![]() ![]() Dream of the Endless – an impossibly old being who is also the living personification of dreams. ![]() The Sandman tells the tale of Morpheus – a.k.a. The Story Basics: Meet Morpheus and the Gang Why did it take so long? Let’s consider everything we know about The Sandman television series and unravel the story of its long gestation. As Gaiman recalls in various interviews, he was first asked about adapting The Sandman into a film in 1991 and the program will finally debut on Netflix in August. Its ideas, scope, and characters are also perfect for television adaptation, but it took a long time for the rights-holders to make that realization. The series became a massive success with readers outside the comic book marketplace and proved arty comics could work right alongside the superheroes. Also like Swamp Thing, it was pitched as a horror title, but grew into so much more. Like Swamp Thing before it, it was a reinvention of a relatively obscure DC character by an up-and-coming British talent – in this case, writer Neil Gaiman. “I will show you terror in a handful of dust” was the tagline DC Comics used to introduce its readers to The Sandman in 1988. ![]()
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