Incoming: ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOLUME 5

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I was surprised when I first heard about this. Didn't think there was enough material to fill a fifth volume. But it arrived today, and looks grand, just as lush and rich and pregnant with great material as the other volumes. The bulk of it is the two versions of "The Dream Hunters" (the one with Yoshitaka Amano and the one with P. Craig Russell), Endless Nights (the hardcover of new stories from, I think 2003), and "Sandman Midnight Theatre," that collaboration with Matt Wagner and the Golden Age Sandman that I always forget about, even though I lettered it. The excellence of the production on these volumes gives me hope that they will be around a long time, probably longer than Neil or any of us who worked on the original material. It's a pleasure to have been a part of this great work.