![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. Dream has six siblings: Despair, Desire, Death, Destruction, Delirium, and Destiny, although not all have been shown so far in The Sandman season 1. 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. Volume Five of New York Times best selling author Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed creation THE SANDMAN collects one of the series’ most beloved storylines. The Sandman mainly switches between Earth and the Dreaming realm, as well as different periods of Dreams life, and the different realms of Dream’s sibling’s realms. The characters are dense and unique, while their observations are, as always with Gaiman, refreshingly familiar. ![]() 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. You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consisted of cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. ![]()
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