I only got around to it a little while ago. It’s easy to see why it made such a splash at the time, though it feels like comics and Gaiman himself have continued to grow extensively since then.
By the way, if you like Locke & Key (and if you like Sandman, you might), the three-issue Sandman crossover, “Hell and Gone”, wrapped up not so long ago and is available in a collected volume. It’s pretty darn good – especially compared to a lot of the other Sandman spinoffs (and there are so many of them at this point).
Aye, Jon Peters, who was obsessed with working a giant spider into anything that he could.
His mad exploits could fill a book. And did.