“Neil Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him in any medium.” —Stephen King<br /> <br /> “A sober, somber conclusion—literally, a dying fall—to a sequence that undeniably constitutes a major achievement. There is nothing quite like it anywhere else.” —<i>The Independent</i><br /> <br /> “Undoubtedly the finest writing the mainstream comic book industry has ever seen.” —<i>St. Louis Dispatch</i><br /><br />"The greatest epic in the history of comic books." —<i>The Los Angeles Times Magazine</i><br /><br />"One of the few comics that segued from the comics crowd, entering the intellectual and art worlds, winning over a large non-comics-reading audience." —<i>The Hollywood Reporter</i><br /><br />"<i>The Sandman</i> is a modern myth, as well as a precis on why the stories we tell matter so much." —<i>Playboy</i><br /><br />"The landmark comic-book series that actually made Death seem ... cool." —<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>