The Sandman: The Kindly Ones
| The Sandman: The Kindly Ones | |
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Cover of The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (1996), trade paperback collected edition.Art by Dave McKean.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date |
The Sandman February 1994 - July 1995 Vertigo Jam August 1993 |
| Genre | |
| Title(s) |
The Sandman #57-69 Vertigo Jam #1 |
| Main character(s) | Dream |
| ISBN | ISBN |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Neil Gaiman |
| Artist(s) |
Dave McKean Kevin Nowlan Marc Hempel Glyn Dillon Charles Vess Dean Ormston Teddy Kristiansen Richard Case |
| Penciller(s) |
Kevin Nowlan Marc Hempel Glyn Dillon Charles Vess Dean Ormston Teddy Kristiansen Richard Case |
| Inker(s) |
Kevin Nowlan Marc Hempel D'Israeli Glyn Dillon Charles Vess Teddy Kristiansen Richard Case |
| Letterer(s) |
Todd Klein Kevin Nowlan |
| Colorist(s) | Daniel Vozzo |
| Editor(s) |
Karen Berger Shelly Roeberg |
The Kindly Ones (1996) is the ninth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman. Written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Marc Hempel, Richard Case, D'Israeli, Teddy Kristiansen, Glyn Dillon, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston and Kevin Nowlan, coloured by Danny Vozzo, and lettered by Todd Klein.The volume features an introduction by Frank McConnell.
The issues in the collection first appeared in 1993, 1994 and 1995. The collection first appeared in paperback and hardback in 1996.
Marc Hempel is the primary penciller, inked variously by himself, D'Israeli and Richard Case. He is relieved at different points in the story by Teddy Kristiansen, Glyn Dillon and Dean Ormston, and Charles Vess draws a story within a story sequence. Kevin Nowlan draws a short story which originally appeared in a Vertigo promo book.
It was preceded by Worlds' End and followed by The Wake.
The Kindly Ones belongs with the second collection, The Doll's House, and the seventh, Brief Lives, in that it finishes off a story that mostly originated in these collections; but includes elements of Season of Mists and the story of Orpheus, told mostly in Fables and Reflections. The most structurally ambitious of the collections, The Kindly Ones is a single storyline written as a Greek tragedy, with Morpheus as its doomed hero and an aspect of the triad of witches, the Erinyes, as the Greek chorus. It pulls together various threads left dangling throughout the series, notably the grudges against Morpheus of several characters: Hippolyta Hall; the witches themselves; the Norse god Loki; and the witch Thessaly. The Kindly Ones also continues several other stories, including that of Cluracan of Faerie and his sister Nuala; that of the Corinthian; and that of Rose Walker and her former landlord Hal.
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