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| The Sandman: A Game of You | |
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 Cover of The Sandman: A Game of You (1993), trade paperback collected edition, art by Dave McKean | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | November 1991 – May 1992 |
| Title(s) | The Sandman #32-37 |
| Main character(s) | Dream |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-56389-089-5 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Neil Gaiman |
| Artist(s) | Dave McKean Shawn McManus Colleen Doran Bryan Talbot Dick Giordano George Pratt Stan Woch Daniel Vozzo |
| Penciller(s) | Shawn McManus Colleen Doran Bryan Talbot |
| Inker(s) | Dick Giordano George Pratt Shawn McManus Stan Woch |
| Letterer(s) | Todd Klein |
| Colorist(s) | Daniel Vozzo |
| Editor(s) | Karen Berger Alisa Kwitney |
A Game of You (1993) is the fifth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman. Written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Shawn McManus, Colleen Doran, Bryan Talbot, George Pratt, Stan Woch and Dick Giordano, and lettered by Todd Klein. The volume's introduction was written by Samuel R. Delany.
It collects issues #32-37. The issues in the collection first appeared in 1991 and 1992. The collection first appeared in paperback and hardback in 1993.
Barbie, a minor character from The Doll's House, has recently divorced and is trying to rediscover her own identity. At the same time, Barbie's rich but childish fantasy world is threatened by a malevolent creature called the Cuckoo. Her hard-pressed imaginary friends reach out into the real world for help, resulting in blood and death in both worlds.
Gaiman often characterizes Sandman stories as "male" or "female"[citation needed]; A Game of You, dominated by female characters and points of view, is one of his female stories. 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."[1]
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.
Each 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."
It is preceded by Season of Mists and followed by Fables & Reflections.
- ^ Q&A with Neil Gaiman: Author, DC Comics Superstar, and Character on "The Simpsons", November 22, 2011, Omnivoracious (Amazon blog).