Taxi Driver (illustrated by Lars Brown)

In 1939 Wesley Dodds travels to England in hopes of unraveling the mystery surrounding the death of his friend Linus Benchley.

He travels by ship and after disembarking the ship he gets in a taxi to the train station.

The Taxi driver tells him that England is waiting, holding their breath, knowing that they will soon be going to war with Germany.

He appears in Sandman Midnight Theatre on page 12, in panel 4.

This is a great portrait from Lars. I suspect, based on the portrait, that he had read NOS4A2 by Joe Hill since this character seems a lot like Charlie Manx, who drove car that looks similar to the one driven by this taxi driver….or perhaps this is one of the Residents Of The Dreaming who left the Dreaming during Morpheus’ imprisonment and decided to try his hand at being a taxi driver.