I was looking at my options for #400, and I couldn't make up my mind. There wasn't a "hot" first appearance, and the more amusing panels, I could group together thematically. But I kept returning to Flessel's Sandman. It's the kind of silent splash he often gives a page, nothing all that original at this point in the long-running strip, but I love it anyway. The gangly pose. The luscious blacks. The sense of falling more than swinging. The dreamy panel border. Is it me or is Flessel kind of the forerunner to Frank Robbins?
Anyway, sweet dreams and happy 400th.
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