Dates
- Cover date
- July 1998
- On sale
- June 3, 1998
- Pages
- 68
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Editions and covers
Creators
pencils: Dave McKean, Brian Apthorpinks: Dave McKean, Scott Hamptoncolors: Dave McKean, Daniel Vozzoletters: Dave McKean, Todd Kleinscript: Len Wein, Karen Berger
Stories
- Trial and Error Chapter One: In Which the Punishment Almost Fits the Crime · 23 pages
Judge Quentin Gallows banishes Cain from the Dreaming for his repeated murders of Abel.
- Chapter Two: In Which Consequences Are Found to Have Consequences. · 16 pages
Abel decides he misses Cain and wants him back but Judge Gallows refuses to lift the banishment.
- Chapter Three: In Which Justice and Irony Become Strangely Synonymous. · 17 pages
Abel and Matthew travel to the waking world to bring Cain back to the Dreaming.
- Archie Goodwin · On The Ledge · 0.4 pages
Publisher’s description
Cain goes on trial for his murders of Abel, and both the Dreaming and the Waking pay the price in this one-shot. Abel frees Judge Gallows from the House of Mystery, and the jurist's first order of business is the trial of Cain. As characters from The Sandman and The Dreaming play their parts in the proceedings, a guilty verdict proves to be the inescapable conclusion, but no one realizes that the fate of the entire world lies in the balance.