Entertainment Weekly:

It’s been 30 years since Neil Gaiman first launched The Sandman for DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. The comic — which followed Dream, the well-named personification of dreams, as he tangled with gods, monsters, and humans while exploring the nature of stories and his own self — ran for eight years, and became one of the defining books of the era. Just a few years after Watchmen, The Sandman proved that comic books could be taken seriously as literature (one issue, which retold A Midnight Summer’s Dream, became the first comic to win the World Fantasy Award). Gaiman has returned intermittently to the world of The Sandman over the years (including for the 2003 graphic novel The Sandman: Endless Nights and the 2013 miniseries The Sandman: Overture), and the character of Dream has popped up in other DC comics here and there. But in honor of the series’ 30th anniversary this year, Gaiman is coming back to the Dreaming in a big way. EW can exclusively announce that DC Comics is launching a Sandman Universe line of four new comic series. The books will be overseen by Gaiman but written and drawn by brand new creative teams. They will pick up story threads and themes from The Sandman while also adding new characters and concepts.

Given how much of an evergreen sale that The Sandman is, it’s a very smart move for DC to have books on the shelves that live and breathe in the same world.