Fear me, I managed to marathon the entire Sandman season. ;) Which covers Preludes and Nocturnes and The Doll's House in terms of comics trade collections and while sticking close to the comics does occasionally swerve, adding some new things, substracting others, changing motivations, even. Generally it's a thumbs up from me, I loved watching - hence the ability to marathon it non stop - , and now I'm really looking forward to how the tv version will handle my favourite volumes later on.

( A few disordered spoilery thoughts )