God Save the Queen
10 best books like God Save the Queen (Mike Carey): Cairo, A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories, The Dead Boy Detectives, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, Thessaly: Witch for Hire, Merv Pumpkinhead: Agent of D.R.E.A.M. (Sandman Presents), The Sandman Presents: Bast, The Thessaliad, Lucifer, Volume 1: Cold Heaven, The Sandman Universe #1
| Author | G. Willow Wilson |
| ISBN | 1401211402 |
A stolen hookah, a spiritual underworld, and a genie on the run change the lives of five strangers forever in this modern fable set on the streets of the Middle East's largest metropolis.
CAIRO interweaves the fates of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate,...
A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0878160183 |
‘A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories’ written and illustrated by Will Eisner, one of the giants in the sequential arts arena, is a perfectly executed graphic novel, which provides the reader a peek at the American experience during the early 1930s. Through four interconnected graphic...
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 1401218555 |
I don't remember the appearance of this duo in Sandman so perhaps I'm missing something, but the introductory story was terrible. It was short, minimally plotted, gratuitously violent (I'm not particularly squeamish, but I don't *enjoy* violence, especially not graphic violence perpetrated on...
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401224245 |
THE SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS is a comics adaptation of Gaiman's original prose novella by the same name illustrated by Yoshitako Amano. This graphic novel was illustrated by the legendary P. Craig Russell. A humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox find themselves romantically drawn...
HELP WANTED
As the world's oldest, most powerful witch,Thessaly has learned through millennia of experience to be prepared for almost anything, but since she could never have foreseen the persistence of one lovesick ghost names Fetch--or the conniving, underhanded lengths he would go...
Merv Pumpkinhead: Agent of D.R.E.A.M. (Sandman Presents)
If you think the janitor bellyacher/construction-demolition man of the Dreaming is just a simple aide, you better think again. Mervyn “Merv” Pumpkinhead proves in his first solo spin-off that he is more than just a lowly concierge when he embarks on a James Bond-esque journey to try and stop a malevolent...
The Sandman Presents: Bast
Since this story is grounded so well in the Sandman world it was hard to put down but because it had only 3 issues with which to develop characters I felt that the secondary characters were tropes as were the starting life situations from which we discover the two main human characters. That said, tropes...
Out of the various Sandman spin-offs, I have to say the ones starring Thessaly are my favorite. She proved how badass she was in the Sandman, so it was exciting to see her have her own adventures. Heck, she's so tough that even several death gods want to take her power but they're too afraid to confront her...
Lucifer, Volume 1: Cold Heaven
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 1401261930 |
The antihero who made his debut in The Sandman and starred in his own hit series is back in a new series by best-selling writer Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles)!
As this new series begins, God is dead—and Gabriel has accused Lucifer of His murder. Lucifer had motive and opportunity, but...
The story is plotted by Gaiman and written by Spurrier, Hopkinson, Watters and Howard, featuring art by Bilquis Evely with cover art by Jae Lee.
Daniel, the lord of Dreams, has gone missing and it causes chaos in the kingdom of dreams…A rift between worlds has opened, revealing a space beyond...
