dhampyresa

The existence of a Sandman adaptation is hilarious to me. My copy of The Kindly Ones has a foreword that contains the following:

And the next frame, Dream's response, is simply a wordless, tight close-up of his tortured face. (That's an effect, by the way, that neither a novel nor a film could achieve with the same force, since a novel would have to describe his face, and a film could only give us an actor trying to imitate that bleak mask of regret. The comic, in Marc Hempel's brilliantly reductive drawing style, gives us the thing itself.)