The next storyline, A Game of You, dips into one particular dreamer’s dream. It is a story about stories, about how our stories have lives of their own that sometimes supersede our waking lives. In this storyline, we explore the dreamworld of Barbie, a character from the Doll’s House arc, who now lives in an apartment building in New York City. The Land, from her childhood dreams, is in trouble and it is missing its princess, Barbie, so characters from her dream bring her back to help save the land from the Cuckoo.
The Cuckoo captures her and reveals itself as Barbie when she was a kid. The cuckoo then explains that she is like a real cuckoo left in the nest of another bird to kick out and kill the other chicks. And she’s stuck in Barbie’s dream and wants to escape now. She gets Barbie to summon the maker of this land, Dream. Barbie asks Dream to free the Cuckoo who flies away to other worlds. We end with Barbie’s realization that “everybody has a secret world inside of them.”