In it, characters from diverse realities shelter and tell their stories during a reality storm. More sparkling individual stories follow in what was first collected as World’s End, Gaiman taking the formerly common English pub name literally.
Jill Thompson takes on some difficult material and characters, rendering everything beautifully and comprehensibly. That’s just Neil Gaiman’s starting point for the partial deconstruction of the myths he’s created around Sandman, asking some fundamental questions about their purpose, and setting up the remainder of the series.
Dream is for once a central character as he accompanies the disconnected Delirium on a sort of wacky road trip because she wants to locate their missing brother. There’s a strong case to be made for Brief Lives being the best of the original Sandman run, at least when it comes to the longer stories, and it’s certainly the most ambitious. This begins in the middle of that run, with a few single-chapter stories exploring the nature of dreams, originally part of Fables and Reflections. As the Omnibus editions reprint chronologically, it means the real quality is split over two volumes.
1, and towards the end of the material presented here, where if there’s any editing at all it’s extraordinarily light touch. Broadly speaking, the lesser quality is at the beginning, as seen in Vol. As such, which fan of the series with money would want to turn down this oversized, faux-leather bound Omnibus edition? If you only have your memories of the original series, perhaps you ought to consider it first. Sandman has withstood the test of time to become recognised as a fantasy classic.
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