The Washington Post, October 19th, 2003
Despair, Neil Gaiman writes in The Sandman: Endless Nights (Vertigo/DC, $24.95), "is a writer with nothing left that he knows how to say. It is an artist, and fingers that will never catch the vision." If that's true, then Gaiman and the team of top-flight illustrators who breathe visual life into his ethereal ruminations on the seven Ds -- Death, Desire, Delirium, Destruction, Destiny, Dream and, yes, Despair -- know nothing of Despondence. Yet sadness suffuses Gaiman's return to the dark, groundbreaking Sandman series he authored for DC Comics from 1987 to 1998. Although reviewers received a...
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