Dead Things and The Bloody Ground, part 1 - 5 Minutes Alone
Page one
Panel one
Establishing shot of a haunted mansion, from far away. It shouldn’t look run down, just really frightening. It should look like The Winchester House, from the outside, just a gigantic place.
Panel two
These first three panels should all be similar in size, like a triptych. In this panel, we have a closer view of this gigantic house.
Panel three
Finally, we go near one of the windows, where we can see the back of an enormous easy chair.
Panel four
We see our main character, Robot, sitting in his big easy chair in a house that looks like a haunted house, just filled with books, cobwebs, crazy equipment. He has a cup of tea next to him and a pipe in his mouth. He is reading a thick, musty books that says “The Book of Enoch.” Robot is taking notes in a notebook as he reads.
Panel five
Lightning hits outside the window.
Panel six
The lights go out. A black panel, maybe, if you want to make it easy on yourself.
Panel seven
Robot is reading his book in the dark with night vision – maybe a beam out of his eyes.
Page Two
In the middle of the page, a large panel with a reaction shot of Robot getting angry.
Across the top, small panel with a caller ID box with a fake phone number and The Destroyer in the name section.
Multiple panels down each side of the page
Left side – reaction shots of Robot growing more and more aggravated.
Right side – down the other side, multiple shots of the phone ringing louder and louder. The louder the phone rings, the more angry Robot becomes.
A ring should interrupt every other panel to give the viewer the idea that the robot is getting a hundred phone calls in a row.
Last panel on the page
Robot finally stops ignoring the phone calls and answers the phone.
Page Three
Big panel
Heroic, huge Frank Frazetta style shot of Destroyer hand to hand fighting hundreds of bloody, drooling zombies.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Oh, hello. Take your ****ing time, why don’t you…
Small sound effect panel
CLICK (the phone being hung up)
Panel 3
The phone rings again in the robot’s house.
Panel 4
Robot answers.
WORD BALLOON
Robot: I don’t have time for your games tonight. I’m in the midst of…
Page Four
Several panels
Destroyer in action, zombies holding on to him as he crashes through the skylight of a mall, landing in a fountain, all the while talking on the phone.
WORD BALLOONS (broken through as many panels as you’d like to fit of the action)
Destroyer: Look, asshole, I don’t need to know about this month’s selection in Oprah’s book club. I’m a man. That makes this hard for me. I’m asking for help.
Intersperse panels featuring Robot getting angrier, so angry that the dark room he is in is lighting up from the energy in his hands and eyes.
Page Five
Panel one
A zombie bites into Destroyer’s arm.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: You better get ready to save the world, bitch. Arrrrrrgh!
Panel two
Robot on the phone, camera low to show his towering anger.
WORD BALLOON
Robot: Now listen…
Panel three
Destroyer punching a zombie right through the head, as another zombie is gnawing on his other arm.
SFX: THHHHUNNNNK!
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: I have a situation. Pick the phone up next time I call you.
Panel four
Robot staring at the telephone. He’s angry that he’s been bothered and even angrier that he’s been hung up on.
SFX: CLICK!
Panel five
Robot destroys the book he was reading with an energy burst. He’s just too worked up from dealing with this, and you need to really make him look fed up here.
SFX: ZZZZZAP!
Page Six – Seven
Large panel spread across two pages – Destroyer is battling through the mall as zombies hang all over him. Several are eating his fingers and arms. Go nuts drawing some crazy things here…a lot of detail of the mall being attacked, people trying to fight back, zombies eating people. Over the top as you’d like.
4-6 panels across the bottom of the spread – In action shots of Destroyer fighting zombies, including:
Destroyer throwing knives outside a cutlery store, with several of them inside a zombie’s head.
Destroyer smashing a child’s tricycle over a zombie’s head.
Destroyer holding a zombie’s head and punting it like a football into another zombie, with that zombie’s head exploding (this can be multiple panels, if you’d like).
Final panel of this spread should show Destroyer running to a hardware store, like a Home Depot, with both of his arms starting to look really zombified and scabby.
Page Eight
Panel one
A nice, happy shot of a couple getting a demonstration of a table saw in a hardware store.
WORD BALLOON
Clerk: As you can see…
Panel two
Continue the demonstration, but now we can see Destroyer running near them, in the background.
WORD BALLOON
Clerk: You really have to be careful, as this can cut through almost anything.
Panel three
Destroyer shoves the clerk aside.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Excuse me, folks.
Panel four
Destroyer uses the saw to cut his own arms off, spraying blood and gore everywhere. His face is contorted in pain as he forces himself to do this.
SFX: Brrrrrrrrrrrzzzzt!
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Arrrrrrrrrrrhahahhahhahaha!
Panel five
Reaction shot of the customers and clerk, on his hands and knees, covered in blood and gore, screaming. The cut off arms are choking the husband and the clerk.
WORD BALLOON
Crowd (all at once): Arrrrrrrrrrgh!
Page Nine
Left large panel, vertical
Destroyer kicking his zombie arms away, continuing to spray the whole store with blood and guts.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Sorry, these things have a mind of their own, folks.
Right smaller panel one
Destroyer running from the hardware store.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: I'd stay, but I'm kind of having an issue here.
Right smaller panel two
A shot of a sports bar, next to the hardware store in the mall complex.
Right smaller panel three
Destroyer fighting his way in.
Right smaller panel four
Putting his head under the beer taps.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: If you want to live, I need to be as drunk as possible.
Right smaller panel five
Horrified bartender helping. She looks catatonic and out of it.
An arrow leading to 6 time delay panels across the bottom of the page – Each panel has a small stopwatch showing time progressing in 5 second increments. The panels show Destroyer with his back on the bar, mouth open and drinking, with his arms growing back more and more with each panel.
Page Ten
Open panel without borders
A scene of zombies shuffling toward bar.
Panel two
Bloody, drunk, and screaming Destroyer holding buxom girl and protecting her as zombies overwhelm the bar.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Once I can stand up without the help of this here bar, every one of you zombies is gonna die.
Panel three
Destroyer reaches under the bar and finds a shotgun. He's looking at the bartender.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: So, what are you doing Saturday?
Panel four
Reaction shot of the bartender, who looks catatonic. Her name tag says “Sue.”
Panel five
Destroyer blowing a giant hole in a zombie.
SFX: KRAK-BOOOOOOOM!
Panel six
Destroyer shooting another zombie, blowing his head off.
SFX: KRAK-BOOOOM!
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Sue, right?
Page Eleven
Panel one
Destroyer slamming the door to the bar shut.
Panel two
The girl is up against the bar, almost passed out.
Panel three
Destroyer hands her a pen, and holds out his arm.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Sue, when things like this happen, people need people.
Panel four
The girl looks completely devastated and is barely able to grab the pen. The girl stares into space as she writes her number. She looks amazed by what she has just seen and is out of it.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Write your number here and I’ll give you a call, ok?
Panel five
Cut to Robot trying in vain to put out the fire that is consuming his book, all a result of his destructive outburst.
Page Twelve
Panel one
Clock showing time has elapsed.
Panel two
Robot is back in his chair, relaxed, drinking tea.
Panel three
Phone rings again.
Panel four
Robot answers it.
WORD BALLOON
Robot: WHAT? WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT…
Panel five
Destroyer is running down a hill.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: I hope your time of the month is over, pal.
Panel six
We see a small figure of Destroyer right outside the haunted house, with hundreds of zombies chasing him.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: I’ll be there in a minute and I'd appreciate it if you would be in a better mood.
Panel seven
Robot destroys the teacup he is holding by crushing it in his hands.
Panel one
Establishing shot of a haunted mansion, from far away. It shouldn’t look run down, just really frightening. It should look like The Winchester House, from the outside, just a gigantic place.
Panel two
These first three panels should all be similar in size, like a triptych. In this panel, we have a closer view of this gigantic house.
Panel three
Finally, we go near one of the windows, where we can see the back of an enormous easy chair.
Panel four
We see our main character, Robot, sitting in his big easy chair in a house that looks like a haunted house, just filled with books, cobwebs, crazy equipment. He has a cup of tea next to him and a pipe in his mouth. He is reading a thick, musty books that says “The Book of Enoch.” Robot is taking notes in a notebook as he reads.
Panel five
Lightning hits outside the window.
Panel six
The lights go out. A black panel, maybe, if you want to make it easy on yourself.
Panel seven
Robot is reading his book in the dark with night vision – maybe a beam out of his eyes.
Page Two
In the middle of the page, a large panel with a reaction shot of Robot getting angry.
Across the top, small panel with a caller ID box with a fake phone number and The Destroyer in the name section.
Multiple panels down each side of the page
Left side – reaction shots of Robot growing more and more aggravated.
Right side – down the other side, multiple shots of the phone ringing louder and louder. The louder the phone rings, the more angry Robot becomes.
A ring should interrupt every other panel to give the viewer the idea that the robot is getting a hundred phone calls in a row.
Last panel on the page
Robot finally stops ignoring the phone calls and answers the phone.
Page Three
Big panel
Heroic, huge Frank Frazetta style shot of Destroyer hand to hand fighting hundreds of bloody, drooling zombies.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Oh, hello. Take your ****ing time, why don’t you…
Small sound effect panel
CLICK (the phone being hung up)
Panel 3
The phone rings again in the robot’s house.
Panel 4
Robot answers.
WORD BALLOON
Robot: I don’t have time for your games tonight. I’m in the midst of…
Page Four
Several panels
Destroyer in action, zombies holding on to him as he crashes through the skylight of a mall, landing in a fountain, all the while talking on the phone.
WORD BALLOONS (broken through as many panels as you’d like to fit of the action)
Destroyer: Look, asshole, I don’t need to know about this month’s selection in Oprah’s book club. I’m a man. That makes this hard for me. I’m asking for help.
Intersperse panels featuring Robot getting angrier, so angry that the dark room he is in is lighting up from the energy in his hands and eyes.
Page Five
Panel one
A zombie bites into Destroyer’s arm.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: You better get ready to save the world, bitch. Arrrrrrgh!
Panel two
Robot on the phone, camera low to show his towering anger.
WORD BALLOON
Robot: Now listen…
Panel three
Destroyer punching a zombie right through the head, as another zombie is gnawing on his other arm.
SFX: THHHHUNNNNK!
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: I have a situation. Pick the phone up next time I call you.
Panel four
Robot staring at the telephone. He’s angry that he’s been bothered and even angrier that he’s been hung up on.
SFX: CLICK!
Panel five
Robot destroys the book he was reading with an energy burst. He’s just too worked up from dealing with this, and you need to really make him look fed up here.
SFX: ZZZZZAP!
Page Six – Seven
Large panel spread across two pages – Destroyer is battling through the mall as zombies hang all over him. Several are eating his fingers and arms. Go nuts drawing some crazy things here…a lot of detail of the mall being attacked, people trying to fight back, zombies eating people. Over the top as you’d like.
4-6 panels across the bottom of the spread – In action shots of Destroyer fighting zombies, including:
Destroyer throwing knives outside a cutlery store, with several of them inside a zombie’s head.
Destroyer smashing a child’s tricycle over a zombie’s head.
Destroyer holding a zombie’s head and punting it like a football into another zombie, with that zombie’s head exploding (this can be multiple panels, if you’d like).
Final panel of this spread should show Destroyer running to a hardware store, like a Home Depot, with both of his arms starting to look really zombified and scabby.
Page Eight
Panel one
A nice, happy shot of a couple getting a demonstration of a table saw in a hardware store.
WORD BALLOON
Clerk: As you can see…
Panel two
Continue the demonstration, but now we can see Destroyer running near them, in the background.
WORD BALLOON
Clerk: You really have to be careful, as this can cut through almost anything.
Panel three
Destroyer shoves the clerk aside.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Excuse me, folks.
Panel four
Destroyer uses the saw to cut his own arms off, spraying blood and gore everywhere. His face is contorted in pain as he forces himself to do this.
SFX: Brrrrrrrrrrrzzzzt!
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Arrrrrrrrrrrhahahhahhahaha!
Panel five
Reaction shot of the customers and clerk, on his hands and knees, covered in blood and gore, screaming. The cut off arms are choking the husband and the clerk.
WORD BALLOON
Crowd (all at once): Arrrrrrrrrrgh!
Page Nine
Left large panel, vertical
Destroyer kicking his zombie arms away, continuing to spray the whole store with blood and guts.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Sorry, these things have a mind of their own, folks.
Right smaller panel one
Destroyer running from the hardware store.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: I'd stay, but I'm kind of having an issue here.
Right smaller panel two
A shot of a sports bar, next to the hardware store in the mall complex.
Right smaller panel three
Destroyer fighting his way in.
Right smaller panel four
Putting his head under the beer taps.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: If you want to live, I need to be as drunk as possible.
Right smaller panel five
Horrified bartender helping. She looks catatonic and out of it.
An arrow leading to 6 time delay panels across the bottom of the page – Each panel has a small stopwatch showing time progressing in 5 second increments. The panels show Destroyer with his back on the bar, mouth open and drinking, with his arms growing back more and more with each panel.
Page Ten
Open panel without borders
A scene of zombies shuffling toward bar.
Panel two
Bloody, drunk, and screaming Destroyer holding buxom girl and protecting her as zombies overwhelm the bar.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Once I can stand up without the help of this here bar, every one of you zombies is gonna die.
Panel three
Destroyer reaches under the bar and finds a shotgun. He's looking at the bartender.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: So, what are you doing Saturday?
Panel four
Reaction shot of the bartender, who looks catatonic. Her name tag says “Sue.”
Panel five
Destroyer blowing a giant hole in a zombie.
SFX: KRAK-BOOOOOOOM!
Panel six
Destroyer shooting another zombie, blowing his head off.
SFX: KRAK-BOOOOM!
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Sue, right?
Page Eleven
Panel one
Destroyer slamming the door to the bar shut.
Panel two
The girl is up against the bar, almost passed out.
Panel three
Destroyer hands her a pen, and holds out his arm.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Sue, when things like this happen, people need people.
Panel four
The girl looks completely devastated and is barely able to grab the pen. The girl stares into space as she writes her number. She looks amazed by what she has just seen and is out of it.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: Write your number here and I’ll give you a call, ok?
Panel five
Cut to Robot trying in vain to put out the fire that is consuming his book, all a result of his destructive outburst.
Page Twelve
Panel one
Clock showing time has elapsed.
Panel two
Robot is back in his chair, relaxed, drinking tea.
Panel three
Phone rings again.
Panel four
Robot answers it.
WORD BALLOON
Robot: WHAT? WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT…
Panel five
Destroyer is running down a hill.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: I hope your time of the month is over, pal.
Panel six
We see a small figure of Destroyer right outside the haunted house, with hundreds of zombies chasing him.
WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: I’ll be there in a minute and I'd appreciate it if you would be in a better mood.
Panel seven
Robot destroys the teacup he is holding by crushing it in his hands.
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