Funny story about this page. Originally, that first panel has Alex telling the Hawks Network to “fuck themselves sideways.” But I changed that, and removed the other F-bombs too. Why? Back in 2010 I had printed out a small run […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here we have Bill Finney, The Standard’s agent, who is of course equipped with rocket boots in order to keep up with his client. This is the only time we see him flying around with the rocket boots, if there […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here we have the first mention of the mystery of missing girl Jacqueline Harris, a story which will play an increasingly significant role throughout the first half of THE STANDARD. It’s funny, even before I wrote AND THEN EMILY WAS […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here we have the first appearance of The Corpse, another popular character in the series. If the original Gilbert Graham Standard was an icon of the Silver Age, the Alex Thomas iteration of The Standard is more representative of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now we get to an interesting sequence. It’s funny, looking back on the 4-page sequence this page opens, it feels utterly integral to the story. The scene as a whole is one of the ones from this issue that people […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This page is a great Jon Rector showcase. I love all the little bits of business he’s having Bill Finney do in the background as he struggles to squeeze into his skintight supervillain costume. And of course he wears Y-fronts. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a fun page to work on. It might sound like a strange way to describe a funeral scene, but there’s so much cool stuff in here. Here’s a few interesting tidbits: – The Gentleman Giant makes his one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another exposition-dump scene – issue #2 seems to have a few of these! – this time focusing on Zena Zarthos, who she is, and some of the figures around her who will play into the narrative as it further develops. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My favourite moment in this page has to be those last two panels. At this point, my goal was to suggest that there is more to Bill Finney than being one-note sleazeball comic relief, and that he perhaps has some […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s not much of incident to report in this page, as it’s mainly set-up for the page that follows. But I will say that this scene here was another example of me finding more for Bill Finney to do as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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