K-Metal from Krypton - Behind the Scenes

In restoring Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's K-Metal from Krypton, 15 of the 26 pages must be completely drawn from scratch.
Each of these pages begins with the script. Pictured below is Jerry Siegel's original script for page 4: When laying out a new K-Metal page, Angel Criado notes: "...there is a redundancy of poses that start showing up well into the later stories of the Superman archives, and lend creditability to the piece and the period we're working on, to include some variations of those. So - I will tailor Supes to look like those period poses. e.g. Superman's flight poses (if you want to call them that) always look like a leap or jump. It wasn't until many decades later that you actually see him 'soar.' More often than not - his dialog poses had him leaning into the panel in side or 3/4 profile. And on and on. I'm trying to make sure there's plenty of routine art befitting of the time. "The way I see it, the ghost artists were imitating Shuster. Better that I consider myself another of those ghosts imitating him and do that, than trying to imitate a ghost imitating Shuster. If you do enough raw Shuster you start getting an idea of his eye to create original panels that look like Shuster."	Angel's resulting layout and pencils:

Bob then inked ...	... and colored Angel's pencils:
The finished page after Audrey has added dialog and balloons:
The Full-Size Page 4 !




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