![]() I love experimental comics, and DC has been spoiling us recently with issues that tell a story as one continuous 20-page image, an entire story seen from one character’s POV, and the incomparable DC Black Label horror series, The Nice House On The Lake (also written by James Tynion). ![]() Yes, the writing, art, and Simon Bowland’s lettering in this special are (as always) first-rate, but I think I need to name guest creators AndWorld Design (AKA Deron Bennett) as the MVP of the issue. ![]() This great issue works both as a follow-up to The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #6 and as a chapter in the ongoing saga of Madison Flynn. ![]() The art in The Sandman Universe: Thessaly Special #1 is gorgeous simple, clean, atmospheric, and, dare I say it, magical. Maria Lovet is a wonderful artist who gives readers a Thessaly as great as the one drawn by her co-creator, the inimitable Colleen Doran. I must also laud the way James creates new side characters that I immediately fall in love with. The brilliant part is that all of this fits in with what we’ve already seen of her over the decades, honoring what her creator has already told us about her while adding more flesh to the bones of her history. By doing so, he lets us see some of the moments that made and forged her. James Tynion has a real grasp on the character and is finally showing us her past. She’s gone from being a terrifying, bigoted, and ultra-powerful witch in “ A Game Of You“, to Dream’s lover, magical avenger, and force of nature in her more recent appearances. I’ve been following her story since her first appearance in issue #32 of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman (1991). However, she’s a fascinating, deep, and extremely complex character. First, let me say straight off the bat, that Thessaly is a horrible person. ![]()
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