{"id":1030,"date":"2012-06-07T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2012-05-28T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T01:52:35","slug":"mark-predicts-the-sandman-volume-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/06\/mark-predicts-the-sandman-volume-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Predicts &#8216;The Sandman&#8217;: Volume 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh shit, <em>IT&#8217;S PREDICTION TIME<\/em>. This should be rewarding and satisfying! And by &#8220;rewarding and satisfying, what I really mean is &#8220;frustrating and pointless.&#8221; That is 100% canon, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s address the predictions I made for volume 5:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Okay, so it seems that each volume picks up some tiny grain of a story left behind and expands on it. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start with a general prediction and say that this volume is based on a plot or character from a past issue. <strong>FUCK YES I WAS RIGHT. 1\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I think volume five will focus on either Nuala or Loki. I GET BONUS POINTS IF IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S BOTH. <strong>DAMN. NEITHER. Though Nuala showed up! 1\/2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We will see an intervention from Despair. <strong>Nope. But Death was at the end, <em>breaking my heart<\/em>. 1\/3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be any interludes or story tangents in volume 5. (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing that because it feels shorter than most of the other volumes.) <strong>I WAS CORRECT omg. 2\/4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Even if it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t focus on Nuala or Loki, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find out what Dream did with them after giving Hell to the Angels. <strong>Sort of? We know he is keeping Nuala around for&#8230; company? I get half a point. 2.5\/5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Satan will have a cameo. <strong>nope. 2.5\/6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Game of You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will be about identity. <strong>Holy shit, it totally is. OMG. 3.5\/7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The cover I have features a disjointed face in the shape of house, and I think that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll learn something in this issue that might possibly explain\u00c2\u00a0<em>why<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0this cover looks like this. <strong>Um, can I justify this? It&#8217;s about the house Barbie lives in where five women all feel disjointed and torn, and this cover represents that. BOOM. 4.5\/8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Everything is going to be fucked up. <strong>Was that even an option? Of course it was. 5.5\/9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>And creepy. <strong>GEEEEOOORRGGGGEEEE. 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see Dream in the form of a woman\u00c2\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0an animal in this volume. <strong>NOPE. 6.5\/11<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m unprepared.<strong>\u00c2\u00a0DISGUSTINGLY SO. 7.5\/12<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>THAT&#8217;S NOT SO BAD. I FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT. Now I shall not feel good!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark&#8217;s Predictions For Volume 6 of <em>The Sandman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So, based on the title, &#8220;Fables &amp; Reflections,&#8221; plus the fact that the issue numbers are kind of all over the place, I&#8217;m guessing that this volume collects nothing but one-off stories. NO SERIALIZED NARRATIVES.<\/li>\n<li>Given that (OH GOD PLEASE LET ME BE RIGHT OR ALL OF THESE ARE WRONG), I&#8217;d like to predict for single issues.<\/li>\n<li>One will be a horror story, or at least something unbelievably scary\/creepy.<\/li>\n<li>One will be purely comical\/funny.<\/li>\n<li>One will address Satan.<\/li>\n<li>One will address Loki.<\/li>\n<li>One will address the Faerie world.<\/li>\n<li>One will bring back Shakespeare.<\/li>\n<li>One will concern one of the Eternal.<\/li>\n<li>Two issues will use DC characters.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus, I got nothin&#8217; else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, that should be 100% wrong. AND ONWARDS I GO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh shit, IT&#8217;S PREDICTION TIME. This should be rewarding and satisfying! And by &#8220;rewarding and satisfying, what I really mean is &#8220;frustrating and pointless.&#8221; That is 100% canon, by the way. 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