5/22/2023 0 Comments The Sandman by Neil Gaiman![]() ![]() Throughout the series, tragedy and suffering teach him humility and compassion for others, but it's hard to change for the better when you're billions of years old and very set in your ways. As old as the universe and more powerful than many gods, Dream is vain, proud, and stiff-necked. He rules over the dreaming world that mortals enter when they sleep, and he is also the patron of writers and storytellers (described as "The lord of all that is not, and shall never be."), since a story and a dream are in many ways the same thing. A prequel mini-series, The Sandman: Overture, was released in 2013, the original series' 25th anniversary, and was written by Gaiman with art by J H Williams III.Īt the center of the series is Dream, also known as Morpheus, the Sandman, and dozens of other titles. ![]() The series lasted for 75 issues, from January 1989 to March 1996, with a one-shot special in November, 1991. Historical figures were common, as were allusions and homages to many classic works of fiction, such as the Arabian Nights and the plays of William Shakespeare. ![]() ![]() Described as "a story about stories," The Sandman was a comic series that could tell any tale, in any time period, in any style or setting. The Sandman is a Comic Book series published by DC Comics (with later issues released under the Vertigo imprint), written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by a revolving group of artists, chronicling the story of the King of Dreams and his family of fantastic anthropomorphic personifications of cosmic powers. ![]()
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