#The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country: Glass House

[thenightling]

The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country: Glass House issue 3 Review:

I just read The Nightmare Country: The Glass House issue 3. I still occasionally mess up the title because there is a Witcher comic called House of Glass. Anyway, it's just kind of... unpleasant. I try to force myself to read it but I'm not enjoying it. It's not as bad as the first Nightmare Country but it's not a nice story. It's decidedly unpleasant. It has that edgy 90s style that got boring by 1998. The Corinthian is the only semi-likable character and that's saying something. That was sort of my problem with The House of Whispers back in 2018. The House of Whispers wasn't terrible but that one was kind of boring where the only points of interest were Anansi (the Spider trickster God) and The Corinthian and how The Corinthian handled those abusive parents. The portrayal of Lucien is just awful. Not only is it flat but the character "Voices" don't feel right. Though The Corinthian is enjoyable his language, his use of words, it doesn't match any previous version of the character. It's very articulate but it doesn't feel like there's a personality in the dialogue. Everyone talks the same. That was a complaint I had back when Caitlin R. Kiernan was writing The Dreaming (1996-2002). Except with her everyone spoke like a cheap 80s action movie character, tossing around the the f word and trying to sound edgy. They don't do that here. In here The Corinthian is relatively well spoken but no one has a truly unique voice, a individual's way of talking. Every character should have their own "voice" a chosen vocabulary, or style of speaking and I'm not seeing that here. It's hard to get into the story when everyone talks exactly the same way except Lucien who... comes off like a self-righteous jerk. It's a bit like Simon Spurrier's version of Lucien in The Dreaming (2018) but not really Lucien of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Lucien pretty much shows up just to tell The Corinthian that he asked Daniel what he do if The Corinthian steps out of line and Daniel apparently said he'd unmake him. That's great, you conspire to unmake the only character actually doing anything in this story. Thank you for being completely useless, Lucien. The Corinthian and Lucien both bring up some very good points. The dead girl whose ghost is now residing in the form of a cat (I couldn't be bothered to remember her name) The Corinthian tells Lucien "Did you know she doesn't even like cats?" and Lucien says something to the effect of "The Dream Lord would not have turned her into a cat if she didn't like cats." This does make a valid point. I know Daniel is different than Morpheus but Daniel does share a lot of his traits and memories and Morpheus would never create a raven from someone unless he knew that person would prefer to be a raven than the mortal they had been.

It feels like DC shamelessly tried to make an expansive story out of something that didn't really need or deserve it, such as bringing Thessaly in after the events of Dead Boy Detectives as if to go "See, i is a shared universe!" Yeah, that only works if the stories being connected are... you know... good... This is better than The Corinthian: Nightmare Country in regard to the pacing but it still has that ugly, sadistic, and weirdly dull "gritty" 90s comic book style. I don't know if I can continue reading it just to review it. It's that unpleasant for me. It's not the worst thing I've ever read but I have little reason to want to continue reading it.

[cryinggraysons]

How would you like your old life back?

The Sandman Universe — Nightmare Country: The Glass House #2 written by James Tynion IV art by Patricio Delpeche

[gothpheus]

now i'm scared

[nfcomics]

SANDMAN UNIVERSE NIGHTMARE COUNTRY THE GLASS HOUSE no.5 (of 6) • cover art • Nick Robles [Oct 2023]

All hell breaks loose in San Francisco as the Corinthian, Thessaly, and Azazel struggle for domination and, ultimately, annihilation. But amidst all the chaos, Flynn crosses paths with yet another smiling man who might very well be the key to everything--the original King of Pain himself!

(W) James Tynion IV (A) Lisandro Estherren (CA) Nick Robles

[soranatus]

The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country — The Glass House #1, variant cover by Yoshitaka Amano

[lokitty-supreme]

Tomorrow is the big day!!!! 😭

[tomoleary]

Matteo Scalera - Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country: The Glass House #4 Cover Prelim (2023) Source, source

[smashpages]

The first issues of Dead Boy Detectives (December 2022) and the second Nightmare Country miniseries (April 2023) will have a crossover of sorts — connecting variant covers with foil treatment by Yoshitaka Amano.

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[thebuhonerodazorrow]

The Sandman Universe (2023)

Nightmare Country

The Glass House #2

Black Label

[dccomicsnews]

DC Black Label Announces 'The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country - The Glass House' and more

DC Black Label Announces ‘The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country – The Glass House’ and more

[geekcavepodcast]

DC Comics Announces Return of “Nightmare Country"

Nightmare Country is returning. A new miniseries from writer James Tynion IV and artist Lisandro Estherren titled The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country - The Glass House will release in 2023. The Corinthian is headed to Silicon Valley where he will face off with Angels, Demons, and Venture Capitalists. Oh my.

DC Comics will also release a collected edition of The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country. The collected edition will release in a hardcover format with cover art by Alex Eckman-Lawn and packaged with a mini-print of Death, illustrated by Jenny Frison, and as a softcover edition with a cover by Reiko Murakami that will be available exclusively at direct market comic book stores.

The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country - The Glass House #1, featuring a cover by Reiko Murakami, goes on sale on April 4, 2023. The hard and softcover editions of The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country will also go on sale on April 4, 2023. 

Taking place between the two Nightmare Country narratives is The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives by Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Stokely. The series features Thessaly the witch along with Edwin and Charles. The events of the story will feed directly into Nightmare Country.

The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #1, featuring  a main cover by Nimit Malavia, goes on sale on December 27, 2022. Artist Yoshitaka Amano’s variant covers of Issues #1 of both The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives and The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country - The Glass House will show the connection between the stories with connecting 1:50 incentive covers, with foil treatment.

**Please Note: these are DC Black Label comics for mature readers.

(Image via DC Comics)

[cryinggraysons]

Matthew the Raven & Dream of the Endless (Daniel Hall)

The Sandman Universe — Nightmare Country: The Glass House #4 written by James Tynion IV art by Lisandro Estherren

[gothpheus]

they just know dream so well and i think that's beautiful

[nfcomics]

SANDMAN UNIVERSE NIGHTMARE COUNTRY THE GLASS HOUSE no.1 (of 6) • cover art • Yoshitaka Amano [Apr 2023]

The Corinthian has been turned loose on our realm once more, and this time he sets his sights on the very root of rapacious American capitalism--Silicon Valley. His relentless pursuit of the Smiling Man will carve a bloody path from the C-suite of Prophet Capital to the bowels of a demonic nightclub, and no one will be safe from his reach. Not Ken, living large in the Bay Area since parting ways with Barbie all those years ago. Not Max, a nervous hedge fund manager on the rise who's never quite fit anywhere. Not anyone. Multiple Eisner Award-winning writer James Tynion IV reunites with superstar horror artist Lisandro Estherren to bring you the nightmare-fueled follow-up you've been craving, a tale that will plumb the bottomless depths of our yearning for more at the heart of the American dream.

(W) James Tynion IV (A) Lisandro Estherren (CA) Yoshitaka Amano

[thenightling]

Another Sandman Universe title gets misnumbered again

The digital copy of issue 2 of Nightmare Country: The Glass House is misnumbered… again.

This happened once before with an issue of the new Dead Boy Detectives. It just shows how little DC actually cares about its The Sandman Universe titles that this keeps happening...

It's issue 2, not 12. The same thing happened with an issue of The Dead Boy Detectives (2023) as well and the next issue was fine.

The first batch of Nightmare Country: The Corinthian issues didn't get as far as issue 10 or 11 so you can't pretend this is because "in some countries the numbering might be different." So please spare me any insulting effort to justify it, like there are ten or eleven previous issues floating around somewhere or this continues from some other title and "some places put the numbering together." I checked, there isn't anywhere where this is the case.

I had enough of that "explanation" when I pointed out the mistake in Dead Boy Detectives and it took days for certain people to accept that there isn't some European printing with a different numbering meter. It required sending them off to find the other issues with those numberings for them to accept it was an actual mistake.

Nightmare Country: The Corinthian only had six issues. If we slap the first two issues of Glass House onto it, you'd only get eight. Not twelve.

[graphicpolicy]

Preview: Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country - The Glass House #2

Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country - The Glass House #2 preview. As the Corinthian finds himself drawn into the labyrinthian demon club the King of Pain, he's about to get a taste of just how tight his leash really is... #comics #comicbooks #sandman