So back in yonder years I rated this as one star. I believe I thought it was pretty stupid and unengaging.

Flash forward a few years later and that Kevin is dead and the bookstore in which he read the comic has been closed for months. So how does the current Kevin like it? Current Kevin kinda liked it...a lot.

So why the three stars? Because it acknowledged a larger DC universe full of Batmans and Martian Manhunters and other such nonsense. Sandman, much like Swamp Thing, thrives when it is self contained and is not beholden to an unwieldy comic multiverse.

Luckily, there was plenty of creepy horror and strangeness that will compel me to seek out the other volumes this time around.