Peter Stormare gleefully played the character in the climax of the 2005 film Constantine, and Tom Ellis famously starred in the Lucifer TV series (based on a post-Sandman comic book run by writer ...

This column contains detailed spoilers of Dead Boy Detectives, a spinoff of The Sandman. The Sandman casts a large shadow, which makes creating a spinoff in the same universe one heck of a tall order.