Sandman #32

A Game of You" begins here with Sandman #32, the opening chapter of one of Neil Gaiman and Shawn McManus's most intimate arcs from 1991. Dave McKean's cover sets a quietly unsettling tone — a brooding, shadowed face dominates the foreground, with a glowing, ethereal figure rendered in warm amber tones behind it, all set against a dramatic cityscape and blood-red sky reflected on dark water. It's the kind of image that pulls you in slowly, promising a story as much about identity and inner worlds as anything else.