Sol

In Heart Of The Star, Dream and his lover Killalla attend a gathering with stars, celestial bodies, dimensions and delegates from various groups of people such as faery and many seemingly unknown alien races.

Sol attended the gathering as a helper, often clumsily dropping drinks and talking to guests. He is too young to be a part of the parliament.

At one point Sol has a conversation with Killalla and tells her that his planets are all asleep and that when they wake up he hopes the dominant life form will look like her.

As Dream is preparing to leave the gathering he talks to Sol and mentions Sol's sleeping planets are dreaming and that the "dreams are very lonely, and beautiful."

Scott originally started drawing Sol in early June 2010, but was not happy with his preliminary sketch and so he tucked him aside to work on at a later date. Fifteen months later Scott drew his final version of Sol.

Here is both his original attempt and the finished version of an innocent and charming character from one of my favorite Sandman stories.

Demon # 114

This demon is barely visible in the panel where Dream defeats Choronzon in the Hellfire Club.

If you look hard enough you'll spot him....

Emissary # 09

This emissary is one of the many people who travelled to the Dreaming in an attempt to gain control of Hell.

As funny as it may seem, this emissary is not one of the three Egyptian emissaries.

So, who does he represent?

Ghost Girl

This is one of the ghosts who returned to St. Hilarions when the dead returned to Earth after Lucifer closed Hell.

She can be seen chasing Alfred, the school groundskeeper, with a ghost boy (who was previously posted here on the blog).

The thing that I find interesting is that St. Hilarions was a boys school....so who is this ghost girl and why is she haunting the school?

As I have said before, I absolutely love Scott's ghost children. This one is probably one of my favorites...but I think I've said that about all of the ghosts so far....

Demon # 102

As Dream and Choronzon battle it out in the Hellfire Club, this demon gasps as Choronzon issues the, seemingly, killing stroke by saying "I am anti-life, the beast of judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of the universes, gods, worlds...of everything."

Demon # 163

This fly demon is one of the many demons listening to Azazel's speech about reclaiming Hell.

This demon is not easy to spot because he's sort of in the middle of the crowd, but he's there, listening to Azazel, with his six arms and his beady little fly eyes.....

You know, flies are pretty creepy....

Emissary # 5

This is one of the emissaries who travel to The Dreaming, hoping to convince Morpheus to give them the Key to Hell.

This is a particularly exciting emissary. In the published comic, we cannot actually see this emissary's face. We only see his back, as he's facing the King Of Dreams as he speaks to the guests of his realm.

Scott interpreted this character and gave him a personality that was not shown in the published comic.

This is one of my favorite things about this project.....