FLASH 226 PAGE 20 BY STEVE LIGHTLE

Nearing the end of the story!? Say it ain't so! Fun page. I really like that "peekaboo" look on Flash in the final panel :)

Sigh!  I really miss Steve Lightle.  Even more so, I really miss those days when I would see a new Lightle cover and just pick up the phone to call Mitch and have him get it for me.  Can't believe there was a time when it was just that easy.  Of course it would have been nicer if I had actually KEPT all of them.  Haha!  Great page by the way.

I really like pages like this with 2 scenes going on simultaneously in this layout style, because you could read panels 1 and 3 to begin with if you wanted to, followed by panels 2 and 4, then move down to panel 5 and it would read just as well as if you read it from left to right, top to bottom. Perkins did this in the first issue if Second Knight. Lightle also did a great job with the lighting on this page. Really fun stuff!

Wow! A page with dialogue balloons! Congrats!

Also, it's more human nature on display as some want to press on and keep climbing.  Lightle working in darkness in these regular speed moments are just as effective in delivering action creating visual interest. 

Great call on the light/dark dynamics Steve puts into play here; Flash is (almost literally) spotlighted well in panels 1&3, and is even allowed a nice splash of illumination in panel 5 (just to prove the point that it's his book :) ).  Congrats (once more!) on picking up a full book that provdes multiple strong examples of Lightle's storytelling prowess - really nice work!

Really nice page - thanks for sharing!