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The Significance Of The Last Page Of Incognito #1

Okay. By the very nature of this piece, there will be spoilers for those who have not yet read the first issue of Incognito: Bad Influences #1 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Look, I'll turn the images on their side to help reduce spoilerage. Because we're not specifically looking at the pictures but the spaces between them.

Incognito is a movie-optioned series from Marvel's Icon imprint about a suprvillain hiding in a witness protction programme, stripped of his powers. Naturally it does not go smoothly. And now he has found himself in a very different situation.

Incognito has a fairly straightforward panel structure. Panels may bleed, change in size and shape, but they don't overlap. It's not as rigid as a fixed grid system, but it's not as splashy as a Jim Lee comic, say. Here, have a look. Turn your head.

The Significance Of The Last Page Of Incognito #1

But on the very last page, something different happens. The panels start to gain layers. And slowly, down the page they begin to overlap.

The Significance Of The Last Page Of Incognito #1 A new character appears here for the first time. Simon Slaughter. His background and identity are very much in the mix, and whatever his effect, it seems to extend into the very structure of the page itself… expect to see this every time he appears.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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