Saturday, January 19, 2019

Crisis Weekly #13

PAGE ONE

Panel 1
Inside a bank with panicking people and thieves with Man-Bat masks holding shotguns.  The lead one is wearing a more stylized mask, resembling the Caballero’s.  That’s the only hint that this is probably orchestrated by our evil Mexican president.  But this is happening in America. 

LEAD THIEF: Okay, everybody down on the ground! 

LEAD THIEF: Nobody panics and everybody gets to walk away.  Some of us with a little more money than others!

Panel 2

Different angle as the bank’s patrons are getting down.  We see our doughy friend Marty Kirby crouching near a security guard (on his badge we can see “GCPD,” which is our only indication that this is happening in Gotham), as Marty pulls out his Sandman mask.  Marty is whispering to the guard.

MARTY KIRBY: Don’t worry, I got this.

Panel 3
Marty, having now transformed himself into Sandman, is standing up.  The guard is not at all convinced this is a positive development.

MARTY: Stand down, you goons!

SECURITY GUARD: What’re you doing???

MARTY: Don’t worry!  I have everything under control!

SECURITY GUARD: But you’re making yourself a target!  And me!

MARTY: No, I’m creating a diversion…

Panel 4
Marty is pointing toward something we can’t see.

MARTY: For that!

TITLE: “American Idiot”
WRITER: Tony Laplume
 

PAGE TWO

Panel 1
Now stands revealed at the entrance of the bank, glowing with all his power, floating in the air, the Boxer!  At long last in the spotlight!  You’ll find a description of him on the last page of Crisis Weekly #1.

BOXER: What a strange planet.

BOXER: What exactly were you expecting to accomplish? 

Panel 2
Boxer is plowing into the thieves.

BOXER: This institution is filled with paper.  Were you planning to write a book?  If so, they would have had strange bindings.  And have you not yet embraced memory implants for the purposes of entertainment?  I don’t recall having encountered a more barbarous civilization in all my travels.

Panel 3
Boxer holds the lead thief in the air.

BOXER: Humans.

BOXER: No wonder the Green Lanterns have held such a heavy presence here in recent years.  No doubt recruiting more and more of you will help the Guardians understand your primitive ways.  Not that it will help them compete with the superiority of the Box Elders.  Nothing can help that, I’m afraid.

Panel 4
Boxer has removed the lead thief’s mask (we see that he indeed has Mexican features), but he’s actually reacting to something else, a smoke bomb that’s been hurled in his direction and has gone off.

BOXER: What fresh madness…?

Panel 5
Marty is stepping out of the smoke.

MARTY: It’s me, the Sandman! 

MARTY: I’ve come to expose you, “Boxer.”

Panel 6
Marty has now pulled out a lighter and has flicked it open.

MARTY: Were you really stupid enough to reveal your secret identity, just because you’re an alien here?  And call yourself “Barsoom”?  Were you trying to make it obvious???

Panel 7
Marty is waving the lighter in an arc, with flames shooting outward.  Boxer is recoiling.

MARTY: “Barsoom” was Burroughs’ name for Mars, idiot!
 

PAGE THREE

Panel 1 (splash)
Guy Gardner has arrived, and he’s blazing yellow, in a yellow variation of the look he had in Red Lanterns, with a hand being projected from his ring knocking the lighter out of Marty’s hand.

GUY GARDNER: Step aside, slick.

GUY GARDNER: Daddy’s home.
 

PAGE FOUR

Panel 1
Boxer, who hasn’t changed his look at all, blasts at Guy with a pure white light beam.  Guy is setting up a shield.

BOXER: Guy Gardner, the joke of every corps in which he has served.  Discovered a new way to humiliate yourself?

GUY GARDNER: Actually, if you were paying attention, I’ve had a yellow ring before.  Didn’t really appreciate it at the time.  Now seems about right to instill a little fear.

Panel 2
Boxer and Guy are charging at each other.

GUY GARDNER: You have no idea what you’re gettin’ yourself into, pal.

Panel 3
Boxer throws a punch at Guy, connecting right in the face.  Longtime Guy fans will appreciate the image.

Panel 4
Guy hasn’t gone down.  He’s smiling.

GUY GARDNER: New rules, buddy.
 

PAGE FIVE

Panel 1
Guy has encased Boxer in a yellow box and is dragging him out and away from the bank.  We can see Marty staring up at them, having been left completely behind.

MARTY: You’re welcome!

GUY GARDNER: Let’s take this outside, huh?

Panel 2
Boxer is punching his way out of the yellow box.

BOXER: You have this all wrong.  You and your idiot friend back there.

BOXER: If there was any doubt at all about me before, it’s about to be expunged completely.  Everyone knows you’re a bad guy now. 

Panel 3
Guy has made a giant yellow boxing glove and is swinging it at Boxer.  The difference between Guy’s and Hal Jordan’s more famous one is that it’s got spikes at the knuckles.  The first line of dialogue is spoken to himself.

GUY GARDNER: Hate to give Jordan credit…

GUY GARDNER: Yeah, no.  There’s yer problem right there.

Panel 4
Swinging the giant yellow boxing glove downward now.

GUY GARDNER: You seem to think I give a damn about my bad reputation.
 

PAGE SIX

Panel 1
Guy is now producing yellow flame from his ring.

GUY GARDNER: I never cared what anyone else thought.

Panel 2
Guy’s yellow flame has expanded and Boxer is changing shape, revealing his White Martian identity.

GUY GARDNER: There’s not a whole lot that you can do to someone like me, to make me back down. 

GUY GARDNER: Guys like me, we always have an ace up our sleeve.

GUY GARDNER: We just reinvent ourselves.

Panel 3
Guy’s flames are receding, but Boxer is now fully exposed as a White Martian.

GUY GARDNER: But I guess you know a little something about that.
 

PAGE SEVEN

Panel 1
Martian Manhunter has appeared to assist Guy in bringing “Boxer,” now sporting yellow cuffs, in.

GUY GARDNER: Nice of you to drop in, J’onn.

GUY GARDNER: Now ‘at all the hard work is done.

MARTIAN MANHUNTER: You know very well that I couldn’t expose myself to…what needed to be done here, Guy Gardner.

Panel 2
Guy and Martian Manhunter are flying off with “Boxer.”

BOXER: It doesn’t matter, you know.

BOXER: All the victories you’ve had recently.

Panel 3
Close-up of Boxer.

BOXER: You’ve still no idea what you’re up against.

BOXER: Or what comes next.

Panel 4
Guy and Martian Manhunter share a look.

Panel 5
Close-up of Guy.

GUY GARDNER: Oh, we’re puttin’ together a team.


PAGE EIGHT

Panel 1
In a darkened room, Guy is placing the yellow ring on a desk.

Panel 2
Guy stares at the ring.

Panel 3
Guy continues to stare at the ring.

GUY GARDNER: The things I’ll agree to…

Panel 4
From the shadows we can see three figures appearing.

GUY GARDNER: The mess we’re in, I just can’t wait to see how we’re gonna get out of it.

Panel 5
The first figure we can distinguish is Martian Manhunter.

MARTIAN MANHUNTER: It will get worse before it gets better.

Panel 6
Now we can see all the figures clearly.  Standing with Guy and Martian Manhunter are of course President Reilly and Bloodwynd.

LORRAINE REILLY: There’s work yet to accomplish.

LORRAINE REILLY: Friends that require rescuing.

LORRAINE REILLY: Monsters yet to be revealed.

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