The only part I really enjoyed out of the whole situation was Despair's relationship with the missing brother. As potentially satisfying the revelation of the mysterious seventh Endless could have been, I had to fight to keep the glaze off my eyeballs sometimes. I feel like I'm alone when I say I was underwhelmed by it. 2'.Ĭollecting issues #40-56, plus the usual bonus features, the two arcs here are 'Brief Lives' and 'World's End', the first beginning with a separate story detailing Dream's son Orpheus' beginnings and continuing through a bizarre road trip Dream takes with Delirium, ostensibly in search of their missing brother. The series simply couldn't sustain the level of the first 20 issues or the superb 'Season of Mists' and 'A Game of You' arcs found in 'Absolute Sandman, Vol.

Craig Russell ( Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, The Jungle Book).Never-before-collected bonus features include pin-up pages from galleries in THE SANDMAN #50 and SANDMAN SPECIAL #1, the Desire story from VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE #3, THE ENDLESS GALLERY #1, script and thumbnails from THE SANDMAN #50, and a section on the Endless retail products (poster, statues, t-shirts, Little Endless and more)! Plus, an introduction by artist Jill Thompson. Also included is the spectacular short story 'Ramadan,' a tale of a young king of ancient Baghdad and the deal he strikes with The Sandman to grant his city immortality, with spectacular illustrations by P. But their journey through the Waking World has dramatic repercussions for their family and also for the relationship between the Sandman and his wayward son, Orpheus. 3 presents several key SANDMAN tales in a slipcased hardcover edition, including 'Brief Lives,' in which the Sandman's sister Delirium prevails upon her older brother to help her find their missing sibling, Destruction. The third volume collecting Neil Gaiman's seminal, award-winning series starring the Dream King in deluxe format.

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