Duncan Eagleson, whose comic credits are relatively few, pencils ‘The Hunt’, which takes The Princess Bride as an inspiration, the boring old grandfather gradually captivating the young grand-daughter with his tale. And we learn the fate of Orpheus, son of Dream, whose existence was dangled before the readership some time previously.Īmong the wonders is Neil Gaiman adapting his narrative voice to the needs of the stories related. We meet Emperor Norton I of the USA, the final brother of the Endless family and, although seemingly lightweight and insignificant in context, the tale of a baby wandering through the Dreaming will have great importance to the future. We drop in on Lady Johanna Constantine during the French Revolution, on Augustus Caesar sampling public opinion and a young Marco Polo in the desert. Beyond that, though, this is a book of wonders and treasures to compare with the Baghdad of Haroun Al-Raschid. It’s a vanity accorded a peculiar immortality, but a very slim tale, and as such a Sandman rarity of the art a cut above the writing.Īlso slight is the short opener drawn by Kent Williams, stretching a fear of flight metaphor a little thin. It concerns the fabulous Baghdad ruled by Haroun Al-Raschid, and his concern that the city at its epoch won’t be preserved beyond his passing. Craig Russell, and the distinctive bright colouring applied by Digital Chameleon. Even that’s rather tenuous in a couple of cases.įlicking through the book, it’s the finale that really grabs the attention due to the fine linework of P. Fables and Reflections is a series of individual tales with no connecting in-world thread other than Morpheus, Dream himself.

The sandman fables and reflections