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	The Sandman (DC Comics Modern Age) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sandman was a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics for 75 issues from 1988 until 1996.
		A Game of You (collecting The Sandman #32-37, 1991-1992): Barbie, a New York divorcee, travels to the magical realm that she once inhabited in her dreams, only to find that it is being threatened by the forces of the Cuckoo.
		Sandman also helped popularize individual typescripts for the word balloons of certain characters, a technique that had been used in Cerebus the Aardvark and scattered other places.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sandman_(DC_Comics_Modern_Age) (1978 words)

	Thessaly (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thessaly is a fictional character in the Sandman comic book stories.
		She is the last of the millennia-old witches of Thessaly, who makes her first appearance in A Game of You.
		Thessaly is driven more by her ego than her desire to help a friend in need.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thessaly_(Sandman) (290 words)

	Who Killed Dream of the Endless?
		Before Sandman and the Vertigo line of comics, she was a mainstay in the DC Universe as the Amazonian daughter of an alternate Earth's Wonder Woman.
		Her physical body is provided protection by the witch-woman Thessaly while her mental self joins the Kindly Ones to destroy the Dreaming and its master.
		Thessaly warns her that the quest to destroy Dream has made her many enemies, so she is forced into hiding until Daniel, now a manifestation of Dream assures her that he will watch over her to keep her safe.
	comic-academic.00server.com /suspects.html (8572 words)

	Comixfan Forums - View Single Post - THESSALY: WITCH FOR HIRE #1 REVIEW
		The conversation between Thessaly and Fetch is reminiscent of Willingham’s Snow White and Prince Charming, with the somewhat goofy Fetch presenting his wild and crazy scheme to the ruthlessly practical Thessaly.
		Thessaly, with her big round glasses and librarian looks, never looked like a millennia-old witch who’d kill a god if it were in her best interests, and McManus has made her look even more harmless here.
		Thessaly seems more "real" than her supporting cast: Like Fetch, the Italian townspeople have a more cartoonish quality to them, while Thessaly is usually quite detailed; she often looks like an escapee from a John Byrne book.
	www.comixfan.com /xfan/forums/showpost.php?p=729932&postcount=1 (792 words)

	Printer Friendly: The Sandman Presents: Thessaly Witch for Hire #2 Review - Silver Bullet Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thessaly fulfills Fetch’s latest mission for her, even as she keeps him under restraint.
		This issue it’s a hungry genie cornered in a diner, and Thessaly’s way of enrapturing the diner-folk (which recalls an early Sandman story involving a particularly gruesome day in a diner) is wonderfully presented through both image and dialogue.
		And the disparity between her lithe, girlish form (not to mention all the charming nick-nacks she carts around on her travels) and her immortal might is a principle source of the dark humor that powers this series.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/107926617498580,print.htm (398 words)

	TheFourthRail.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thessaly, one of the darker characters of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, seems an odd choice for this tone, but in fact she serves as a great "straight man" (if you will) for the magical hijinks that fill the book.
		Even Thessaly, for all her cold demeanor, demonstrates a dry sense of humor.
		Gaiman created a wide variety of characters, all of whom have potential for stories of different types, and though I'd just as soon see something original from this creative team, they have taken an established character and crafted something original around her, which is almost as good.
	www.thefourthrail.com /reviews/snapjudgments/010702/sandmanpresentsthethessaliad1.shtml (478 words)

	Thessaly - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sandman Presents, The: Thessaly - Witch for Hire (Sandman Presents)
		Achilleion: A Neolithic Settlement in Thessaly Greece 6500 5600 B C (Monumenta Archaeologica (Univ of Calif-La, Inst of Archaeology))
		Early pottery in Greece: A technological and functional analysis of the evidence from Neolithic Achilleion, Thessaly (Studies in Mediterranean archaeology)
	www.greece-hotels.greekfiles.com /greece_books.php?term=Thessaly (90 words)

	virtualdebris: [ Review ] The Sandman Presents: Thessaly, Witch For Hire (07-Oct-2004)
		Thessaly (a pseudonym) is a pragmatic, ruthless witch who's at least three thousand years old, and was one of the Thessalian witches of ancient Greece.
		Though far from wantonly violent, Thessaly has survived the millennia by revenging herself with lethal consequence upon anyone who tries to harm her.
		Willingham's script is lively, nicely balanced between dialogue and art, and doesn't suffer from the decompression phenomena afflicting a lot of ongoing modern comic series—each part is rounded in itself, as well as forming part of a greater whole.
	virtualdebris.co.uk /weblog/index.php?start=87 (836 words)

	the sandman quotes .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and that the old men are too wise to learn.
		Noah's raven, in SANDMAN #65: "The Kindly Ones:9"
		I'm not one to gossip, but there are things crusted on his sink that have not simply developed intelligent life but have in all probability by now evolved their own political systems.
	the-sandman.quotes.ms (5334 words)

	Otaku Fridge - Boards > Who am I? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There seems to be nothing in all the Sandman volumes telling the readers how she died.
		The Sandman is a treasure throve of stories, but a lot of these stories are left untold.
		I haven't seen Thessaly in a physical brawl, but aside from Mazikeen's fighting abilities, I think she can put up a pretty mean stand when it comes to blood magic.
	ob.otakufridge.com /lofiversion/index.php/t2445-300.html (1755 words)

	Simple Archive Page for Roscoe's Comics: 04 March AD 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is their neighbor, Thessaly, who wants to know if they're okay, if they've had any bad dreams.
		Since Wanda (a transexual) is bigger and stronger than the rest, Thessaly asks her to carry Barbie upstairs to George's room.
		Wanda, Hazel, and Foxglove now know that Thessaly is something like a witch, which Thessaly freely admits, and she's using her powers to force them to stay.
	www.arellis.net /rc05mar04.html (1057 words)

	Sandman Presents: Thessaly Witch for Hire #3 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		Thessaly comes back from a six-year quest for answers against the doom Fetch has brought upon her.
		Thessaly has apparently attracted a Tharmic Null, the embodied colossal representation of instant doom (he looks a lot like Omega, an old ogre an insane Braniac 5 once dreamed up in Starlin’s Legion run), as her fate, and there’s nothing she can do about it.
		A sequence of her prehistoric origin is especially provocative and unusually sexy and violent for the now restrained, jaded ancient girl she’s become.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/108154771680680.htm (423 words)

	Mutant Liberation Front - Sandman Questions
		Thessaly (the super old but very young looking witch) goes with, um, what are their names, er...those punker lesbian women into the dreaming in "A Game of You" to rescure Barbara and meets Morpheus there for the second time.
		Morpheus of course shows up in Thessaly's apartment where the two have a bit of a fight and he realizes that he can do nothing to changeThessaly's mind (ie; to break the blood circle and allow Dream to stop Daniel's mom from destroying the dreaming).
		It is there that we can confirm Thessaly and Dream's relationship when Thessaly talks about how Dream "nervously courted her" and how she realized that she never actually loved him.
	www.sketchyorigins.com /comics/showthread.php?t=7333 (1671 words)

	Where Do Broken Vertis Go?, The Thessaliad #1-4, Midnight, Mass, Watchmen, Conclusion (ADD Review)
		Thessaly is almost never rattled, and the sardonic banter between the two under circumstances varying from a fascinating mystical train-ride to brutal, supernatural attack is never less than riveting.
		I especially love the fact that we see Thessaly's power and true age through her matter-of-fact approach to virtually every challenge that is thrown in her path.
		Thessaly, too, I have to say, is indeed the cutie that she is declared at one point, and I have to say that I'd be more than happy to lay down a couple-three bucks on a regular series by these same creators.
	www.simpleweblog.com /comics/addreviews/reviews_archive_052902.php (1572 words)

	Articles - Sandman spinoffs - icsf
		Well, the good news is that although the Sandman series itself has finished, there have been several spinoffs, which continue to explore that world.
		A 3 issue mini-series, which features Foxglove and Hazel (from Sandman: A Game of You), who go on a quest with Death to barter for the life of their daughter.
		Basic plot is that Edwin and Charles (the two dead schoolboys from Sandman: Season of Mists) have set up a detective agency, and they investigate the mysterious disappearance of various children.
	www.union.ic.ac.uk /scc/icsf/library/resources/sandman_spinoffs.html (1457 words)

	Sandman Annotations
		During World War II, many women drew their stocking seams with eyeliner pencil, due to a shortage of nylon.
		In that case, her participation in the rites of the Thessalian witches may have less to do with her character than it appears.
		Panel 7: The slug is, by implication, the tongue of George, which was animated by Thessaly's spell.
	www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de /~hildeb/sandman/annotations/sandman.37.shtml (1507 words)

	The Trades - Entertainment Industry Analysis
		Thessaly was first introduced in Neil Gaiman's Sandman story, "A Game Of You." Since then, and beyond the conclusion of the series, she has remained one of the more enigmatic and compelling characters to continue on with other stories.
		The opening to this mini finds Thessaly living in Italy, trying to just coast by as usual--only to come home with her groceries and find that once again, her home has been invaded, this time by a Naga beast that spews forth hundreds of frogs upon its expiration.
		But this time things are different--because Thessaly finally discovers the reason behind the rash of attacks, all of which tie back to her previous connection with with a composite ghost named Fetch, and his newest idea to become a monster dispatcher.
	www.the-trades.com /column_print.php?columnid=2319 (441 words)

	The Comic Treadmill: The Sandman Presents: Thessaly, Witch For Hire #1 (2004)
		A quick search through The Sandman TPB list over at Amazon.com proved me wrong: I learn that I never read A Game of You or Worlds' End.
		The art's deceptive: McManus's light style makes Thessaly appear much less powerful than she really is. When we meet Thessaly in an Italian market, she appears visually (and verbally) like a scatter-brained college student.
		The first Thessaly miniseries can be found in the Taller Tales trade paperback, which collects all the Sandman-universe stories by Bill Willingham.
	www.comictreadmill.com /CTMBlogarchives/2004/2004_Individual/2004_02/000279.php?action=results&poll_ident=4 (473 words)

	Sandman Annotations
		The Annotated Sandman Edited by Ralf Hildebrandt and largely written by Greg Morrow Issue 34: "Bad Moon Rising" Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran, George Pratt and Dick Giordano Third part of storyline _A Game of You_ Not yet reprinted in any other form Title: _A Game of You_ clearly refers to the question of identity.
		Page 12-13: Thessaly's flaying of George's face is taken directly from the practices of Greek witches, as reported by the third century AD Latin writer Apuleius, in "The Golden Ass".
		Since ovulation is a lynchpin in the menstrual cycle, and since the supply of eggs in the human female is finite and in the hundreds or thousands, it is no surprise that Thessaly has stopped menstruating, even though she retains apparent youth.
	www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de /~hildeb/sandman/annotations/sandman.34.shtml (1777 words)

	The Unofficial Thessaly Biography
		The last of the Thessalian witches (Thessaly is a region, infamous for its witches during ancient times), the woman calling herself Thessaly is still alive and poses as an intellectual (or 'geeky') girl on Earth.
		Sometimes calling herself Larissa, Thessaly is possibly identical with the original Larissa, the daughter of king Pelasgus of Argos.
		(Larissa had a town in the region of Thessaly named after her.) Thessaly/Larissa had a brief love relation with Morpheus the Sandman, and was partly responsible for his death and rebirth as Daniel.
	www.dcuguide.com /profile.php?name=thessaly (228 words)

	The Sandman: A Game of You - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gaiman often says that he considers the Sandman collections to have genders, as each seems clearly to be more liked by one gender than another; he considers A Game of You to be female, since many female fans consider it the best Sandman collection but few male fans do.
		This is a land which at first glance appears to have drawn on every available fantasy cliche, most clearly the Chronicles of Narnia series.
		Its ending is one of the most hauntingly poignant parts of the whole series, as Barbie heads west to attend Wanda's funeral in the disapproving rural society where she was born, as Alvin.
	www.iridis.com /The_Sandman:_A_Game_of_You (395 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gaiman pushes these worlds to their very extremes--one is a fantasy world with talking animals, a missing princess, and a mysterious villain called the Cuckoo; the other is an urban microcosm inhabited by a drag queen, a punk lesbian couple, and a New York doll named Barbie.
		The standard line repeated regarding "The Sandman" is that it's one of the rare graphic novels that girls read just as often as boys.
		I think this is one of the rare Sandman Chronicles that you could read all by itself without having had read any others in the series.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563890895?v=glance (2605 words)

	Layer that May Be Described as Emergent: The Sandman #5: A Game of You
		What's just happened is that Thessaly (the one with the big glasses) has just summoned the Moon, who doesn't appear to be very happy.
		It seems like the depiction of the Moon's been influenced by the idea that God is three but also one, with the threefold facial features, and the echoes in the central frame.
		When Thessaly says, 'you are mine to disperse of, mine to command,' the Moon just says, 'Perhaps,' and warns Thessaly that her hubris will be her undoing.
	emergentlayer.blogspot.com /2005/08/sandman-5-game-of-you.html (261 words)

	The Comic Treadmill: The Sandman Presents: Thessaly, Witch For Hire #4 (2004)
		The Sandman Presents: Thessaly, Witch For Hire #4 (2004)
		Thessaly relates the Tharmic Null's search for her by narrating the chaos it's causing rather talking about the creature directly.
		This is a nice use of indirect storytelling by Willingham, because the progress of the Null can only be tracked indirectly.
	www.comictreadmill.com /CTMBlogarchives/2004/2004_Individual/2004_05/000387.php (336 words)

	Toon Zone - Comics - Vertigo - February 2004
		Thessaly — the deadliest of the ancient Thessalian witches — finds herself pitted against a foe she may not be able to defeat: Cupid, along with an ancient and unstoppable monster (or ten) thrown in for good measure.
		THE SANDMAN PRESENTS: THESSALY — WITCH FOR HIRE is a 4-issue VERTIGO miniseries edited by Mariah Huehner.
		Former lover of The Sandman, Thess is embroiled in her most impossible situation yet as the ruthlessly practical witch finds herself the unwitting — and unwilling — dispatcher of demons, beasts, and other arcane monstrosities.
	comics.toonzone.net /solicitations/2004-02/vertigo.php (1641 words)

	Sandman Frequently Asked Questions - Part I
		The second Sandman originally was presented as an immortal who monitored dreams (using the Universal Dream Monitor that displayed images on the Dream Screen) and protected people within their dreams and in the "mortal world." Dressed in a yellow and red costume, the Sandman was "aided" by the nightmares Brute and Glob.
		The Kirby Sandman made a very brief appearance in the first draft of the Black Orchid story, (He was suggested as a potential character for a dream sequence.) While he had read the 70s Sandman, Gaiman says that he was uncomfortable with the series.
		In Sandman #47, it is said that the Endless do not like visiting the realms of their siblings and only Death travels freely without misgiving.
	www.holycow.com /dreaming/lore/sandfaq1.html (7832 words)

	TheFourthRail.com - Critiques on Infinite Earths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The good news is that this title is just as entertaining and humorous as its predecessor, but the better news is that those who missed out on that prior book won't be left out of the loop.
		Since her last major adventure, the immortal witch named Thessaly has been globe-trotting, trying to find a quiet little corner of the world that she could call her own.
		The artist shows us Thessaly's friendlier side and her angry one as well, and her "love interest" exudes charm, just as he should, even though he's placed the object of his affection in potentially fatal circumstances.
	www.thefourthrail.com /reviews/critiques/020204/sandmanpresentsthessalywitchforhire1.shtml (526 words)

	Neil Gaiman Quotes, page 4 of 11
		I could not find it in my heart to blame her: I, too, had been one of the servants of the Cuckoo, felt the overpowering need to protect and nurture her; to do anything that would make her happy.
		It was just dust, sand, a glittering multicolored sand that fell away into the chilly wind at the end of the world.
		Colleen Doran lived on a corner known as Crash Corner; one day she saw a child on a bicycle get hit by a car and fly 20 feet through the air.
	www.amk.ca /quotations/neil-gaiman/page-4.html (1616 words)

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