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Angle on the interior of a busy hallway in Railway City's (all male) East Side School for Young Adults ...A window at the end of the hall shows some typical city buildings
CAPTION: The life of a high schooler is a busy one. And what's important to one isn't
important to another... CAPTION 2: Take the guy in the blue shirt: just got himself a chance to do more than
warm the bench in the next game. The guy in the hooded sweatshirt could care less... CAPTION 3: ...just found out his third grade teacher is marrying his best
friend's mom -- which just...feels...
NOTE TO ARTIST:
somewhere in the hall there can be a display of trophies or some kind of typical high school poster for a meeting or dance -- you know, someway of indicating the name of the school w/out an exterior shot
NOTE TO ARTIST:
we are no more than two flights up [and smack in the middle of Railway], as the school isn't all that big...so the buildings need to reflect this placement.
CAPTION 3: The goofball in the hat? He's thinking about The MacMay Arts School for Girls, to which he's dying to transfer (and never will)...
CAPTION 4: But they're all in the same boat: it's about two months into the school year -- quizzes have past, the first big test is upon them!
CAPTION 5: And then there's the hero of this book, whose mind is working on a different sort of problem...
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PAGE 2 PANEL ONE: good shot of Phantom Kid sitting on a gargoyle. His legs are hanging on either side of the stone creature -- he looks like a little kid. Train tracks twist around above him and in the background. Phantom Kid (thought): ...This is waycool, and I-- TWO: Closer on The Kid PK (thought): Holy geez! The time! |
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NOTE: Let's say it's a little after 8am
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PK (thought)2: I've got that European history test at nine-thirty!... PK (thought)3: ...and I really don't know how the heck to get down! |
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THREE:
PK (thought): Maybe I'll just put off this whole test issue until either The Avenue Avenger or The Conductor crossover on one of the tracks above and save me.
FOUR:
PK (thought): Oooor, duh, I can try and get onto one of the tracks above...
PAGE 3
PANEL ONE:
PK has tossed a line to the track, and it's caught it good...
PK: All righty then...
PANEL TWO:
Reg has stood up, carefully holding the line.
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Knees bent, he's ready to make the jump...
PK: Here we go!...
PANEL THREE:
His foot slips...
SFX: Sslip!
FOUR:
PK has swung towards the track, but with no momentum, doesn't get far enough to grab another building or the track for that matter...
PK: AAAAHHHWWWWHAT THE--
FIVE:
Dangling from the track...
PK (thought): I gotta start practicing this stuff!
CAPTION: Okay, so now he's got two problems...And he' not the only one...
PAGE 4
PANEL ONE:
Exterior shot of East Side School for Young Adults -- Dormitory A.
CAPTION: Reg Reynolds's friend and confident confidant Crain Crandall, the only Railway citizen to know the secret I.D. of PK, has a problem of his own...
TWO:
Crain's standing at the front desk of the dorm, behind which a student sits, sign-in book in front of him. He's studying a philosophy book. We'll call this kid Emmanuel.
Somewhere nearby are mailboxes, accessible to the students with their individual keys.
CRAIN: 'Right. Hey.
EMM: Yo.
CRAIN: You've a package for me back there.
EMM: Don't think so.
THREE:
CRAIN: Well, thing is, I have this slip--
EMM: I'm sure you do, but that doesn't mean your package is here.
CRAIN: Umm...
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FOUR: EMM: For all you know your package is merely a part of a dream someone's having -- and you may be part of that same dream! CRAIN (holding a small sheet of yellow paper): Yeah, but...uh, I've got a slip. FIVE: EMM: Ah. But maybe, now pay attention, just maybe that slip isn't there. CRAIN: (Geez.) No. No, it's not! It's here!... SIX: CRAIN: ...In my clenched fist! Now would it be possible for you to fetch my package! |
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SEVEN:
EMM: No can do, man. The mail guy was new. Didn't leave any packages here.
CRAIN: *whimper*
EIGHT:
EMM: Okay, okay...Here. An off-campus slip. You've got "official permission" to get your package.
CRAIN: Thanks!...Hey...
NINE:
CRAIN: Is the desk clerk always allowed to give these out?
EMM: Only when something's gone horribly awry!
CRAIN: Has it?
EMM: Oh, it will!
PAGE 5
PANEL ONE:
CAPTION: Elsewhere in the dormitory...
In the hallway, we see a foot kicking some nerdy kid in the butt...
NERD: Ow! Hey!
TWO: We can see now that the foot belongs to Gordo. He's on the hallway payphone.
GORDO: Are you a freakin' idiot, Parker?...I told you quiet the heck down, I'm on the freakin' phone!
PARKER: Well just "freakin'" relax!
THREE: Another guy, just down the hall a bit, holding a lacross stick, is yelling to Gordo...
GORDO (to Parker): Why don't you f--
LACROSS GUY: Gordo, man! Take it down a notch will ya'?...The geek didn't mean it!
FOUR:
GORDO: Yeah, yeah...
FROM PHONE: Gordon? Gordon! Pay attention! Will you hold it a second with the friends?!
FIVE:
Gordo into phone...
GORDO: Sorry, Grand Pops, some kid was makin' noise.
GRAND POPS (from phone): Whatever, kiddo, I really can't be bothered what with your father. And you know Buba Claire isn't handling this at all well.
SIX:
GORDO: Yeah. Hey, sorry Grand--
GRAND POPS (from phone): Gordon, buckle up and stop being a sap.
GRAND POPS (from phone) 2: Be outside the school in...twenty minutes.
GORDO: Sure, and should--
SFX: click!!
PANEL SEVEN:
Smaller panel of a sad Gordo.
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