In 1996, it received the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Original Graphic Novel/Album of 1995.
The following issue of The Sandman's regular series was #72, in which Dodds appeared out of costume as an epilogue to the events in this book.
Following the events of "The Python," Dian Belmont left New York City for London.
Dodds uses a murder case as an excuse to follow her, and he finds her working at a church's soup kitchen.
While Belmont deliberately avoids Dodds, both end up, for different reasons, at a party held by Roderick Burgess, the man who imprisoned Dream in his cellar.