Still, thanks to “The Last Sandman Story”, I am satisfied with my purchase of the book. You don’t need explanations to appreciate the covers, but again, if a book is published about the subject, well, the least that anyone can expect is to receive something with real content, deep information, and not comments kinda superficial that at the end they didn’t gave away much additional about what you could already perceive about the covers of each comic book issue and TPB editions. Here, my impression about the whole point of publishing such a book like this one, it was to expose the inspirations of the artist behind each cover. However, usually the paintings in a museum don’t come with a guide by the painter. It’s artwork, I can understand that it’s much about what each person thinks about them, like paintings in a museum, no doubt the painter wanted to say something, but at the end, it’s what each observer makes out of them. That’s not bad, however I did expected to read deeper information about what the artista (Dave McKean) wanted to express on each cover. You certainly get some comments about the covers, but the most of them are too general or the behind-the-scenes process while doing the covers. Honestly I expected something else, something more detailed, since I believed that I’d get deep explanations about what each cover meant and/or the particular reason of the use of elements on each cover.

Greatness isn’t about how many words are in the narrative, but how they are managed and how much they impacted in your soul. I am truly glad that I was able to read it. It’s a very personal tale of Neil Gaiman and his own experience with the main character and other support characters, while he was working with them and how he met them in the real world.

When this “Last Story” was written, obviously the storyarc Overture still wasn’t written, so the meaning of being the “Last Story” isn’t about when it was written, but that not matter how much more about The Sandman would be written in the future, THIS short story ALWAYS will be “The Last Sandman Story”. So I believed in the Sandman, when I was three. Now I understand, I was a child who believed all he was told. This is a book featuring the art by Dave McKean from all 75 covers of the original run of “The Sandman” (including the following 'Endless' run), along with an exclusive short story by Neil Gaiman.

Not what I expected but still a good book to buy

Dustcovers by Dave McKean