A review by jorybear
The Sandman #62: The Kindly Ones part 6 of 13 by Charles Vess, Glyn Dillon, Neil Gaiman, Dean Ormston

5.0

As a pure story, this is the best Sandman volume by far. By far, and I've loved every single one of them. This one starts to delve into some of the themes and events brought up in the first volume. How did Dream manage to be imprisoned by a mere mortal? Isn't he supposed to transcend humans and gods? All sorts of disparate threads and characters from the previous stories are brought together in a truly masterful way - it felt right, like that's how it was supposed to be, rather than forced. The biggest problem I had was that the art style was so different that it didn't fit. I liked the art style for a different comic, but the Sandman series started out with a pretty iconic art style that seems to me to have been lost as the series matured (since the series ended up being a revolving door for artists). It was enough that every time I picked it up, I whined about the art. I wish the best writing and best art could have been combined into one unbeatable volume, but alas.