Panel 1
Jack Ryder
is knocking on the door of a typical suburban home.
JACK RYDER:
Hello?
Panel 2
Jack Ryder
continues to knock. By his emerging
irritation it’s implied that he’s been knocking for a while already as we’ve
caught up with him.
JACK RYDER:
Hello? Is there anyone home?
Panel 3
Jack is
looking down at the door handle now. He
continues to knock while holding the handle with his other hand.
JACK RYDER:
Mrs. Takai? You promised me an
exclusive!
JACK RYDER:
Hello?
Panel 4
Focus on the
hand that’s on the handle, as he’s apparently been turning it, and just
discovered that it was unlocked and the door has opened.
JACK RYDER:
Oh.
TITLE: “Viva
la Vida”
WRITER: Tony
Laplume
PAGE TWO
Panel 1
Pan back out
as we see Jack taking a quick look around him, trying not to look
suspicious. Despite his words we don’t
see anyone at the door; he’s just covering his tracks.
JACK RYDER:
Thanks for letting me in.
Panel 2
Jack is
entering the house now.
JACK RYDER:
Right. Okay.
Panel 3
Jack begins
to look around. This is one of those
homes that looks more like a showroom than someplace where people actually
live.
JACK RYDER:
Hello?
Panel 4
Jack hears
something and turns his head in that direction.
SFX: Creeek
JACK RYDER:
Hello? Is there anyone there? Mrs. Takai?
You promised me an exclusive?
Panel 5
Jack hears a
sound coming from another direction and looks that way.
SFX: Wooosh
JACK RYDER:
I’m…beginning to think I’ve been had.
PAGE THREE
Panel 1
(splash)
The source
of the sounds has dramatically made its presence known: the biggest Man-Bat we’ve
seen yet! And it’s swooped right in
front of Jack! And Jack is in the midst
of transforming into the Creeper!
JACK RYDER:
Ahh!
PAGE FOUR
Panel 1
Jack has now
transformed completely into the Creeper and is tussling with the Man-Bat.
Panel 2
Jack’s
battle with the Man-Bat continues. They’re
banging into things, smashing all those pretty showroom features.
Panel 3
Jack’s
battle with the Man-Bat continues.
Panel 4
Jack’s
battle with the Man-Bat continues.
PAGE FIVE
Panel 1
The Man-Bat
suddenly stops fighting as a loud whistle sound rings through the house.
SFX: Wooo-oo
Panel 2
Two sets of
feet are coming down a staircase (which has a huge gap from being smashed into
at some point during the preceding fight).
There’s also an audible clicking sound.
SFX: Click!
Panel 3
We see that
the feet belong to Bulletproof, Rachel Rogerson, and Ezrah. Ezrah is holding a device in his hand that he
has just used, his thumb still pressed on it.
EZRAH: That
should be enough.
Panel 4
Jack, still
the Creeper, is looking around all the more frantically now.
JACK RYDER:
What? What’s going on here?
Panel 5
Ezrah is
pointing toward a red dot on a picture frame.
EZRAH: You
just went worldwide on the internet, Jack.
How does it feel?
Panel 6
The Man-Bat,
or we should say Woman-Bat as we’re about to discover, flies over to
Bulletproof and Ezrah, looking suddenly like an adoring pet.
EZRAH: Let’s
have some proper introductions, shall we?
EZRAH: Jack,
this is my pal Betty.
Panel 7
Focus on
Jack, scowling.
PAGE SIX
Panel 1
(splash)
Bulletproof
and Ezrah are riding on the back of Betty, soaring through the sky. Night is approaching.
EZRAH: I
told you it’d work.
PAGE SEVEN
Panel 1
The trio
continues to fly.
BULLETPROOF:
So that’s it? That’s the end of Jack’s
career as a so-called journalist? The
end of his harassing of the superhero community?
Panel 2
The trio
continues to fly.
EZRAH: For
now, anyway.
ERAH:
Cockroaches and all.
Panel 3
The trio
continues to fly. It’s getting darker.
EZRAH: The
only thing that’s for certain is that nothing’s for certain.
Panel 4
The trio
continues to fly.
EZRAH: He
just lost a massive amount of credibility, that’s all. But the people that took him seriously before
are still going to listen to what he has to say. It’s everyone else, the bandwagon folk that
started paying attention later, who’ll be affected. All they’ll see is doubt now. If this is the guy who kept warning us about
White Martians, and suddenly he’s caught looking more or less like one himself…
Panel 5
The trio
continues to fly.
BULLETPROOF:
Yeah. Wish it was easier.
EZRAH:
Nothin’s easy, Rachel.
PAGE EIGHT
Panel 1
The trio
continues to fly. It’s fully night
now. The moon is shining near them.
BULLETPROOF:
I just want one thing that’s simple, one thing that doesn’t make me crazy.
Panel 2
The trio
continues to fly. A silent panel.
Panel 3
The trio
continues to fly.
EZRAH: You
have me, Rachel.
Panel 4
The trio
continues to fly.
BULLETPROOF:
The son of the Caballero. You’ve been
reading the headlines, haven’t you? Dad’s
in a lot of trouble these days.
Cornered. Liable to start WWIII
any minute.
Panel 5
The trio
continues to fly.
BULLETPROOF:
But you know I love you, Ezrah.
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