Teaser Tuesday

Because when am I ever on time for anything?

Because a bunch of my writerly friends are doing this, I’ll pretend that I’m a writer, too, and share some scripty bits from the comic book that I’m working on with Matt Springer.  It’s still needs some reviseration, but I like this beat.

Panel 1: The Lab. Large, half-page panel. View from above, the Angerfish armor laid out on a table, looking like an autopsy patient.  Dr. Garcia, as-ever in his white lab coat, officiates the proceedings.

GARCIA: This is Angerfish.
McFLY (radio): Angerfish is in the hospital.  This is his suit.
GARCIA: Just so, Martin.  His suit.  And it’s amazing.

Panel 2: The Ops Center (OC).  McFly is in front of the giant screen, where Dr. Garcia’s ‘autopsy’ of the powersuit is the main attraction. McFly’s slouched in front of a table, and he’s tinkering with something we can’t see, a soldering iron in one hand.  Trish hovers in the background, watching the screen.

McFLY: It looks ridiculous.  And putting the nuclear power cell in the esca?  That’s stupid.

Panel 3: Back to the Lab, with Dr. Garcia looking up, quizzically.

GARCIA: Esca?
McFLY(radio): The dangly bit.

Panel 4: Back to the OC, McFly now tinkering in the background, Trish stepped up to the foreground.

TRISH: It’s thematic.
AL (OS, radio): It’s obvious he didn’t build this himself.  He thinks he can talk to dolphins.
TRISH, McFLY: He can’t talk to dolphins.

Panel 5: Trish and McFly share a ‘we just said the same thing at the exact same time’ look.