These days it seems like we'll never see a film adaptation based on Neil Gaiman's acclaimed comic series Sandman (though a TV series isn't out of the question), but back in the '90s, Warner Bros. tried and tried again to get the comic to the big screen. At one point, Gaiman himself even recruited friend and Sandman artist Jill Thompson to craft some gorgeous concept art.

It's been 16 years since fantasy icon Neil Gaiman ended his landmark comic book series Sandman, but it remains required reading for every new comics fan. Reprints, special issues and spinoff series by other writers have kept the Sandman world alive, and word around the San Diego Comic-Con this week is that Gaiman might be returning to the story for the first time in nearly a decade.

Quite frankly, no one loves pop culture the way sci-fi fans love pop culture. And the most committed of sci-fi fans will take that love to a whole new level: by commemorating that passion in ink. A couple of years back we showed you 25 sci-fi tattoos from Star Wars, Star Trek and more, but here are 22 additional tattoos to remind us just how unworthy we really are.

Remember that possible Sandman TV series we told you about last September, the one in development from Supernatural creator Eric Kripke? Neil Gaiman wasn't going to be involved in the project, but still, we were pumped. Now it's time to get unpumped.