The Sandman by Neil Gaiman & The Sand/wo/man:The Unstable Worlds of Gender in Neil Gaimans Series by Ally Brisbin and Pual Booth

When I first finished the comic, The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, I was utterly confused. The reason, I believe, for my confusion was mainly because this was actually the very first comic book I have ever read! It as surprisingly amusing but yet, I felt, lacked a purpose. Later when I read the article, The Sand/wo/man: The unstable Worlds of Gender in Neil Gaimans Series by Ally Brisbin and Pual Booth, I understood what the purpose of the comic really was. The authors made it clear, through much analysis and research, that the comic had a great message for its readers. The message was one involving gender and sex and how society influences out perception of the gender roles. The authors explain further that Neil Gaiman had intertwined his comic book series with concepts of the Peer Theory. This theory explains that some individuals do not obey the social norms of gender roles. A way in which the Gaiman shows this to us is when he uses the illustrations as a role defying tool. The pictures in the comics are unclear or "abstract" as Brisbin and Booth say and because of this we don't identify the characters as strictly playing female or male roles. Although the article was quite fascinating I do have a bit of critiquing on the piece as well. The title of the article clearly alludes to us that we will be reading the ins and outs of Gaiman's comic book but instead we get some chucks here and there that are surrounded by a pollution of other writers and authors. My second issue was that the authors seemed to be contradicting themselves by saying that a certain author does not believe in gender roles but by backing this claim up with a stereotypically gender example. My third and final complaint is that the article was extremely detailed and probably aimed to a specific audience (that I am clearly not apart of). Because of this fact some of references were vague and incomprehensible. What I want to know after reading both articles is how specifically our comic book section relates to the "Worlds of Genders" and, of course, did you to have trouble with this reading because of the lack of knowledge in the area?