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Hello! I was recently given The Sandman World’s End by a friend and am unsure if I can read it without any previous knowledge of the series or if I should pass it on as well. Thanks!

Hello everyone ! I'm making a Sandman playlist that I'd like to make public. I have added all the songs i related to my favorite characters, or that just reminded me of Sandman. But i'm pretty much out of ideas. (i'm not a big music listener.) So if anyone wants to share their thoughts, what are songs that you connect to a character, a volume, an episode, etc...? (This is mostly to make a playlist to share online, i have a lot of Sandman playlist i dont share 😭 If i do this it's also for y'all to have way to share your thoughts about your favorite characters, issues etc..thru/by giving (and maybe explain your opinions if you'd like to) songs:))

Do the first 4 trades contain the main story I got off the netflix show so I first want to dip my toes and see if I actually like the main story enough to buy the other stuff

The Batman Adventures #5, 1993

Destiny defines free will

Death defines life

Dream defines reality

Destruction defines creation

Despair defines Hope

Delirium defines sanity

But does Desire really define hatred?

This is the only one I have trouble with because it doesn't feel right. Desire is the act of wanting and the opposite of wanting is not hatred at least not to me. The opposite of wanting should be not wanting, a.k.a satisfaction.

Does anyone else think Destruction might have gotten it wrong when it comes to Desire or was he correct in his theory?

Hello all,

I have settled on collecting Sandman through the omnibus route, but I'm a little confused/ concerned as to where I should purchase the first volume.

I am in the UK and Waterstones has volume one for £136, but Amazon has it for less than £80. Waterstones is a reputable bookstore. Is the Amazon offer too good to be true? Any advice on where to purchase would be much appreciated.

Dream mentioned that he failed to save a universe and it was destroyed (or something to that effect). Was he referring to the cat universe?

*Auto correct, the title is meant to be MY take on the Endless order and why it needs to be that order but for some reason auto correct made it MAKE instead of MY*

Destiny and Death are the inevitable of the Endless.

Destiny is Destiny and defines free will and Death is death and defines life. Each one of these are an inevitable because everyone has a destiny, everyone has choices (at least for the most part) inside that destiny and everyone lives and dies.

Death and Destiny are inevitable because one can't exist without them and nor can the younger five Endless.

Dream is the creative force between our life and death.

Dream is unreality which covers a whole range of things like Dreams, nightmares, memories, imagination, Subconscious and unconscious thought, stories, day dreams, archetypes and so on. He is also the collective unconscious. He in turn also defines reality.

He is the reason for how we're shaped both personally and how are world is shaped and created. If Destiny is our beginning and Death is our End then Dream is our middle between the two.

Dream though isn't an inevitable like the older two because reality can exist without Dream or any of the younger endless but it would be stagnant and without any meaning. Without Dream we would be robots who do nothing but live and die. He is the reason we keep on living, too keep on creating and to make things more interesting.

Destruction is the cycle that keeps Creation and destruction going. Like reality could survive without Dream, Creation can survive without destruction just as long as Dream lives but it would also mean stagnation because Destruction is he notion of change. He is the reason things can and so constantly change. Why we ourselves are constantly changing.

Dream and Destruction are important and something everyone does. They are both constants in our lives.

Then we come to the youngest three of the Endless who are all important in their own way but not everyone experiences them or at least not all the time.

Desire is Desire and in turn defines hatred though I think satisfaction might fit better here though I will stick to the comics. desire and dreams can also seem very similar on the surface and so many times I have seen people ask why isn't Desire more powerful than Dream or why isn't Desire more older? And the answer is because Dream is a lot more than the act of wanting and is the inspiration behind the things we create out of nothing while Desire is the wanting behind things that already exist.

One can dream and inspire to find a way to fly which brings forth creations like the aeroplane but one Desires to travel on that aeroplane once it's already built. But if that Aeroplane didn't exist then we wouldn't desire to have it or rather travel on it but we can still dream and inspire to create that aeroplane one day.

But Desire is the reason we make more of something, the reason for our ambitions. But we don't want all the time and we don't hate all the time. I can want something one moment and go without wanting anything else for a few hours. I can hate someone one moment but that hate will most likely fade over time.

Desire is the almost but not quite constant in our lives.

Despair, Desire's twin is the of course Despair and in turn she defines Hope. She is when our dreams and desires don't work out and life has hit rock bottom. But not everyone experiences despair or even her opposite hope. We despair when all is lost and hope when there's a glimmer that something can be saved.

Despair and Delirium are maybe's in our lives but doesn't always happen in the confines of our lives.

So while Death and Destiny are inevitable. Dream and Destruction are something we can't help but do. Desire we don't do all the time but we do still do on a regular basis. Despair and Delirium are things we might not experience in our life times at all or even their opposites but not everyone experiences hope and not there are some people in the world that don't experience sane thought or at least sane thought to what the larger society excepts as sane thought or not.

So I think this is why the Endless are the order they are.

I m just binging this show and I'm at ep 8 and I feels like 2 seasons plot is shoved in one, which is contrary to new Web series format And also it feels wierd

Like season 1 should ve been ended with ep 6 and they should start fresh with vortex line in season 2

In the episode where the muse of inspiration is captured, when she calls to Morpheus its, Morpheus but when she talks to him personally she called him oneiros or something, the name of their child... I'm confused by this inconsistency, she calls him the name of their child instead of Morpheus or dream

Is there any specifics on why that is?

I mean we know Acts IV and V have been recorded so it makes sense that he’s not actively working on them but given the recent revelations about Neil and the fact that he narrates the books, things are looking grim to me.

Hi everyone :) I've searched all the tags I could think of but I just can't find this fanfic I read a while back! Basically, Dream comes to visit Hob while absolutely furious because he has learned of Calliope's imprisonment and is unable to help (because of laws around how the Endless can interact with humans). He tells Hob about it and Hob goes to free Calliope. He breaks into the house and threatens the kidnapper until he agrees to let Calliope go. I think Hob and Calliope talk about Dream a bit, too. Thank you for reading! And I hope someone knows the fic I am talking about, I really liked it!

https://x.com/SandmanNews/status/1852106633373184189

With Garry Cooper previously annoinced as Hades, we now have Hades and Persephone.

So I just finished the golden boy story. I really liked it, but what was the message? Is it a critique on american politics from that time?

Okay so im just learning that there was a not really but kinda sorta soft reboot in 2018. And ive learned that basically all 10 vol sandman by neil are canon so are neils other writings in the universe but, What about the rest like the 20 something vol of hellblazer is that canon or the old lucifer run how about that? Or can i just start the newest hellblazer and the new lucifer run??

What was your favorite episode of season 1 for me it’s the sound of her wings

I am Brazilian and am reading the Portuguese physical version and it's literally just a font.

Like, if Lord Morpheus truly does control the subconscious of every creature in existence, could he tap into the Joker's, or any other crazy individual in DC's, subconscious and like, uncrazy them?

I mean, I don't know about the comics, but in the TV show, it was certainly shown how he sort of uncrazied those serial killers in that convention of theirs, Or am I simply interpreting that scene wrong?

What do ya'll think?

We've seen shapeshifters and men with eyes made of teeth we've also seen elves and sentient jack,o,lanterns whats the limit? Can dream create something capable of surpassing him? We saw that a mortal seemingly nearly killed him with the amulet was that a real threat?

Hi. This is from the Writer's Guild of America site, I thought it might at least give people a bit of info:

https://directories.wga.org/project/1217265/the-sandman/

Confirmations from this:

Season 2 is 12 episodes.

Writers are confirmed as below. The right hand date is, I think, when the info was uploaded to the WGA website

|| || |2 - 1|Episode 2-1|Teleplay by: Allan Heinberg|03/27/2024| |2 - 2|Episode 2-2|Teleplay by: Ameni Rozsa|03/27/2024| |2 - 3|Episode 2-3|Teleplay by: Alexander Wise|03/27/2024| |2 - 4|Episode 2-4|Teleplay by: Austin Guzman|03/27/2024| |2 - 5|Episode 2-5|Teleplay by: Shadi Petosky|03/27/2024| |2 - 6|Episode 2-6|Teleplay by: Jim Campolongo|03/28/2024| |2 - 7|Episode 2-7|Teleplay by: Vanessa Benton|09/10/2024| |2 - 8|Episode 2-8|Teleplay by: Jay Franklin|09/10/2024| |2 - 9|Episode 2-9|Teleplay by: Greg Goetz|09/10/2024| |2 - 10|Episode 2-10|Teleplay by: Marina Marlens|09/10/2024| |2 - 11|Episode 2-11|Teleplay by: Allan Heinberg|09/10/2024| |2 - 12|Episode 2-12|Teleplay by: Neil Gaiman & Allan Heinberg|09/13/2024|