Issue Description

Explore the vibrant dreams of Rose Walker's peculiar roommates in this mind-bending issue that explains exactly why Rose has been intertwined with the Dream King's newest adventure.

In this story we see Rose Walker has returned from the hotel which featured in the collectors and has returned to in the Inn which is owned by Hal the crossdresser. We are informed that her brother has been checked into the hospital and is in a bad way, despite his young age he is suffering from a concussion and is extremely dehydrated.

Rose speaks breifly with the other lodgers before turning in to bed but despite her overwhealming tiredness she cannot sleep. The pannels take is downstairs and we see Hal is dreaming, he dreams of Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland, they have a secret to tell him. he hears them whisper as he wakes briefly and loses what they said, again he see Judy Garland, but this time she removes her own face. Again we see Rose tossing and turning in bed, as a voice speaks, telling her to forget and to sleep. We see Gilbert as he approaches Jed's hospital bed.

Meanwhile stood high above a dream vortex that is Rose Walker stands Dream and Matthew, Dream tells Matthew to visit the hospital, and explains there is something about Rose he does not understand. Next we are drawn into Kens dream, his dream is filled with dirty sex, even the s' are dollar signs. Below we see Barbies dream, she is in her own world, she is taking a mystical journey, she speaks to a dream creature Martin Tenbones, and she speaks of the Cuckoo and the porpentine. Now we are inside Chantal's dream, confused, mixed up words about stories float around, Zelda speaks and begins to tell a tale. Hal is dreaming again, he dreams of Robert a lover, his song is playing as they kiss.

As everyone dreams, Rose watches them somehow, lucid, aware that she is dreaming, yet it somehow seems real. Above them all she can feel them, aware of their dream worlds and their places in them. Cantal dreams to block out her own memories, Barbie dreams of a rich world full of life, Ken still seeks money, sex and most of all power, and she see's Hal, seeking identity and love. Now we see everyone is awake, they all react as if it was simultaneous. Hal moves up the stairs torch in hand to check on Rose, she is gone, and somehow he is not surprised. We see Roses mother stood over unity in her weakening moments, she asks her daughter if Rose would like the doll house. Roses mother cries to herself.

We are now with Rose again, she is flying with Dream high above a canyon he sets her down on a rock as they talk. Meanwhile Matthew has reached the hospital, there he finds Gilbert as they are introduced to one another. Matthew reveals he was once a man and Gilbert reveals that he was once a dream. Matthew also tells Gilbert that Rose is a vortex, Gilbert knows the only way Dream ever dealt with a vortex was to terminate its existence.

Again we see Ken's dream of Money, and Barbie has reached "The porpentine" with Martin Tenbones. Chantal has fallen in love with a sentence, but cannot read it. Zelda is in a graveyard, she speaks of her childhood, Chantal is there, they converse and Chantal lifts up her veil to reveal a spiders head, Zleda is somewhat relieved.

Now all dreams are on, the vortex swirls in the middle and they all see Rose as she dreams in the center of the swirling mass.

Dream says enough, he wakes her. He tells her of the damage she has done, though he can repair it, and finally that it is time for them to talk.

The Sandman (1989)

Publisher

Vertigo

Volume Description

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The award-winning Sandman follows the return of Dream, the personification of hopes and dreams, to his domain after being trapped and held prisoner for 70 years and his quest to regain the powers he once possessed. It also follows his family, known as the Endless.

The concept of The Sandman emerged from Neil Gaiman's idea to revive Jack Kirby's 1970's Sandman series after his Black Orchid mini series at DC Editor Karen Berger suggested he keep the Sandman name but create the rest of the series entirely from scratch. Using ideas he had of a character that lived in dreams, Gaiman created the character of Morpheus, a literal take on the folklore concept of the Sandman and a personification of dreaming itself. With this, Gaiman revived several dormant DC horror and mystery characters and populated his world of The Dreaming with them. The series soon evolved beyond its DC Universe horror origins and became one of the most critically acclaimed fantasy comic series of all time, regularly outselling its superhero counterparts toward its end and introducing comics to whole new audiences outside of the comics mainstream. The collected editions have been reprinted numerous times and remain best sellers for DC/Vertigo.

The series was originally a DC book, but was one of the original titles moved onto the new Vertigo label with issue #47. Gaiman ended the series at 75 issues, but the run also included The Sandman Special (1991).

Spin-Offs

The series proved so popular that numerous spin-off titles were written, both by Gaiman and those that emerged after Gaiman's initial series ended. They include:

The Dead Boy Detectives (Original Graphic Novel)Dead Boy Detectives (Ongoing Series)Death: The Time of Your Life (Mini-Series)Death: The High Cost of Living (Mini-Series)Death: At Death's Door (Original Graphic Novel)Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook (Original Graphic Novel)Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold (Mini-Series)The Dreaming (Ongoing Series) The Dreaming Special (One Shot)The Girl Who Would Be Death (Mini-Series)God Save the Queen (Original Graphic Novel)House of Mystery (Ongoing Series) House of Mystery Halloween Annual (Annual)Mythos: The Final Tour (mini-series)Little Endless Storybook (Original Graphic Novel)Lucifer (Ongoing Series)Sandman: Book of Dreams (Prose Anthology)The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (Illustrated Novella)The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (Mini-Series)The Sandman: Endless Nights (Original Graphic Novel)Sandman Midnight Theater (One-Shot )The Sandman: Overture (Prequel Mini-Series)The Sandman Presents: Bast (Mini-Series)The Corinthian: Death in Venice (Mini-Series)The Dead Boy Detectives (Mini-Series)Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams but Were Afraid to Ask (One-Shot)The Furies (Original Graphic Novel)Lucifer (Mini-Series)Love Street (Mini-Series)Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of DREAM (One-Shot)Petrefax (Mini-Series)The Thessaliad (Mini-Series)Thessaly: Witch for Hire (Mini-Series)WitchCraft (Mini-Series)WitchCraft: La Terreur (Mini-Series)

*ongoing series are in bold

Trade Paperbacks/Hardcovers

The entirety of the Sandman series collected, albeit out of chronological order, in both soft and hardcover formats. The most recent printings have had their interior art recolored. (This recoloring originally premiered in the Absolute Editions years earlier and was approved by Gaiman.)

Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (#01-08)Vol. 2: The Doll's House (#09-16)Vol. 3: Dream Country (#17-20)Vol. 4: Season of Mists (#21-28)Vol. 5: A Game of You (#32-37)Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections (#29-31, 38-40, 50, Sandman Special #1, and "Fear of Falling" from Vertigo Preview #1)Vol. 7: Brief Lives (#41-49)Vol. 8: World's End (#51-56)Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones (#57-69 and "The Castle" from Vertigo Jam #1)Vol. 10: The Wake (#70-75)Absolute Editions

Oversized hardcover re-releases that re-colored and collected the entire series chronologically for the first time. Comes packaged in a special slipcase.

Absolute Sandman Vol. 1 (#01-20)Absolute Sandman Vol. 2 (#21-39)Absolute Sandman Vol. 3 (#40-56, Sandman Special #1 and "Fear of Falling" from Vertigo Preview #1)Absolute Sandman Vol. 4 (#57-75 and "The Castle" from Vertigo Jam #1)Absolute Sandman Vol. 5 (The Sandman: Endless Nights, The Sandman: Dream Hunters (Illustrated Novella), The Sandman: Dream Hunters (Comic Adaptation), Sandman Midnight Theatre)Annotated Editions

The original series collected and accompanied by page-by-page annotations by Leslie S. Klinger.

The Annotated Sandman Vol. 1 (#01-20)The Annotated Sandman Vol. 2 (#21-39)The Annotated Sandman Vol. 3 (#40-56, Sandman Special #1 and "How They Met Themselves" from Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3)Omnibuses

Massive oversized collections of the original series.

Vol. 1 (#1-37 and The Sandman Special #1Vol. 2 (#38-75 and stories from Vertigo Jam #1 and Vertigo: Winter’s Edge #3

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