This won a World Fantasy Award at the time, the first and only comic to ever win it. It was alright but I am not familiar with the play, so I didn’t catch all the references. He’s a moody guy.Īnd there’s the story where he inspires Shakespeare to write A Midsummer Night’s Dream and then invites the lords of faerie to watch the show with him. We saw something similar in the first volumes with another woman who Sandman can’t forgive. In typical Gaiman emo goth fashion, Sandman used to have some sort of relationship with Calliope but is now moping around and can’t forgive her for something, for leaving him perhaps. Gaiman would make more work of that in future volumes. The first story brings in one of the muses from old Greek mythology, Calliope, who calls Sandman by his old name Oneiros, again showing us that this Sandman person is a universal personification and not just some local deity. In this volume, which is pretty short and only holds four short stories, Gaiman further embeds his Sandman character into classical and mythological literature.
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