This little scene was another element I got from Steven Forbes’ edits. I don’t think he directly gave me the idea to have to-camera interviews with various characters throughout the issue, but he did recommend doing more in the present […] ↓ 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…
The Gilbert/Dwight bromance continues! I like how Jon draws Dwight Dowalski’s Skunk tail as being an increasingly vast plumage to the point where it seems to fill half the hospital room. And he really went to town turning Gilbert’s face […] ↓ 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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