A new Sandman comic pits the Corinthian against the angel who invented Mormonism

polygon.com:

Before The Sandman ever premiered on Netflix, the choice of professional Handsome Menace Boyd Holbrook for the role of the Corinthian — the teeth-for-eyes nightmare who invented serial killers — all but guaranteed a fandom attachment to him.

And just in time, there’s a book precisely for the beautiful, precious people making gifsets and writing Corinthian/Reader fic in second-person perspective: Nightmare Country by James Tynion IV and Lisandro Estherren.

Actually, it’s more than just in time. The book is five issues deep into a story about a young woman who sees nightmares when she’s awake. And her collision with the Corinthian leads to a twist simultaneously buckwild and completely fitting to Sandman’s logic.

In Gaiman’s world, nightmares walk the earth, Lucifer runs a piano bar, and dreams don’t have to be real to have power. So it’s actually incredible that Tynion and Estherren revealed that the villain of their first arc is… the angel Moroni, who supposedly appeared to Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.

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