Final Script

Page 1

In bathroom, Olivia is digging through the empty medicine cabinet Clyde scampers ou of sight.  Irene and Jeff sit on couch in the next room.

Panel1: Okay you guys seriously? Not Cool.

Panel 2: Which one of you has been in the medicine cabinet….. *she sticks her head out to look in the next room, Clyde runs unnoticed  to the ground*

Panel 3  Again?

Panel 4: shot of the room clyde darting along the baseboard  “This Stealing has to stop!”

Panel 5: Irene I know you’ve been using my hair mousse!

-Whateva I look damn good *clyde dives under the couch with a wheel of pills

Panel 6: and Jeff I thought you quit smoking?

-Im on the patch! *he is covered in nicorette

Page 2

Panel 1: “The 3 of you are behaving like ANIMALS!’ she stomps her foot down in frustration

Panel 2: wait a minute….1..2….where’s Clyde?

Panel 3 EEEEEEK!  Clyde jumps out and runs screaming after the pink wheel of pills

Panel 4 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!  Olivia screams AHHH! Holy shit!

Panel 5 she looks at the pills scattered across the carpet “Goddamit Clyde! All of my birth control pills?”

Panel 6 she slumps to the floor “This isn’t working out”

Page 3

Panel 1 Olivia: “I should have never let Sage talk me into this”

Panel 2  Irene: “Yeah well you haven’t been the perfect roommate either!”

Panel 3 Clyde: You don’t even keep good snacks EEEEEEk!

Panel 4: Olivia “I saved you from a life of bondage and cruel experimentation! You guys should be grateful!”

Panel 5: Jeff : “That’s not how I remember it….”

Page 4  One Week earlier

 Two scientists in white coats stand in a lab, pens of mice and rabbits fill the room around them but one is suspiciously empty, they fail to notice though they’re reading charts fastidiously

Panel 1:  Sci: 1 Subject number 634 seems stable

Panel 2   Sci 2: Yes, minimal swelling and bleeding around application site, looks good. Sci 1: Run the standard toxicicity tests in the lab tommorow

Panel 3 Sci 1: “Lets just check in on the primates and call it a night”

Panel 4: Irene wipes makeup off her face “So tacky!”

Panel 5: She removes a bobby pin hidden in her hair

Panel 6: she picks the lock to her cage “Ha!  Easy, now to free the others!”

Page 5

Panel 1: Jeff is straped to a chair in another part of the lab watching a screen filled with cartoons. We see a vent behind him  and a window to another room where the two scientists talk over charts

Panel 2: Close up of screen from jeffs pov mindless shapes and colors swirl around

Panel 3: Sci 1:“Interesting…”

Panel 4:  Sci 2: “So cartoons DO make you stupider!”  Sci 1: “Still not as bad as comicbooks though”

Panel 5:  Sci 1: “I think we have all the results we need, schedule #576 here for disposal in the morning” Sci 2: “sure thing”

Panel6: Close up on Jeffs face “so the rumors were true! I hope Clyde and Irene hurry!”

Page 6

Outside the lab 3 people slip under the fence and approach the lab from the outside, sipping beer and laughing among themselves

Panel 1: Olivia: “Are you guys sure this is a good idea? Can’t we just picket, or pass out flyers or something?”

Panel 2 Dante: “The time for peaceful protest is over Liv-hiccup!” he slurs and gestures with his bottle of beer

Panel 3: Dante: “If we want to help our animal brothers we have to take RADICAL ACTION!”  Sage: “Right on Dante!”

Panel 4: He throws a bottle through the window “LIBERATION NOOOOOOW!” alarms begin to sound and the glass shatters

Panel 5: The three of them scramble inside laughing stupidly Olivia: “what the fuck is wrong with you 2?”

Page 7

Panel 1: Jeff here’s the crash “oh no, what was that?” something is chewing through the vent above

Panel2:  Clyde burst through the vent ”EEEEK” Jeff: “Clyde! Thank god!”

Panel 3:  Clyde runs down and chews through the straps on the chair Jeff: “Thank you friend!”

Panel 4: Irene walks in the door opening it with a bobby pin: “Clyde, Jeff? Are you guys in here?”

Panel 5: Jeff jumps down from the table  “Irene! You made it! Quickly there’s no time to lose!”

Panel 6:  They go out into the main hall, the alarm is sounding from the broken window Irene: “Why is the alarm going off….something is wrong.”  Clyde: “EEEK”  Jeff: “Just stick to the plan, freedom awaits just outside this corridor!”

Page 8

Dante Olivia and Sage are running down the hall , they see flashing lights from outside

Panel 1:  Dante: “Oh shit the cops!”  Olivia: “Well duh! This was such a terribe idea!”

Panel 2: they run around a dark corner Dante: “Quick this way! We’ll run out the back door!”

Panel 3: They suddenly collide with a rabbit, chimp, and stressed out mouse *WOOMF*

Panel 4:  Dante “Oh woah you poor little dudes!”Sage: “BUNNY!”  Olivia: “Oh wow these poor animals”

Panel 5:  Jeff reaches for Dantes cigar

Panel 6: Over come with emotion Dante scoops Jeff up ,Sage grabs Irene and Clyde crawls on Olivia’s shoulder “DON”T WORRY LITTLE BRO, WE’LL SAVE YOU!”

Panel 7: They quickly run out the back exit with animals in tow as the sirens get louder

Panel 8: They disappear into the night

Page 9

Header: A FEW DAYS AGO

At Olivia’s apartment Sage and Dante have shown up at the door with bad news about their “rescue animals”

Panel 1 Sage Dante, and Olivia are standing near the entrance Jeff Irene and Clyde wander around the living room Dante: “Yeah you know me and Sage would love to keep them, but our van’s just too small!”

Panel 2: Sage: And we know how you’ve been wanting a roommate!

Panel 3: Dante: “Plus you know like rehabilitating lab animals, dismantling the war machine and all that good stuff”

Panel 4: Olivia: “well I mean I guess I could keep them for a few days mayb-“

Panel 5: Sage/Dante: OMG Olivia Thank you! You guys will have a blast!” BYE!

Panel 6: DOOR SLAM

Panel 7: Olivia: Um…..later.

Panel 8: Looks around at animals uneasily Olivia: “So….you guys want to watch cartoons?”

Slice of Life

A script for a 2 page comic based on an encounter I witnessed at Mega-con

Panel 1: A group of 4 dorky young teens dressed in shabby costumes, stand near the wall away from the crowd, sipping mountain dew and excitedly discussing all the cool stuff they've seen, completely geeking out, it seems to be their first time at a convention like this. the the 2 girls are in homemade costumes one from an anime I don't recognize fluffy skirt and cutesy mismatched crap, the other has a short purple wig and shredded hot topic t-shit, I think she's ramona flowers. The guys are dressed to match their girl friends the chubby greasy one is in some kind of kimono like robe with cloth dog ears (inuyasha?) the one is super scrawny and pimple faced in a green t-shit and jeans (scott pilgram)

Panel 2: "PILGRAM!" A hulking 30 year old man dressed as one of ramona flowers evil ex's burst through the crowd

Panel 3: "eeeeeeee! omg real larping!" the girls squeal. scott pilgrim looks panic-stricken

Panel 4: inuyasha silently takes his soda as the girls push him forward "battle him! go! go! go! do it!"

Panel 5: "BLAAAAAAARRRG!" the grown man cries swinging a foam weapon and the un-suspecting  15 year old

Panel 6: it thumps loudly against his puny chest he looks back at his friends pleadingly

Page 2

Panel 7:" GET HIM SCOTT!" yells Ramona, weirdly into this "you are WEAK Pilgram!"taunts the grown man from behind

Panel 8: pilgram scrunches his face up with determination and uncertainly swings mock punches at the evil ex

Panel 9: "GUH! ARG! UGH" the man cries

Panel 10: encouraged by their apparent imaginary effectiveness lets loss a slow motion assault "hi-yah!" "take that" "bam!" he exclaims meekly

Panel 11: "AUUUUUUUGH! I AM SLAIN!" cries the grown man collapsing into an awkward heap of jelly on the floor, scott pilgram quickly runs back to his friends

Panel 12: his friends give him a hero's welcome, high fives and pats on the back all around "that was the coolest thing I've ever seen" ramona swoons

This weird dream I had

A script for a single page comic based on a strange dream of mine

Dream comics

Panel 1: A woman is sitting in an opulent house. The interior is half garden/sun room naturalistic and otherworldly with grass and flower beds instead of carpet lush green everywhere and curving stone walls with an arched ceiling, no furniture except for a low modern looking couch against one wall and sleek coffee table made from the same stone as the rest of the home. her clothes are shiny futuristic robes

Panel 2: Zoom in to the plush couch. she’s reading a book with foreign symbols and strange hieroglyphs, some type of primitive sci-fi comic?  A bowl of fresh exotic looking fruits is on the table.

Panel 3: She looks up, there’s a knock at the door

Panel 4: Opens door outside a guest in a mask and heavy overcoat is standing on a grey side walk, the air out doors looks smoggy and foreboding, he comes inside

Panel 5: Shot of the street as he walks in, every surface is covered in concrete,  identical rows of grey pyramid shapes homes as far as the eye can see, no signs of life, clouds of smog and exhaust churn above, its a complete wasteland

Panel 6 She shuts the door behind him, He removes coat and mask to reveal similar opulent robes, he's glad to be out of his heavy gear

Panel 7: Inside of their sanctuary they sit on the couch and enjoy the clean air in the garden and admire the flowers we notice that some of the arc’s and designs on the stone walls are not actually stone, they seem to be mechanical and make it possible for life to exist in this environment

Panel 8: she smiles, glad to have him home ,and goes back to her comic book

Aseop's Fable

A short 2 page script based on Aseop's fable of the fox and the grapes

Page 1

Panel 1: a fox walks through the forest thinking to himself how hungry he feels

Panel 2: “I’ll cut through the orchard and find something to eat there” he say running down a path in the woods

Panel 3: he searches the barren winter branches of the trees in the orchard

Panel 4: he spots a single succulent bunch of grapes hanging from a vine on a tree branch

Panel 5: …..a tree branch nearly 20 feet in the air on a massive old oak …

Panel 6: “perfect! Now just to claim my prize” the fox thinks licking his lips in anticipation

Panel 7: he runs back a few steps …..

Panel 8: JUMPS!.....

Panel 9:...and falls ridiculously short, the grapes are far out of reach

Page 2

Panel 1: he growls with frustration and runs back further, crouches and sprints to the tree

Panel 2: he leaps into the air with all his might!!

Panel 3: but once again fails spectacularly

Panel 4: He snarls with rage snapping at the air

Panel 5: He runs back out of sight

Panel 6: he puts his ears down he squints with focus

Panel 7: digging his paws into the soft dirt

Panel 8: he shoots out like a fire ball…leaps into the air with every fiber of his being his every want and desire focused onto the fruit dangling precariously within his reach!!!!

Panel 9: CRASH! INTO THE TRUNK ON THE TREE! The grapes remain untouchable

Panel 10: He whirls around howling with fury and cursing!

Panel 11: He walks storms back into the woods in a huff

Panel 12:  with a bitter look back “I bet those grapes where sour anyway!”

The 12 months

Based on a Russian fairy tale, script for and 8 page comic

PAGE 1

Once upon a time in a tiny cabin

Deep in the forest

There lived a girl named Sophie who was honest, kind, and hard working

She lived with her lazy spoiled stepsister

And her greedy wicked stepmother

She loved her daughter but left all of the hard work and chores for her step daughter

PAGE 2

One frigid day in January, it was her step sisters birthday

The mother asks her daughter what she would like

“I desire fresh snow drop to brighten up this dreadful shack” she says with her nose in the sir

the step mother commands Sophie to go into the woods to fetch them

“but it’s the dead of winter!” Sophie protests “snow drops wont be growing for another 2 months!”

“Do as I say!” bellows the step mother “Don’t come back without them!”

Sophie reluctantly takes her cloak and basket

And walks into the frozen forest

PAGE 3

She wanders deeper and deeper into the dark woods on her search snow falling around her

She’s starting to become very scared and knows she’ll never find them, its getting cold and dark

Just then she sees a group of people gathered in a clearing up ahead

She makes her way to them asking politely to stand around their fire

She sees that they’re not mere travelers or peasants like herself, but 12 distinguished old men dressed in strange finely made clothes of different colors

They welcome her beside their fire and ask why she is out alone in the snowstorm

She tells them she has been sent to gather snowdrops for her step sisters birthday and must not return without them or she’ll surly be beaten by her step mother

Taking pity on her a man named January in an Indigo robe stands and hits the ground with his staff saying a few magic words

PAGE 4

To Sophie’s amazement all the cold weather of January passed within seconds and January passes his cane along to a man in a deep burgundy coat

His name is February he taps the cane on the ground in a different rhythm says a quick chant and the same thing occurs

 Sophie stares on astounded at the melting snow and steadily warming weather

February passes the cane to March dressed in robes of saffron

March stands and strikes the cane on the ground and flowers and all the glory of spring shoot up around him

Sophie looks around at the spectacle and sees snow drops growing at her feet

“Thank you! Thank you all very much! “Sophie says with sincerity

she gathers up the flowers she needs in her basket

and thanking the men profusely again she skips back home

PAGE 5

at the cabin her step sister and step mother are amazed by the arm full’s of fresh spring flowers Sophie has brought

“Where on earth did you find these?” Her stepmother demanded

Sophie’s tells them the story of the kind old men in rich clothes she met

“I think they were spirits!” “It was incredible” Sophie says excitedly re-playing the strange encounter in her mind

“well if they have the power to conjure seasons….” The stepmother says stroking her beard as she inspects the bare cupboard

“I can think of a few other things we need!” she says with a wicked laugh scribbling a list

The next day the step mother sends her daughter out to ask the old men for fresh summer berries, cucumbers, mushrooms, apples and other seasonal treats for the two of them to eat all winter

The stepsister begrudgingly stomps out the door

 She trudges through the forest complaining as she goes

PAGE 6

she spots the men gathered up ahead

and loudly crashes into the clearing rudely greeting the spirits

they look at her in confusion and ask why she in wandering through the forest making such a ruckus

“Well since you asked, I need you guys to help me out with a few things”

“I’ll take a bushel of apples, a pound of raspberries, a few mushrooms, and about a dozen cucumbers”

They look at her incredulous and clearly offended

“well don’t just stand there, hurry up with the magic!” “its freezing out here!”

The other men look to January

He stand strikes his cane on the ground

and the stepsister is buried in snow within seconds

PAGE 7

The next day passes back at the cabin and the stepmother becomes worried, thinking her daughter would return shortly with plenty of rich food for them she’ eaten all of the remaining potatoes and winter rations

Leaving Sophie to clean up the mess she gathers her things

and leaves to bring her daughter back from the forest where she was clearly sleeping off the feast she was supposed to bring back

We see her walking through the cold woods in a huff

She spots the clearing and storms up to the men seated around a fire

She lists her demands

and being ignored makes a move to grab the staff from one of the men

January snatches it from her

We see her buried in under thick snow in the deserted clearing

Page 8

Sophie grows up and lives simply but comfortably in the cabin

She cheerfully dose house work around the empty home, its spring time

She is well liked and her neighbors always remark on how fresh her apples taste even the ones preserved all winter

And the sweet summer berries and fresh salads she has in abundance every summer

And her many strange friends who periodically come to visit her, a new one every month!

A shot of two stone graves in the back yard with spring flowers growing around them/ She is very blessed indeed