Having the stories play out simultaneously gives us a solid A plot and B plot as our protagonist and our antagonist hunt down Dream's magical tools, teasing the inevitable showdown.Įpisode 6, 'The Sound of Her Wings,' is a less effective attempt at combining comic storylines. Episode 4, titled 'A Hope in Hell,' follows Dream's journey to Hell to find his helm to up the dramatic tension, this episode incorporates the storyline from Passengers, the issue of the comics following A Hope in Hell, wherein John Dee (David Thewlis) escapes from a mental institution to find Dream's ruby. In some cases, this works better than others. It mostly takes a 'one issue per episode' approach, but at only 10 episodes long, some storylines had to be moved around. Season 1 of The Sandman follows the comics' first 16 issues, which includes arcs from both Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll's House. Dead Boy Detectives #1 (of 6) debuts December 27, and the fifth volume in the massive new DC Sandman reprint project is coming February 7 - collecting The Sandman: Endless Nights, Sandman MIdnight Theater #1, and the prose edition of The Sandman: Dream Hunters.Death and Dream have a chat. That would certainly be a good place to continue this teasing.Ĭan't stand the wait? The six issues of Nightmare Country are on sale now, with a hardcover collection due out April 4.

On November 22, DC is organizing an exclusive virtual Q&A for comic book shops with the writers behind Nightmare Country and Dead Boy Detectives, James Tynion IV and Pornsak Pichetshote respectively. Look for more information in the coming weeks.

Heaven knows, Lucien isn't returning our calls asking for a library card.īut given DC already has one new Sandman Universe comic books in production, it's easy to assume there could be room for a second - or a third. At the least possibly this future features more collections of out-of-print Sandman and Sandman-adjacent comics from the '90s and '00s. What could this be? Let's not set our hopes too high just yet, as there's a myriad of possibilities to choose from. In a message sent out privately to comic shop managers, DC spoke about those two series but also portended something else, referring to 'the as-yet-unrevealed future of the Sandman Universe, unfolding in 2023' That's in addition to the recent Nightmare Country limited series (which was originally announced as an ongoing), and the Dead Boy Detectives limited series debuting in December 2022. It seems good news comes in pairs, as just days after Netflix officially greenlit a second season of the live-action Sandman TV series, we have the glimmer of more Sandman comics in the new year.

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