The Sandman: The Wake
| The Sandman: The Wake | |
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Cover of The Sandman: The Wake (1997), trade paperback collected edition.Art by Dave McKean.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | August 1995 - March 1996 |
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| Title(s) | The Sandman #70-75 |
| Main character(s) | Dream |
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| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Neil Gaiman with material from William Shakespeare |
| Artist(s) |
Dave McKean Michael Zulli Charles Vess Bryan Talbot John Ridgway Jon J Muth Daniel Vozzo |
| Penciller(s) |
Michael Zulli Charles Vess Bryan Talbot John Ridgway |
| Inker(s) |
Jon J Muth Charles Vess |
| Letterer(s) | Todd Klein |
| Colorist(s) |
Daniel Vozzo Jon J Muth |
| Editor(s) |
Karen Berger Shelly Roeberg |
The Wake is the tenth and final collection of issues in the comic book series The Sandman. It is written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Michael Zulli, Jon J. Muth and Charles Vess, colored by Daniel Vozzo and Jon J. Muth, and lettered by Todd Klein.
The collection opens with James Elroy Flecker's poem "The Bridge of Fire", prefacing the events which follow.
The stories in the collection first appeared in 1995 and 1996. The collection first appeared in paperback and hardback in 1996.
It was preceded by The Kindly Ones and followed by Endless Nights.
The first three issues of the volume, "Chapter One, Which Occurs in the Wake of What Has Gone Before", "Chapter Two, In Which a Wake is Held", and "Chapter Three, In Which We Wake", comprise the wake and funeral held for Morpheus, who dies at the end of the ninth collection, The Kindly Ones. It is attended by "dreamers and guests", "celebrants and mourners"; many have played recurrent roles in the preceding volumes. A series of speakers, of which the last Death, reflect on the life and death of the late Dream King. Meanwhile, the new aspect of Dream, previously the child Daniel, starts relationships with the inhabitants of the Dreaming.
Issue 73, "The Wake: An Epilogue Sunday Morning", serves as epilogue to both the wake and the friendship between Hob Gadling and Morpheus, in which Gadling visits a renaissance festival with current girlfriend Guenevere and is visited by Death. Issues 74 and 75 resonate thematically and tonally with the first three issues; in terms of plot, they are placed achronologically.
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