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."
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Angel's resulting layout and pencils:
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