Posted on 2/18/2023

Fantastic page. Huge congrats

Posted on 2/19/2023

Great page from a memorable, early mini-series!

Posted on 4/2/2023

This is absolutely FANTASTIC, Daniel!  Mage was an enormously important comic to me (still is!) and this page is seared into my memory (along with SO many others from this brilliant series).  Narratively speaking, it was pretty thrilling to see The Arm having its fate handed to it (so to speak) by Kevin and Edsel after making life so hard for them over the last few chapters.  Mechanically and visually speaking, this page was like hearing Matt Wagner howl out a roar of artistic triumph, so delicious is the storytelling and his manipulation of the panel composition and layout to utilize the reader's own eye to add -real- velocity to the action.  
 

A beautiful first panel showcasing our heroes, on guard;  the doorframe of the elevator working perfectly with the panel borders to enclose them in even more tightly (frame within a frame)  Kevin's dark figure in the forefront of panel two naturally pulls the reader's eye to the right, and gears us up for the -perfect- stack of panels in the middle of this page.  The Arm shoots out and grabs Kevin's face (hurling our eye immediately back to the left).  Our eye then follows Edsel's blow (and the fantastic  lettering) right into panel 5, where it is hoisted even further upwards by Kevin lifting The Arm to full extension.  Going back to a full horizontal panel for panel 6 (brilliant!) allows for Matt to add even more velocity to The Arm's dislocation (with a super effective use of the right panel border as the hallway wall, after that thought had been introduced back in panel 3).  That wordless final panel with just Kevin's feet heading out of frame is sheer, unadulterated  bad-assery; moving on with not even a look back.  
 

I get carried away by pages like this (sorry :) )!  A brilliant example of sequential narrative storytelling by a budding young Master learning (and displaying his acquired skills) at a breakneck pace.  Gorgeous, spare (but character rich!) inking by Sam Keith, with beautiful dialogue and effects lettering right on the page.  An absolutely-stunning- example, Daniel!  Mega congrats!