It's the second half of Neilvember and we're talking about The Sandman: Overture.

Stay out of the Splash Zone™ because we got a real Wet Book™ on our hands! We're talking about Neil Gaiman's 2013 novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also touch on the His Dark Materials trilogy and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

We've come to the end of our series on The Sandman. Join us at The Wake.

In this episode, we tackle Sandman Vol. 9 The Kindly Ones. It's the big climax of the series and the longest single story arc yet. It's a weird, dense, mythic tragedy and we do our best to untangle it.

We're talking about The Sandman Vol. 8 World's End but also a whole lot of other stuff like teen presidents, fairy rogues, and helpful hedgehogs.

We're talking about The Sandman Vol 7. - Brief Lives. It's a devastatingly emotional story about bear piss, strip clubs, and avian driving lessons.

We're talking about The Sandman: Fables & Reflections. It's another collection of one-off stories that cover topics ranging from doomed kings to talkative birds.

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We're back in The Dreaming for fifth volume of The Sandman, A Game of You. 

We're talking about the fourth volume of The Sandman and it's a complicated story about heaven, hell, dinner parties, business meetings, boarding schools, and balloons.

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We read The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country and that means we're talking about cats, fairies, metafiction, superhero support groups, and Nate's effusive love for a single page of comics that's just a guy quoting Shakespeare.

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