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Dec 21, 2015rswcove rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Neil Gaiman said in his foreward to this book that he was acutely aware of his age and felt like an aging supergroup band dragged out for a reunion tour that would make money regardless how bad the performance was. Good News. In this case, the reunion tour turns out to not be a greatest hits tours, but a new and startlingly masterful new album- in the form of the story to explain what Dream of the Endless was doing when he was captured at the beginning of the first volume of the original Sandman series. The book stands alone, but new readers should probably start at Preludes and Nocturnes, as this book does have a certain revival - greatest hits quality to it. Not in a pandering way, but because so much great mythology is on the table, and Gaiman can safely assume that most readers have read Sandman before reading this. Gaiman is simply choosing to use all the great world building that he did over the complete run of Sandman. Credit also needs to be given to J.H. Williams. his artowrk is a revelation and perfectly suited to the rigors of Sandman's bizarre and hypermythic story style. The book is true to it's predecessors. The book answers old questions by creating new ones, as a book for the Sandman series should do. The story is satisfying, and surprising and compelling. In short, this story is as close to a masterpiece as one is going to get these days.