sequential art

The narratives of the Myst comic book and the Sandman series are much more graphically oriented than the books. In the comics, words, images and the orientation on the page carry the story forward. Like the novels, the Myst comic serves as a backstory to the Myst CD-ROM, giving us more of the history of the story grand.

The Sandman story sprawls across seventy-five and one-half monthly comic issues. There are several groupings of various storylines that take place across several issues, but the story grand is revealed over the entire Sandman collection. The representation of Myst is stock comic book format (panel, picture, dialogue, repeat) while the Sandman series is much bolder. The medium of sequential art becomes a dance between words and images that are used to convey the story. Again, the Myst comic reveals more about the characters in the story grand. In Sandman, Neil Gaiman introduces us to the Endless, a family of beings who have played a part in a myriad of our ancient myths.