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Season Of Mists is pretty awesome, both the art and the story. If I was Lucifer, that's what I'd do, too! Brief Lives actualy suffers a bit from uneven art in places, but I love the story for the sheer deliriousness (is that a word?) of it. The Wake is possibly the most satisfying conclusion to an epic story I've read.

But some of the best material is in those one-off stories. The one about the first staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream was the first story (read as an individual story back then) that made me suspect there was something interesting going on in the Sandman series, that it wasn't just some Gothic psycho-drama (it sorta looked that way from the previous issues I'd glanced at). Have you read it's counterpart, in The Wake, which tells of how Shakespeare wrote The Tempest?