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I mean - come on.

I like the arcs in the comics and show, but the real standouts for me are the single episodes that contribute to the overall world building.

S1E11 is imo the best episode of the season because of how it really builds out the world. The cat's view of Dream and the ideas in that segment are really cool, and then Calliope is a twisted Black Mirror-esque horror anthology episode which adds a lot through the reappearance of the Kindly Ones, Orpheus' backstory etc. (Yes the parallels to Gaiman and his voice cameo make it more disturbing, I'm trying not to think about that stuff while watching).

I know they've said that the final season will focus solely on Dream's story but I hope they find a way to fit in more of the side stuff. The Nada backstory, Thermidor (rumoured iirc), and Song of Orpheus would all fit well within the show. I also think Worlds End should get an hour long episode but I know it's unlikely.

Honestly, i wonder how they gonna adapt the others in the Season 2. So far i can say about the ones we got

Dream is perfect in my opinion, he looks and feels like him, althought maybe he is a bit too ,,softer" than in the comic, and i miss a bit the glowing eyse (that one scene when he have them made me feel a bit anxious not gonna lie, i sometimes forget how unnerving he can be)

Death, again she is great, though i think she is more ,,motherly" than ,,your older sister" but either way, she feels like someone you could trust and someone who would help you

Desire...oh my, they are just 😘 i dont know how they found this actor but they are perfect, their voice make me hard to listen them on headphones i start to blush.

Despair...i dont realy like them. I enjoyed her in comic, but here she is...ok? I know they propably couldnt make her like in the comic but she feels just a bit boring, with others you can feel they are something powerfull and all that but she is just this weird woman

Its been 2 years, I have been religiously saving a credit for its drop.

Netflix released a sizzle reel for their upcoming shows at their 2025 Next on Netflix event.

https://youtu.be/l3awNa95Aw8

It features a bunch of their big shows that are returning in 2025 (Stranger Things, Squid Game, Wednesday, Cobra Kai, Emily in Paris, The Witcher, new Knives Out movie, etc).

The Sandman is NOT one of the featured shows. But it is mentioned. (It's at 2:34 between Ginny & Georgia and The Old Guard 2.)

I know a lot of people have been guessing that it will be released, but without a lot of publicity and fanfare, looks like that's probably right.

Ok so, i want to start to read comics involving him, and i wonder, what do you think about him? I suposse i enjoyed Morpheus when reading, i wonder if he feels much different from him (i mean, they are kind off the same thing but you know how it goes). I didnt realy have much strong opinion about him yet, in the main series he is literaly at the end, so i didnt realy grew any strong feelings towards him.

He is very beautyfull though, look at him. I suposse i prefer dark color pallet more, it gives Dream more misterious aura but this one is also nice, honestly more how i would see anthropomorfick embodiment of dreams.

Are these just alternate forms/depictions of Dream/Morpheus like when Martian Manhunter saw him as a deity from his people’s pantheon — or are they actually his counterparts from other universes?

You make the call.

I had been told that this series has a Tenchi Muyo reference in the form of graffiti art somewhere in the story? Can anyone share what page or chapter this is? I'm unsure if it's a character, spaceship, or maybe the small brown rabbit.

I already bought all of the comics before the controversy and I love the sandman series. I however despise Neil Gaiman for what he’s done.

Because it’s still fresh i can’t look at anything sandman without thinking about what Gaiman did, but if I got over that would it be ok for me to still enjoy what I already own?

I’m somewhere in the middle when it comes to having been a Gaiman fan. I greatly enjoyed Gaiman’s earlier work in comics, especially Sandman, which played a significant role in my life when I was in college and certainly did bring in a huge, untapped audience of diverse and interesting readers to comics.

I wasn’t as impressed by his novels; I thought Neverwhere and Good Omens were good, but not great, and I got a sense that he wasn’t doing a lot that was really new or different with his writing past that, so I largely tuned out after maybe ‘05 and moved on to other writers. I certainly had a lot of affection for the man until recently because his comics work enriched my undergraduate years, because I wrongly believed he was a morally decent guy, and because I like a lot of early Tori Amos.

In hindsight, were there clues that he didn’t live up to his clean image? Absolutely, but I didn’t follow his life closely enough to really parse them. I remember one person I know who’s done work in comics telling me “Gaiman’s got a reputation for being a slut”, but I didn’t think a lot about it, or really inquire into what that meant. Certainly, in hindsight, his politics now seem calculated and likely performative - I’m reminded of what one female writer once told me: “be wary of males who too loudly proclaim their feminism.”

I haven’t read any of his recent novels, so it won’t matter much to me if he stops publishing. Will I still enjoy Sandman? It will still be a key text in my life, and will continue to trigger meaningful personal associations when I think about it, but I’ll never be able to revisit it in the same way again. A lot of it certainly does seem much darker now; issue six, ‘24 Hours’, was the first Sandman issue I remember deeply moving me me - as a teenager I thought it was a pitch-dark commentary on humanity’s propensity to corruptly misuse power that could potentially heal or inspire, but now it seems more like an authorial confessional, with Gaiman subtly telling readers that while they may think of him as Morpheus, gothic king of stories, he’s actually the sadistic wretch Dee. I have yet to determine how much further I can stomach a Sandman reread, or whether I’ll be able to watch season 2 of the TV series. Part of me thinks about my rather neutral reaction to artists like Gauguin, a truly great talent who was a monster, and wonders if I can’t approach Gaiman the same way, and another part of me feels, perhaps not rationally, that an artist’s depravity hits harder when it’s one who’s work deeply informed my worldview and relative youth, and when I falsely believed the creator to be a decent human being, largely on the basis of a false, carefully crafted, mask of morality.

If somebody can exist in many different forms, can exist as many different person then if one of them is a parent for somebody else then are the others also the parent of that child as well!?

So if both Mother Night and Darkseid are the Great Darkness then is that mean Darkseid is the mother of The Endless!?

Hey I just finished the Sandman comics and bought the deluxe versions of the books (german hard cover version) and I wanted to keep it. But now I'm worried the value might drop and I put some Money into it. So should I sell or keep it?

Gaiman created lots of the characters and wrote a lot of the best stories, but it's still a shared universe. I recommend that everyone read or reread Alan Moore's run of Swamp Thing to see how closely Sandman picks up where that series left off. Even Morpheus himself was just the latest iteration of the DC legacy superhero The Sandman, and his replacement, Daniel, is the son of two DC legacy characters. He didn't create Lyta or Hector Hall (or Destiny, Cain, Able, and the list goes on). There have been plenty of problematic writers in DC and Vertigo over the decades, just like every other shared universe or ongoing series.

A lot of discussions have taken place in recent years about how writers contributing to shared universes shouldn't be treated as work-for-hire, just making money for their bosses, because these characters don't belong to Warner Bros. But they don't belong to Neil Gaiman either. They belong to the fans.

So after all the allegations, I wonder if the publishers will continue to reprint sandman omnibus or absolutes? I haven't read sandman and I really want to. Therefore should I buy it know or it will be always in stock ?

So, I’m not sure if I’m imagining this or not, so if someone could confirm, I’d be grateful

When Season 2 was announced, I vividly remember there being a confirmation line on Netflix when you clicked on the show, which said ‘Confirmed: another season is coming!’ Even after filming was confirmed to have finished late last year, I remember this still being there

I was on the app on my tv earlier, and whilst shows like Wednesday & Stranger Things still have this message, it no longer appear for The Sandman

Assuming I didn’t imagine it ever being there, do we think it’s possible after the latest accusation against Gaiman, Netflix is possibly delaying the release of the next season?

I didn't realize when I first read the Hector Hall story that he was actually the previous comic version of the Sandman hero. And that by Gaiman making him exist in Jed Walker's head he tied the previously existing story into his version. It's pretty clever in a way.

However the way the Hector Hall character is written by Gaiman is pretty ridiculous. He's like a ridiculous macho guy in an overly simplified world, hence him actually being tricked to think he's the Sandman by Brute and Glob. Then Gaiman's Sandman comes along and makes this 'ghost' disappear. In a way it's Gaiman displaying the absolute 'superiority' of his character and world.

I find this blatantly disrespectful to the previous comic writer. Which can be a choice a writer makes, but it's definitely not in line with the 'kind guy' persona Gaiman apparently cultivated in the public eye before.

Hey, I was wondering, if Endless show up in any way or form as cameo somewhere else? Could you give me some examples? Outside of DC, you know, like in a game, show whatever, I would like to know them.

(On the side note, I don't know if it is just me but why posts disappear? I saw two new one yesterday and they are gone? Is something happening here I don't know about?)