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…
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…
This seems like a good place to highlight the dangers of aging yourself with pop culture references. In that first panel, when Gilbert finds himself mobbed by reporters, in the script, one of them asks Gilbert, “What are your thoughts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I really do have a lot of fun doing these title pages. I enjoyed the challenge of making each chapter’s credits more elaborate and overblown than the last. I do remember reading title pages like this in old Silver Age […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This page is noteworthy in that it gives us the first expansion of the Ashley Mueller character, who has popped up on the periphery of a couple of scenes before this one. I like Ashley a great deal, and I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This page of course turned out great, as all stuff drawn by Jonathan Rector is likely to do. But here was an instance of a page not quite turning out how I imagined. Originally, in the script, I had asked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Lees Diner returns! I think “Yumeroo!” could be the single most ridiculous word I’ve ever written. It was nice getting back to goofy, cheerful Gilbert a little in this issue, as I feel in the past chapter (and in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With that opening line, Ashley pokes another hole in the superhero myth, and one Gilbert doesn’t really have an answer for. If you have a magic potion that gives someone superpowers, is the right use for that really to put […] ↓ 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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