Here’s another dramatic page from Jonathan Rector. I love the stuff he does with shadows on this page. I tried to hunt down the video where he livestreamed making this page, as looking at how he shaped the black on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m not sure if you’ll get the full effect of this page in isolation, as it’s one half of a two-page sequence that acts as a kind of double-page spread montage in the printed edition. Here, our two narratives collide, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This battle isn’t going too well for Alex. Things get increasingly gory here, with the pages just splashed with blood and grue. Aside from Bill Finney’s colorful language, it’s probably this sequence that would make the first issue a hard […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Didn’t see that one coming, did you? This was a move that shocked a lot of readers at the time of release. Spending a whole first issue establishing your main character, only to suddenly kill them off? And yes, he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here we finally get a good look at Alex’s killer, and it’s… wait, who is that guy? Some might view it as a cheat to set up a whodunnit, only for the killer to be revealed as someone who […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Standard #5 – Page 3
And now we get back to the follow-up of last chapter’s cliffhanger. Poor Gilbert is getting his ass handed to him! Jon really does have a talent for depicting a brutal beatdown, and I gave him a pretty densely-packed page […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Standard #5 – Page 4
Oh no! We see here that The Standard managed to mount a comeback against The Dawn, only for his momentum to be halted by some kind of medical complication. What’s wrong with The Standard? This opens up a new threat […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Standard #5 – Page 5
Now, The Standard has been decisively defeated by The Dawn. We’ve seen indicators that, emotionally, The Standard may no longer be able to cut it in the modern world. But this is our first clear suggestion that, physically, he may […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here we discover the truth behind The Dawn: he is an imperfect clone of Alex Thomas. Of course, the implications of this are that the villain of THE STANDARD is in fact a version of the modern day Standard, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I said earlier, we had one more flashback lined up for this issue, only it’s not telling Zena’s story, but rather that of The Dawn, Alex Thomas’ decaying clone. It turns out he wasn’t so dead after his burial… […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…