Upon returning to the Land she is greeted by Wilkinson the shrew, Prinado the monkey, and Luz the dodo-her allies in the quest. Using the Porpentine, Barbie returns to her fantasy realm, known simply as the Land, where she is required to oppose the mysterious villain called the 'Cuckoo'. Martin Tenbones, a character of Barbie's dreams in The Doll's House, enters into the waking world to give her the Porpentine, a quartz amulet, but is slain by the police. As A Game of You opens, Barbie who no longer dreams, but lives in an apartment block with her best friend Wanda, a transgender woman the lesbian couple Hazel and Foxglove the witch Thessaly and a quiet man named George. The central character of A Game of You is Barbie, introduced as a resident of the house where Rose Walker stayed during the events of The Doll's House, wherein Barbie dreamt a vivid dream of herself as a princess of a fantasy realm. It is preceded by Season of Mists and followed by Fables & Reflections. This fifth collection continues the story of some of the characters of the second, The Doll's House, and is closely linked with the ninth, The Kindly Ones.Įach of the issues in the collection takes its name from a song, including Lullaby of Broadway (represented as "Lullabies of Broadway"), Bad Moon Rising, taken from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song, "Beginning to See the Light", a Velvet Underground song, "Over the Sea to Sky," from a Scottish folk song, and "I Woke Up and One of Us Was Crying" from Elvis Costello's " I Want You."
Gaiman described A Game of You as "probably" his favorite volume in the series, "because it's most people's least favourite volume, and I love it all the more for that." Gaiman often characterizes Sandman stories as "male" or "female" A Game of You, dominated by female characters and points of view, is one of his female stories. Her hard-pressed imaginary friends reach out into the real world for help, resulting in blood and death in both worlds. At the same time, Barbie's rich but childish fantasy world is threatened by a malevolent creature called the Cuckoo. The collection first appeared in paperback and hardback in 1993.īarbie, a minor character from The Doll's House, has recently divorced and is trying to rediscover her own identity. The issues in the collection first appeared in 19.
The volume's introduction was written by Samuel R. Written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Shawn McManus, Colleen Doran, Bryan Talbot, George Pratt, Stan Woch and Dick Giordano, and lettered by Todd Klein. Cover of The Sandman: A Game of You (1993), trade paperback collected edition Art by Dave McKean.Ī Game of You (1993) is the fifth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.
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