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Among the various plot points leading
up to this final page, Tony has gathered together a whole bunch of
his close associates and friends (including his sister Toni, his
daughter Olive, his girlfriend Amelia, Agent Colby, Caesar Valenzo,
and anyone else that might seem appropriate – I include Poyo in
that category) for reasons that we don't have to go into here. What does matter is that Tony also accidentally ate some
dirt (due to some hilarious series of unlikely events that I'll leave
to your imagination) and got a cibopathic reading off of it. Indeed,
it was a pretty intense one, where he realized that the gob of earth
had thoughts, dreams, aspirations, and the like. Shocked and
surprised, he just announced on the previous page to everyone in the room that “The Earth is
ALIVE!”
Four panels of equal size. Each one
stretches the width of the page. Each panel has an identically
placed and sized inset panel towards the right hand side.
1 – Shot of everyone but Tony (who is
off-panel). They look towards Tony (and, consequently, the reader)
with blank stares. Poyo is perhaps the most confused, cocking his
head to the side. No dialogue.
1.1 – Inset panel on the right hand
side. It's Tony Chu. He is confused at everyone's confusion.
TONY: What?
2 – Shot of everyone. More or less
the same, with some slight movement on everyone's part as they speak
or think to themselves.
AGENT COLBY: Are you trying to tell us
that you've never eaten dirt before?
CAESAR: The bigger kids on the
playground didn't force you to chow down on some good ol' terra
firma?
2.1 – Back to Tony. He is still
confused, but it's definitely moving towards annoyance.
TONY: I hardly see how it's rele--
3 – Shot of everyone. Olive speaks
up here. Everyone looks towards her.
OLIVE: Not once? You really expect us
to believe that?
3.1 – Back to Tony. It's full on
annoyance now.
TONY: This may come as a surprise to
some of you, but I was actually quite popular in school.
4 – Same shot as panel 1. Everyone
is confused again. No dialogue.
4.1 – Back to Tony. Annoyance has
given way to exasperation mixed with defeat.
TONY (1): *grumble*
TONY (2): Let's just get back to this
Earth thing...
TO BE CONTINUED!
Wow massive concept and truly interesting use of an already interesting and cool power. You could do so much with this concept I love it. Also your page layout is very much in keeping with the tone and style of the book. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteInteresting concept with some solid dialogue and comedy on the page too.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I may have gotten more out of this page if I'd actually read more of the series. Or am I way off on that assumption?