The Premise: Rick and Glenn are out scavenging for supplies when they stumble across a large, fenced area, filled with Walkers. They enter an adjacent multistorey building and meet a scientist on the top floor…
PAGE XX (seven panels)
PANEL 1. The scientist is looking out a window with a pair of binoculars as Rick looks over his shoulder.
RICK:
What is this place?
SCIENTIST:
A field laboratory… or sorts.
PANEL 2. From the POV of the scientist, we see a group of Walkers, down on the field, swarming a deer. The deer has managed to gore several of them with its antlers, but many others are pulling it down from behind.
SCIENTIST:
I study the Walkers--see what makes them tick.
PANEL 3. The scientist has turned around to face Rick and Glenn.
RICK:
Are you… looking for a cure?
SCIENTIST:
A cure? No, no, no.
SCIENTIST:
They’re dead. There is no cure.
PANEL 4. All three are facing each other in discussion.
RICK:
Then why?
SCIENTIST:
Call it, scientific interest.
GLENN (whisper):
More like morbid curiosity.
SCIENTIST:
Perhaps.
PANEL 5. The scientist is facing out the window again.
SCIENTIST:
I currently have my assistant sourcing some fresh lab rats, if you’d care to stick around.
PANEL 6. Rick and Glenn are looking confused.
RICK:
Rats?
PANEL 7. Both Rick and Glenn have been shot in the neck with tranquiliser darts.
SFX:
THP
GLENN:
Oww.
SFX:
THP
RICK:
Oh, no…
From here, Rick and Glenn would wake up on separate platforms out in the fenced area somewhere, and somehow have to find a way to escape, much to the disappointment of the scientist.
This is such a brilliant concept, Danial. You've nailed the execution and done something I wasn't able to manage this week, you've put Rick into a new and terrible situation that hasn't been done on the comic yet. Bloody good.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Having not read the comic, I was crossing my fingers that something like this hadn't actually been done before.
ReplyDeleteI really didn't see that coming, Danial... and since I spend most of my time trying to guess the ending of these stories, that was a wonderfully nasty surprise.
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