Gotta love that solid black as young Alex’s face descends into shadow in that last panel. A real hint of the darkness in Alex’s backstory waiting to be uncovered. Speaking of backstory, our look at the history of Alex Thomas […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love that top panel! A really dynamic training montage with The Standard and Fabu-Lad, donning the costume for the first time. Readers with good memories may also catch a call-back to a line that the adult Alex would go […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here we get the all-too-human secret origin of Alex Thomas. Once again, we see darker tones creeping into the ostensibly more “innocent” past. Glimpsing Alex’s history of pain and his own status as a runaway child, the intention was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My favourite page of the chapter. Jonathan Rector absolutely knocked this page out of the park, packing it full of devastating emotion and superb “acting” by our two characters. The idea to do a reverse-negative silhouette on that last panel […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chills, am I right? At conventions, when I pitch The Standard to potential new readers, I sometime work myself up to the point where I get chills myself pitching the book. “…So, what THE STANDARD is really about is this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is fun. I enjoy the little period details, like the old television set, the funky carpet design, and Gilbert happily smoking a cigarette with no fear of passive smoke. I also like how both Gilbert and Alex have aged […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here, Zena Zarthos begins to tell her story to The Corpse, unlocking the motive behind the mass murderer targeting her and beheading those associated to her. The full exposition dump comes tomorrow, but here, we see one crucial element that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here we discover the truth behind The Dawn: he is an imperfect clone of Alex Thomas. Of course, the implications of this are that the villain of THE STANDARD is in fact a version of the modern day Standard, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry for the lack of updates yesterday, folks. Real life got in the way. This page demonstrates another challenge faced by Will Robson coming in to be co-artist with Jon Rector. Will had to draw characters whose looks were already […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things are looking very bleak for our hero here. The Standard is spent,the fight appears lost, and The Dawn seems to have choked the life out of him. Is this truly The Standard’s final adventure?
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