Dream analysis: A Newsarama interview with Alisa Kwitney about her "Sandman: King of Dreams" readers' guide sparks a debate over how well Neil Gaiman's epic holds up, and whether we need another "Sandman" retrospective:

Poster A: "Enough already. Enough Sandman. Yes, it was a difficult, groundbreaking work at its time. AT ITS TIME. It really does not hold up particularly well (except for Seasons of Mist, where Gaiman at least pretended the character was from the DCU), and yet another analysis is not needed (especially after the pretentious Hy Bender companion from a few years back). ... DC can move on now: no more miniseries of background characters, no more Neil Gaiman back one last time! projects, no more lil' endless nonsense. I used to think it was annoying that Alan Moore would never revisit watchmen projects, but now I see his point."

Poster B: "So should we similarly stop analyzing Shakespeare because others have already been there and done that?

"Every year that Sandman is still in print, someone is discovering it anew for the first time. That alone is reason for continual analysis."

Poster C: "... at the end of the day, it was still a comic book series. How much new is there to say about it after all this time?"