Odds are, if you've got friends who read comics - and I'm talking comics, here, not upmarket, literati-approved graphic novels about war, genocide or narrow-chested indie-music lovers with cheating girlfriends - they've tried to press The Sandman into your hands at some point.īut here's the thing you don't often hear about Gaiman's series, which ran for 75 issues, helped establish and grow the marketplace for comics aimed at adults, and remains one of the most literate, imaginative and intricately plotted accomplishments in long-form comics storytelling out there:Īfter the jump: The nature of that barrier, and the new book that may just lower it. Today, some twenty years after it first appeared, it still bestrides the comics world like a pasty emo Colossus with Robert Smith's hairdo. Ah, Neil Gaiman's epic comic book series, The Sandman.
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