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Brief Lives

Prime Earth (Earth-0) 10 issues
Ended Main Story

A Sandman arc by Neil Gaiman with art by Jill Thompson spanning issues #41-49. Dream and his sister Delirium embark on a quest to find their missing brother Destruction, traveling through encounters with mortals and immortals along the way.

Status
Ended
Type
Main Story
Universe
Prime Earth (Earth-0)
Start Issue
Brief Lives 1: 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...
Issues
10

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Brief Lives 1: 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...
#41

Brief Lives 1: 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...

The Sandman (1989)

Jul 21, 1992

Brief Lives 2: 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?
#42

Brief Lives 2: 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 Sandman (1989)

Aug 18, 1992

Brief Lives 3: 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 Dre
#43

Brief Lives 3: 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 Dre

The Sandman (1989)

Sep 22, 1992

Brief Lives 4: 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?
#44

Brief Lives 4: 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?

The Sandman (1989)

Oct 20, 1992

Brief Lives 5: The Things We Do to Be Loved - Her Hands Do Not Go tothe 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
#45

Brief Lives 5: The Things We Do to Be Loved - Her Hands Do Not Go tothe 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

The Sandman (1989)

Nov 17, 1992

Brief Lives 6: 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 Fra
#46

Brief Lives 6: 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 Fra

The Sandman (1989)

Dec 22, 1992

Brief Lives 7: 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
#47

Brief Lives 7: 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

The Sandman (1989)

Jan 19, 1993

Brief Lives 8: 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.
#48

Brief Lives 8: 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.

The Sandman (1989)

Feb 16, 1993

Brief Lives 9: Farewells - Answered Prayers - The Flowers of Romance - Journey's End - The Gates of Horn - Things Unlooked for - Brief Lives.
#49

Brief Lives 9: Farewells - Answered Prayers - The Flowers of Romance - Journey's End - The Gates of Horn - Things Unlooked for - Brief Lives.

The Sandman (1989)

Mar 23, 1993

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The Sandman: Brief Lives (Hardcover, 1994)

Dec 07, 2011