In the second installment of Gaiman's superb Sandman series, he continues to explore the intersection of reality and fantasy, challenging notions of 'certainty' and exposing them to mere constructs of our perception. 
 Morpheus, the king of the dream world, discovers that four of his subjects have disappeared during his incarceration. 3 of them are evil and one good. Out of them The Corinthian i found the most chilling. After his escape from the dreamworld, for forty years he has been roaming the land killing innocents and harvesting their eyeballs. In the process he creates a horde of followers, serial killers dead set on amassing as many victims as possible. calling themselves the 'collectors', they are from all walks of life. Doctors, orthodontists, psychologists, housewives, amusement park attendants they all gather together at a bizarre conference to discuss their trade. Its like Gaiman is trying to tell you something about 'legitimate' conferences that happen in the real world! 
 The eyeball eating stuff aside, Gaiman uses The Corinthian to illustrate how human beings can justify the worse crimes in the purest terms to themselves. No one really thinks they're wrong. Doing so would make them demons, and no one wants to be a demon. 
 The story(which comprises issues 9-16 of the comic books) is pretty absorbing but the ending i thought was a bit anticlimactic. The set has a couple of gems though and i really enjoyed #9 and #13. The latter "Men of Good Fortune", a side story with nothing to do with the main plot, is about a 13th century mercenary who refuses to die. Believing that everyone just dies 'to go along with everyone else'. 
 Full of allegory and expert use of myth. Sandman creates its own universe pretty convincingly. Unraveling the symbolism alone is a welcome intellectual exercise and the story is entertaining in its own right. I'm hooked.