The Sandman: Brief Lives - Neil Gaiman

After experimenting with some shorter story cycles to varying degrees of success, Neil Gaiman once again plunges Sandman readers into an extended story, this time spanning a whopping nine issues. Despite my notion that Gaiman had left the stretched plotting of his earlier ‘Season of Mists’ era behind him, ‘Brief Lives’ instead acts as a rough sequel to some of its events, and puts any and all remaining questions about the Endless to a conclusive rest, with the sole exception of the rather glaring omission: “what exactly are they, then?” There was some valid criticism that my last Sandman review dumped readers in at the deep end without much explanation of what the series ...  Read the complete review