And I think it’s also made people very aware that Marvel movies have become incredibly successful by doing what Marvel comics were doing for years-interconnected stories. I think it’s made people very aware of comics as a source of intellectual property. I don’t think that it’s particularly changed the world of comics.
How has that changed the world of comics? Superhero narratives are now among the most popular stories in the world. We actually had gone and made something that felt pretty much of its time. It feels like we kind of in a weird way did all the work.
And now we’re doing a TV series of the comic. Back when nobody commented on the fact that it was filled with gay characters, trans characters and Black characters and so on. Mostly going through the old comics reminded us all the extent to which Sandman had kind of been rather ahead of its time. Dead Boy Detectives #1 (of 6) debuts December 27, and the fifth volume in the massive new DC Sandman reprint project is coming February 7 - collecting The Sandman: Endless Nights, Sandman MIdnight Theater #1, and the prose edition of The Sandman: Dream Hunters.Was there anything that, upon rereading, you were excited to update? That would certainly be a good place to continue this teasing.Ĭan't stand the wait? The six issues of Nightmare Country are on sale now, with a hardcover collection due out April 4. On November 22, DC is organizing an exclusive virtual Q&A for comic book shops with the writers behind Nightmare Country and Dead Boy Detectives, James Tynion IV and Pornsak Pichetshote respectively. Look for more information in the coming weeks. Heaven knows, Lucien isn't returning our calls asking for a library card.īut given DC already has one new Sandman Universe comic books in production, it's easy to assume there could be room for a second - or a third. At the least possibly this future features more collections of out-of-print Sandman and Sandman-adjacent comics from the '90s and '00s.
What could this be? Let's not set our hopes too high just yet, as there's a myriad of possibilities to choose from. In a message sent out privately to comic shop managers, DC spoke about those two series but also portended something else, referring to "the as-yet-unrevealed future of the Sandman Universe, unfolding in 2023" That's in addition to the recent Nightmare Country limited series (which was originally announced as an ongoing), and the Dead Boy Detectives limited series debuting in December 2022. It seems good news comes in pairs, as just days after Netflix officially greenlit a second season of the live-action Sandman TV series, we have the glimmer of more Sandman comics in the new year.
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