Unmentionables

Unmentionables

by

David Kirlin


PAGE ONE (four panels)

Panel 1 (small): Close in of blood running off the edge of a sidewalk.

Panel 2 (black & white): Two people fighting. One is a skinny college age man, ALLEN, wearing a sweat jacket. The other is an attractive black woman, LUNA, of equal age, wearing casual clothing. They are in a family room, obviously Allen's from all the geeky junk.

Panel 3: ALLEN is laying on the sidewalk, the blood coming out of the back of his head. He looks as if he fell off his bicycle. He is alive and stirring.

Panel 4 (black & white): LUNA is heading out the door, yelling behind her. ALLEN stands beside a table, looking defeated. There is a newspaper on the table.

Panel 5: ALLEN is sitting up on the sidewalk, on hand clenched to his head. His eyes cringed in pain. There is light from a large building on fire across the street in front of him playing off his body, but their is no other indication of the fire.

Panel 6 (black & white): ALLEN staring down at a newspaper with this headline: “TERRORISTS THREATEN SUPER HEROES” The rest of the paper is not viewable.

PAGE TWO (one panel)

Panel 1 (entire page): ALLEN is looking into a building across the street. It was a cafe with an tables on the sidewalk. The entire building is engulfed in flames and there are people running, walking stunned, and laying around injured. It looks as if a bomb just went off.

ALLEN: Luna...