THE OMEGA MEN 32 PAGE 16 BY DAN SPIEGLE

On this next page, we see our two protagonists walking around and discussing the merits of the world they live on.

The first panel does a nice and quick job at establishing the age difference between the two I find as Felicity is clearly younger.

I find that the close-up on her eyes in panel two is admirable in that Spiegle manages to actually matches her disdain of the violence of the world with the expression in her eyes, something not easily done with such a closed range of features.

The following three panels are super fun in that they are delineated by the narrator’s head, a bit à la DC horror title of the 70s, but also because they offer the kind of classic sci-fi tropes often found in older 50/60/70s sci-fi comics (think Gold Key): space monsters fighting amongst themselves in the jungle, sea monsters attacking natives on the beach and evil slavers working those poor cat people (who looks truly miserable here, again a testament at how thorough Spiegle was). Each scene has a different vantage point, looks grounded and offers believable depth.

And that last panel shows us both character’s reactions going in the opposite direction, as their personal stances are, with Felicity crying at this world violent status in a kind of romance comics pose while the guy is amused by what he sees of panel, providing the needed end of the page cliffhanger to help the reader turn the page.