Mostly, though, I liked it mostly in the same way I always have. It’s a rich and messy comic with plenty of highs and lows. I think it’s a masterpiece when taken as a whole work, even if individual parts are failures.
Re-Enter Sandman: Exit Light
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Re-Enter Sandman: The Wake
The Wake doesn’t really need to do that much — it mostly feels and operates like an epilogue — but it provides Neil Gaiman with the opportunity he needed to close out the story of this incarnation of Dream and look to the next one.
Re-Enter Sandman: Brief Lives
In some ways, Brief Lives is the best of The Sandman volumes. It tells a complete, fairly straightforward story with an actual conclusion. It’s the most consistent artistically. It’s charming, although it’s maybe a bit too precious in places. It’s probably the volume I’ve read the most.
Re-Enter Sandman: A Game of You
I wish A Game of You was a couple of issues longer. And while as much as I want to stop saying “Neil Gaiman doesn’t know how to end these story arcs properly” well, there’s much of that here too. At only six issues, A Game of You brings up a lot of ideas without fully developing them. I still like this storyline but I always want more from it than what we got.
Re-Enter Sandman: Season of Mists
I always remember Season of Mists as being better than it actually is.
It certainly has enough to recommend it. It’s ambitious in its scope and is full of big ideas. However, like a lot of Neil Gaiman’s work, it doesn’t quite wrap everything up in a satisfactory fashion. Still, though, it’s a pretty fun ride.