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 ...