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Meaning Of Life

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Eddy and I have started to write a comic book in the noir style of Frank Miller / Sin City. It has been very fun to write. We’re also creating noir style artwork to go along with the text. The final result will be a full length comic, with panels, pictures and text. The following is a small portion of the entire comic called “Meaning of Life”, taken from act 1 (“Rendezvous with Lady Death”). The main characters are (surprise, surprise!) Eddy and myself.

Enjoy! All comments and suggestions welcomed!

(Note, this is not the final version, so there may be some mistakes. It is not polished yet. Also, here are the meanings to the abbreviations used:

S.B. = Speaker Box --basically what the character(s) is thinking
D.B. = Dialogue Box --what the character(s) is saying
S.E. = Sound Effect )




Scene 20: < close up of Nada’s straight face and the lightening sword
S.B.: My eyes were not to trust what I saw peeling out of the dark. Prowling like a cat the innocent lust incarnate seek feasting prey in her honey-hazel stare. Blades sharp her mind. The silhouette of a goddess, the perfect assassin, the came true dream.

Scene 21: < eddy’s wide open eyes close up
No SBs or DBs

Scene 22: < again Nada’s face in close up, this time smiling
SB: And closer she walked towards me, her beauty converted my skin into orange peel. I swallowed hard, trying to focus my senses to stay serious, but with every more step she prowled towards me, the more my instincts begged to taste her angelic sweat.
SB: She stepped in front of me, raised her long sword like an enlargement of her desperate gaze. The sounds faded into the trail she took, like her shivering black hair became the night sky. With every breath she took, her chest rose and dropped tastefully with the bat of her eyelashes. The predator purred…
D.B: Looking alone handsome. Don’t we all search company in such a lonely night? What are your circumstances?
S.E: PURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
S.B.: A question I asked myself all my life already…

Scene 22: < close up of the shaking hand which carries the gun
S.B: What does she mean…
D.B.: PARDON?

Scene 24: < side perspective how Nada stands 5.5 feet away of Eddy and pushes her blade against his throat with an angry face.
D.B.: Hard of hearing? His ass was mine I said!!!

Scene 25: < front perspective of eddy, blade still pointing on his throat, questioning expression
S.B.: My mind confuses me; it was one of those moments where the silly sitcom figure got blamed for mischief.
D.B: NO, YOU KILLED HIM!!!! I’M A COP!!!!

Scene 26: <close up of Nada’s face how she licks over her teeth
S.B.: Men are calculable toys. There is a button for each emotion, activated by certain movements women make.
D.B.: For a cop you hold that gun not really tight how it should be held.

Scene 27: < Police cars driving down the street, perspective from the ground straight 45 degrees up.
S.E.: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE

Scene 28: < Eddy turns his head back, perspective from below, in the background you see how Nada turns around too and is about to run
S.B.: People consider the first time as the most hurtful, since its short and threatening.
D.B: Just right in time, fuckers
D.B: Au revoirrrrrrrrr *purrrr*
S.E: *purrrrrrr* Fading…

Scene 29: < Eddy turns around and stares into the deep black of the empty alley, head to toe. Police car stops in the background.
S.B.: Cavalry arrived
D.B: TOSS YOUR GUN SLOWLY AWAY AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM
S.B.: Sometimes eyes don’t catch what they should see. Seeing is simply not believing.

Scene 30: < Eddy holds his arms towards the cops, calming them down.
D.B.: Guys, calm down, I am one of yours, I am detective Basit. I show you my badge.
S.B.: Awkward, nearly theatrical turns a man, convincing the truth.
D.B.: SHUT UP

Scene 31: < Eddy with a shocked face, close up staring down his jacket pocket
S.B.: Problem is only, when you don’t have a truth to explain.
D.B.: FUCK
D.B.: DON`T MOVE

Scene 32: < Eddy’s back with hands clasped behind his head as another cop checks him out
S.B.: The pat down. Gotta hate that. Patting down a cop, if only they knew the truth. Then again, what IS the truth? If only we knew. But they’ll find my badge…
DB: What’s this? A cop gone bad eh?
DB: I told you, I’m one of you… I didn’t…
DB: SCILENCE!

Scene 33: < Eddy again on the quiet streets, ruffled up look with a far-off contemplative look in his eyes
S.B.: The trip uptown was not pretty. The fools had the nerve to accuse me. But they did not know the truth. The elusive truth. Truth. I would like to know the truth about her
S.B.: Never had I felt that way. My senses held at the mercy of another. A feline prowler. My heart betrays me, beating faster in my giddy chest. The truth…
D.B.: I wonder…

Scene 44: < Eddy walking down an alley way
S.B.: Who was the poor soul who had met such a sudden and painful death? What had he done? Why did that feline prowler accuse ME of killing him? What vicious plot is unravelling before my eyes. I wonder… FUCK wonder! My soul seeks after the truth! Elusive as it is…
S.B.: Where to begin, in this sorry city of Sin, a veritable Las Vegas, with crime as varied as the bright lights shining into the night…
D.B.: Where to begin?

Scene 45: < Shot of paper floating down towards Eddy’s feet, and shadow of figure leaping away overhead
S.B.: What’s this? Will the rain of mysteries ever cease? How trite. More rubbish falling in this dirty city. Oh but wait. Ironic. Is this a note scratched into this paper… this fish and chips wrapper!
S.B.: Very feline… Oh how the shivers overcome me now as I shake reading in eagerness the even shakier scrawl…
D.B.: “Detective, nice to have made your acquaintance. It is not often that two souls collide on a blustery cold night and sparks of interest and streamers of questions hungering for answers explode. Meet me tonight under the guttering lamps of Harrows Street, tucked behind The Cats Cradle. Au Revoirrrrrr …” At last…come to me you elusive truth!


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BaronMofo's avatar
lol nice idea but it looks like you just took a nice picture of yourself and decided to apply it to a comic :-) wheres the action?!?!?