10 Incredible Comic Books With Near PERFECT Endings
1. Sandman: The Wake
The Sandman was the 75-issue series written by prolific author Neil Gaiman, was published by DC Comics and, after issue #47, under the Vertigo imprint. The story follows Dream of the Endless, one of seven anthropomorphic personifications of metaphysical ideas, including Death, Destiny, and Desire. In addition to his family, readers were introduced to the denizens of his realm, The Dreaming, the place that all sentient beings go to when they dream.
Issues #70-72 are “The Wake”. Morpheus was dead, killed by the Kindly Ones at the behest of Lyta Hall. His family, the Endless, and a variety of mourners and well-wishers were going to the Dreaming for his Wake. First, the Endless must travel to Necropolis and retrieve his death shroud. They built a place of mourning at the center of the Dreaming, and dreamers like Wesley Dodds, gods like Bast, and Morpheus’ family and friends spoke about him.
Meanwhile, the new Dream of the Endless, formerly Lyta Hall’s son Daniel, was familiarizing himself with his kingdom and nervously waiting to meet his family for the first time. Matthew the Raven lamented that he was not this new Dream’s raven, and Destruction returned to give his new brother some advice. Ultimately, Dream sent all the dreamers home so he can meet his family alone, with the last dreamer to leave being the reader.