Sandman - Edição Definitiva, Vol. 5

The Absolute Sandman

by Neil Gaiman (Writer), Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator), P. Craig Russell (Illustrator)

A saga de Morfeus, o Senhor dos Sonhos, ganha o esperado último número da série de Edições Definitivas – excluindo PRELÚDIO – em um volume que reúne histórias feitas em parceria com lendas dos quadrinhos e da ilustração.

O quinto volume mantém a tradição do formato diferenciado (18,5 por 27,5 cm), e apresenta: SANDMAN: NOITES SEM FIM – na qual uma equipe de ilustradores digna dos sonhos mais ambiciosos de Gaiman foi reunida para contar uma história de cada um dos perpétuos; CAÇADORES DE SONHOS, apresentada em suas duas versões: em prosa ilustrada e em quadrinhos; e TEATRO DA MEIA-NOITE DE SANDMAN, – que traz o inusitado encontro entre Wesley Dodds – o Sandman original – e Morfeus. Além de A Última História de Sandman, uma aventura curta ilustrada pelo genial Dave McKean, também responsável pela capa deste volume. E não poderiam faltar as dezenas de páginas de extras, galeria de capas originais, o roteiro de O Coração de Uma Estrela, e outras atrações em 522 páginas de delírios oníricos.

Escrito por Neil Gaiman, com colaboração de Matt Wagner e P. Craig Russell; e com arte de Matt Wagner, P. Craig Russell, Yoshitaka Amano, Teddy Kristiansen, Frank Quitely, Milo Manara, Bill Sienkiewicz, Miguelanxo Prado, Barron Storey, Glenn Fabry e Dave McKean.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Graphic Novels Comics, Mythology

522 pages, Hardcover

First published November 8, 2011

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 5 out of 5]

These Absolute editions are gorgeous with their oversized pages and blown up art. This one collects material Gaiman created when revisiting Sandman after its initial run. The back matter in this one isn't as extensive as the first 4 volumes.

The Dream Hunters
A prose retelling of a Japanese fairy tale with illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano. This is the story of a fox that falls in love with a monk. When she learns of a plot to harm him through his dreams, she takes his place.

I like how Gaiman subtly changed the tale to include Morpheus and other members of his menagerie. This is the kind of Sandman story that Gaiman does best, where Morpheus is a minor character encountered by the true protagonists of the story.


Endless Nights
Neil Gaiman returns to the Endless giving each sibling their own story. Let's get this out of the way. The Despair story is awful with terrible art. It almost makes me wonder if Gaiman did it on purpose, to give the reader a sense of despair. The rest of these are golden. Dream, Death, Desire, Destruction. They are all wonderful stories making it well worth the price of admission. It's nice to have a visit with old friends you haven't seen for years and feel like no time has passed.


Sandman Midnight Theatre
Back in the 90's, Vertigo actually had two Sandman comics going. One, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, featured Morpheus. The other, Matt Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre, was about the Golden Age Sandman Wesley Dodd's mystery man exploits in 1930's New York. This book is where the twain shall meet. A case brings Wesley Dodd to England where he eventually crosses paths with the trapped Morpheus. This is really a Sandman Mystery Theatre story that Dream appears in. Still, it's quite good with surreal, smoky art from Teddy Kristiansen.


The Dream Hunters - The comic adaptation
Another one of P. Craig Russell's adaptations of Gaiman's prose. I'm not sure why he's so obsessed with converting all of Gaiman's words to comics, but I'm glad he is. This was wonderful. Russell brings a different look to what was originally an illustrated novella. He gets how to adapt words into panels telling Gaiman's story visually when he can, removing a lot of the exposition that can really bog down a comic.

[Drew Canole · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Absolute Sandman, Book Five reprints the graphic novels Sandman Midnight Theatre, The Sandman: Endless Nights, and both the prose (illustrated by Japanese art-legend Yoshitaka Amano) and comics (adapted by P. Craig Russell) versions of THE SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS. This volume also includes the Dave McKean illustrated "The Last Sandman Story" from Dust Covers: The Collected Sandman Covers, the original script by Gaiman for the Dream chapter of ENDLESS NIGHTS, sketches and designs from artists Miguelanxo Prado and P. Craig Russell, and a gallery of never-before-collected print and poster art from the world of the Dreaming.

Contains The Last Sandman Story, The Dream Hunters (Prose and comic), Endless Nights, Sandman Midnight Theatre.

The Last Sandman Story
Short comic with Dave McKean illustrations. It's essentially just Gaiman musing on the existence of a Sandman, which he believed in as a kid. One late night he walked into his child's room (she was sick and having trouble sleeping) and he saw Morpheus blowing sand into her eyes! Morpheus was quickly revealed as an optical illusion with the moon and a large tree branch in the window.

The Dream Hunters by P. Craig Russell
P. Craig Russell is one of my favorite comic artists. He's known for his adaptions of classic plays and operas. He's also adapted a bunch of Neil Gaiman stories including Coraline. I'm not sure why Russell likes adapting Gaiman so much. I prefer his adaptions of older stories, but the setting of this story actually works really well for Russell's style.

Although technically a Sandman story, this can certainly be read without involving that lengthy series. It could be considered a story in that universe, and not an essential piece of it.

My one beef is the lettering! You can't do a Sandman comic without Todd Klein. The lettering is top tier P. Craig Russell stuff up until the Sandman characters enter the scene - Morpheus and the Crow's lettering sucks here. Obviously a very minor complaint.

The Dream Hunters by Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano is a fantastic artist. Like a modern Japanese Arthur Rackham.

I've read the P. Craig Russell comic adaptation at least twice but this is my first time reading the original work. Gaiman thought of doing this story while he was translating the film Princess Monanoke. DC wanted a Sandman comic for the 10th anniversary but artist Yoshitaka Amano said he doesn't do comics... so we have a lushly illustrated novella instead. And no one is complaining (except perhaps P. Craig Russell!).

Told in his mythos style reminiscent of the prose in Norse Mythology. It feels at times a bit didactic, like a Brother's Grimm tale. But there is some flair.

"Sandman: Dream Hunters is a classic Japanese tale adapted from "The Fox, the Monk, and the Mikado of All Night's Dreaming" that he has subtly morphed into his Sandman universe." I heard this was a lie. Now I can't find anything disputing it. But I think the tale is actually 100% Gaiman.

The artwork is fantastic and the book is worth picking up just to look at it.

Sandman Midnight Theatre
A crossover with Sandman Mystery Theatre.

Included in Sandman Absolute 5... but very very unnecessary as a Sandman book. The Locke+Key Sandman story would have been a better inclusion. All the characters featured are from Sandman Mystery Theatre. Morpheus is still trapped in the Roderick Burgess's dome in his cellar. We get some more background into Burgess, but honestly not much. It shows that maybe he's not pure evil. Just a sad old man at this point.

Artwork is great. A lot of dialogue which was hard to be interested in.

Endless Nights
7 stories that cover all the Endless from Death to Destiny!

--Death: Death and Venice – artwork by P. Craig Russell
This is a fantastic tale. I love all of Russell's contributions to the Sandman universe. None of his stories really impact the Morpheus storyline but they all add a ton of depth to the mythos. Here we see a city living outside of time (and therefor Death). Death is trying to get into the city to put a stop to it all and eventually gets help from a young man vacationing in present day Venice.

Russell's artwork is even better than the work in Ramadan (Sandman 50).

--Desire: What I’ve Tasted of Desire – artwork by Milo Manara
The artwork really carries this one. Some people may be turned off by Manara's ability to make every panel sexual. But honestly it kind of works for a story about Desire! If there's a panel with a woman, she's topless or bent over. This has a strange narrative device with the protagonist just talking to the reader directly. She tells the tale of her falling in love with the most attractive man in the village, finally getting him to fall in love with her. But then he's murdered and his head is brought to her by 10 men. She doesn't react at all - and gets them to desire her, falling over themselves to impress her - just biding time until the men of the village return and kill the 10 men.

--Dream: The Heart of a Star – artwork by Miguelanxo Prado
Oh wow, this is nearly essential Sandman reading. I'd even suggest reading it as a prologue to Sandman Overture. Sandman brings a date to a meeting of the Endless, Stars and Galaxies. Literally every star has a personification. It's a bit odd but works somehow. At first Dream is super happy with Desire, but his date ends up falling in love with her star! Then Dream gets upset with Desire.

--Despair: Fifteen Portraits of Despair – artwork by Barron Storey
I don't know about this one. The artwork is great but the poetic prose was a bit hard to get into. Essentially its 15 sketches of people being in despair.

--Delirium: Going Inside – artwork by Bill Sienkiewicz
The only bad story in the book. Sienkiewicz is doing a lot of mixed media, and digital work. It's like a really bad Dave McKean. I didn't really read this one through.

--Destruction: On the Peninsula – artwork by Glenn Fabry
Fabry's artwork after the last two stories is a breath of fresh air. Very clean line work. This story was super odd and interesting. I feel like Gaiman could have expanded it into a 6-issue series! A archeologist is digging at a site where things from the future have appeared buried in the sand. Destruction and Delirium are there too! Destruction helps with the dig and actually saves the protagonists life as she digs up a future-tech military gadget that explodes.

--Destiny: Endless Nights – artwork by Frank Quitely
Quitely brings his A-game here. Stunning artwork. I really need more stories about Destiny. He's the most fascinating and aloof of the Endless. He makes Morpheus seem like a friendly extrovert.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

We're past the actual Sandman comic series at this point (this finished in Absolute Sandman #4), which opens the door for all sorts of semi-related side-shots and marginalia. This was, admittedly, what I expected to find in this fifth volume, and I had braced myself a bit for certain disappointment before cracking the cover. Perhaps these lower expectations were partly to blame for my reaction, but the opening short story, with its autobiographical feel, caught my attention in ways I didn't expect. Somewhere early in the first version of "The Dream Hunters," with its striking artwork that differs significantly from what we've seen related to the Sandman before, I was completely hooked.

The series that follows, Endless Nights, contains one story for each of the Endless siblings. Each tale is drawn by a different artist, which really helps to give each their own unique personality. Again, my expectations were subverted: I'd expected, I think, stories of their pasts or childhoods or a defining moment that explains some personality quirk, but instead they were just moments. Each of the Endless plays some role in his or her own tale, but is not always the clear focus of it, and the tales told aren't generally the ones I was expecting to see.

"Sandman Midnight Theatre" shifts tone significantly from everything that precedes it in this volume, moving toward noir with its cast of double-crossing characters who are frequently not who they appear to be. In the words of The Canon, "As you said, Dian; somewhere there must be someone without a secret life. I assume you are also not that someone."
This story also reconnects us, appropriately, back to the very beginning of the Sandman series, with an imprisoned Dream and a mortal man utilizing (knowingly? unknowingly? I assume the latter, but it's never quite clear) some of his power.

My only quibble here is the final piece, another version of "The Dream Hunters." The story is still compelling and the artwork lovely (Dream's robe, with the shifting images imprinted on it, was particularly cool), but the first version of this story, back at the beginning of the book, sets a high standard to live up to. I'm not sure what the point is of putting another take on it in such close proximity with the first.

Otherwise, this, like all of the Absolute Sandman volumes, was a treat to both view and read.

[OmniBen · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Zero spoiler review) 3.5/5
I must admit, I do feel a little cheated by this one, for whilst there will be absolutely no spoilers relating to the content of the stories here, I can't express my frustration and disappointment without commenting on the mapping of this book, which appears to have robbed me of a fitting finale, a sublime swansong to The Sandman series proper. The series is essentially over after the first three issues of the book, though this isn't exactly apparent until you push through towards the end. What we get for the majority of this book, is more random Gaiman tales, either closely or tenuously linked to The Sandman universe. Essentially, the same complaint I've had since book one rears its head once again here. Sometimes its works, sometimes it doesn't but it still feels like a slap in the face, with some 500 or so pages worth of stories, with the main story, the best part of this ongoing narrative, having already concluded. And to make matters worse, the final 200 or so pages is the same story told twice, albeit in two different formats. I pulled up a chair outside in the sun to crack into the last part of this book, only to find it was a story I'd already read. And that was that, really. Sandman done, not with a some beautiful, evocative bang, but with a sullen, cantankerous whimper. I suppose its a fitting farewell to this series in away, though. For as amazing as some of this was (The bits focusing on Morpheus and The Endless), the bits that didn't ranged from pretty damn good, to bland, bloated and boring. Gaiman can certainly tell a story, but it all comes across as overly long pretentious waffle when its not really working. On a reread of this (whenever that happens), I'll only be reading half of these issues again. And as high as the highlights of this series were, that kind of says it all really. My disappointment might be tainting this volume a little, but its still a touch raw at the moment. A sad end to an occasionally stunning series, but not the quite the revelation I expected it to be going in. 3.5/5


OmniBen.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easily the weakest volume, so far, in this series. The same story appears twice, once as illustrated short story, once as comic adaptation and whilst its a really good story, twice in a row isn't very interesting... The other pieces aren't bad, but are slight, and the focus is usually on someone or something other than Morpheus. Only the Overture volume to go; hoping for better than this.

[Emma French · Rating 4 out of 5]

Har ibland svårt att komma in i hans storys och detta samlingsalbum är kortare än de tidigare, först framåt mitten och slutet var jag i vanlig ordning förtrollad av hans berättande. Tycker allra mest om när man får följa the endless men sagan om räven var vacker både språkligt och konstnärligt

[Maja Shinigami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moarrr, moaarrrr.

[Rogerio Lopes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este volume na verdade republica o Noites Sem Fim mais algumas histórias então de novo o que interessa aqui é certamente a história Caçadores de Sonho, ainda que as outras duas sejam interessantes seja pelo lado poético de A Última História de Sandman, seja pelo encontro dos dois Sandman em Teatro do Mistério, Caçadores de Sonho em suas duas versões evoca um Sandman em moldes orientais, ou para ser preciso a versão japonesa de Sandman, sendo a releitura de uma lenda japonesa muito bonita e imensamente triste. Curiosamente aqui a versão em forma de livro ilustrado rouba a cena, as ilustrações de Yoshitaka Amano são de tirar o fôlego.

[pastiesandpages - Gavin · Rating 5 out of 5]

The stories here can actually be read separately to the main series. Yes there's added meaning if you know the characters but the tales within are completely separate and make perfect sense for new readers.

The centrepiece is the Endless Nights graphic novel which has seven stories. Each one highlights a different member of the Endless and Dream & his siblings all have a separate artist for their tales. From the sensual artwork of Milo Manara to the Bill Sienkiewicz mixed media stylings for Delirium to stunning Frank Quitely art for Destiny it's all rather wonderful. Storrey's art is rather scratchy & hideous but fits the brief for the portraits of Despair. And the writing is rather good as well.

Sandwiching the Endless Nights are the prose illustrated story of the Dream Hunters. A Japanese fairy tale of a fox & a monk which Gaiman imbues with subtle appearances from Morpheus & others. Expressive & dreamlike art by Yoshitaka Amano.
We also have the story adapted into comic book format with gorgeous art from P Craig Russell.

There are other extras including a Sandman Mystery Theatre special featuring 1930s crime fighter Wesley Dodd in his Sandman garb in a story where Morpheus makes an appearance.

A fantastic package of material and a very welcome addition to the Sandman Universe.

[ambyr · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think reading this so soon after finishing the main Sandman arc was a mistake. These are small stories, slight stories--but I can see how they would be delightful reunions with old friends, if you hadn't seen them in many years. It's just hard to appreciate them so close in time to the power of the main arc.

[Dalibor Dado Ivanovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitivno vrijedi imati u kolekciji. Nakon sto sam godinama se premisljao kupit ovo ili ne ? Eto ga !!
Uglavnom sami uvod koji je Gaiman napisao "posljednja prica o Sandmanu" mi je vec super.
A o Dream Hunters i noveli i strip adaptaciji, da i ne govorim. Stvarno je lijepa prica.
"Beskrajne noci"imam i Algoritmovo izdanje tako da ga nisam citao sada u ovom izdanju ali znam da su mi price o Snu, Sudbini, Strasti bile odlicne.

[Henrik Brynildsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Serien konkluderes på en god måte, men jeg synes disse to siste bøkene er litt langdryge, dvelende og sentimentale. Også litt i overkant glatte i måten alt faller på plass.

Liker godt kunsten i The Wake, men ikke så godt tegnestilen i The Kindly Ones.

[Carrie]

I did not read this! Why is it in my "read" books? And I swear I just reviewed "Crossed", where is that in my "read" list. Am I going crazy?

[Evan Dossey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this on sale at a comic store in December, 2016, and told myself I would only take it out of shrink wrap if I ever read the four prior volumes first. Took me 3.5 years and two house moves to do that. Worth the wait. Most of the material in here was new to me; I'd read bits and pieces of Endless Nights, but never cracked either version of "The Dream Hunters," or the Mystery Theatre stuff. That last one I could do without, and frankly most of Endless Nights is just O.K. The Prose version of Dream Hunters is lovely.

What isn't great, is buoyed here by the tremendous Absolute presentation. Back in the day I owned half-dozen more Absolute editions than I do now (thanks, HPB Job), and have slowly culled that part of my collection for petty cash or simply to make shelf-space. My rule of thumb is whether or not the artwork in a given series deserves the 7lb leather-bound treatment. Every single Sandman volume I own read better in this format. I feel comfortable declaring that because I actually read several portions of the series during this recent read-through in Trade Paperback form, because it is impossible to A) Read an Absolute in bed or B) Read an absolute on the toilet or C) Read an absolute anywhere *but* my giant, crumbling leather recliner I own purely for reading purposes. So yeah, I can say very safely that most of Sandman's artwork is so extraordinary that it is worth reading in Absolutes if you have the good fortune to own or rent them.

I give this volume 4 stars purely because I so loved the experience of opening a brand-new Absolute, the book glue smell basically overwhelming me for the whole two or three hour sit. I haven't had that experience in so long, but it's so fundamental to me. It's been a long time since I purchased new books, particularly the big, expensive volumes that I collected so obsessively for so long. It's hard to justify the prices without that sweet HPB discount and having had a child, but then again there are a few neat releases this year that I am looking forward to hopefully finding the funds for.

tl;dr: The Dream Hunters (prose + illustration) is great, the comic version is good but feels redundant in a single volume beyond the coolness of seeing them mixed. Endless Nights is a mixture of really good stories and lesser tales with cool art. Mystery Theater is whatever.

[Óscar López · Rating 5 out of 5]

Starting with this volume, the Absolute Sandman edition collects standalone stories and specials outside of the now-finished main storyline. The focus of this fifth volume is on short stories and anniversary specials plus the usual extras – scripts, sketches, posters, toys and so on.

“Sandman Midnight Theatre” is a one-shot story about Wesley Dodds, the original Sandman and how he met Morpheus. It has a really nice writing and atmosphere, with an all-too dark artwork. We also get "The Last Sandman Story", a short and amusing tale describing the circumstances of how Neil met the Sandman in real life (!).

The core of the book is comprised by “Endless Nights”, with one story per each of the Endless, wonderfully illustrated by some of the best artists of the trade – I particularly loved to see Milo Manara’s work. The writing is superb, Death’s tale is haunting, Dream’s is fantastic, Desire’s is spicy but the real winners here are Despair and Delirium’s tales, which are absolutely moving and frenetic, very much in tone with the characters they represent.

The real and very much pleasant surprise of this collection was “The Dream Hunters”. There are two (yes, two!) versions of the same story, one in prose illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano and one in graphic novel form illustrated by P. Craig Russell. This is one of the best stories written by Gaiman; wonderfully inspired by Japanese myths to the point one almost believes it’s an ancient legend, guaranteed to make you fall in love with the characters.

The Sandman series has never ceased to amaze me, and this collection is a worthy return to the familiar and beloved realm of the Dreaming. Just one final volume left to read, looking forward to it.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

This giant collection is beautifully illustrated.

Both the prose and the graphic novel-adapted versions of The Dream Hunters were fantastic. Love how Gaimen masterfully combined a Japanese folktale with the Sandman universe. 4.6/5 stars

Endless Nights featured short stories of Dream and his siblings. Dream was of course my favorite. Death, Desire, Destruction, and Destiny were interesting. I could not read Despair or Delirium. Perhaps that was the desired (pun not intended) effect or those stories because I felt the despair and the delirium trying to read more than 2 pages. Overall, 3.6/5 stars. The Dream short story deserves a 4.7/5 stars.

I could not get into Sandman Midnight Theatre and just skipped it. I didn’t like the art style at all and it didn’t feel like a Sandman story or belonging to the Sandman universe. 0.3/5 stars.

Overall score for this collection: 4/5 stars

[Ruz El · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one collecting Sandman stories that came around after the main series wrapped, and including two versions of one of the stories may seem slight on paper but I really enjoyed it. The prose story THE DREAM HUNTERS is an absolutely fantastic folktale that I would rate as good as anything in the main series. ENDLESS NIGHTS featuring stories on each of the members of the Endless family may be non-essential, but they were all memorable and enjoyable in the variety of styles presented. The comic adaption of DREAM HUNTERS isn't really necessary considering how good the original story book is but it manages to be a gorgeous comic in it's own right.

All in all, I really loved these five absolute editions, and rate the total experience 5 stars. I can see myself revisiting these again and again.

[Aaron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Arguably the finest artwork of the series, this encore presentation of ‘The Sandman’ series was an author’s dream (no pun intended) list of artists to celebrate this magnificent work. And, while the stories seemed to pale a bit in comparison to the art, they were no less entertaining and engaging than previous iterations. Gaiman is a master storyteller and that is on display in this volume, so much so that one of the stories is illustrated twice and I read it both times just to experience it, albeit with strikingly different art.

So, now that I’ve finished with ‘The Sandman’ (is it really finished? Time will tell.), I can say it is one of the finest graphic collections I’ve ever had the pleasure of experiencing. I do hope there’s more in the future.

[Shane · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic end to the original Sandman series, beautifully presented in the Absolute edition. As I've said in my reviews for other volumes in this series, I prefer these versions to the more recent Omnibus presentation. These Absolute editions are taller and broader, each book a little thinner, and to me, feel like what a premium Sandman experience should be more than Omnibus.

I give this book, and the entire Absolute Sandman series, the highest possible recommendation for fans of storytelling of the highest caliber. This is truly a comic book series as literature.

[Mallory · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a solid collection of Sandman extras. It was cool seeing every one of cosmic siblings get their own story in Endless Nights, but I do wish that some of them were a little more story-like and involved with the being they’re about. Despair’s installment was just fifteen vignettes about despair the concept, and nothing at all about Despair the personification of the concept. Delirium’s was almost as distanced as that. Destruction’s story was a proper story, but he was barely a part of it, and as a character who’s already quite shafted in the main series, I would have liked to see it more centered on him.

I also really loved The Dream Hunters. It’s a very gripping (if melancholy) Japanese fairytale of sorts. It works both as a Sandman story and as a stand-alone story.

[Couet13 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ce tome nous offre de magnifiques histoires riches en couleurs avec de beaux graphismes.
J'ai beaucoup aimé "Ramadan" qui nous transporte à Bagdad au temps de sa splendeur. Et que dire "des chasseurs de rêves" : Neil Gaiman nous emmène à l'époque du Japon médiéval. Un moine vit dans un petit temple oublié de tous, où il va côtoyer des êtres du monde fantastique. Ces deux histoires sont remplis d'humanité et vous font réfléchir sur les conséquences de nos actes.
Un volume riche et intense.

[Guilherme Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

O fim da saga Sandman (exceto o Overture, que vai ser o próximo haha) não decepciona. A história final, dos caçadores de sonhos, é lindamente ilustrada, incrível mesmo. Não há palavras nesse momento que eu posso utilizar para descrever toda a saga lida, apenas que vejo com muito mais profundidade o mundo dos sonhos.

[Ostap Bender · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tight story blending reality and a recurring dream, the great art one comes to expect in this series, humor, a really gross part that I won’t describe, and an understanding and acceptance of transgender people that was ahead of its time in 1991-1992.

[Abigail Bee · Rating 3 out of 5]

My favorite part about this final volume was how each of the Endless got their own story. The combination of the writing and the graphic art for each tales was unique and so painstakingly, beautifully done.

Now who's ready for the shoooow??

[Psychophant · Rating 5 out of 5]

The whole set up ends in an emotional bang. After all this we find we still feel for the cold guy.

With the previous works pushing it, it is the most homogeneous and coherent, and still surprising and moving.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow wow wow! This story of Barbie and Wanda and the cuckoo is dark and exciting and perfect.

[Rachel Redhead · Rating 3 out of 5]

some TERFiness and anti-trans sentiment, but some defiance to overcome such thinking too, there was a plot too, though that was the least interesting thing

[Sámuel Godó · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a Sandman fan it was a pleasure reading it.

[James Traxler · Rating 3 out of 5]

As someone else said here, Sandman odds and ends. Some nice artwork. The main fox and monk story is repeated in two versions herein - one in an illustrated short novel fashion, and one as a comic.

[Kishor · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I liked seeing the same story in two different art styles, it's still the same story... twice. I also wasn't a huge fan of the Sandman Midnight Theatre story. Endless Nights was great!