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COVET A graphic novel script By Lee Gooden PAGE ONE (one panel) Panel 1. Establishing shot: The wind is blowing hard, creating rolling waves through a vast cornfield like the choppiness of the sea. It is over cast, on the fringes we see that black clouds are rolling in, Licks of lightening in the back ground are in the far corners. The corn stalks move as if the entire field is alive. Corn silk and tiny green spiders hang from the dried out ears. Fluffs of pollen landed here and there. The stalk roots have raised out of the ground slightly as if they are octopi legs. In the fore ground there is a semi-circle of cleared area between corn rows. Within the semi-circle is a fire pit surrounded by a ring of rocks. A flattened can is splayed across the rocks like a grill grate. Some kind of meat is cooking on the flattened can, fed by a fire made from dry corn stalks, twigs and bits of paper (the paper appears to be from religious tracts). Odors waffe into the sky. A machete, handsaw and hatchet covered in blood are lying on the ground around the semi-circle. CAPTION 1: RAIN WILL WASH AWAY THE BLOOD AND REMNANTS OF SACRIFICE. CAPTION 2: SINCE LIGHT CAME OUT OF DARNESS… SINCE LIFE AROSE FROM THE SCUMMY FILM TO THE TOP OF THE SMELT… SINCE HUMANITY SWAM ASHORE, DISCARDED ITS GILLS AND ASCENDED ON STUBBY LEGS THE RUNGS OF THE FOOD CHAIN… CAPTION 3: THERE HAS BEEN A DEMAND FOR SACRIFICE. PAGE TWO (two panels) Panel 1: Smaller version of page 1., except, the storm has hit and the rain is coming down hard. Lightening bolts everywhere. The rain plinks and plunks against the tools and actually rinses the blood. The cooking fire is sputtering and becoming extinguished in crackling drips. CAPTION 1: THE HUMAN EYE CAN EXCRETE A SELF-CLEANING, SELF-REJUVENATING MIRACLE SOLUTION CALLED TEARS…A PROCESS CALLED CRYING. CAPTION 2: THE EARTH CRIES TOO. CAPTION 3: NOT EVERYONE ON EARTH CAN CRY. CAPTION 4: THEY HAVE OTHER WAYS TO CLEANSE AND REJUVENATE THEMSELVES Panel 2. Same as above, except the rain is a torrential downpour. It obscures everything, like looking through a curtain that the fabric is scuffed to the point of translucence in some areas. CAPTION 1: …AND THEY CAME 2 BY 2… 2007 © copyright Lee Gooden RISEN A COMIC BOOK/GRAPHIC NOVEL WRITTEN BY LEE GOODEN © copyright 2007 ART BY SUZANNE ???? SCRIPT PAGE 1 PAGE 1: CAPTION 1: It is1513 in the year of our Lord. PAGE 1 IS ONE LARGE PANEL SUZANNE, I’M GOING TO EMAIL YOU SOME IMAGES OF THE OKEFENOKEE SWAMP. IMAGINE, A GOLDEN BRICKED PATH LEADING TO A GIANT FOUNTAIN, MAJESTIC, GLORIOUS IN THE MIDDLE OF A GOD FORSAKEN JUNGLE LIKE SWAMP. IS IT THE FABLED FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH? A BEDRAGGLED SPANISH SOLDIER IS FACING AWAY FROM THE CAMERA STARING AT THE FOUNTAIN. THIS IS NOT JUAN PONCE DE LEON, BUT SOMEONE SIMILAR. AFTER ALL, LEGENDS HAVE TO BEGIN SOMEWHERE. AT HIS FEET ALONG THE PATH LIES THE BONES, GARB AND WEAPONS OF HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT CULTURES. PROMINENT, ARE THE BONES OF A ROMAN SOLDIER, THE HELMET OF A NORSEMAN, AND AN EGYPTIAN HEADDRESS. SKULLS GALORE. THERE ARE EVEN SKULLS THAT ARE EVIDENTLY ALIEN TO OUR PLANET. SQUASHED IN FEATURES, EXTRA EYE SOCKETS, WEIRD LIMP ANTENNA LIKE APPENDAGES PROTRUDING FROM THE SKULL. (C) copyright 2007 Lee Gooden LETS STOP HERE, THERE IS MORE SCRIPT, BUT LET’S SEE WHAT KIND OF ARTISTIC STYLE WORKS BEST FOR YOU HERE, WE’LL SEE WHAT YOU COME UP WITH AND THEN WE WILL CONTINUE. I HOPE THIS IS SOMETHING YOU’LL ENJOY LEE SHOCK AND AWE A COMIC BOOK/GRAPHIC NOVEL CHARACTERS CREATED BY DARYL PETERSON PLOTTED BY DARYL PETERSON AND LEE GOODEN WRITTEN BY LEE GOODEN DRAWN, COLORED, AND LETTERED BY DARYL PETERSON COVER PAGE DUDE, I WAS THINKING THAT THE COVER COULD BE A MONTAGE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. MAYBE YOU HAVE ANOTHER IDEA FOR THE COVER, WE’LL TALK ABOUT IT. PAGE 1 AND 2 SHOULD BE 1 LARGE PANEL, AN OUTER SPACE SCENE, STARS AND PLANET BACKGROUND, ETC. (LET YOU SPACE TO FILL IN THE NAMES) MASKED GUY LONGHAIRED DUDE ARE FLYING AT INCREDIBLE SPEEDS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. LONGHAIRED DUDE IS HOLDING QUICK MANS HANDS. THEY APPEAR TO BE FLYING TO AN UNSEEN ENEMY. PERHAPS YOU CAN DRAW PART OF A SPACESHIP, THE DIMENSIONS ARE SO LARGE, BUT OUR READERS NEVER SEE THE WHOLE THING. THINK THE OPENING OF SPACEBALLS. I WANT TO SHOW THE SIZE OF THE SHIP WITHOUT GIVING AWAY THE ENTRIE SHIP. CAPTIONS: Top Left side of the panel: “When is...” Continued top Right side of panel: “A team...” Continued at the bottom of page one to page 2 “No longer just a team, but an entity more than its parts, more than itself? When?” PAGE 3 WILL SHOW THE EVOLUTION OF THE “TEAM” STARTING WITH CORE CHARACTER.. PANEL 1 IS A VERTICAL RECTANGLE THAT TAKES UP HALF THE UPPER PAGE. IT IS THE TOP VIEW OF ONE OF SHOCK AND AWE’S HQ’S CONFERENCE ROOM. WE SEE FUTURISTIC EQUPMENT LIKE COMPUTERS AND LARGE SCREENS SIMILAR TO THE CAMPY BATMAN SERIES WITH ADAM WEST OR THE SUPERFRIENDS HALL OF JUSTICE. REMEMBER THAT ONE? IN THE CENTER IS A DIAMOND SHAPE TABLE WITH THE CORE TEAM SITTING AROUND THE TABLE. WE CAN SEE NAME-TAGS ON THE CHAIRS AND A DISTANT VIEW OF TOKEN’S CLEAVAGE. CAPTIONS: Left hand top of panel 1: “Five years.” Bottom of panel “The rosters increase and with the rise of heroes comes the appearance of super villains. PANEL 2 IS A VERTICAL RECTANGLE THAT TAKES UP THE REST OF THE UPPER HALF. IT IS THE SAME SCENE AS PANEL 1, BUT THERE ARE SUPER VILLAINS BURSTING THROUGH THE WALLS. I WAS THINKING OF SOME NAMELESS VILLIANS SIMILAR TO THE GOOFY TYPES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMICS OR EVEN SIMILAR TO VILLAINS FROM THE TICK. I WANT TO SHOW HOW SHOCK AND AWE DEVELOPED FROM MASKED AND CAPE WEARING HEROES AND VILLIANS WITH NO SPECIAL ABILITIES INTO THE HYPER BEINGS OF TODAY. I WANT TO SHOW A SIMPLER TIME. PANEL 3 IS A LONG HORIZONTAL RECTANGLE BELOW PANEL 1 AND PANEL 2, TOKEN GIRL IS FRONT AND CENTER (SHOW MORE CLEAVAGE) HER CAPE BILLOWS OUT LIKE SUPERMANS AND ALL AROUND HER IS FIGHTING. PANEL 4 A HORIZONTAL RECTANGLE THAT TAKES UP THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. ALL FIGHTING, PANORAMA LOOK CAPTION: Bottom of panel: “Does a team act as one after their baptism of fire?” PAGE 4 PANEL 1 A HORIZONTAL RECTANGLE DIVIDED UP INTO 4 QUADRANTS IN EACH QUADRANT IS A FACE AND TITLE OF 4 OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS AS IF POSING FOR A DRIVERS LISCENSE BUT SHOWS THEY ARE MEMBERS OF SHOCK AND AWE FOR SO MANY YEARS, MAYBE THEIR BIRTHDATE AND NATIONALITY, PERHAPS A BRIEF INCOMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THEIR POWERS AND ABILITIES, EG, Q-1 MASKED GUY, Q-2 LONGHAIRED DUDE, Q-3 QUICKMAN Q-4 TOKEN GIRL. CAPTION: in upper right hand corner of panel 1 “Ten years, these guys, these heroes set the bar. The world went superhero crazy.” CAPTION: below panel 1 “And more heroes with actual powers volunteered. Shock and Awe officially recruits...” PANEL 2 ANOTHER HORIZONTAL RECTANGLE, THIS TIME DIVIDED INTO THIRDS, A LISCENSE PICTURE FOR EACH CHARACTER. (SEE PANEL 1), Q-1VIOLET AVENGER, Q-2 MAcMURPHY, Q-3-CAPTION FOR Q-3 “And me...The Quantum.” NOW OUR READERS KNOW WHO THE NARRATOR IS FOR THIS PART OF THE STORY. CAPTION: below panel 2, “What is a team? Is this?” PANEL 3 CONSISTS OF A SQUARE OF WHAT IS LEFT OF PAGE 4. CAPTION: in upper left corner of panel 3 “15 years...” THE ENTIRETY OF SHOCK AND AWE AT 15 YEARS POSING FOR A PICTURE LIKE A SPORTS TEAM. QUANTUM IS TAKING THE PICTURE. CAPTION: on opposing wall is a series of portraits of secondary team members. “..not to mention the other standbys.” PAGE 5 THE WHOLE PAGE IS USED. IN THE CENTER IS EARTH THE WAY IT WOULD LOOK LIKE FROM OUTER SPACE. CAPTION: “Twenty years later and I still don’t know the definition of a team, especially in this world...in this age, where a war declared on terrorism is as intangible as the god we trust and as solid as the greed that rules.” PAGE 5 continued CAPTION“How can there be a team of heroes when lines of battle are no longer clearly defined or even defined at all? The gray saturates black and white and suddenly bloody red is an acceptable loss and even a given” To be Continued… © Daryl Peterson and Lee Gooden 2007 |