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This week, Jess Lachenal takes a look inside LUMBERJANES #20! (Did you hear Noelle Stevenson is up for a National Book Award?!)
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If you ask female comics fans what brought them into the medium, there are a number of titles that you will hear quite often. The X-Men are popular gateway characters, as well as Batman and the work of Rumiko Takahashi and Alan Moore. But you’ll also hear women say that trade collections of Neil Gaiman‘s The Sandman was what got them hooked on comics in large numbers.
This week, Gaiman himself returns to the seventy-five issue series, completed in 1996, with a prologue miniseries The Sandman: Overture, and as the series is one I’ll recommend to anyone, and comixology has put the entire thing on sale for $1 per issue, I thought I’d offer a list of contained single issue stories that don’t spoil parts of the main plot of Sandman.