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Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess Remaster Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess and William Shakespeare, is being remastered by Steve Oliff.

I think from this, that we can guess that the next season of Sandman on Netflix will include an adaptation of the Sandman story, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess and… William Shakespeare, published in Sandman #19 by DC Comics in 1990. The comic won a World Fantasy Award for short fiction in 1991 and ended up forcing the awards to change their rules to recognise Charles Vess as a co-author of the story. Because DC Comics is to publish a remastered edition of the comic, recoloured by Steve Oliff for modern printing possibilities from his original colour guides. And with a new painted cover by Vess instead of the normal Dave McKean version

It follows Shankespeare's appearance in Sandman #13, Men of Good Fortune, in which he is given the gift of the immortality of his writing by Dream in return for writing two plays at Dream's request. This is the first, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a gift by Dream to the Faerie folk as they depart the moral realm, but ensuring that they are never forgotten. And sees the premiere of the play watched by a number of those portrayed in it, Titania, Auberon, Peaseblossom, and Robin Goodfellow – known as Puck – who ends up taking to the stage and playing himself.

From The DC Vault: The Sandman #19 Remastered
Written by Neil Gaiman Art and Cover by Charles Vess S4.99 32 Pages ; ON SALE 4/2/24
New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman presents a depiction of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as you've never seen it before! In this fictional retelling set in the Sandman Universe, Auberon, Titania, and an entourage of Faerie characters leave their realm to attend the premiere of the Bard's latest play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. How will they react to Shakespeare's depictions of themselves, and will Titania succeed in tempting Will's son, Hamnet, to join her in the realm of Faerie? Featuring completely remastered pages from Eisner Award-winning colourist Steve Oliff's original hand-painted colour guides, this edition of Sandman #19 also includes a foreword by Oliff discussing the remastering process and an all-new painted cover by acclaimed fantasy artist Charles Vess.

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