So, The Standard and The Corpse have become reluctant allies… for now. Be sure to keep reading to watch this unorthodox buddy cop caper unfold. I should also point out that Jonathan Rector got a good old chuckle when I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another instance of “Jonathan Rector makes a character naked when their nakedness wasn’t specific in the script,” for those keeping count! This time it happens to be a headless corpse, so you can also mark a tally that confirms […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We open another week of THE STANDARD web serialisation with another little chunk of our overarching mystery being uncovered. What, or who, is Project: Dawn? And yes, when The Corpse talks about how he “let go” that snitch he was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
TV Man really is a wonderfully-drawn character, isn’t he? He just looks like the kind of larger-than-life figure Jon Rector was born to draw. And he just looks HUGE here, too!
Here, we get what might seem like an upbeat, funny scene, with The Standard humiliating blowhard TV Man and sharing a message about the true meaning of supeheroes. But our end focus on Fabu-Lad’s clenched fist makes us leave the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And so The Standard has found Dr. Halbrook, save and sound… or is everything in this scene what it seems? Eagle-eyed readers will remember the last time we saw a slasher movie playing on a TV screen, and whose presence […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s right, folks: we didn’t just make our decapitation quota in this issue, we DOUBLED it! When I wrote this, I think the intention was to straddle the fine line between horrifying and hilarious, hence the sound-effects, and Jon pulled […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Oh dear!” Oh dear indeed, Gilbert! Here we see The Standard in dire straits, as Alex’s killer ambushes him and has him on the ropes. Come back tomorrow, where at last the killer will be revealed!
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…
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…
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