Panel 2: Note that dWARf! did indeed mention the timeframe of his post-Fleshmaster superheroic debut earlier.
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5: The “silent reaction shot,” as seen here, is something I first
picked up from Tetsuro Ueyama’s beautifully drawn but super-obscure
manga Solevision Mitsuyoshi. The brief series was never
translated over here (even as a fansub, AFAIK), but has a bit of a cult
following among comic artists.Panel 6: Gasp! Watch the language, secretly sociopathic bad guy!
-Adam Warren