The issues in the collection first appeared in 1991 and 1992.
This caught the attention of Utterly dispirited by the Cuckoo, Barbie agreed to help destroy the dream. The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics.Its artists include Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, and Michael Zulli, with lettering by Todd Klein and covers by Dave McKean.Beginning with issue No. It tells the story of Dream of the Endless, who rules over the world of dreams.

Her hard-pressed imaginary friends reach out into the real world for help, resulting in blood and death in both worlds. The Cuckoo took the form of Barbie as a young girl, and enlisted one of her childhood toys as a spy. The Cuckoo's Cry is a moving revelation of family secrets and personal tragedies within the confines of class, sex, and social mores. The collection first appeared in paperback and hardback in 1993. At the same time, Barbie's rich but childish fantasy world is threatened by a malevolent creature called the Cuckoo. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority of species being tropical. Most species live in trees, though a sizeable minority are ground-dwelling.

The Cuckoo led Barbie to the Hierogram, a large monolith at the coast, which Barbie struck with the Porpentine. The Cuckoo was able to send out agents into the waking world, and while Barbie didn't know the children of the Cuckoo, they knew all about her. Using the Porpentine, Barbie returns to her fantasy realm, known simply as the Land, where she is required to oppose the mysterious villain called the 'Cuckoo'.
This fifth collection continues the story of some of the characters of the second, Each of the issues in the collection takes its name from a song, including Barbie has multiple adventures, which involve pursuit, loss of friends, and betrayal, and discovers that the Cuckoo resembles herself as a child, while the Land is identified as part of Dave McKean has explained the origins of the arc's cover art as having "abused a colour photocopier, shone lights into it and moved things around on the surface ".

It collects issues #32-37. The cuckoos are generally medium-sized slender birds. The Hierogram shattered, and Thessaly demanded the right to kill the Cuckoo for its threats, but it successfully escaped from Barbie's world, at which point it transformed into a black-feathered bird. 47, it was placed under the Vertigo imprint. I laughed and cried--sometimes at the same time. It wished to one day escape, and create more like itself in other people's dreams, even if it meant destroying the dream world and everyone in it. The characters are appealing and finely drawn.

Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The Cuckoo was a parasitic dream which existed in, and eventually took over, Barbie's dream world. The plot grabs your attention and doesn't let go. Upon return to the Land she is greeted by Wilkinson the shrew, Prinado the monkey, and Luz the dodo — her allies in the quest. The cuckoo order Cuculiformes is one of three that make up the Otidimorphae, the other two being the turacos and the bustards.