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Ahead of the Final Order Cut-Off date of February 3rd for Sandman Overture #2, DC Comics are encouraging retailers to up their orders with the promise of metallic ink! The 1:100 variant cover by JH Williams III will have a special metallic bronze ink on the cover. While the 1:200 variant cover by Dave McKean with a[...]

Here are the best comic panels of 2013: David Dissanayake's choices are:   From  Hawkeye #11, written by Matt Fraction, with art by David Aja  …And business is booming.  Hawkeye, never leave me.  From Sandman Overture #1, written by Neil Gaiman, with art by J.H Williams III  Wow, Williams III… Just Wow[...]

Neil Gaiman was asked about the two month delay on Sandman Overture #2 we mentioned yesterday He replied; Sure I understand your disappointment and sympathise We're both really sorry about the delay It's unprofessional, and is mostly due to the giant signing tour I was on from June, and me not getting script written on the[...]

Sandman Overture #1 came out in October, and each scheduled to come out every two months, with a special edition of the previous month's issue shipping every month in between. But those expecting a second issue in December will receive a nasty shock No Sandman Overture #2 until well into the new year February in fact. DC[...]

Robin Harman writes; Welcome to Episode 133 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we exit light, and enter night with Sandman: Overture #1, saddle up with

The advertisements in Sandman Overture #1 did seem to be rather oppressive Repeated double page spread for more Sandman books or more books you might like if you liked Sandman, even an inner cover page ad with a galactic background that kinda merged with that of Sandman Overture page one in a rather annoying fashion. But[...]

Though as one retailer says, Sandman Overture sales are more likely to be slow and steady over the next few weeks… INFINITY #5 (OF 6) SANDMAN OVERTURE #1 (OF 6) X-MEN BATTLE OF ATOM #2 (OF 2) AVENGERS #22 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #20 SAGA #15 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #8 DAMIAN SON OF BATMAN #1 GREEN LANTERN ANNUAL #1 KICK-ASS 3 #4 (OF 8) Chart courtesy of the[...]

So to see a piece of that publishing tradition shift to the West coast saddens me, because it's the end of an era and yes, while I've always loved to tweak our crosstown pals, New York City will admittedly be a little diminished by DC's absence. DREAM OF A THOUSAND PONIES IDW's My Little Pony monsters the[...]

Such as the new Sandman Overture #1. And then reading Adventure Time 2013 Spoooktacular #1 straight afterwards. And straight onto Clive Barker's Hellraiser 2013 Annual #1 right after that. Excuse me, I'm suddenly feeling rather queasy Also the appearance of the Corinthian in Sandman Overture, suddenly got me seeing parallels in even more innocent books, such as Archie's[...]

As ever, Neil Gaiman has written for the strengths of the artist and in Sandman Overture that means drawing the impossible, a flower that resembles Morpheus, dreams within dreams, and a quadruple page spread that opens up, portraying every aspect of Dream across the universe. It was a mention in the very first issue of Sandman[...]

Neil Gaiman has his copies. Soon, you'll have yours...

Sandman Overture tells the story of how Sandman, Dream, Morpheus came to be trapped by a group of occultist, trying to capture Death. In DC's New All Access webshow (embedded below), we see full lettered artwork from the new series, starting with the caption "It was a small planet called Earth", continuing… …and letting us know about[...]

TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs Comic Price Publisher SANDMAN OVERTURE #1 (OF 6) CVR B (MR) $4.99 DC SANDMAN OVERTURE #1 (OF 6) CVR A (MR) $4.99 DC CATWOMAN #24 $2.99 DC WOLVERINE AND X-MEN #37 $3.99 MAR VELVET #1 (MR) $3.50 IMA X-MEN #5 2ND PTG NOTO VAR $3.99 MAR SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #20 $3.99 MAR PRETTY DEADLY #1 (MR) $3.50 IMA ALL NEW X-MEN #16 2ND PTG LOPEZ VAR $3.99 MAR SEX CRIMINALS #2 (MR) $3.50 IMA MAD PRESENTS SPY VS SPY FIGHT TO THE[...]