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	Sandman: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
		Brief Lives is one of the best of the series, and also one of the most straightforward.
		Brief Lives is also a good example of how the media can really be used to tell a story in a way that couldn't simply be told through prose.
		Brief Lives is a good piece of fantasy, even for those who have no knowledge of or interest in comics.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Mann/brieflives.html (650 words)

	The Very Best Books : The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brief Lives is, godlike entities and talking animals aside, a simple, touching story of love and family.
		Brief Lives is, even more than the other Sandman volumes, rich with beauty, imagery, imagination, and scenes that fire the imagination and touch the heart.
		Brief Lives is like the last warm day before winter or the last flash of light and color at sunset.
	www.elise.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/1563891387/ReviewPage/2 (1316 words)

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		Sandman: Brief Lives is visually experimental, as it deviates from the expected convention of comic books through using unusually shaped panels, lush multi-media collages, rich colors, and non-standard artistic media.
		Sandman is less concerned with the sequential nature of images in comic books, and more emphasis is given to the images themselves as images and not so much image as part of a governing narrative system, or as part of a sequence.
		Sandman: Brief Lives is revisionist, in that Gaiman revamped a minor DC Golden Age superhero, but not in the same way that Watchmen is revisionist.
	www.holycow.com /dreaming/academia/Anne_Thesis.txt (4085 words)

	The Sandman: Brief Lives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brief Lives (1994) is the seventh collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.
		The main story follows Morpheus and his younger sister Delerium on a quest to find their brother, Destruction, who abandoned his realm and his responsibilities many years previously.
		The quest costs the lives of many of the pair's mortal contacts; this, it transpires later, is a result of 'mechanisms' Destruction set up to protect himself from discovery when he left.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brief_Lives_(Sandman) (439 words)

	The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives \| Stylegala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Brief Lives, the stories that Gaiman has hinted at throughout most of The Sandman series (of the desertion of one of The Endless; and of Dream's son, Orpheus) come to pass, as Dream and Delirium take a road trip together to try to set things right again.
		"Brief Lives" is among the first of the Sandman books I've read, and it gives me a much better appreciation of the mythology behind this series.
		However, because there is only one artist in Brief Lives, there is a continuity that lacked in some of the previous Sandman titles that often had four or five artists.
	www.stylegala.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/1563891387 (991 words)

	PopImage Feb '00
		This is the list of departures: her son; her brother; his lover; his father and her husband; her reality; his existence; their short sexual lives; their chauffeur and his employee; his former lover and her coworker; his son; his life; his tranquility; his obligation.
		BRIEF LIVES is a road story, itself an encapsulation of transition.
		The Sandman stories rely heavily on a subtlety unheard of in most mainstream material, and Thompson contributes a body language that almost renders word balloons obsolete.
	www.popimage.com /feb00/profile/blives.html (958 words)

	Books : The Sandman: Brief Lives (Sandman S.)
		For me, The Sandman is the finset work of comics literature we've yet seen, and "Brief Lives" is my favourite story from the run.
		Brief Lives is a road trip, and such tales are essentially about self-discovery.
		Brief Lives follows Delirium and Dream's search for their brother~Destruction who left his realm 300yrs ago.
	www.buyngo.co.uk /buy/more/1852865776 (356 words)

	Powell's Books - The Sandman, Volume 7: Brief Lives (Sandman #7) by Neil Gaiman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brief Lives is the seventh volume in the story of The Sandman.
		"Brief Lives is as exciting and understatedly emotional as all the other Sandman stories — fantasy fables of modern life and the Endless....Gaiman exists on a plane all his own.
		The Sandman is the most acclaimed and award-winning comics series of the 1990s for good reason.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1563891387-0 (605 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Sandman: Brief Lives - Book VII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The entire idea of the Sandman was revolutionary and different and pregnant with greatness (yes, a dangerous term, but applicable) - but it wasn't until Brief Lives that we _really_ saw what this thing could be capable of.
		Everything revolves around the central act of kindness that concludes Brief Lives, and all the tragedy and death and destruction and redemption that occur later on are merely a reflection of that single act.
		Brief Lives is full of a passionate proximity, a feeling of the here and now, a sense of both the confusion of every day life and miraculously together with that, the grand rush of scope.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1563891387 (1604 words)

	sandman -- the lair -- graphic novel reviews
		Brief Lives begins to explain what happened to Dream’s brother Destruction, and why his absence has had such impact on the Endless.
		She petitions all of her brothers and sisters to aid her in her quest, but they all turn her down except Dream, who agrees to go with her because he is nursing a broken heart (which translate to an endless climate of rain in the Dream realm, to the irritation of the Dream realm’s inhabitants).
		I came late to Sandman, as in last month, and I knew that when I finished The Wake there was another volume waiting for me. Its hard to top The Kindly Ones and The Wake.
	lair.noflyingnotights.com /sandman.html (3461 words)

	The Sandman: Brief Lives - Book VII (Sandman Collected Library) - Author: Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Jill Thompson - DC ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brief Lives, the sixth volume in the momentous, blindingly brilliant Sandman series, is the best yet.
		In Brief Lives, Delirium, the youngest of the Endless, who was once Delight, sees the painful side of existence and concludes that it is due to the fact the the Endless are incomplete: Destruction left 300 years ago.
		The most elegiac tome in the Sandman canon, "Brief Lives" is as ambitous, sprawling, and powerful as any modern work of fiction.
	www.denis-bach.de /de/info/1563891387 (884 words)

	Neil Gaiman's Sandman
		Though he shows up only three times (and the first time only for one brief scene), his deal with Dream (see "Men of Good Fortune" below) resonates throughout the storyline, and he is given the place of honor, starring in the very last comic of the original series, the last chapter of the complete work.
		Dylan Verheul, who maintains that site, is also now the official keeper of the SANDMAN Annotations, which goes page by page and even panel by panel keeping track of the characters and explaining allusions (and Gaiman is a most allusive writer).
		Another good SANDMAN site is The Dreaming, while fans of Neil Gaiman in general might want to keep up with The Magian Line, an online version of his fan club newsletter.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Zone/9923/sandman.html (4688 words)

	Brief Lives (Sandman): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Brief Lives (Sandman)
		The main story follows Morpheus and his younger sister Delirium on a quest to find their brother, Destruction, who abandoned his realm and his responsibilities many years previously.
		Out.", while Morpheus, bound always by his obligations, tells his sister "I need to return to the temple.
		The title of the collection is the most significant of all the collections, for much of it is indeed concerned with mortality; in another of the most significant lines of the series, Death tells Bernie Capax, a man who has lived for fifteen thousand years, "you lived what anybody gets, Bernie.
	www.encyclopedian.com /br/Brief-Lives.html (430 words)

	Yoga Darsana Institute \| Current Shop - The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives
		One might think that the climax of the 10-volume Sandman series would come in the last book, or even the second to last.
		It could be because one of the most central mysteries--that of the Sandman's missing brother--is revealed here (in fact, the plot of this volume is the search for this member of the Endless).
		But it's more because this is a story about mortality and loss, the difficulty of change, the purpose of remembering, the purpose of forgetting, and the importance of humanity.
	www.yogadarsana.org /buy-1563891387.html (1145 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Sandman: Brief Lives (Sandman S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is the story of the search for the Sandman's long missing brother, Destruction, and of the consequences of that endeavour.
		Their travels take them through the world of the waking until a final confrontation with the missing member of the Endless and the resolution of The Sandman's painful relationship with his son, Orpheus, change the Endless forever.
		She destroys the life of a Police Officer by making him feel invisible bugs all over his body.(That part of the story is a favourite of mine)I recommend this Sandman book because it has one of the best story lines of the Sandman Comics I have read.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1852865776 (1160 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sandman: Brief Lives at Epinions.com
		In this one, Dream (the Sandman - the main character, if Sandman even has one) is enlisted by his youngest sister, Delirium, to go in search of their prodigal brother.
		You could read this as part of the Sandman saga, in a row, like I did, though I think that Brief Lives could also serve as jumping off point to get into the books as well.
		And Sandman is a great way to get into comic books as well - it's more fantasy based than spandex based, though there are a few references to the DC Universe.
	www.epinions.com /content_34928037508 (577 words)

	artbomb.net
		BRIEF LIVES, the most linear volume of the bunch, is the one I find myself pulling off the shelf and re-reading when I'd only meant to find a particular quote or look up a panel that was on my mind for one reason or another.
		Like all good road movies, BRIEF LIVES is a treatise on change, and like the best, it works on as many levels as the number of times I've considered it.
		Destruction abandoned the world because he didn't want to bear the mantle of responsibility for the changes he saw coming; destruction is construction is change.
	www.artbomb.net /detail.jsp?tid=333 (257 words)

	Sandman Annotations
		The Annotated Sandman Edited by Ralf Hildebrandt and largely written by Greg Morrow Issue 41: Brief Lives One Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, and Vince Locke Notes: _Brief Lives_ is in common use as a title, dating back to the earliest-reported citation, a collection of short biographies by John Aubrey, published in 1813.
		Their "lives" have the same turmoil as ephemerals: The troubled younger sister, the estrangement of a brother.
		In fact, the briefness of life is an aspect of the larger theme, which is that of change--change which is personified in the form of Destruction.
	www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de /~hildeb/sandman/annotations/sandman.41.shtml (2426 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gaiman's very popular Sandman series (this is the eighth book in the series) continues with another tale of the Endless, the family of mythic cosmic beings that govern the psychic and physical realms of Dream, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Destruction and Death.
		Gaiman's works often follow the plots of classical and mythical narratives and Brief Lives, like his other works, can often look and sound as ponderous as a bad period costume movie.
		"Brief Lives" is the glory of an already impeccable series.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563891387?v=glance (1640 words)

	Graphic novel review - Sandman: Brief Lives - Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Vince Locke
		Brief Lives picks up a key element of the Sandman series so far, as Dream and Delirium set off on a quest to find their long lost brother Destruction.
		This is the beginning of the end for the Sandman, as events put into action in this volume resound throughout the remaining books, with clues inserted here that allude to what is yet to come.
		The Sandman series remains amongst the best of comics but this particular part is one of our favourites.
	www.grovel.org.uk /reviews/sandma07/sandma07.htm (328 words)

	Printer Friendly: Sandman: Brief Lives (Volume VII) Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		The consistent team does lend a nice feel to the book and helps it stand out as the arc-driven volume that it is, as opposed to some of the earlier volumes that contain stand-alone stories.
		Brief Lives is a great entry in the saga of the Sandman.
		While it may not be as good as volumes III or IV, Brief Lives is a great tale, and definitely one of the better Sandman volumes.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/108621239371209,print.htm (694 words)

	Books: The Sandman: Brief Lives (Sandman S.)
		Comment: For me, The Sandman is the finset work of comics literature we've yet seen, and "Brief Lives" is my favourite story from the run.
		She is the perfect illustrator for Delirium, and my choice for top Sandman artist.
		Kudos also to Danny Vozzo, one of the finest colourists in the medium, who does some of his finest work here, especially the vibrant, candied palette he uses for Delirium.
	iwantipod.co.uk /shop/1852865776.html (898 words)

	Powell's Books - The Sandman #01: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Preludes and Nocturnes is the first volume in the story of The Sandman.
		"The Sandman is not a superhero...he is an observer, occasionally a catalyst, rarely the focus of the action.
		In stories reprinted from The Sandman #1-7, the Lord of Dreams is freed from decades-long imprisonment and seeks to reclaim his office in encounters with John Constantine, the Justice League of America, and more.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1563890119-0 (491 words)

	Neil Gaiman's Sandman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Neil Gaiman, The Sandman - Brief Lives: Chapter One
		The moment she realized what was happening, that the universe was changing, that she was growing up, or at least, growing older...she was no longer Delight; and the blossoms had already begun to fall in her domain, becoming smudged and formless colors, and she had no one to talk to...
		Dream: I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
	www.angelfire.com /tx3/treachery/sandman/7.html (97 words)

	The Ultimate Goldie (Sandman) - American History Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Goldie is a pet (baby) gargoyle, given to Abel by his brother Cain in Preludes and Nocturnes the first volume of Sandman series.
		Goldie also appeares for a short scene in The Doll's House in which he is sitting upon Abel's shoulder as Lucien asks Abel about the inhabitants of the house.
		He later appears throughout the Parliament of Rooks story in Fables and Reflections, and briefly at the beginning of Brief Lives.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Goldie_%28Sandman%29 (147 words)

	Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists, A Game of You, Brief Lives
		Once upon a time, Barbie lived in Florida, with her husband Ken. Then, one night, her housemate Rose Walker discovered what it meant to be a Vortex of Dream, and Barbie lost some things.
		Now she has a cast of weird housemates herself, including the lesbian couple upstairs (one of whom is haunted by what was, and the other by what may be), the several-thousand-year-old witch, the preoperative male-to-female transsexual, and the minion of her dream-adversary.
		The prevalent themes in Brief Lives are immortality (or the illusion thereof) and change (which is to say, death).
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_gaiman_sandmanomni2.html (2410 words)

	Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Destruction, we have learned over the course of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, gave up his duties and left his realm.
		(Pity poor Abel, who lives in a low spot.) The talk, and snack on salad, an omelette and raspberry-cream chocolate lovers, and she asks for his help finding their missing sibling.
		That means calling on some of the immortal mortals and incognito gods who live among the normal people of the world.
	www.rambles.net /gaiman_sandman7.html (890 words)

	SANDMAN BRIEF LIVES by NEIL GAIMAN from Pickabook Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The story of the search for Sandman's missing brother, Destruction, and the consequences of that endeavour.
		Sandman and his sister Delirium have to travel through the waking world to find the missing member of the Endless family.
		Sandman also manages to resolve his relationship with his son.
	www.pickabook.co.uk /details/1852865776/display.html (246 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All the Sandman issues are great, but you cannot read only one chapter of "Brief Lives" or "Doll's House" to get the whole meaning.
		I should start off perhaps by explaining who the Sandman is. The Sandman goes by many names, but his given name is Dream and he is the king of dreams.
		What distinguishes "Fables and Reflections" from other Sandman collections is that not only does it not follow a choesive story, but Dream is not directly involved in all the tales told here.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563891050?v=glance (2484 words)

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