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A review by curiouslibrarian
The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
3.0
This is a 3.5 from me.
This one didn't grab me as much as some of the other Sandman volumes. I liked the character of Wanda. And I found some of Barbie's dreamworld (oh that just sounds wrong!) to be intriguing. That world reminded me a bit of Bone. (Although it may well be the other way around, as Bone didn't start publishing until 1991, around the same time as these issues originally began publishing.)
And I can see that there are some amazing visuals, especially in those opening few pages. (Delany comments on that in his intro to this volume - spoiler heavy, read after finishing!) The writing is stronger and less predictable than the story in volume 4.
And yet, I don't know, it didn't grab me the same way. Oh well.
This one didn't grab me as much as some of the other Sandman volumes. I liked the character of Wanda. And I found some of Barbie's dreamworld (oh that just sounds wrong!) to be intriguing. That world reminded me a bit of Bone. (Although it may well be the other way around, as Bone didn't start publishing until 1991, around the same time as these issues originally began publishing.)
And I can see that there are some amazing visuals, especially in those opening few pages. (Delany comments on that in his intro to this volume - spoiler heavy, read after finishing!) The writing is stronger and less predictable than the story in volume 4.
And yet, I don't know, it didn't grab me the same way. Oh well.