The return of Neil Gaiman's Sandman
DC Comics' Vertigo imprint announced at a panel at San Diego Comic Con yesterday that Neil Gaiman will be doing a prequel to his Sandman series with J.H. Williams III.

Neil Gaiman then delivered a prerecorded message discussing the lines from the beginning of the eighth issue of Sandman, as well as a panel from the Brief Lives trade paperback, where Morpheus is returning from a distant galaxy and is then trapped by Burress, leading up to the beginning of Sandman #1. In November 2013, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first issue of Sandman, Neil Gaiman will release a project with J.H. Williams III that explains what happened to Morpheus before the first issue of Sandman.

Williams then came out on the stage to effusively talk about how excited he is to work on this project (very). (Editor Karen) Berger claimed there are many surprises planned for the story -- some of which she herself doesn't know yet -- and she, Williams and, well, the entire room pretty much seem over the moon about the fact that a new serialized Neil Gaiman Sandman comic is a thing that will exist.