Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #3

Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #3 is another great issue. There's a physical and emotional conflict for Wesley with the theft of his formulas and Venditti lays it our for the reader to suffer along with Wesley's conscience. Rossmo and Plascencia add the right details to make the story interesting visually and they add up to being the kind of book DC Comics needs more of. Read Full Review

Wesley Dodds: The Sandman continues to be one of the best-looking comic books published today, full of well-realized characters and compelling mysteries with meaningful moral weight. Read Full Review

Riley Rossmo is a great choice for the artist here, creating a real sense of tension and making the villain look genuinely intimidating. Still, the plot doesn't advance all that much in this issue, but it does set up a great cliffhanger for next issue as Dodds literally gets a taste of his own medicine. Read Full Review

Some story and a whole lot of action. The mastermind behind all the chaos in Wesley Dodds life finally makes his grand entrance and its so much fun to see Sandman barley survive the encounter. Read Full Review

Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #3 leans into the crime noir aesthetic of pulp detective stories for a grounded, gritty mystery. Venditti's pacing, dialog, and mystery development are on-point, and Rossmo's art is notably better than any of his prior titles. However, some readers may be put off by the lack of big superhero energy and Rossmo's wonky fight choreography. Read Full Review

Ulf

Dec 27, 2023

Once again an amazing issue, love what Venditti and company are doing here and heck, they even brought back Klein the coroner!! Anyone who's interested in where this interpretation of Dodds came from check out the excellent Sandman Mystery Theatre. More please!

ResearchReader

Dec 17, 2023

If you like murder mystery style crime, or noir. This is right up your alley. Rossmo's art continues to get better, the case moves forward, some dead-ends but a slight face reveal of the villain at the end. So some crime progress is made but I Dodds is really in rough shape. Curious how this goes.