The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

This volume is right up there as one of my favourite volumes, probably the favourite. It is profoundly well-written and the story well-told. No summary would do it justice so I'm going to keep it brief. Brevity is the major theme of the volume; the implication is change. Even immortality can be considered brief, depending on the scale you use. This inevitability of change is highlighted and stressed upon in Dream's journey with Delirium to seek Destruction, their brother who broke ties with them centuries before. We see the changes take effect on Dream and some of his siblings as his journey comes to a close, on a beautiful yet tragic close of the Orpheus arc. As a strong plus, each of the Endless siblings gets some time in the limelight in this volume. And painting even more of this beautifully crafted existence, we are given to know of the beginning of the Endless and hints of their natures, of the existence of other practically immortal beings, and of the inevitability of change.