The Sandman: Worlds' End
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Cover of The Sandman: Worlds' End (1995), trade paperback collected edition. Art by Dave McKean.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | July–December 1993 |
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| Title(s) | The Sandman #51-56 |
| Main character(s) | Dream |
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| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Neil Gaiman |
| Penciller(s) |
Alec Stevens Bryan Talbot John Watkiss Michael Zulli Mike Allred Shea Anton Pensa Gary Amaro |
| Inker(s) |
Alec Stevens Mark Buckingham John Watkiss Dick Giordano Mike Allred Vince Locke Steve Leialoha Tony Harris Bryan Talbot |
| Letterer(s) | Todd Klein |
| Colorist(s) | Daniel Vozzo |
| Editor(s) |
Karen Berger Shelly Roeberg |
Worlds' End (1994) is the eighth collection of issues in the DC Comics series The Sandman. It was written by Neil Gaiman; illustrated by Michael Allred, Gary Amaro, Mark Buckingham, Dick Giordano, Tony Harris, Steve Leialoha, Vince Locke, Shea Anton Pensa, Alec Stevens, Bryan Talbot, John Watkiss, and Michael Zulli; colored by Danny Vozzo; and lettered by Todd Klein. The stories in the collection first appeared in 1993. The collection first appeared in paperback and hardback editions in 1994 with an introduction by Stephen King. The collection's title, setting, and a number of its themes and images are also found in G.K. Chesterton's poem "A Child of the Snows".
It was preceded by Brief Lives and followed by The Kindly Ones.
Like volumes 3 and 6, Dream Country and Fables and Reflections, Worlds' End is a volume of predominantly single-issue short stories, often only obliquely related to the principal story of the series. The issues in Worlds' End were written and published in sequence, using a frame narrative.
The story begins in the first person narration of Brant Tucker, wherein he and co-worker Charlene Mooney are involved in a car crash on their way to Chicago. Charlene is hurt, and Brant is directed by a hedgehog to a strange inn named "Worlds' End, a free house": identified later as one of four inns where travelers between realms shelter during reality storms, which occur after momentous events. In conclusion, the revelers at the inn watch a funeral procession cross the sky, which ends with Death looking sadly into the inn, as the crescent moon behind her slowly turns red. Thereafter Brant returns alone to his own world, where he narrates his story to a waitress, while Charlene remains at the 'Worlds' End' as assistant to its landlady. The framing sequence is penciled by Bryan Talbot and inked by Mark Buckingham, Dick Giordano and Steve Leialoha, with the exception of the funeral procession, which is penciled by Gary Amaro and inked by Tony Harris.
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