Sorry for the lack of updates yesterday, folks. Real life got in the way. This page demonstrates another challenge faced by Will Robson coming in to be co-artist with Jon Rector. Will had to draw characters whose looks were already […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“I curse you, Gorilla Judas!” Surely the greatest line ever committed to the comics page. This sequence is very much about demonstrating how Fabu-Lad emerged as a hero in his own right, and demonstrated that the time was right for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And now we bear a sad farewell to Zachary Zarthos’ magnificent sky base, as it goes boom. This scene seems pretty densely packed, as we had a lot to get through in this final chapter. But Will still handled the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And we’re back to Jonathan Rector’s art again! I love the little details he brings to The Dawn here, with bits of his skin flaking off. This is as much part of the final showdown between The Standard and The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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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