![]() Over the course of the first season (which faithfully adapts the first two collected editions of the comic, Preludes and Nocturnes and The Doll’s House), he sets out to reclaim his totems and recapture the living nightmares who have been wreaking havoc in the waking world. ![]() Finally escaping in the present day, Morpheus finds the Dreaming a wreck and must set right all that’s gone wrong during his confinement. As the series opens in 1916, he is captured by a group of occultists, who steal his magical totems - a pouch of sleeping sand, an insectoid helmet, and a ruby - and then leave him imprisoned for over 100 years. The title character, Morpheus (Tom Sturridge), is the personification of imagination itself and the ruler of the Dreaming, where all humans go as they sleep. Sadly, though shepherded by Gaiman as a producer and writer, the show carries the ethos of the comic but little of its verve. Now, after decades of previous failed attempts, a television adaptation of the series has come courtesy of Netflix. ![]() A dark, weird, sometimes scary, sometimes funny fantasy epic, its many stories demonstrate the breadth of creativity that would make Gaiman a beloved author. Written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by a host of the most talented artists on the comics scene at the time, the 1989-1996 series helped put the Vertigo imprint on the map and was one of the medium’s earliest crossover hits with the mainstream. The Sandman is one of the greatest and most important works in the graphic fiction canon. ![]()
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