No more Mr. Nice Gilbert! After the various heartbreaks and frustrations that have piled up over the course of the issue, here we see Gilbert finally letting some of it out on Bill Finney. But, because Gilbert is such a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, Bold Readers! Tyler James, publisher of ComixTribe here to do a little guest commentary for this week’s THE STANDARD blog content. If you’ve made it this far, you’re no doubt hooked on John and Jon’s superhero saga. Well, let […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another entry in the running gag of “Jonathan Rector draws someone naked when that’s not specified in the script.” Sexy! Here, Bill Finney goes a bit meta, voicing some of the criticisms people in the real world have of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The next time you hold your dick in your hand, it won’t be attached to the rest of your body.” I still love that line! Jon had a lot of fun with this page, throwing in some additional panels and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And we’re back with a new chapter! We open with the classic “news report as info dump” trick, tuning in on the various members of THE STANDARD’s ensemble cast as they react to the news of The Standard’s return. My […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here, we see Gilbert Graham at his lowest, possibly even more defeated than he was when The Dawn physically beat him at the beginning of the chapter. Gilbert Graham is a character I tried to portray as eternally optimistic no […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here we get the return of Jacqueline and Amy Harris, the missing child of the first three issues and her mother, to give Gilbert Graham a heartwarming reminder of the good The Standard does for the world. This is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ooft! That’s one dense page thick with dialogue! Kudos to Kel Nuttall for being able to navigate all that with his lettering and present it all on the page in as unobtrusive a manner as possible. But really, one of […] ↓ 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…
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