![]() ![]() Gaiman, along with Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, led the legendary “British Invasion” of American comic books in the ’80s that redefined the role of the modern comic book writer. While Gaiman may be more familiar to readers as the Newberry Medal-winning author of The Graveyard Book and the adult novel, American Gods, he first made his reputation in comics. It’s also, with all due respect to The Kindly Ones, heavy enough to bludgeon most poor burglars beyond recognition. Printed on oversized, quality paper with detailed annotations in the margins, the book is one of the most impressive editions of a comic book ever published. In this first of four volumes, Klinger has delivered a gorgeous reproduction of the first 20 issues of Gaiman’s most famous comic book series. It seemed funny at the time, but Gaiman clearly never envisioned Leslie Klinger’s The Annotated Sandman, nor the heft that would accompany it. In his 1995 afterword to The Kindly Ones, the longest of Neil Gaiman’s individual Sandman collections, the author joked that the book was heavy enough “to stun a burglar”. ![]()
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