I have to say that I actually, thoroughly enjoyed this issue. We've seen Sandman lately in the Friendly title, well, this issue gives us his true origin. He didn't really have a bad life. He just had a lot of bad breaks. And most of them were his own fault. Of course he doesn't see it that way. He sees it as the world always trying to keep him down. As unfortunate incidents happening at the most inopportune time. But really . . . it's mostly his own doing. Sure he had some let-downs happen that pushed him in a certain direction. But it was he who made the wrong decision on how he reacted to them. And who he decided to place the blame on. Billy Baker is actually his real name. Flint Marko was a name he came up with as he went along. So this story tells us about the ups and downs in his life. About the way he reacted to things before he even became the Sandman. And a lot about the relationship, or lack of, that he had with his mother and absent father. But the latter grew as he became incarcerated with him several times over the years. But the final straw, I think, was the accident that turned him in to the Sandman, and that his girlfriend and best friend betrayed him. Now he has a new place to focus all of his anger on . . . Spider-man. And it seems that he's only happy when he has a way of getting that anger out. So overall . . . a pretty decent annual. Peter David did a great job with the story. And I was really impressed with Ronan Cliquet's pencils. I think there was a few spots where they were over inked. But overall, I really liked his style. I think this is only the second Marvel Annual that I've even liked this year. Good job Peter.
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