Is @davaja paying homage to a Steranko page from Strange Tales #157 with these pages from Secret Avengers #18? Maybe. Even if not direct nods, they still function as tributes, as Steranko is arguably the progenitor of experimental page design in mainstream superhero comics.
(1/2) Though broadly similar, as all are page-size panels depicting combat on steps in a cavernous complex, there is a key difference:
(2/2) Steranko’s page depicts Nick Fury taking on seven agents of Hydra and no individual figure is repeated to represent movement. Each of Aja’s pages freeze a hero at different moments in a discrete environment.
Let's add some Kirby fisticuffs to this thread. From OMAC #2 by Kirby, D. Bruce Berry and M.W. Royer.
#howcomixwork 777 of #1001pages
#howcomixwork 777 of #1001pages