The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

by Neil Gaiman

When a Dream ends, there is only one thing left to do...

THE WAKE

In which the repercussions of the Death of Lord Morpheus are felt, and, in an epilogue, William Shakespeare learns the price of getting what you want.

This is the tenth and final volume of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, described by author Mikal Gilmore in his introduction as "nothing less than a popular culture masterpiece, and a work that is braver, smarter and more meaningful than just about anything "high culture" has produced during the same period."

• ISBN10: 1563892871
• ISBN13: 9781563892875
• Publish Date: 3 September 1999 (first published 7 February 1997)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: D C Comics (a division of Warner Brothers - A Time Warner Entertainment Co.)
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 191
• Language: English

Reviews

[adastra]

A great ending for a great series. Well worth re-reading many times, as there's so much depth in this.

[empressbrooke]

The final volume in the Sandman series is a bit odd, and I'm wavering between giving it 3 and 4 stars. The first half of the book deals with the wake held for Morpheus, and is rather touching and satisfactory wrap-up to the series. The final half, however, seem anticlimatic and out of place. The issues about Hob and Shakespeare do have an "end" feeling to them and appropriately concludes their stories that were started in earlier volumes, but I'm not sure what the issue about the exiled advisor to the Chinese emperor is doing here. In any case, although it's not the best volume, its first half is very well done.