Sleepless #8 Review

Writer: Sarah Vaughn / Artists: Leila Del Duca, Alissa Sallah/ Image Comics IMMEDIATELY, the first page demonstrates this wonderful sense of urgency regarding the passage of time and the great announcement of one very important person that has come back into the land of the…not sleeping. Poppy’s mad dash to get out of bed and probably run to go see him is one whole page of this comic. Such a page is often done by the creative team for this series to show an important part of the story that always seems to catch my eye. And I love it.

Cyrenic’s fall to sleep by the one he once swore an oath to, Poppy, is over and he’s up and about. It’s a miracle and also a feat apparently not seen by the Sleepless Order, or any one in the kingdom, so he’s crowded as he’s adjusting back to being…not dozing off. It’s a bit fun to see him being a bit more natural and less stone-like as we’ve known him to be. It makes me wonder just how much more of this newer self we’ll get in the narrative from here on out. As entertaining as it is, it’s eye opening to see Cyrenic as the center of everyone’s attention–he’s always been called to serve, to protect, to stand guard, to fight. Now he’s being seen as phenomenal: not quite a Sleepless knight anymore, but also not quite whoever or whatever he used to be. He’s unattached, not assigned to a post or person–he’s without a tether so to speak. I’m praying that he doesn’t become used for and/or by any nefarious persons.

On the art side, it’s fun to se…