![]() ![]() Unfortunately, The Annotated Sandman is the poorer for it. ![]() Comics was stringently avoiding cross-pollination. I just looked up The Absolute Sandman, which is apparently chock-full of the kind of supplementary material I was hoping to find I suspect that D.C. ![]() In contrast, The Annotated Sandman is in black and white, a few issues have almost no notes in them, and there are very few photos or additional illustrations. It's probably immensely helpful that the books in question, and probably a lot of the supplementary materials, are in the public domain. I don't have them on hand, but I remember annotations on almost every page, introductions so long that even I almost (almost) gave up on them, and full-color photos and illustrations galore. The other annotated books I've seen are The Annotated Wizard of Oz and The Annotated Peter Pan, both published by W. In hindsight, I think I went in with expectations too high, in part because I didn't do my research. I'm reviewing only the "Annotated" part of The Annotated Sandman when I say that I was disappointed-Gaiman's story itself is as excellent as ever. ![]() I own and love my copy of the Sandman series, and since I'm not a need-to-own-every-variant type of fan, the books with extras are a definite library pick-up. ![]()
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