Why Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Still Feels Like a Modern Myth

Описание: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman isn’t just a legendary comic run—it’s a story that reshapes how you think about storytelling itself. In this video, we dig into why the series is often treated as literature, not just a landmark graphic narrative.

We start with the idea that humans are wired for meaning—and how The Sandman taps into that primal need through a world where abstract forces become living characters. We meet Morpheus (Dream) and the Endless: Death, Desire, Despair, Destruction, Delirium, and Destiny—each embodying a pillar of existence, and each leaving real consequences in the mortal world.

From Dream’s 70-year imprisonment and the unsettling “plague” that follows, to Gaiman’s genius method of conversing with mythology (including a powerful reframing of Orpheus), this is a breakdown of why The Sandman endures: it’s a story about stories—and the tools we use to build reality.

Chapters
0:00 Why The Sandman is more than a comic
0:22 Stories as a human need for meaning
1:07 Enter the Dreaming: concepts made real
1:23 Morpheus isn’t a hero—he’s Dream
2:03 The Endless: a cosmic dysfunctional family
2:21 Death: Gaiman’s iconic subversion
2:34 Desire and Despair: temptation and emptiness
3:01 Destruction: the sibling who walked away
3:16 Delirium: chaos, insight, and unease
3:29 Destiny: the book of everything
3:49 Why the Endless matter to mortals
4:04 Dream’s capture and the world breaking
4:17 The “plague of meaninglessness”
4:47 Reviving myths: not borrowing, dialoguing
5:13 Orpheus reimagined as Dream’s son
5:39 Art exploited: the Calliope story
5:56 Why The Sandman still matters today
6:24 The big takeaway: a story about stories
6:44 Final question: what stories will we tell next?

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