Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Bill Willingham - The Sandman Presents: Taller Tales

These ones weren't written by Gaiman himself, but I picked up the book anyway because it features, Thessaly, who's one of my favourite characters at this point (because she's a cutie, and bookish, and also because she's an incredibly powerful, thousands-of-years-old witch who kills everything that gets in her way - and, in this story, she carries a teddy bear around with her everywhere...honestly, some of these characters could have been written specifically to appeal to me...). As Willingham promises, each of the three stories (the Mervyn as secret agent one, the 'Danny Nod, heroic library assistant' one and the 'Thessaliad') is itself about stories, and they're all three of them good (the throwaway sequences at the end - 'Everything you always wanted to know about dreams...but were afraid to ask' - are also fun).