The Sandman. Vol. 5, A game of you

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You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consistedof cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. And you may have thought, "What the helldoes 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 … celý popis

Podrobná bibliografie

Hlavní autor

Neil Gaiman, 1960-

Další autoři

Colleen Doran, 1963-
Shawn McManus, 1958-
Bryan Talbot, 1952-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

185 s. : il.

Vydáno

New York : DC Comics, 1993

Edice

Vertigo

Témata

fantasy komiksy

horory (komiksy)

ISBN

1563890895