When Felicia introduced me to comics, she did so by plying me with Superman books. I grew up on the movies — Christopher Reeve is the one true Superman for me — and so there were few Superman books that truly interested me, and I exhausted them quickly.
She discovered Dr. Cain’s, a wonderful little comics shop in San Luis Obispo, and Reid, the owner, pointed her towards Robert Kirkman’s books, which she brought home to me. I’d never heard of Kirkman, or Invincible, or even The Walking Dead. I knew nothing about creator-owned books, or Image Comics. All I knew was that if it wasn’t Superman, I wasn’t interested. And if it wasn’t a familiar Superman, I really wasn’t interested. But then I read Invincible, and kept reading, and I own every volume now.
It was revolutionary to discover that some artists and writers are perfectly comfortable with duplicating comic panels for impact. Five identical frames of a character’s face, locked in surprise — only to see that surprise twist into a sneer in panel six? Well, that was just cool.
And totally easy to draw.
So it didn’t take me that long — just three pages! — to try this out with Eleanor. But I think it pays off here. Unless you’re distracted by Eleanor’s legs melting together in that last panel.
But I’m not. This is definitely one of my favorites of the early pages.
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