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Panel 1- outside the Best Western Hospitality House on E 49th St, a 50 ft tall, street-wide amalgamation of heroes groans and shambles on its motley of limbs. The core of it seems to be Henry Pym in his GIANT-MAN persona, but we can also see ICEMAN, ARCHANGEL, BEAST, VALKYRIE, NIGHTHAWK, Daimon "SON OF SATAN" Hellstrom, GARGOYLE, HELLCAT, NAMOR, HULK, LUKE CAGE, HERCULES, GHOST RIDER, IRON FIST, DAREDEVIL, BLACK WIDOW, and the SILVER SURFER, his board sticking out of Pym's neck. All the faces are absent of expression, mouths agape in hypno-catatonia.
CAPTION: The magicks are powerful, but unfocused. The hands that wielded the spellrites, untrained.
CAPTION: A heroic cancer of champions and defenders, threatening to spread through the city.
Panel 2- on the roof top ledge, a purple booted foot is perched.
CAPTION: Oh, Stephen. If you could only see what has been wrought against you. By the Flames of the Faltine...
Panel 3- Full reveal, CLEA, in a purple version of Dr. Strange's tunic, standing on the hotel roof ledge, the cloak of levitation swirling about her, her white hair blowing in the breeze, the Eye of Agamotto at her throat, her head proudly back, in magical rapture, yellow tongues of flame in the palms of her hands...
CAPTION: I will heal this city and set it free...
A new multi-part story coming soon, stay tuned!
That semi-splash on panel 1 really grabs attention - a veritable smorgsabord of heroic happenings.
ReplyDeleteOf course, you don`t rest on that image and instead keep pushing the story forward, leaving us with a solid page turn for this opening salvo.