Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25441082-20170705013509/@comment-29421682-20171218222326

An idea I had for Sandman is to make his daughter, Penny, have a rare and terminal disease that puts her in a comatose state. Flint Marko uses his criminal activities as both a way to raise funds for his daughter's medicine and as a form of escape from reality.

This is what would eventually lead him down the path of trying to protect those who can't protect themselves.