call me crazy, but I think "Sandman" is a serious work and it doesnt deserve such a storytelling. I cant resist this one. They are very powerfull and important figurs, but.. that was a joke? I dont know. It was probably a joke.. it should be.

I think that Gaiman did a good job with Season of Mists. Thompson, not so much. The Sandman series played with style a bit throughout it's run, but I don't think that manga really fits the tone of what the stories are about and this adaptation doesn't really make much sense if you haven't already read at least the Season of Mists book and the ones that came before it.

Actual rating: 2.5 starsFor the Sandman universe, this was unexpectedly twee. Especially for a story with Despair as one of the main characters.I enjoyed the concept - Death, Delirium, Despair all figuring out what to do with the souls of Hell when Lucifer gives Dream the key and leaves - but the execution felt a little overly silly. The art was great, though; Thompson did a really good job of translating the more classical comic book style of the series into this more cutesy, Manga inspired loo...

This book was a little spin off of the Sandman and I wasn't really impressed. I may have been more so if I hadn't read all of the Sandman, I suppose. It was a little too cutesy and obnoxious to be a real good read.

Why did this have to be done? Jill Thompson could have made perfectly fine goofy big-eyed imitation-manga about whatever, and the parts of this that she wrote from scratch are pretty good for morbid children (I like the slapstick bit about gruesome things happening to a ghost who never complains). But trying to remake Neil Gaiman's Season of Mists from another character's point of view, and dropping in huge chunks of the original dialogue, doesn't work at all. Not only is it a very weird st...

I assume this Jill Thompson variant on material found within Neil Gaiman's epic Sandman saga was created as a handy entry point for reluctant readers. I further assume that it is capable of doing exactly that. As someone who (embarrassingly recently) has read Sandman itself, I found the material familiar and pleasant. As far as someone who hasn't, I can't really begin to say. Would I've been able to grasp what made Sandman so special, back in 2003, when At Death's Door was originally published?

I loved this. It's a little side story during Sandman Vol 4 where we get a peak into what Death, Despair and Delirium was doing while Dream figured out who got the key to hell. The art is cute and Dream is giving really big dramatic theater kid energy which I love. I also LOVED Delirium and Despair in this. LOVE this.

I never would have picked this up on my own, manga isn't my thing, but it was a gift and it stars my favorite personification of Death, so I jumped in.Told alongside Dream's journey into the empty hell, the sisters Death, Delerium and Despair throw a party for the misplaced damned souls. A slight story, but it was a lot of fun. Death and Delerium fit the anime tone perfectly, while Despair manages quite surprisingly to assimilate to the style as well (AND have a good time? Everyone loves a good

You guys ...I don't even know. Like ...it's not good ...but it's almost so bad that it BECOMES good. I'm really stuck between 2 and 3 stars for this but I think I'm gonna leave it bumped up to 3 just because I somehow did have a pretty good time laughing at how bizarre the entire situation is.Basically it's just what Death was doing while Dream was trying to figure out who to give hell to in Sandman. Oh yeah and it's straight up manga. I mean I was expecting it to be kind of stylized from the co...

This is my first real introduction to manga. Although familiar with it because of popular culture, I’d never actually sat down and read anything along those lines. That being said, I did enjoy this novel to a degree. The campy aspects of it were sometimes annoying, but overall, I thought Thompson did a good job of providing some background information on what was occurring during Dream’s journey into Hell.

This was a creative effort at expanding the Sandman universe by telling a story from Death's perspective during the 'Season of Mists' story arc within the Sandman series. I enjoyed it, it was a fun and quirky tale and one you should enjoy if you're a fan of the Sandman universe and that version of Death.

The Sandman fans, ever wondered how Death dealt with the repercussions of Lucifer Morningstar’s abduction of Hell’s throne in Season of Mists? Wonder no longer, because Jill Thompson—the artist responsible for reducing a large percentage of TSM fans into uncontrollable geeks wanting to squish little Dream and Death from A Parliament of Rooks—provided all the answers to in her manga-style Death-centric book: At Death’s Door.Backtrack: in the wake of his resignation in Season of Mists, Lucifer war...

Jill Thompson telling a side story set in the corners of Sandman: Season of Mists sounded great! Unfortunately, it doesn't come off. Part of the problem is that what seems like fully half the book is devoted to retelling scenes from Gaiman's original story, with plots and dialogue reproduced entirely verbatim - which makes the experience kind of tedious if you've read the original at all recently, since you want the new story to Just Get On With It! Sadly, the original material here is also pret...

"Fan comic" pretty much sums up this book.While I was reading it, I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd read something like this before and it is true, it's based upon Neil's Sandman story's first book: Season of Mists.Now, I'm not a keen reader of recycled stuff, or say watching an anime and then finding the manga is EXACTLY the same. Not good, it's an interest killer for me.Clearly Jill was mainly interested in making money off her own idol's ideas and so this product is here, maybe even to ju...

A trip down memory lane for me, I was smiling from ear to ear reading Death introduction it made me remember a lot of Great stories.The manga drawing style is amazing and impeccable i love it , I also loved the parts of the story that actually happened in the sandman.Other than that i hated all the new stories told they were nearly a complete waste of time except maybe the part about Edgar Alan Poe was great if he didn't drive despair so out of character that i hated her as well.Its troubling se...

OMFG SO CUTE!

It was so interesting that I want to read the sandman comics after halloween.

I still love Sandman to...well, to death, and while Jill Thompson's take on the characters isn't as profound as Neil Gaiman's, it is darn fun, and the manga-style art she uses in this book is lovely. I'd love more...but did a second volume ever materialize? If so, I haven't seen it!

I usually love anything having to do with the Endless, but this left me cold. If you like anime, this may be your thing, but the anime style of this story is exactly what put me off. Gaiman himself wrote the same story, but in much fuller (and easier to follow) form.

A chance encounter with a book at the library while looking for something else often leads to a pleasurable time. This rules! A manga re-interpretation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, the mixture of cute with the dark, sometimes gruesome storyline of that series is very neat. This story coincides with Dream's attempt to rescue Nada from Hell, only to find Lucifer has emptied the realm, is ready to resign, and hands Dream the key. Meanwhile, all the souls driven out of Hell wind up at Death's apartmen