I just finished reading the enitre "Sandman" series by Neil Gaiman for the first time since the fourth grade. Looking back at it, I probably shouldn't have been reading that comic at that age...
Anyways, I loved the whole entire story, and, now that I am older, I understood the whole story more. The little things, like references to mythology, the little background characters that keep popping up, make more sense to me and their meaning is clearer. I found myself crying in the last volume "The Wake". That's what I love about stories, especially comic stories. There were tiny details in the art that neither novel nor movie could capture. The Sandman is truely comic books at its finest. The Sandman made me think.
There is one thing that meant the most to me in the series. There is a prelude to "Fables and Refkections" in which a man constantly dreams the same dream that gave him his fear of heights. He is a director and he had just quit on a project. In his dream, he is constantly climbing a steep plateau, knowing that he fears heights. At the top he meets Dream the Eternal. He wakes up. Dream told him one thing that was struck me. He said, "Sometimes you wake up, sometimes you fall, but sometimes you fly."
I want to fly.
