false 25102 10 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 <I>A Game of You</I> 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. --<I>Jim Pascoe</I> 810826 1993 The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You total:6557|5:87|4:35|3:17|2:2|1:0| 6557 29044 7743 125 4 2 false false Thu Feb 26 10:54:17 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 11:00:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Apr 26 15:42:30 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 15:42:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 10:26:19 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 07:45:30 -0800 2008 ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 08 11:49:01 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 08 11:55:59 -0700 2007
So... yeah. So when I was a little kid I read this and it was like, I was a baby transsexual and all I knew about it ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 13:51:01 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 13:51:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 16:25:08 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 16:41:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 18:57:22 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 18:57:22 -0800 2009 Anyway, here's what happens:
Barbie, from The Doll's House, has moved to NYC and is divorced from Ken. She has a bunch of neighbors, Wanda, a transsexual; Hazel and Fox, a lesbian couple (we find ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 16:00:45 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 18:15:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 03:39:53 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 03:41:14 -0700 2009
The world of Dream is enormous and scattered with countless skerries, each one a setting for a thousand dreams. Morpheus is alerted that "...more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 12:32:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 12:42:59 -0700 2009 Buffy; there's nothing more rewarding for a viewer/read...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 17:39:57 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 23:47:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 14:41:53 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 11:07:32 -0700 2009 The Sandman's three multi-issue story arcs so far. With A Game of You, collecting issues #32-37 of The Sandman series, Gaiman deftly explores themes of gender, sexuality, identity, and self-definition.

...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 20 02:38:31 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 02:38:53 -0800 2009 The Doll's House (Volume 2); however, the main thing I remember from that volume is the serial killer convention while I only have a vague memory of the other stories. Nevertheless, it was still a deli...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:50:30 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:56:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 06:35:25 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 08:40:20 -0700 2009
I think this was one of my more favorite in the anthology series in the plot department. This book definitely ha...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 17:21:40 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 17:31:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Apr 30 09:45:59 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 30 09:46:28 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 08:30:53 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 08:42:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 25 12:22:40 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 16:57:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Feb 16 10:30:29 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 10:30:29 -0800 2008 A Doll's House, has separated from her husband and is living in a small New York apartment building with a cast of...more...]]>