This is a cracking page, isn’t it? What is particularly striking to me here is the coloring of Ray Dillon. I love the sense of heat he brings to the fat spraying from The Frying Scotsman’s gun. It’s also a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here we jump back into the content that was present from the first draft. Originally, we went straight from the silent sequence on what is now page 15 to this… just think of how much good stuff we would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the first appearance of the Amy Harris photograph that will show up several more times in the story. This was fun, as I recall many occasions where I’d be telling Jon over e-mails, “Re-use that photograph from before!” and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s our first look at the lettering style Kel Nuttall crafted to mark out our mysterious villain. I love the effect… will be talking more about that later on. A couple of little nuggets from this page. The TV ad […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another dramatic page from Jonathan Rector. I love the stuff he does with shadows on this page. I tried to hunt down the video where he livestreamed making this page, as looking at how he shaped the black on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure if you’ll get the full effect of this page in isolation, as it’s one half of a two-page sequence that acts as a kind of double-page spread montage in the printed edition. Here, our two narratives collide, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This battle isn’t going too well for Alex. Things get increasingly gory here, with the pages just splashed with blood and grue. Aside from Bill Finney’s colorful language, it’s probably this sequence that would make the first issue a hard […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Didn’t see that one coming, did you? This was a move that shocked a lot of readers at the time of release. Spending a whole first issue establishing your main character, only to suddenly kill them off? And yes, he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a quiet page. The purpose of this was basically to just take a moment for a breather and allow the reader a moment to dwell on the tragic events of the previous page before pressing on with the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here, in the final page of the first chapter, we finally meet our true protagonist: Gilbert Graham, the original Standard, now an old man, long retired. And perhaps now the true story that lies ahead is taking shape. Conceptually, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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