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'''The Doll's House''' is the second trade paperback collection of the comic book series ''The Sandman'', published by DC Comics. It collects issues #9-16. It is written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli and Steve Parkhouse, coloured by Robbie Busch and lettered by Todd Klein. It was first issued in paperback in 1989, and later in hardback in 1995. The collected edition features a foreword by Gaiman's friend Clive Barker.
Both ''Preludes and Nocturnes'' and early editions of ''The Doll's House'' reprint issue #8 of the series ("The Sound of Her Wings"). This is probably because ''The Doll's House'' was the first ''Sandman'' collection to be printed, and at the time it was unclear that any others would be issued. When the series became popular enough to be fully collected, issue #8 was also included in ''Preludes and Nocturnes'', to which it is arguably the epilogue, and newer reprints of ''The Doll's House'' do not include it.
The overall plot concerns Dream picking up the pieces of his kingdom and existence in the wake of his imprisonment for most of the 20th century, and a machination by his brother-sister Desire.
Specifically, Dream tracks down several nightmares who fled his realm during his imprisonment, and also deals with a "dream vortex" that exists within a young American woman named Rose Walker. Dream knows that Walker, as the dream vortex, will draw rogue dreams and nightmares towards herself, or be drawn towards them. If left unchecked, Walker will eventually become the center of the Dreaming and cause it to collapse upon itself, and it is Dream's responsibility to kill her in order to prevent this from happening.
''The Doll's House'' prologue begins with two men walking through a desert wearing "tribal" garb; one young, one old. The young man has just been circumcised as part of the ritual of becoming a man. The second part of the ritual is the telling of a story that has been passed down among the males of the tribe for generations. Each man hears it once, and each man tells it once (if they live long enough). Before the old man tells the story he asks the young man to find an object that he will know when he sees (which turns out to be a piece of glass in the shape of a heart).
The glass belonged to a building in a glass city that stood in the desert in which they walked many years before. The queen of this city was a woman named Nada who had fallen in love with Lord Kai'ckul (Dream), king of the Dream realm after seeing him walking through her city at night. She proceeds to hunt him down and enters the Dreamrealm where she meets Lord Kai'ckul and tells him that she has fallen in love with him. He tells her that she may join him in the Dreamrealm if she wishes, but she refuses, telling him that no good can come from love between one of the The Endless and a mortal, then she leaves him. Dismayed, Dream followers her and convinces her to be with him, they make love on a hill overlooking her city. But in the morning a meteor strikes her city, destroying it completely (hence the glass shard). After seeing this Nada throws her self of a cliff before Dream can stop her. He meets her in "Grandmother deaths" realm, and tries to convince her to come back and live in the dreaming with him. After he asks her twice, and she refuses he tells her that if she says no again he will send her to hell. At this point the story ends and when the young man asks about what happens to Nada afterwards, he is told that no one knows.
The story then shifts to the present, where young Rose Walker and her mother Miranda meet her grandmother, Unity Kinkaid, a victim of the sleeping sickness that occurred while Dream was imprisoned. Miranda stays in England with Unity; Rose is sent to hire a private investigator to find her brother, Jed Walker, and takes up residence in a boarding house full of peculiar characters. She also dreams of her brother, who is himself having nightmares. Jed, it turns out, has become the pawn of a pair of Dream's escaped creatures, who have been using him to host a small dream dimension of their own.
A previous, short-lived ''Sandman'' series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in the mid-1970s is referenced in this volume. Simon and Kirby's Sandman was an otherwise unnamed hero who operated out of a place called the "Dream Dome," and was assisted by two grotesque "nightmare monsters" named Brute and Glob. Although Simon and Kirby's Sandman does not appear in Gaiman's story, several other elements of the series are referenced, including the Dream Dome (revealed to be a small and neglected corner of the Dreaming) and Brute and Glob. Simon and Kirby's Sandman has been replaced by Hector Hall, who had previously been a member of the superhero team Infinity, Inc. under the name Silver Scarab. Hall, who had been killed several months earlier in ''Infinity, Inc.'', and his still-living wife, Lyta (a.k.a. Fury), have become puppets of Brute and Glob, who are revealed as two nightmares formerly under Dream's employ who have recently sought refuge in the dreams of Rose’s younger brother, Jed. Dream returns Hector to the realm of the dead and claims Lyta’s unborn child as his own because the child gestated in dreams for so long, saying he will eventually come to take the boy. Thus, Dream has, in Lyta's eyes, taken away her husband and threatened her child. Dream's attempt to explain the situation to her is hurried and incomplete, as he is now running late for an appointment that he is anxious not to miss, and makes no impression. This sequence of events will have a major effect on the series’ later chapters.
Dream's appointment is with a man named Hob Gadling, who was born in the 14th century. In 1389, during a discussion in a tavern, he declared that "death's a mug's game" and that he had no intention of ever dying. He is overheard by Dream and his sister Death; at her brother's urging, Death, amused and interested, grants Gadling immortality for as long as he wishes to live. Dream and Gadling meet once every hundred years in the same tavern, and over time the two become friends.
Meanwhile, Jed falls into the clutches of the Corinthian, who attends a convention of serial killers. Rose and her friend Gilbert, who looks strikingly like G. K. Chesterton, discover the convention's true nature, and soon Dream arrives and destroys the Corinthian with little difficulty, pocketing one of his skulls for later. He dispels the "cereal" convention and discovers that Gilbert is actually Fiddler's Green, another escaped dream.
Rose finds that she can merge the dreams of those who live in the same block. Dream informs Rose that she is in fact a dream vortex, and that he must kill her to restore order to the Dreaming, or the destruction of her world will result. However, before Dream can kill Rose, her grandmother Unity offers her life in Rose's place. It is learned that Unity was the one who was meant to be the dream vortex, but she never became one because of the sleeping sickness, so it was passed on to her granddaughter instead.
After waking from the dream of almost dying and being saved by her grandmother's sacrifice, Rose Walker retreats into isolation and tries to make sense of what happened to her and her family. If the dream were true, she reasons, then humans would merely be pieces in a game played by powers which to think about for too long would drive one crazy. At the end of six months, she decides that she has moped for long enough, concludes that her dream was just a dream and returns to normal life.
In the next scene it appears that Dream too has spent the last six months thinking, and he confronts Desire with his conclusions. It is revealed that Dream's androgynous brother/sister, Desire, devised the entire plot, raping Rose's grandmother in her sleep to set the wheels in motion. Desire's plan was to force Dream to kill a descendant of Desire and thus murder his own blood. This elaborate plot foreshadows many future troubles for Dream, and reveals Desire's vendetta with his/her older brother.
Dream warns Desire that s/he has overstepped his/her bounds, that the Endless exist for the mortals and not vice versa, that, if anything, mortals manipulate the Endless. However, Desire shows no signs of understanding Dream, and, fickle as s/he is, s/he promptly forgets the idea completely and convinces him/herself that s/he is the master of his/her own destiny.
In the final frame of the story, Desire's domain is pictured looking much less like the doll's house it appears to be in the first frame of part one, and much more like a doll.
1 After positive sales of "the Doll's House," DC went back and published "Preludes & Nocturnes" as a bound collection, and this book was published the same month as "Dream Country." Newer editions of "the Doll's House" start with issue 9.
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★ The Annotated Sandman
'''The Doll's House''' is the second trade paperback collection of the comic book series ''The Sandman'', published by DC Comics. It collects issues #9-16. It is written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli and Steve Parkhouse, coloured by Robbie Busch and lettered by Todd Klein. It was first issued in paperback in 1989, and later in hardback in 1995. The collected edition features a foreword by Gaiman's friend Clive Barker.
Both ''Preludes and Nocturnes'' and early editions of ''The Doll's House'' reprint issue #8 of the series ("The Sound of Her Wings"). This is probably because ''The Doll's House'' was the first ''Sandman'' collection to be printed, and at the time it was unclear that any others would be issued. When the series became popular enough to be fully collected, issue #8 was also included in ''Preludes and Nocturnes'', to which it is arguably the epilogue, and newer reprints of ''The Doll's House'' do not include it.
| Contents |
| Synopsis |
| Issues Collected |
| References |
| External Links |
Synopsis
The overall plot concerns Dream picking up the pieces of his kingdom and existence in the wake of his imprisonment for most of the 20th century, and a machination by his brother-sister Desire.
Specifically, Dream tracks down several nightmares who fled his realm during his imprisonment, and also deals with a "dream vortex" that exists within a young American woman named Rose Walker. Dream knows that Walker, as the dream vortex, will draw rogue dreams and nightmares towards herself, or be drawn towards them. If left unchecked, Walker will eventually become the center of the Dreaming and cause it to collapse upon itself, and it is Dream's responsibility to kill her in order to prevent this from happening.
''The Doll's House'' prologue begins with two men walking through a desert wearing "tribal" garb; one young, one old. The young man has just been circumcised as part of the ritual of becoming a man. The second part of the ritual is the telling of a story that has been passed down among the males of the tribe for generations. Each man hears it once, and each man tells it once (if they live long enough). Before the old man tells the story he asks the young man to find an object that he will know when he sees (which turns out to be a piece of glass in the shape of a heart).
The glass belonged to a building in a glass city that stood in the desert in which they walked many years before. The queen of this city was a woman named Nada who had fallen in love with Lord Kai'ckul (Dream), king of the Dream realm after seeing him walking through her city at night. She proceeds to hunt him down and enters the Dreamrealm where she meets Lord Kai'ckul and tells him that she has fallen in love with him. He tells her that she may join him in the Dreamrealm if she wishes, but she refuses, telling him that no good can come from love between one of the The Endless and a mortal, then she leaves him. Dismayed, Dream followers her and convinces her to be with him, they make love on a hill overlooking her city. But in the morning a meteor strikes her city, destroying it completely (hence the glass shard). After seeing this Nada throws her self of a cliff before Dream can stop her. He meets her in "Grandmother deaths" realm, and tries to convince her to come back and live in the dreaming with him. After he asks her twice, and she refuses he tells her that if she says no again he will send her to hell. At this point the story ends and when the young man asks about what happens to Nada afterwards, he is told that no one knows.
The story then shifts to the present, where young Rose Walker and her mother Miranda meet her grandmother, Unity Kinkaid, a victim of the sleeping sickness that occurred while Dream was imprisoned. Miranda stays in England with Unity; Rose is sent to hire a private investigator to find her brother, Jed Walker, and takes up residence in a boarding house full of peculiar characters. She also dreams of her brother, who is himself having nightmares. Jed, it turns out, has become the pawn of a pair of Dream's escaped creatures, who have been using him to host a small dream dimension of their own.
A previous, short-lived ''Sandman'' series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in the mid-1970s is referenced in this volume. Simon and Kirby's Sandman was an otherwise unnamed hero who operated out of a place called the "Dream Dome," and was assisted by two grotesque "nightmare monsters" named Brute and Glob. Although Simon and Kirby's Sandman does not appear in Gaiman's story, several other elements of the series are referenced, including the Dream Dome (revealed to be a small and neglected corner of the Dreaming) and Brute and Glob. Simon and Kirby's Sandman has been replaced by Hector Hall, who had previously been a member of the superhero team Infinity, Inc. under the name Silver Scarab. Hall, who had been killed several months earlier in ''Infinity, Inc.'', and his still-living wife, Lyta (a.k.a. Fury), have become puppets of Brute and Glob, who are revealed as two nightmares formerly under Dream's employ who have recently sought refuge in the dreams of Rose’s younger brother, Jed. Dream returns Hector to the realm of the dead and claims Lyta’s unborn child as his own because the child gestated in dreams for so long, saying he will eventually come to take the boy. Thus, Dream has, in Lyta's eyes, taken away her husband and threatened her child. Dream's attempt to explain the situation to her is hurried and incomplete, as he is now running late for an appointment that he is anxious not to miss, and makes no impression. This sequence of events will have a major effect on the series’ later chapters.
Dream's appointment is with a man named Hob Gadling, who was born in the 14th century. In 1389, during a discussion in a tavern, he declared that "death's a mug's game" and that he had no intention of ever dying. He is overheard by Dream and his sister Death; at her brother's urging, Death, amused and interested, grants Gadling immortality for as long as he wishes to live. Dream and Gadling meet once every hundred years in the same tavern, and over time the two become friends.
Meanwhile, Jed falls into the clutches of the Corinthian, who attends a convention of serial killers. Rose and her friend Gilbert, who looks strikingly like G. K. Chesterton, discover the convention's true nature, and soon Dream arrives and destroys the Corinthian with little difficulty, pocketing one of his skulls for later. He dispels the "cereal" convention and discovers that Gilbert is actually Fiddler's Green, another escaped dream.
Rose finds that she can merge the dreams of those who live in the same block. Dream informs Rose that she is in fact a dream vortex, and that he must kill her to restore order to the Dreaming, or the destruction of her world will result. However, before Dream can kill Rose, her grandmother Unity offers her life in Rose's place. It is learned that Unity was the one who was meant to be the dream vortex, but she never became one because of the sleeping sickness, so it was passed on to her granddaughter instead.
After waking from the dream of almost dying and being saved by her grandmother's sacrifice, Rose Walker retreats into isolation and tries to make sense of what happened to her and her family. If the dream were true, she reasons, then humans would merely be pieces in a game played by powers which to think about for too long would drive one crazy. At the end of six months, she decides that she has moped for long enough, concludes that her dream was just a dream and returns to normal life.
In the next scene it appears that Dream too has spent the last six months thinking, and he confronts Desire with his conclusions. It is revealed that Dream's androgynous brother/sister, Desire, devised the entire plot, raping Rose's grandmother in her sleep to set the wheels in motion. Desire's plan was to force Dream to kill a descendant of Desire and thus murder his own blood. This elaborate plot foreshadows many future troubles for Dream, and reveals Desire's vendetta with his/her older brother.
Dream warns Desire that s/he has overstepped his/her bounds, that the Endless exist for the mortals and not vice versa, that, if anything, mortals manipulate the Endless. However, Desire shows no signs of understanding Dream, and, fickle as s/he is, s/he promptly forgets the idea completely and convinces him/herself that s/he is the master of his/her own destiny.
In the final frame of the story, Desire's domain is pictured looking much less like the doll's house it appears to be in the first frame of part one, and much more like a doll.
Issues Collected
| Issue | Title | Writer | Penciller | Inker | Colorist | Letterer | Ast Editor | Editor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | The Sound of Her Wings | Neil Gaiman | Mike Dringenberg | Malcolm Jones III | Robbie Busch | Todd Klein | Art Young | Karen Berger |
| 9 | Tales in the Sand | Neil Gaiman | Mike Dringenberg | Malcolm Jones III | Robbie Busch | Todd Klein | Art Young | Karen Berger |
| 10 | The Doll's House | Neil Gaiman | Mike Dringenberg | Malcolm Jones III | Robbie Busch | Todd Klein | Art Young | Karen Berger |
| 11 | Moving On | Neil Gaiman | Mike Dringenberg | Malcolm Jones III | Robbie Busch | John Costanza | Art Young | Karen Berger |
| 12 | Playing House | Neil Gaiman | Chris Bachalo | Malcolm Jones III | Robbie Busch | John Costanza | Art Young | Karen Berger |
| 13 | Men of Good Fortune | Neil Gaiman | Michael Zulli | Steve Parkhouse | Robbie Busch | Todd Klein | Art Young | Karen Berger |
| 14 | Collectors | Neil Gaiman | Mike Dringenberg | Malcolm Jones III | Robbie Busch | Todd Klein | Art Young | Karen Berger |
| 15 | Into the Night | Neil Gaiman | Mike Dringenberg w/ help from Sam Kieth | Malcolm Jones III | Robbie Busch | Todd Klein | Art Young | Karen Berger |
| 16 | Lost Hearts | Neil Gaiman | Mike Dringenberg | Malcolm Jones III | Robbie Busch | Todd Klein | Tom Peyer | Karen Berger |
1 After positive sales of "the Doll's House," DC went back and published "Preludes & Nocturnes" as a bound collection, and this book was published the same month as "Dream Country." Newer editions of "the Doll's House" start with issue 9.
References
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External Links
★ The Annotated Sandman
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