Preludes & Nocturnes (1991)

The Sandman, starting with volume one, Preludes & Nocturnes Netflix's series follows the comic closely, so the reason to read it is the art. Neil Gaiman's story passed through a rotating cast of artists from one collection to the next, and the shifts in style, from the horror-comic grit of this opening volume to the gentler, storybook looks of later ones, are something a single visual design on screen cannot reproduce. This first volume is the roughest and the closest to a conventional horror comic; readers who bounce off it are usually won over by the next one or two.