This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Godlike beings guiding the dreams, desires and deaths of mankind mingle with Satan, Shakespeare, Barbie and serial killers in the mythological and pop-cultural hodgepodge of "The Sandman." Not unlike a reverie, the 10-part adaptation of Neil Gaiman's seminal comic book series brooks no borders. The Netflix fantasy drama goes to hell and back - just one of several world-hopping adventures taken up by the gloomy and self-serious immortal we're saddled with as the protagonist. Then again, if the only power I were granted as a supernatural being was the ability to manipulate dreams - while my siblings spend their days ending lives or creating new ones - I might turn out to be quite the grump, too. Gaiman's staggeringly popular comic series, which debuted in 1989, is sprawling, diffuse and exactingly concise; the deity-esque Dream's (Tom Sturridge) descent into Lucifer's (Gwendoline … [Read more...] about ‘The Sandman’ suggests some comic books are better left off-screen