A
Game of You (Sandman, Book 5) by Neil
Gaiman, Samuel
R. Delany, Shawn
MacManus, Colleen
Doran, Bryan
Talbot, George
Pratt, Stan
Woch, Dick
Giordano 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 - Amazon.com Paperback from DC Comics
Book Published: 03 September, 1993
