{"id":529,"date":"2008-03-07T12:31:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T17:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/529"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:57:49","slug":"the-dream-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/529","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sandman<\/a>: The Dream Hunters<\/a><\/em> (1999) Neil Gaiman<\/a> & Yoshitaka Amano<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I was feeling glum last night, so I reread Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano’s The Dream Hunters<\/a>. This is a comic book for people who say they don’t like comic books, and if you haven’t read it before, you can click through and read my last review<\/a>, and then click through again and go buy the comic to read for yourself.<\/p>\n

Published by Vertigo<\/p>\n


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Sandman: The Dream Hunters (1999) Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano I was feeling glum last night, so I reread Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano’s The Dream Hunters. This is a comic book for people who say they don’t like comic books, and if you haven’t read it before, you can click through and read my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9,291],"tags":[76,77,522],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-graphic-novels","category-paper","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-sandman","tag-vertigo-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-8x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/154","url_meta":{"origin":529,"position":0},"title":"The Sandman: The Dream Hunters","author":"Michelle","date":"October 30, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (1999) Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano The Dream Hunters is my favorite Sandman story. 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