Netflix is adapting Neil Gaiman's Sandman

Sandman is the greatest story ever told via the comic book medium. It is every genre and no genre at all. It can be epic fantasy dealing with matters of universal import one moment, and a small story about a group of dysfunctional siblings the next. You have a main character that can seem infallible, unknowable, and godlike in one moment, then mere issues later you see him as a self-sabotaging tragic figure in the throws of a perpetual existential meltdown.

Can a TV show ever give us something as absolutely perfect as the issue where Dream tags along with Death during her typical "work" day and we get a series of vignettes on the myriad different forms death can take and the impact they have on people? Can it deliver on the otherworldliness of The Dreaming and bring to life characters like Lucian, Cain and Abel, Matthew the Raven, Fiddler's Green, The Corinthian, Mervyn Pumpkinhead without them seeming silly?

I'm both looking forward to this and somewhat nervous. This has to be of significantly higher quality than American Gods for it to work.

Good Omens was fun (book and show) - for those who have read Gaiman's other books, which would you recommend first?

Tough to say. In a lot of ways American Gods is his most accessible book (the TV show is actually very little like the book, so don't use it as a frame of reference. I love the book and hate the show.). I would say that Neverwhere is Gaiman at his most prototypical as a novelist and if you read that and like it, you'll probably be into anything he writes. Anansi Boys is probably his most overtly humorous book aside from Good Omens (although not nearly as Pratchett influenced and somewhat more serious), so you may start there. I love them, but I would probably not recommend starting with Stardust or Coraline.

I know not everyone is down with comics, but I would personally say to start with Sandman. It really is the greatest comic book ever created and the nexus through which almost all of Gaiman's themes and ideas flow from.