A review by sicaurigus
The Absolute Sandman, Volume Five by Neil Gaiman

4.0

This was a solid collection of Sandman extras. It was cool seeing every one of cosmic siblings get their own story in Endless Nights, but I do wish that some of them were a little more story-like and involved with the being they’re about. Despair’s installment was just fifteen vignettes about despair the concept, and nothing at all about Despair the personification of the concept. Delirium’s was almost as distanced as that. Destruction’s story was a proper story, but he was barely a part of it, and as a character who’s already quite shafted in the main series, I would have liked to see it more centered on him.

I also really loved The Dream Hunters. It’s a very gripping (if melancholy) Japanese fairytale of sorts. It works both as a Sandman story and as a stand-alone story.