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PAGE ONE


PANEL ONE:
Most of the page is taken up with this panel.  We can see David Huxley, from behind, lying on his desk.  He is a relatively good looking man, in his early thirties.  He has been on a serious binge for seven years, and looks it.  He wears a black leather trench coat, jeans and a shirt.  He has passed out on his desk and his clothes look rumpled and dirty.  We are looking through the window with binoculars from a roof top across the street.  So we are looking down on the scene.  All the dialogue is from off camera people.  It is important to note that there is no phone or computer in the office, no electronic device of any kind.

 1 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: He can’t fight the Messiah.
 2 ALAISTARE SMITH: He’s the only one who can.
 3 JEFFREY LAWRENCE : Why’s that?
 4 ALAISTARE SMITH: The rest are dead.
 5 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: But he isn’t even of the order anymore!
 6 ALAISTARE SMITH: He was...
 7 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: You had to kick him out though!
PANEL TWO:
Pull out further so we can see the three stooges crouching on the roof, looking at the building.  Try to keep the same angle, so we get a clear idea of what building they are looking at.  The building they are on is in reasonably good shape, a standard roof top, the one they are looking at is not.  It is old and run down.  It appears that it may fall over at any moment.  There are ‘for rent’ signs in most of the windows, which are all dark, except for David’s office, it is dimly lit.  It’s a cool winter night, the three wear appropriate clothes.
 
 8 THE FINN: He was our best.  His flame was bright and hot, and sputtered all too quickly.  Let us hope a spark yet remains.
 9 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: Or...?


PANEL THREE:
Flip the perspective around so we are looking head on at the stooges.  The Finn looks old, and tired, and mysterious, with his sunglasses and toque.  He is tall and thin, balding under his toque, with fashionable side burns.  Lawrence looks young, and angry.  Smith is about the same age as The Finn, fifty-ish, shorter, fatter, with more hair, and a beard.  He isn’t obese, but plump, and roundish.  The Finn holds the binoculars in his hand, he is no longer looking through them.

10 THE FINN: Or pity us the fools, for this world shall be lost.

PAGE TWO

PANEL ONE:
We’re inside David’s office now.  He lying on his desk.  A bottle of scotch is open and resting beside him.  It is half empty.  The office is cluttered, weird occult type stuff is strewn about, books are open to myriad pages, loose leaf files are stacked all over.  Its not a huge panel, but try to incorporate some of this stuff as we progress.  He probably doesn’t have an apartment, so this is his whole life in this office.
 

1 CAPTION: I’ve been on a two week bender.  Hell, I’ve been on a seven year bender, but who’s counting?
 2 CAPTION: I have a case I should be working on.  Something about ghosts, or demons, or witches, one of them damn things.
 3 CAPTION: It’ll turn out to be kids, confused messed up kids, almost always is.
 4 CAPTION: Real monsters have better things to do then haunt a house.  They have worlds to conquer, people to kill.  I know, I’ve seen ’em, I even fought some of them, a life time ago.


PANEL TWO:
Close up of David now.  He is rolling over on the desk, about to get up, looking at the camera.  Get a sense of despair in his eyes.  They should look tired and old, older than he physically appears.  This is a guy who has spent seven years at the bottom of a bottle, he’s pretty well pickled.  But there is a sense of hope to him too.  And when he talks about Maggie his eyes light up, and he almost smiles.
 

 5 CAPTION: I fought them with what I thought was magic, with spells and names, incantations and potions.  I’d never felt real magic.

 

 

PANEL THREE:
Do a panel of a beautiful young woman lying in bed.  If we can see David note that his body is covered with scar like tattoos, of all sorts of symbols and stuff, everything is tattooed, except his face and hands.  The girl is lying on her side, looking at the viewer, who would be David, making her Maggie.  She has long reddish blonde hair, almost curly, but mostly just wavy.  It’s shoulder length, and strewn about, not really all that well styled.
 

6 CAPTION: Real magic was the way Maggie’s eyes lit up on Saturday mornings, or how spending an entire day in bed could be the most rewarding experience of your life.  Spells and shit, that’s for the “holy monks”, who have no idea what it is they are trying to save.


PANEL FOUR:
Back to David, who is now sitting in his chair, a little uneasily, holding his head, nursing a hang over, and listening.  His eyes have suddenly tensed, he is reaching out.
 

 7 CAPTION: Speaking of the “holy fucking monks”, I think they are about to honor me with a visit.


PANEL FIVE:
A shot from the front of the desk.  David has pushed himself away from the desk, as though he is about to stand up.  His arms are still leaning against the desk.
 

8 CAPTION: See, they may have kicked me out.  May have taken away my power, but I can still hear em from a mile away.  Well, okay, from a flight of stairs away.


 PAGE THREE

PANEL ONE:
A close up of The Finn’s feet, walking up a flight of rickety stairs.  I want this from the side, looking at the railing’s pickets head on, and seeing the shoes between them from the side.  He’s wearing spats, on top of relatively well worn shoes, black of course.  His pants are grey, and have a cuff.
 

 1 CAPTION: Three men, one young, two old, doing their damnedest to be quiet.  They aren’t particularly good at being quiet.

PANEL TWO:
Pull out and look up at the three people from page one, walking up the stairs to an upper floor office.  The staircase is narrow, forcing them to walk single file.
 
 2 CAPTION: The whole building could hear ’em, if anyone else wanted to risk their lives in this place.  Still better get ready to receive them.


PANEL THREE:
A big, dramatic, bursting through the door to the office type panel.  Alaistare is the first through the door.  He is also the first to talk.  He is clearly the leader, in as much as there is a leader to this rag tag gang of false mages.  The other two stand at his sides, half hidden by the door frame.

 3 ALAISTARE SMITH: David Huxley the world has need of ...

PANEL FOUR:
Flip around so we can see the office, looking much as it did, but there is no one in the chair.  David has vanished.  Be sure that the desk you have drawn all along has a covered front (back?), whichever side it is that faces the door, as this is integral to the joke.
 

 4 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: Where is he?
 5 THE FINN: He could not have left this place.
 6 ALAISTARE SMITH: He must be here, his bottle is still on the desk.


PANEL FIVE:
Look back at the three stooges now.  They look perplexed, Jeff may be looking behind the door or something.
 

 7 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: A spell of invisibility maybe?
 8 ALAISTARE SMITH: What? Oh, hmmmm, a spell, perhaps.
 9 THE FINN: He is stronger than we thought if he has the power to mask himself from us.
10 DAVID HUXLEY: (not shown) Gettt OOOOWWWWWUUUUUUT!


 PAGE FOUR

PANEL ONE:
A similar shot to the preceding page’s final panel, make sure they are looking in different directions, so the reader knows there is nothing to see in the office.  Jeff is cowering behind Alaistare, who looks uncomfortable, The Finn looks nonchalant at best.  He betrays no emotion.
 

 1 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: Agh! He’s turned himself into a ghost!
 2 ALAISTARE SMITH: He can channel a protective spirit?  Maybe we should come back...
 3 THE FINN: We... no... the world needs him, spirit or not.
 4 DAVID HUXLEY: HAhahahahahah!


PANEL TWO:
We see David hiding under his desk, unable to stop himself from cracking up.  He is probably holding his hand over his mouth, a tear running from his eye, anything to stop himself from laughing.
 

 5 DAVID HUXLEY: Haahaha.


PANEL THREE:
The three idiots have walked forward, coming up to the desk.  Jeff may have walked around it, looking for a portal to another dimension or something, David for his part has stood up.  What perspective you use for this panel is entirely up to you.
 

 6 DAVID HUXLEY: You fucking idiots!  You want to know why you’ll never save the world on your own?  There it is, I was under the desk and you three morons thought I was invisible!


PANEL FOUR:
Look at the three of them now, looking embarrassed and a little angry.  They don’t like showing how incompetent they truly are.  No dialogue.

David is looking at Jeff, Contempt dripping from his voice.
 

 7 DAVID HUXLEY: Boo!


PANEL SIX:
David has sat back down at his desk, his face still shows his elation at the recent display, but the age and the lack of sleep is starting to creep back in as well.
 

 8 DAVID HUXLEY: Well, Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest, what exactly is it you want?  I have a bottle to get back to, or a case, or a case of bottles, I’m not sure...
 9 DAVID HUXLEY:       Shouldn’t you be off training the Replacement Brigade?


 PAGE FIVE

PANEL ONE:
A close up of Alaistare, he suddenly looks less like a jolly fat man, and more like a defeated old man.  He gets very dark, very serious, very not happy.
 

 1 ALAISTARE SMITH: (quietly) They’re dead.

 
PANEL TWO:
A medium shot of David, he suddenly looks almost concerned, and definitely shocked.
 2 DAVID HUXLEY: What?

PANEL THREE:
A shot of Alaistare again, looking a little less bleak, a little more desperate.  There is nothing remotely jovial about him.
 
 3 ALAISTARE SMITH: All of them.  He’s killed all of them.  We...
 1 ALAISTARE SMITH: (quietly) need you.


PANEL FOUR:
David gets that look back in his eyes, maybe do the same type of shot as you did before, get a sense that this is his last remaining power, he is listening, and worse, hears something.
 

 4 DAVID HUXLEY: Let’s step outside.
 5 ALAISTARE SMITH: Why?


PANEL FIVE:
David has begun to walk, and turns back and points his fingers at the bewildered threesome.  He is getting pissed, and it shows.

 6 DAVID HUXLEY: Because you fuck ups brought something with you, and it would be best if we aren’t here when it arrives.


PANEL SIX:
All three of these last panels have essentially the same layout, no one moves, but facial expressions change, and other things do as well, which will be explained as necessary.  The four of them are out in the hall, we can see David’s door, which they are standing next too.  David is the closest to us, he is lighting a cigarette.  Next is Alaistare, the other two are to be placed at your discretion.  Alaistare has a rather absent look on his face, he has no idea what is about to take place.
 

PANEL SEVEN:
Same as the last, but the door and parts of the wall have just exploded, well actually, are exploding, we can see part of David’s name, which was painted on the door in the foreground, the rest of the panel is basically explosion effect.

PANEL EIGHT:
Same as panel 6, but of course there is no door left, nor much wall, the three stooges of mysticism stand coughing, there is much dust still in the air.  David is waving his hands to clear the smoke, and looking at his coat, which has a small rip in the upper sleeve.

 
7 DAVID HUXLEY: Fucking thing ripped my coat!

 

 

 PAGE SIX

PANEL ONE:
David has marched back into the office again.  Draw this from the side, he being clear, but the demon is still shrouded in smoke.  David is clearly looking down and shaking his finger at what he presumes is a very short demon.  Make this panel the length of the top page, how big is up to you.
 

 1 DAVID HUXLEY: Look you little...


PANEL TWO:
Show a close up of David’s finger, and the Demons waist that it is pointed at.  The demon is far taller than he had thought.  Make this panel the length of the page as well.  Make it shorter than the above panel though.
 

 2 DAVID HUXLEY: Litt...


PANEL THREE:
A panel a lot like the first, but the smoke has cleared, and a very tall, mean, nasty looking demon is standing in David’s office, well, what’s left of it.  David is looking up at him, and I mean up, and has lost his bravado, because he knows he is screwed.
 

 3 DAVID HUXLEY: Oh, Shit.


PANEL FOUR:
A side view of David’s body flying into the wall.  He has been thrown, hard, but he survives, so don’t have him squashed or anything.  Lots of action lines, this is by far the largest panel of the page, containing the most action.

PANEL FIVE:
David looks up, his lip is bleeding, maybe his head too, a little, he seems all right though, like nothing is too wrong.
 

 4 DAVID HUXLEY: Save me, Dammit!


 PAGE SEVEN

PANEL ONE:
A close up shot of The Finn, he looks his usual self.  Despite what is going on.

 1 THE FINN: You are aware that we can not use magic ourselves.
 2 DAVID HUXLEY: Not with magic, with anything!!!!


PANEL TWO:
A big shot, we see David fighting the demon, well sort of.  Alaistare picks up a piece of rubble, and throws it at the demon.  He throws, to use a cliché, like a girl.  This was the guy last picked in public school, he can’t throw.  The rubble bounces off.
 

 3 ALAISTARE SMITH: Oh.  Oh yes, ummm...


PANEL THREE:
A close up of David, probably with the demon’s arm punching into a wall behind him, narrowly missing him, he glances side ways, and screams in desperation.

 
4 DAVID HUXLEY: Give it back!


PANEL FOUR:
A medium shot of Alaistare, a little confused.
 

 5 ALAISTARE SMITH: What?


PANEL FIVE:
The money panel for this page.  David is fighting the demon, well, okay, being pummeled by him.  He shouts, over the sounds of blows.  He is probably trying to find some cover or something.
 

6 DAVID HUXLEY: Seven years ago you took what was mine,
 2 DAVID HUXLEY: Ugh
 3 DAVID HUXLEY: give it back now, or we all die!


PANEL SIX:
A shot of the three again.  Lots of room for dialogue.  They are discussing the matter, so they should be using gestures and stuff.  The Finn should have his head resting on his right arm, which in turn is resting on his left arm, I’ll explain this in person or something.  Jeff looks typically over reactive, Alaistare looks, well, he looks like his bumbling self, not at all confident.  Try to have all that in the background, while in the foreground we can see David fighting the Demon still.
 

 4 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: We can’t give it to him.
 5 THE FINN: We must, destiny foretold of this.
 6 ALAISTARE SMITH: If we do we won’t be able to remove it again.
 7 THE FINN: If we don’t, we shall surely perish.
 8 ALAISTARE SMITH: Yes, well, okay then, on three...

 

 

PANEL ONEVEN:
A shot of Jeff, inset into the above panel, small, like the two which follow it.
 

 9 JEFFREY LAWRENCE: One.


PANEL TWO:
A shot of Alaistare, like panel seven, same size, think of a George Perez type layout.
 

10 ALAISTARE SITH: Two.

 

 

PANEL NINTHREE:
The third of the triptych, ditto, except it has The Finn.
 

11 THE FINN: Three.


 PAGE EIGHT

PANEL FOUR:
A shot of David’s eyes, he has no pupils in this shot, his irises are red and look like they’re on fire.
 

12 DAVID HUXLEY: Time’s up, Sparky.


PANEL TWOFIVE:
Most of the page is taken up by this panel, a huge blast of mystic force emanating from David, withering the Demon.  David may even be floating.
 

13 DAVID HUXLEY: (muttering) Ick comdaré putre bæk repulsu nathermest regainam.


PANEL SIX:
A close up of David, the Demon is gone, a smile on his face, for the first time.

14 DAVID HUXLEY: Well, what next?