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…
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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…
The Standard #6 – Page 19
This is one of my favourite sequences in the whole series. That “Impossible!”/”Nothing’s impossible” exchange is of course a callback to the first chapter, when the same exchange happened between Zachary Zarthos and Fabu-Lad. And this callback is something I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Standard #6 – Page 23
Will Robson joins us as artist again for one final scene here, as we witness the moment where Gilbert Graham passed the torch onto Alex Thomas. This has a certain poignancy to it now, of course, given that we know […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Standard #6 – Page 24
Here is the moment that Gilbert Graham passed the mantle of The Standard over to Alex Thomas and walked off into the sunset… hence where the title for the chapter comes from. We wanted to make it ambiguous to leave […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a scene I had in mind for the end of the series since very early on, since right back when laying out the origins of Fabu-Lad back in issue #2 and realising it left one uncomfortable thread. It […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Standard #6 – Page 27
As I was saying yesterday, this for me is one of the most important scenes in the whole series. I believe that, because looking back at it, I think much of what THE STANDARD is really about and what it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Standard #6 – Page 28
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…