Sur npr.org, Neil Gaiman (De bons présages, L’Océan au bout du chemin, American Gods) revient sur son comics Sandman. Il évoque la série originale mais également la série Sandman : Ouverture en 6 épisodes qu'il a écrite pour les 25 ans du comics : 

 

 When I came over to America to do signings, people would say to me, "We love the Endless; we love Sandman and his family, they're a wonderful dysfunctional family." It wasn't a phrase I had ever heard before, and I said, "Hang, on. Explain to me, what is a dysfunctional family?" And people would explain, and after a while, I realized that what Americans called a "dysfunctional family" is what we in England call "a family," having never encountered any of these functional ones.