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…
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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…
Back to flashback mode again here. Jon Rector admirably captures the euphoria of flight in the facial expressions here. I also particularly like the cool blue aesthetic Gulliver Vianei brought to the colours here. And while we’re looking at the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
The Standard #2 -Page 17
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…
Back to the present again, after a sojourn into the past that seemed to take quite a while! Clearly, the big showcase image in this page is the establishing shot of Zarthos Tower. It’s a significant structure in our story, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Standard #2 – Page 19
I enjoy this scene, as it’s where Zena Zarthos is properly introduced into the story. One thing I was conscious of while writing the story was that it is very male-driven, with an apparent lack of compelling female characters. However, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…