Brief Lives
Brief Lives is a comic book story arc that first appeared in The Sandman #41
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Collects #41-49 of The Sandman.
Three editions have been published to date.
Brief Overview
The saga of the Endless continues in this, the seventh volume from Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson and Vince Locke. Delirium has convinced Dream to aid her in her search for their missing brother Destruction, and Desire warns them against it.
Blossom For A Lady - Rain In The Doorway - Not Her Sister-Want/Not Want - The View From The Backs Of Mirrors - Journal Of The Plague Year - "The Number You Have Dialed..."
Dream does not appear in this issue.
Two: It Always Rains On The Unloved - Wet Dreams - A Fishing Expedition - She Kisses Wyverns (The Disneyland Analogy) - Dinner Etiquette And Chocolate Lovers - Desire Swears By The First Circle - "Things Are Changing" - What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
The People Who Remember Atlantis - Concerning Mammoths, And Falling Walls - Who Controls Transportation? - Bored, She Makes Little Frogs - Truth Or Consequences, And Other Places - Ancestral Voices Prophesying - The Dogs Of Art - "When I Dream, Sometimes I Remember How"
Four: The Other Side Of The Sky - A Bear And His Shadow - Departed Secrets - "Twinkle's A Nice Word. So's Viridian." - Three Keys - A Treatise On Optics -The Perils Of Smoking In Bed?
Five: The Things We Do To Be Loved - Her Hands Do Not Go To The Moon - The Driving Instructor - Tiffany Watches I - White Knights And/Or Pond-Scum - Are Dalmations Flowers? - Nancy Displays Her Erudition -Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am - Tiffany Watches II.
Six: Life Isn't Pleasant, Petrified - The Parting Of The Ways - The Trouble With Mortals - Dreamings Of Meeting Or Meetings Of Dreaming? - The Trouble With Gods - Mervyn Sets Him Straight - "Have You Got Anything With A Happy Ending?" - Tempus Frangit -- Death Talks About Life.
Seven: Cooking Considered As One Of The Fine Arts -"My Envelope Isn't Any Good Anymore" - Where All Mazes Meet - The Other Side Of The Coin - Life As A Glass Of Bitter Wine - Cherries Are Counted, And A Bargain Is Made - An Unlikely Growth.
First issue under the Vertigo imprint.
Eight: Journey's End - Brains, A Heart, A Ride In A Balloon - Dinner - Something New - The Illusion Of Permanence - A Wreath Of Bright Stars - Echoes Of Darkness - Up. Out.
Nine: Farewells - Answered Prayers - The Flowers Of Romance - Journey's End - The Gates Of Horn - Things Unlooked For - Brief Lives.
