Reviews tagging 'Deadnaming'

The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman

22 reviews

m1nature's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Torture, Pregnancy, Deadnaming, Abortion, Physical abuse, Death, Animal death, Violence, Murder, Child death, Body horror, and Blood

sunsorbit's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Transphobia, Animal death, Blood, Deadnaming, Gore, and Violence

doomluz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This one didn't connect to the Sandman / Morpheus or the mythos as much as the other issues so far. He was more of a secondary character.
It was an interesting story and I liked the theme around identity, but it also raised some questions about the Dreaming and a few characters that popped up.
This volume centered on Barbie (from Volume 2 The Doll's House) and explained why she has such a vivid dream.
There was a weird green bird in the dream that had the same name as me, which made me laugh, but also made me kind of confused about why she was named Luz.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Gore, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Death, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy

librarianmage's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, and Transphobia

Moderate: Murder, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy

_luke_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Deadnaming

Moderate: Transphobia

annamorgan27's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Transphobia, and Violence

grey_jayne's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Dream takes the back seat yet again in his own series.  What I like the most about this arc is that one of the main characters is trans, in 1991; be prepared for a ton of transphobia and deadnaming though, which is unfortunately accurate.  This was a mostly interesting story and decently paced for another limited location tale.  I wish there had been more time with Martin Tenbones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Deadnaming

Moderate: Animal death

magneto's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Torn on how to rate this, settling on 3. The treatment of the trans character and sole black character are... questionable at best. I know this is a product of its time so keeping that in mind with the rating. Really not a fan of the art style and choices in this volume as usual and looking forward to a modern adaptation of this handled by a diverse writers room. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Deadnaming, and Transphobia

wilde_for_books's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming and Transphobia

Moderate: Death and Murder

bealiy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy