RIP The Dawn. And, as The Standard’s parting words suggests, this also offers a resolution of sorts for Alex’s death. Kudos to Jonathan Rector here, who really let the drama of this moment breathe.
Here, we see that the fate of our other main antagonist, Zena Zarthos, is more muddy. The implication is that, legally at least, she’ll get away with her misdeeds scot-free. But perhaps her conscience won’t let her make quite such […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Will Robson joins us as artist again for one final scene here, as we witness the moment where Gilbert Graham passed the torch onto Alex Thomas. This has a certain poignancy to it now, of course, given that we know […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the moment that Gilbert Graham passed the mantle of The Standard over to Alex Thomas and walked off into the sunset… hence where the title for the chapter comes from. We wanted to make it ambiguous to leave […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We talked on the previous page last week about how this issue got the title “Into the Sunset,” and it wasn’t about The Standard walking into his death. So, now that we know this isn’t about Gilbert Graham’s final sunset, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a scene I had in mind for the end of the series since very early on, since right back when laying out the origins of Fabu-Lad back in issue #2 and realising it left one uncomfortable thread. It […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I was saying yesterday, this for me is one of the most important scenes in the whole series. I believe that, because looking back at it, I think much of what THE STANDARD is really about and what it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Right from the beginning, I knew what the last panel was going to be. The statues of both generations of The Standard, standing side by side, the past and present of the superhero genre brought together as part of a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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