1515And here’s the build-up to the big climactic battle, which we’ll be seeing over the course of this week. Here, we get another sense of the respect – love, even – that The Dawn has for The Standard, and the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I talked earlier about how the fight scene between Zena Zarthos and The Dawn was staged in intricate, panel-by-panel detail in the script. Well, for this two-page battle between The Standard and The Dawn, I decided to take a much […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Following on from yesterday’s point, and noting that Will got his pages finished before Jon did, I believe that this makes this officially the last interior page of THE STANDARD to be drawn. A little piece of history there! For […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things are looking very bleak for our hero here. The Standard is spent,the fight appears lost, and The Dawn seems to have choked the life out of him. Is this truly The Standard’s final adventure?
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…
RIP The Dawn. And, as The Standard’s parting words suggests, this also offers a resolution of sorts for Alex’s death. Kudos to Jonathan Rector here, who really let the drama of this moment breathe.
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