Somnology!

Wow. Was Season of Mists a great story or what? Again: that’s the story I read that made me completely rethink the whole comic book thing. It made me want to quit my job and become a writer. Even now, I feel that chord being strummed. Whew.

Anyway, there’s more of the story to come. The next arc takes place in The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You. Now, I suppose, a warning (perhaps a completely unnecessary one): this is probably the most disturbing of all of the storylines I’ve read thus far. I mean, you thought that 24 Hours was rough? This storyline is tougher to go through than that one. Seriously: There’s an issue that takes you through some nightmares and I was stuck slack-jawed reading these stories feeling what they’re feeling and remembering nightmares of my own. This book will have you taking a little bit more of the covers at night.

With that said, buy it now! We’re going to be going through it starting one week from Wednesday.

Now to the boilerplate:

If you absolutely positively have to talk about some major spoiler in comments, please rot13.

It has also come up that some wish to have a place where they can yell “DIBS!” I suppose this is as good a place to yell “dibs!” as any. (One should also keep in mind that just because someone yelled “DIBS!” on your favorite book, the one that you were hoping to recap, know that you can still submit one. We’ll read and argue over that one too.) Dibs, so far, behind the cut:

Katherine wants #31, Distant Mirrors – Three Septembers and a January (this is in the collection after A Game Of You)

Russell Saunders wants #35, Beginning to See the Light (that’s in this upcoming collection)

Russell Saunders wants #36, Over the Sea to Sky (and this one too)

Jason Tank wants #41, Chapter One of Brief Lives

Russell Saunders wants #50, Ramadan

Katherine wants #53, Hob’s Leviathan

Reformed Republican wants #54, The Golden Boy

Alan Scott wants #75, The Tempest (schedule permitting)