What follows is a script I've been working off/on. Primarily I started it as a potential comic to maybe commission =temiel one day. But the main idea of it was to write a script for a comic I wouldn't be drawing. Here is a roughish draft of the first five pages, for your perusal.

Because I like to share.

Giant Comic Script

Plot Outline: A Mother-to-Be struggles to find safety in a world that has been ravaged by the Giants of Old, who have awakened to take vengeance on Humanity.

A Mother-to-be is traveling in a post-apocalyptic world. She is confronted by various gigantic objects and things throughout a small town. At the last bit, she finds signs of other Survivors.
9 page comic?

Theme Overview
This tale is set in the Dakotas/Montana region of the Great Plains, in the summer. Mankind has been ravaged and nearly wiped out by the return of Giants. The old kind, like the ones the Norse and the Bible warned us about. The Nephillim, the Jotun, the Gigantes, the Daityas, etc. Along with them come a nasty ecology of gigantic animals, bred by the giants as servants. This story won't explain how or why, but they are here and they now rule the planet. Man is endangered species.

Our main character has been traveling by herself for over a month. She is probably 25, 26 weeks pregnant. All she knows is that rumors have spoken of some hidden mountain communities in Montana. She hopes to make it in one piece, to have her baby. She also hopes that she isn't the last of her species.

Think of this as a alternate future, a sort of Forbidden Time Yet To Come. Or something. Maybe I'll come up with a better name. Forbidden Future?


PAGE ONE
A Mother-to-be wanders alone on a blasted highway in the hot summer of the Dakotas.

PANEL ONE
Description: From far-away, one can see the tiny figure of a woman walking down the highway, walking stick in one hand. The landscape around her is blasted and ruined, burning hot in the summer heat from the sun above. She carries a single satchel, and she clearly looks pregnant, toward the middle of her term.

NARRATING JOURNAL
Day 45.

PANEL TWO
Description: A front view of her walking past a ruined sports car. She wears ragged clothing, her walking stick revealed to be a piece of thin, aluminum pipe; it has been burnt black. Her hair is red and covered by a veil that helps keep the sun out of her eyes. She looks tired and worried.

MOTHER-TO-BE
This is getting harder.

PANEL THREE
Description: She looks upward at something off panel.

PANEL FOUR
Description: A battered, ruined green road sign: Sentinel Butte 5 miles, Glendive 27 miles, Miles City 74 miles

NARRATING JOURNAL
I'm getting closer to Montana.

PANEL FIVE
Description: She grits her teeth and moves onward...

NARRATING JOURNAL
I hope to find some people who haven't died.


PAGE TWO
She sets up camp outside of the ruins of a small town.

PANEL ONE
Description: It is night on the prairie. A rusty sign sits in the foreground. Some distance away we can see a camp fire going, with our mother-to-be sitting next to it cooking something on a stick. Farther away, one can see the moon in the sky, rising above the ruins of a small town much further away.

NARRATING JOURNAL
I'm closing in on Sentinel Butte.

PANEL TWO
Description: Focus on the moon in a smaller panel. The face of the Moon is different, streaked with lines and webs as if made by some giant lunar spider.

PANEL THREE
Description: The Mother-to-be gazes up to the moon, the fire crackling beside her.

PANEL FOUR
Description: She closes her eyes.

PANEL FIVE
Description: She puts one hand gently on her belly.

MOTHER-TO-BE
This place feels sad.

PANEL SIX
Description: Her eyes suddenly snap open in fear.

GIANT WOLF (unseen)
Grrr...

PAGE THREE
Massive wolves surround her and her small camp.

PANEL ONE
Description: This should be the largest panel on the page. A pack of three giant wolves stare down at our Mother-to-be. Each of these wolves are the size of elephants with glowing...

Body.

In Nevenian Alchemy and Enchantment, the greek letter Lambda, λ, is used to represent the Body element.
Often called the 7th Element, the element of Body pertains to all forms of flesh, bone, wood or shell. It represents the organic component of life that walks in the physical and mortal realms, but lacks a presence in the Astral or Spirit realms. It is one of the three 'living' elements, along with the elements of Mind and Soul.
Magi of the Druia and Tao-weh schools use it as the focus of their magicks. Perhaps the most powerful practitioners are the theriomorphs, who use Body in connection with the element of Soul and the Might Force to change their shape and form. Theriomorphs range from the werebeasts of Europe to the skinwalkers of North America.
The Force of Death cancels and counters almost all Body magicks, while the force of Might can reinforce it with ease. The sign of Jupiter Saturn is the its astrological correspondence.
Spirits, Kami and most Jinn fear the Element of Body, for they have no means to counter it or its form of spells.

Those who serve the House of Draco, in service of the Order of the Neven, use the Element of Body in all their magick. Their symbol and common name is the Dragon.

*****

So, I've got nothing important to report. Nothin serious, nothin' silly.

I am getting a little mystical in my thinking, but I think thats a purview of being a storyteller and artist. A shaman of the modern world.

Ahem.

I better get back to drawing and writing I suppose.

Whats up with you?