Set-up: a number of gruesome deaths befalling excavation and construction crews beneath the catacombs of Rome have been discovered to be at the hands of a 2000-year-dead Centurion soldier. He has fought off police and army, got past our hero, Doctor Crowe, and is about to reach the surface...
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Panel 1- POV, from the top of the catacomb stairs. The CENTURION has nearly reached the top, his rictus grin of rotted teeth bared, sunken eyes gleaming in palpable victory.
CAPTION: One cannot stop a plague by attacking the symptoms...
CENTURION: ...SSSS...
Panel 2- same POV as panel 1, except the CENTURION is at the top, but the manic confidence is gone, replaced by horrified shock.
CAPTION: ...but rather by wiping out the source of the disease...
CENTURION: ...
Panel 3- from behind the CENTURION. Wide shot of St. Peter's basilica, the large crucifix of Jesus center.
CENTURION: ...nnNazareno...
Panel 4- the CENTURION is kneeling in front of the stairway. DOCTOR CROWE comes up behind, readying to swing a giant Roman war hammer.
CROWE: Do you see, foul Roman? Your battle lost, your victory stolen. Not now...
Panel 5- same as panel 4, except CROWE has swung the hammer, demolishing the CENTURION's head.
CROWE: ...but two thousand years ago.
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