Endless Nights Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Sandman: Endless Nights is a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman published by DC Comics in 2003. The book is divided into seven chapters, each devoted to one of the members of the Endless, a family of brothers and sisters, anthropomorphic representations of aspects of life.Each tale is stylistically different, and illustrated by a different artist. Most of the tales are independent of each other; however Destruction's tale immediately follows Delirium's.
In line with all the other Sandman comics, the cover, logo and book designs were created by Dave McKean.
In the far distant past, Dream and his new romantic interest Killalla of the Glow travel to a meeting of astronomical phenomena. The mortal Killalla is astonished to learn that the beings with which she is mingling and chit-chatting with rather comfortably are, in fact, the very stars, galaxies, and dimensions which compromise her universe. After an encounter with her world's own sun Sto-Oa, Killalla and the star fall into each other's arms as the distraught and heartbroken Dream watches on.
This story showcases a number of things mentioned in The Sandman series but never before illustrated. Death is a cold unmerciful character and Delight has not yet become Delirium. The roots of Dream's conflicts with Desire are illustrated for the first time, and the roots of the rules forbidding The Endless from becoming romantically involved with mortals. The first Despair also appears in the story, looking quite different from her replacement.
In addition, other DC comics characters and beings are suggested in the story. The character Killalla is from the planet of Oa future homeworld of the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corp. Her power to manipulate green energy can be seen as an evolution towards the creation of the Green Lantern's power. Despair has a conversation with a red giant star named Rao about the creation of life on an unstable world and the possibility of a lone surviving being existing to continually mourn the destruction of the world. This is an allusion to the history of Superman and, as such, Rao is intimated to be the red giant sun around which Superman's homeworld of Krypton once orbitted.
Chapter 1: Death - Death and Venice
Art by P. Craig RussellChapter 2: Desire - What I've tasted of Desire
Art by Milo ManaraChapter 3:Dream - The Heart of a Star
Art by Miguelanxo PradoChapter 4: Despair - Fifteen Portraits of Despair
Art by Barron Storey, designed by Dave McKeanChapter 5: Delirium - Going Inside
Art by Bill SienkiewiczChapter 6: Destruction - On the Peninsula
Art by Glenn Fabry