This award-winning series, depicting the fantastic and horrific tales of Morpheus, the king of dreams, which is considered by many to be one of the greatest works in the history of the medium, has always been densely layered. 4 of Gaiman’s comic masterpiece, Sandman, portions of which are among the scads of information packed into the delightful new The Annotated Sandman Vol. The spikes had to be sticking out of the top of each one and the angles they were placed at were essential to the overall look. He imagined something massive made of wrought iron, adorned with rows of metal spikes on the top, each featuring a severed head. The volumes also include a detailed index to the hundreds of characters, a chronology of the interweaving stories, and an extensive bibliography of the original stories as well as the reference materials used by Gaiman and the editor.Neil Gaiman could picture the horror of the gates of Hell in his mind - and he wanted to make sure his readers would never forget it either. The volumes draw heavily on the original scripts for the stories, provided by Gaiman to the editor for this purpose, and hours of conversations with Gaiman. The annotations cover a wide range of topics, from glossary to cultural history, from pop culture to world mythology, enlightening the text. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairytales with his own distinct narrative vision. New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman’s transcendent series Sandman is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. As Dream makes his escape and returns to his duties after 70 years of imprisonment, he encounters countless characters from myth, legend and comics, from Lucifer himself to the tragic Greek hero Orpheus to the HELLBLAZER John Constantine. However, one of their own lays captured-Dream, the Lord of Sleep. Meet the Endless, a family of immortals that govern all aspects of life and death throughout the universe.
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