Sleepless #5 Review

Writer: Sarah Vaughn / Artists: Leila Del Duca, Alissa Sallah/ Image Comics Finally some answers!?! Sleepless has been building the tension and suspense over the first 4 issues, and now finally in Issue #5 some things are revealed. But is it too much too easily? Are we being misdirected once again? Let’s talk. The Sleepless Eventually Sleep So we know that soldiers take a vow to become Sleepless, thereby allowing themselves to be permanently vigilant. We’ve seen the side effects, occasional hallucinations, which seems like a pretty bad side effect, but Cyrenic seems to shrug them off. Well now we know that the Sleepless do eventually sleep — all at once. Sir Gert, Cyrenic’s mentor and the Sleepless on the King’s Council has fallen into a sleep as unto death. He will sleep for 8 years or more before he finally takes his last breath. Is that worth it? Do you have 8 years worth of dreams? The whole magic system that is outlined in the comic — that healing or magic costs time is fascinating in our present age, when time is the most precious commodity I have. Whenever it comes up I find myself wondering, would I give up time for that? Vaughn does a fascinating job of taking that fantasy premise and connecting it to our lives, minute to minute. The new king, Poppy’s uncle Surno, is starting to show his true colors. He reacts badly to the sleep of Sir Gert and generally makes a scene. This causes the ambassador from Mribesh to remark:

That’s not foreshadowing or anything. The Pl…