Sandman 02

Imperfect Hosts is issue 2 of The Sandman comic series. Created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Drigenberg it was originally released January 03, 1989.

Synopsis
Morpheus, King of Dreams, gets reacquainted with his home realm of The Dreaming and the colorful characters who populate it--including Cain, Abel and Lucien, the librarian. He also discovers how much his absence has affected the universe in the time since he was imprisoned.

Summary
Forthcoming

Featured Characters

 * Dream

Supporting Characters

 * Cain and Abel
 * Lucien

Antagonists

 * The Hecatae

Other Characters

 * Gregory
 * Goldie

Objects

 * Pouch of Sand

Continuity Notes

 * Gregory the Gargoyle is Cain's pet at the House of Mystery and was a regularly featured character in that title.

Trivia

 * Dream's quote, "It was a dark and stormy nightmare..." is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night". The phrase was originally penned by Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton as the beginning of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.

Collections

 * Preludes and Nocturnes