, and the books are in very good quality. The bod was SLIGHTLY damaged/bent out of shape but that's okay. There are other editions like tge Absolutes and the Omnibus, but those cost way more than this boxed collection. It contains all the main canon stories and if you want to start exploring the Sandman, this is one of the cheaper yet great collection to start. The books slip out easily when you want to take them out, and it looks great on top of my shelf too!!