By the time Neil Gaiman published the final issue of his comic book The Sandman in 1996, he’d created a world populated with a wide array of characters, each with a significant purpose for the overall story.
Decades after the successful comic book run ended, Gaiman finally found the right opportunity to adapt his story for a live-action series on his terms at Netflix.
Adapting something like a novel or a comic book for a show takes a delicate balance between wanting to attract a wider audience and satisfying the established fanbase.
The success of an adaptation is quite often dependent on how faithfully they stick to the source material, and reimagining characters or small plot lines in the story can be a huge risk.
However, Gaiman has proven that he knows exactly when to take those risks; he produced and wrote for other shows based on his works, like Good Omens or American Gods,
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