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…
Tyler James here again, with another THE STANDARD guest post. Here we’re presented with another flashback page. This page reminds me how important a great letterer is to a project like this. From the old school caption to immediately clue the reader […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Often in comics, it’s the little details that make all the difference in the world. Here, we have common six panel grid, cutting back and forth between past and present. Little details such as the caption boxes, the rounding of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chills, am I right? At conventions, when I pitch The Standard to potential new readers, I sometime work myself up to the point where I get chills myself pitching the book. “…So, what THE STANDARD is really about is this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is another one of my favourite pages. In fact, when I’m pitching the comic at conventions, I find this is a very effective page to show potential readers to highlight what the book is about. Because really, when you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here the flashback story for this chapter begins. I like this page. I think you can really see Mike Gagnon’s colors starting to pop here. I also think its such a quaint Golden/Silver Age type notion, the idea that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got a kick out of covering this extended internal monologue – which in most modern comics would be conveyed through captions – instead in the form of thought bubbles. It helps to add to the old-school aesthetic of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
And here we return to the same street corner we saw at the beginning of Chapter 2, as Gilbert Graham embarks on his first mission since resuming the mantle of The Standard: investigating the mystery of Sky City’s missing children. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here, we see the significance of this chapter’s creepy cover! This was another change brought about by Steven Forbes’ edits. In the original draft, this chapter opened with The Standard averting a bank robbery. And when The Standard pulled […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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