CHAPTER 2: CHILD’S PLAY Writer: John Lees Artist: Jonathan Rector Colorists: Gulliver Vianei & Mike Gagnon Letterer: Kel Nuttall Editor: Steven Forbes And here we are, already launching into the second chapter of THE STANDARD! For you guys reading […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And we’re off! The first big change you may notice here is that we’ve got a new colorist. After Ray Dillon was unable to continue on the series past issue #1, Gulliver Vianei was able to jump onboard at short […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things take a sinister turn with this page, as the turn of one corner has shifted these two boys from the safe, familiar setting of a city street into something dark and unnerving. That’s something I’ve long found creepy, when […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love this page! Piper is one creepy dude, and one we’ll be seeing more of later. You might think he looks a bit like a certain famous comic creator. That would be because in the script I described him […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here, we begin the flashback that will run throughout Chapter 2. This one may sit a bit uncomfortably, as while the previous chapter had a cheerful, classic superhero adventure as the flashback, here the Silver Age style narration is juxtaposed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yay, it’s old man Gilbert! Apart from his brief, silent appearance at the tail-end of Chapter 1, this is the first time we’ve properly got to meet Gilbert Graham in the present day and spend time with him. I’ll just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This and tomorrow’s page provide another example of a sequence I now love and which feels utterly integral to the fabric of the chapter, which wasn’t in the original draft. In the first draft of THE STANDARD #2 at the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wasn’t lying when I said we’d be dropping some exposition in this scene, eh? The mention of the Iron Midget here seems as good a time as any to share a goofy little side project I embarked upon with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thought it would be an effective approach to this scene if we weren’t privy to the conversation going on between Gilbert Graham and the authorities here. We don’t need the exact words, we know what is being conveyed here. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here, one page after we saw Gilbert in the present learn of Alex’s death, we see a younger Gilbert save Alex’s life. From this moment, Gilbert would feel responsible for Alex’s life… right until the end of it. There’s relatively […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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