And here marks the introduction of one of my favourite characters in THE STANDARD. Dwight Dowalski, AKA The Skunk, is actually a character whose creation, in concept, pre-dates The Standard. Before I seriously got into writing comics, I had been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think this page still remains one of my proudest scripting achievements. I took great joy in the sheer volume of stink-related puns I was able to cram into this page. “You nose me well” and “You felonious, farting fiend” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s commentary, I thought I’d talk a little bit about Unbreakium. This is a gag that perhaps betrays the age of the original script, as it was originally inspired as a dig at AVATAR. I’d seen the film relatively […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a truly spectacular splash page by Jonathan Rector. This is one of those pages where, if I’m pitching the book at a convention, I’ll open a copy of issue #3 to this page to show the person I’m […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s not too much to be said about this page in isolation, as it mainly works when cast against tomorrow’s page. So, I’ll talk a bit more about how the two of them work in unison tomorrow. I will say, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here, we see events take a darker turn in the past-set storyline which seemed to be our more lighthearted palette-cleanser. As the flashback in the previous chapter suggested, things weren’t necessarily all light and innocence back in the “good old […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always had a soft spot for jobbing, low-level supervillains who didn’t seem to have much ambition beyond robbing banks. Characters like Rhino, Electro, Captain Cold, The Riddler… at times attempts have been made to make each one darker and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the triumphant return of THE SKUNK! I absolutely adore that top panel as drawn by Jon Rector and colored by Mike Gagnon, with Kel Nuttall’s dynamic lettering the final dramatic flourish: The Skunk’s returned heralded by cascades of vomit. […] ↓ 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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