Adventures of Men and Angels Preview Page 4
Today we preview page 4! The battle gets more intense and more interesting as Glenda looks on with great awe as to what she is seeing on the city street where her stalled car is only a few feet away. To say the least, she has never seen anything like this except on a movie screen and even that pales in comparison to the real life drama she is witnessing. Has she lost her mind? Is she caught up in some kind of hallucination brought on by fearing for her life?
Another tip of the hat to the late, great Jack Kirby. Jack pioneered so many concepts in comics it’s nearly impossible to not see his influence in the medium to this day even more than 30 years after his death. His career spanned at least 5 decades longer than that depending on when folks can agree on exactly when his career started. The guy was doing art for pay when he was still a teenager! So in that time he embraced the budding comic book industry, understood the story telling medium and then renovated the whole thing, not once, but several times. One of his innovations of the ’60’s were these larger panels pages in 4 panel and 6 panel grids. I’ve adapted that format in this first issue. It really moves a story along or slows the pace depending on the number of panels used. Jack pioneered that and Marvel, then later DC artists, copied him. Not as much of it is used today overall in the industry and it is missed. But a few Jack Kirby inspired artists still use it today.