Issue 9: Tales in the Sand by Gaiman, Dringenberg, and M. Jones III

• A young man hears the story of Dream's love for the mortal Nada and his reaction to her rejection of his love.

• Desire tells Despair of a scheme. Lucien takes inventory. Dream finds a vortex. Rose and Miranda Walker meet a long lost relative.

• Rose Walker goes to Florida to find her missing brother, Jed. She rooms in a house with unusual tenants. Matthew the Raven keeps an eye on Rose. Rose and Gilbert drive to Georgia to find Jed.

• Dream tracks the missing Brute and Glob to the mind of Jed Walker. There he also meets Hector and Lyta Hall, trapped

Issue 13: Men of good Fortune by Gaiman, Zulli, Parkhouse

• In 1389, Hob Gandling decides not to die. Every 100 years he and Dream meet to discuss the past century and to see if Hob has changed his mind.

• Rose and Gilbert find themselves in a convention of serial killers, including one of the missing major aracana, The Corinthian.

• Rose returns to the boarding house where she experiences the dreams of the others.

• Dream must destroy the vortex before it damages the Dreaming. He later discovers Desire's scheme.