Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends... Continuing the prog-rock-fueled adventures of the Wonder Twins, Zan and Jayna...
Today's chapter is inspired by Rush's 2112.
Panel 1- Night on a high mountain top, in front of the mouth of a cave, APACHE CHIEF, ZAN, and JAYNA sit around a campfire. All are looking into the starlit sky, the CHIEF pointing up into it, as if saying, Look.
CAPTION, APACHE CHIEF: They left the planet long ago...Their power grows with purpose strong...
Panel 2- The CHIEF's finger traces the constellations; one is By-Tor, the fighter, the other is the Snow Dog, the protector. One star gleams brightest, the Snow Dog's eye; JAYNA's hand gestures to it (New Exor).
CAPTION, APACHE CHIEF: ...To claim the home where they belong. Home to tear the Temples down. Home to change!
Panel 3- one of Mongul's fighter skiffs levitates at the cave ledge; JAYNA at the stick. ZAN steps on the wing, and gratefully shakes APACHE CHIEF's hand.
CAPTION, APACHE CHIEF: ...I have not left this cave for days now, it has become my last refuge in my total despair.
Panel 4 - POV from behind APACHE CHIEF. He looks up in the sky, the starcraft already disappearing into the starry sky. To the left, a waterfall cascades down a mountainside. The CHIEF sits cross legged, head low, silhouetted by the dying fire.
CAPTION, APACHE CHIEF: I have only the music of the waterfall to comfort me now...
...until next time, space cowboy...
I feel like a broken record each time you put up a new prog-rock page, but once again, well done! Not only do you use some great lyrics to set your scene, you bring out yet another maligned Super Friend in Apache Chief. And just like your Zan and Jayna depiction, you use him much better than the actual show ever did. Kudos.
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