Gaiman's Works Often Follow The Plots Of Classical And Mythical Narratives And Brief Lives, Like His Other Works, Can Often Look And Sound As Ponderous As A Bad Period Costume Movie. The Grimly Ironic Morpheus And His Whimsically Erratic Sister Travel Among The Mortals Of Earth In Search Of Their Brother And Ultimately Learn Something Of Destruction's Reasons For Abdicating. Destruction Abandoned His Duties 300 Years Ago (about The Time Of The Enlightenmentnt), Dropping Out Of Sight After A Prescient And Despairing Glimpse Of The Rise Of Human Reason And Its Own Destructive Proclivities. Morpheus, Lord Of Dreams And The Central Figure In The Series, Is Asked By His Sister, The Unstable And Touchingly Demented Delirium, To Help Locate Their Brother Destruction. Gaiman's Very Popular Sandman Series (this Is The Eighth Book In The Series) Continues With Another Tale Of The Endless, The Family Of Mythic Cosmic Beings That Govern The Psychic And Physical Realms Of Dream, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Destruction And Death. But Dream May Learn That The Cost Of Finding His Prodigal Sibling Is More Than He Can Bear. Any of them could conceivably become a bonus episode for The Sandman Season 2.Dream's Youngest Sister, The Loopy Delirium, Convinces Him To Go On A Quest For Their Missing Brother, Destruction. That's nine stories in total, entailing Morpheus's experiences with humanity across history and involving such figures as Augustus Caesar, Robespierre, and noted eccentric Emperor Norton who declared himself ruler of California in the 19th century. If so, it would almost certainly come from Fables and Reflections, which ran in The Sandman issues #29-31, 38-40 and 50, as well as encompassing a pair of stand-alone one-shots.

It concerns Morpheus bargaining with William Shakespeare to write the titular play, and depicts its premiere performance in front of the 'real' fairy lords it depicts.Īssuming Season 2 contains a bonus episode similar to Season 1, that would still leave room for a second stand-alone story. The other, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess, and Malcolm Jones III) is a more likely option.

There are two other stories in Dream Country, one of which centers on the DC hero Element Girl and will likely not be adapted to the Netflix series (which has deliberately avoided presenting more mainstream DC characters).

Season 1, Episode 11 is a 'bonus' episode, consisting of two peripheral stories not directly connected to The Sandman: 'Calliope' and 'Dream of a Thousand Cats.' They came from the Dream Country arc, consisting of four independent stories running in The Sandman issues #17-20 (By Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Charles Vess and Colleen Doran).

Brief lives the sandman