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…
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…
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…
Back to flashback mode again here. Jon Rector admirably captures the euphoria of flight in the facial expressions here. I also particularly like the cool blue aesthetic Gulliver Vianei brought to the colours here. And while we’re looking at the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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