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| | Neil Gaiman's Sandman |
 | | Gaiman has gotten more attention from the mainstream press than anybody but Art Spiegelman, and while articles about MAUS tend to treat it as a unique object, articles about Gaiman usually mention other "new voices" in comics, and point out that his major work, SANDMAN, is by no means his only contribution to the field. |
 | | Gaiman would return to the kind of unflinching awfulness he presents here a few times later in the series, but this collection is almost unrelenting. |
 | | Gaiman uses this "tale of graceful ends," as he has Dream describe it, to comment on his own release from the bands of duty to the story, so that Prospero, Shakespeare, Dream and Neil Gaiman all come together, in the end, all bound together in the dream of storytelling, and the story of Dream. |
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