Sandman, The: A Game of You - Book V (Sandman Collected Library)

Talbot, Bryan, Doran, Colleen, MacManus, Shawn, Delany, Samuel R., Gaiman, Neil

ISBN 10: 1563890895 / ISBN 13: 9781563890895

Published by Vertigo, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sandman, The: A Game of You - Book V (Sandman Collected Library)
• Publisher: Vertigo
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563890895
• ISBN 13: 9781563890895
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

An attempt to summon and imprison Death, results, instead, in the capture of Morpheus, the Sandman, who must regain the tools of his powers.

Review

You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consisted of cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. And you may have thought, "What the hell does that mean?" Enter A Game of You to confound the issue even more, while at the same time standing as a fine example of such a description. This is not an easy book. The characters are dense and unique, while their observations are, as always with Gaiman, refreshingly familiar. Then there's the plot, which grinds along like a coffee mill, in the process breaking down the two worlds of this series, that of the dream and that of the dreamer. Gaiman pushes these worlds to their very extremes--one is a fantasy world with talking animals, a missing princess, and a mysterious villain called the Cuckoo; the other is an urban microcosm inhabited by a drag queen, a punk lesbian couple, and a New York doll named Barbie. In almost every way this book sits at 180 degrees from the earlier four volumes of the Sandman series--although the less it seems to belong to the series, the more it shows its heart. --Jim Pascoe