Since earlier this year, horror-comics superstar James Tynion IV has been paying tribute to the mythos of The Sandman, the work that made him the writer he is today in The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country.
DC Comics is also announcing that not only is the first series being collected but a new volume will be in 2023.
Designed to welcome new readers into one of the greatest worlds in DC’s library, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country is a terrify-ing travelogue through a nation recognizable and obscene, which will show you things seen in no Sandman series ever before—with spectacular art by Lisandro Estherren (Redneck, Strange Skies Over East Berlin) and “nightmare” sequences by comics art all-stars, starting with the incredible Yanick Paquette!
In a press release from DC Comics, Tynion said about his return to the Sandman Universe:
“I’m thrilled to announce that Nightmare Country’s follow-up miniseries, The Glass House, is coming early in 2023. The Corinthian is going to be making his way to Silicon Valley, where he will go head-to-head with Angels, Demons, and a breed of creature far more terrifying that anything he’s faced before—Venture Capitalists. Lisandro and I are excited to continue this nightmare tour through modern America and can’t wait for you all to see what we’ve got in store for you.”
DC Comics is proud to announce that the collected edition of this series will arrive in two different formats:
- A collectible hardcover release with cover art by Alex Eckman-Lawn, available wherever books are sold and packaged with a mini-print of the iconic Death, as illustrated by artist Jenny Frison.
- A softcover edition with cover art by Reiko Murakami, priced as an easy jump-on point, will be available exclusively at direct market comic book stores.
The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country – The Glass House
The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country – The Glass House, launching on April 4, 2023, brings Tynion IV and Estherren back into DC’s The Sandman Universe with a new story and new setting for the second act of their DC Black Label epic. The series will continue featuring covers by Reiko Murakami:
Issue #2 Covers:
Launching between the first two Nightmare Country narratives is The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives by Pornsak Pichetshote (The Good Asian) and Jeff Stokely, featuring Thessaly the witch along with series regular ghost detectives Edwin and Charles. Their investigation into a Thai American girl’s disappearance from her Los Angeles home puts them on a collision course with new and terrifying ghosts straight from Thai folklore that could give even a dead boy nightmares!
In the same press release, The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives scribe said:
“The brilliance of The Sandman is how seamlessly it fits different genres, histories, and folklores together. Despite Thessaly the witch being a big player in James and Lisandro’s Nightmare Country, Dead Boy Detectives can still progress her story while telling this very personal horror tale about Thai ghosts in Los Angeles—in events that will go on and feed directly back into Nightmare Country. Doing that—the best parts of shared universe storytelling while telling boundary-pushing, yet still intimate, stories—it’s such a testament to the genius of The Sandman Universe.”
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Artist Yoshitaka Amano will visualize the connection between Nightmare Country and Dead Boy Detectives with variant cover artwork for both The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #1, publishing 12/27, and The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country – The Glass House #1, publishing 4/4. The connecting 1:50 incentive covers, with foil treatment, will be available at your local comic shop timed to publication of each launch issue.
The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #1 and The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country – The Glass House connecting foil variant covers by Yoshitaka Amano
The collected editions of The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country arrive April 4, 2023, the same day as the launch issue of Nightmare Country’s spectacular follow-up miniseries, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country – The Glass House.