Page 1 – (6 Panels)
1.1: Interior, night, a pitch-black Victorian
era house. Doctor Crowe is walking
through an open door, the misty night behind him lit by a lone gas light. He is holding what appears to be a “Genie’s
Lamp”, a mystical device he is using to light his way. The hand not holding the lamp is closing the
door behind him.
Caption: The Whitechapel District of London, 1888.
Doctor Crowe
(caption): I took on this case
secretly, with no companion, protégé or accomplice.
Doctor Crowe
(caption): There was a compulsion to
complete this mission alone, though Nora has been with me for so much and seen
more than anyone before her.
1.2: Doctor Crowe walking through a hall, the lamp
he is holding casting shadows and vaguely illuminating what appear to be slabs
of meat hanging from hooks chained to the ceiling, like he’s in a huge meat
locker. Nothing is explicit, but there
is a feeling of subdued dread.
Doctor Crowe
(caption): Still, I feel the need to
shield her from some horrors.
Ripper (from off
panel): Croooowe . . .
1.3: Doctor Crowe turning around quickly, the
light from his lantern glinting off of a knife in the darkness.
Ripper (from the
darkness): I feel honored and
disappointed simultaneously.
Ripper (from
darkness): Honored that I am monster
enough to garner your attention . . .
1.4: The Ripper turning up a lantern on a desk,
revealing that the “slabs of meat” from Panel
1.2 are really dismembered torsos, legs and arms! The Ripper, however, is clad in Victorian
finery, top hat and tails, white gloves and pocket-watch. Immaculate.
Ripper: . . . yet disgusted with myself for not better
concealing my identity.
Ripper: Had I anticipated your involvement, well, I
would have taken better precautions.
1.5: The Ripper, knife drawn, approaching Doctor Crowe,
who has his crossbow out and is about to fire.
Doctor Crowe is dropping the “Genie’s Lamp”, the falling light source
casting a huge shadow of the scene on the wall behind the two principal
figures. In the foreground is the desk
with the lantern on it from Panel 1.4,
and there is a piece of paper with some writing sitting near the lantern.
Ripper: But no bother, I have my Disciples who will
carry on my good work for all of time!
Doctor Crowe
(caption): I think of Nora.
1.6: The shadow behind the desk and we can clearly
see Doctor Crowe pointing the now empty crossbow at The Ripper, the arrow from
the crossbow jutting from The Ripper’s throat, blood spurting from the
wound. In the foreground still are the
desk and the piece of paper, now splattered with blood. The only words written that we can see are,
in lavish handwritten font - “From Hell”!
Doctor Crowe
(caption): The rest is easy.
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