This story comes from the tradition of French comics that are two or three large images on a page with a caption written in the white space underneath. This approach makes it easy to offer a translated story, but it doesn’t always make for the most effective sequential storytelling experience.

This story is also a Ballard pastiche – it features a man living by himself in a hotel that has been overtaken by a desert, which is about as Ballard as it gets. The art is very effective at communicating the desolation of the desert and how lonely abandoned places can get. However, the story relies too heavily on the captions to drive the story, which wastes the opportunity that comes from making sequential art in the first place and comes across as just another illustrated story.

(Heavy Metal issue #58, January 1982 – Page 44 The Sand Man by Loustal)