The Sandman is back, and it's a dream come true for many comic-book fans.

DC Comics made a huge splash at Comic-Con Thursday at a panel for its Vertigo imprint: Award-winning author Neil Gaiman is returning to his seminal comic for aSandman miniseries next year. He'll be paired withBatwoman artist J.H. Williams III.

It's the first time in years that Gaiman will be revisiting the dream lord Morpheus, his fantasy world The Dreaming and his interactions with those on Earth from the book that ran for 75 issues and began in 1988