Friday, October 28, 2011

46 & 2 Issue Eight

SUPER ID
46 & 2 Issue 8:
By
Zachary Smith

PAGE 1.  PANEL 1.

Myung is about to leave her house dressed for work, she answers her phone as she is opening the door.

Myung:  “Hello?  Hey Mala.  No…I tried calling last night.  Yeah, I’ll give you a shout when I see…”

PAGE 1.  PANEL 2.

Chino is slouched over in front of Myung’s apartment door, passed out.  She is so startled she is dropping her phone and purse, and screams.

Myung:  “AHHHHHHHHHHH.”

PAGE 1.  PANEL 3.

The phone is on the ground.

Mala (through the phone):  “Are you okay?  MYUNG!  HELLO?!”


PAGE 2.  PANEL 1.

Blicero is in his dark office dealing out cards.  A man is walking in.

Man:  “Sir, I think we’ve located that energy spike.  There have been energy fluctuations throughout the Central Valley of California.  The stronger psychics agree that this is where the energy emission from Coachella ended up.”

Blicero:  “This is good.”

PAGE 2.  PANEL 2.

Blicero turns over a card, it is the Knight of swords.

The Man:  “They say only patient one’s power levels have spiked this high.”

Blicero:  “I was wrong.  This is excellent.  Make sure you are using the dampeners on patient one, her will seems to be getting stronger.”

The Man:  “Yes sir.”

PAGE 2.  PANEL 3.

Blicero has turned over another card, it is the Judgement card.

The Man:  “Sir?”

Blicero:  “Hmmm?”

The Man:  “What would you have us do?”

PAGE 2.  PANEL 4.

Blicero turns over the last card, it the Justice card.

Blicero:  “Send in Narcissca.”


PAGE 3.  PANEL 1.

Fingernails are being manicured on a left hand, female hands apply are using a file to sand down his fingernail.  The fingernails belong to Cassius Narcissca.  The hands are descending from a grey suite with a white button-up shirt.  His phone is ringing.

Narcissca:  “Continue, I’ll use my other hand.”

PAGE 3.  PANEL 2.

A smile creeps across a face with perfect teeth.

Narcissca:  “Hello?  Patrick, you old cuss, how are you my boy?  That sounds delightful.  Uh-huh.  I haven’t used the devil’s handbook in so long, I always just go where I feel.  Yes, yes, lovely food and service.  Uh-huh.  No, I tend to use good ol’ fashioned bar soap and cold water.  Yep.  Get’s the red right out.  Okay.  I’m meeting with your brother Sean in a week or so.  Yes, yes, that wonderful place that you said you couldn’t get into.  I’ll have to let you know how it is.  Give Jean my love, and give little Patrick a hug.  Ta.”

PAGE 3.  PANEL 3.

His right hand is putting the phone away.

Narcissca:  “Back to it.”

PAGE 3.  PANEL 4.

His hand comes to rest on top of some blonde hair.

Narcissca:  “Let’s see how far we can get it down.”


PAGE 4.  PANEL 1.

A young, naked, girl kneels at Narcissca’s lap, she is performing oral sex on him and he is forcing her head down with his right hand.  The woman manicuring his nails continues with her job as if nothing is out of the ordinary.  She is dressed up in a fetish maid suit. 

Narcissca:  “Now, don’t bite, I didn’t take you from that restaurant because I thought you would be savage.  You need to be gentle.  That’s it.”

PAGE 4.  PANEL 2.

The girl repels backwards, falling to the floor.

Narcissca:  “Did we get our fill?”

PAGE 4.  PANEL 3.

The girl is wiping her mouth.  Narcissca looks down at her.

Girl:  “Please…cough…please let me go back.  I was supposed to see my boyfriend two days ago…ahhhhh…”

Narcissca:  “Ah ah, don’t make a mess in here.  Let’s put a plug in that.”

PAGE 4  PANEL 4.

Narcissca comes forward, and all we can see is his backside with some of her the back of her head as he forces himself upon her again.

Narcissca:  “Nice and smooth.  You’ll be ready to join the rest in no time.”

PAGE 4.  PANEL 5.

We pan out from the scene and see the manicurist packing up her supplies, and notice an ankle brace on her left leg, it has a glowing green light.

Manicurist:  “If there is nothing else sir, I’ll return to my quarters.”

Narcissca:  “That’ll be good.  Send in Nia, I think she may need to clean up this mess once I’m don here.”

Manicurist:  “Will do.”

PAGE 4.  PANEL 6.

Behind Narcissca and the exiting Manicurist is a few maids dressed in fetish maid suits, watching idly.  No expression, in perfect alignment.

Narcissca:  “You couldn’t wait to leave when we met.  You forgot all about that boyfriend.  When I saw you, I knew…”

PAGE 4.  PANEL 7.

Show all of their fee in a row. On each left leg is a brace, with a glowing green light.

Narcissca:  “…I must make you mine.”


PAGE 5.  PANEL 1.

Another phone call is being answered by Narcissca as he is peeing in the toilet.

Narcissca:  “Boy, am I popular.  Hello?  Yes.  I understand.  He needs me to go when?  Okay.”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 2.

Narcissca finishes his call.  He is looking down at the toilet.  He continues to pee.

Narcissca:  “I thought that girl drained everything out.”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 3.

Narcissca is at the airport.  He is talking to an attractive attendant.

Attendant:  “I.D.?  Thank you.  Here you are--Cassius Narcissca.  Here’s your ticket.  Your gate is 72.”

Narcissca:  “Boy, this flight isn’t for two hours.  What can I do till then?”

Attendant:  “We have a bar near your terminal.”

Narcissca:  “You should join me.”

Attendant:  “Sir, I’m working.”

Narcissca:  “You should join me.”

PAGE 5.  PANEL 4.

The attendant looks at Narcissca, almost like she is seeing him for the first time.

Attendant:  “Okay.”


PAGE 6.  PANEL 1.

Narcissca sits on a plane, in first class.  He is receiving a drink from the flight attendant.

Flight Attendant:  “I’ll be by again to check on you.”

Narcissca:  “Thank you dear.”

Caption:  “…flight from New York to Los Angeles is will be departing soon.”

Narcissca:  “What will I do till we leave?”

PAGE 6.  PANEL 2.

A plane bathroom door.  It reads that it is occupied. 

PAGE 6.  PANEL 3.

Narcissca is leaving the bathroom, we only see him from the waist down.  In the background is the flight attendant, mascara running down her eyes, her neckerchief is tied tightly around her neck, she looks at Narcissca as he is walking away.

Narcissca:  “Hope that was good for you.”

Flight Attendant:  “Mmm.”

PAGE 6.  PANEL 4.

Narcissca is smoking on the plane.  A different flight attendant has come by to talk to him.

Flight Attendant 2:  “I gave the captain your message.  He said its fine.”

Narcissca:  “Thanks you dear.  Have a seat.”

PAGE 6.  PANEL 5.

Narcissca puts out his cigarette in cup.  The flight attendants head is in his lap.

Narcissca:  “Almost there.  Hope I get to finish this Mad Men episode.  It is delightful.”

Flight Attendant 2:  “Mmmm…”


PAGE 7.  PANEL 1.

Chino leans against the couch, knees held up against his chest.  Myung is sitting next to him, putting a coffee cup down on the table in front of the couch.  Myung has a cup in her hand as well.  She is dressed for work. 

Myung:  “Baby...Hey, are you okay?  Your arm is a mess.  Do I need to take you to the hospital?” 

Chino:  “No, just…let me stay here for a while.”

PAGE 7.  PANEL 2.

Myung is pulling Chino’s arm to her.  She is unwrapping the bandage.

Myung:  “How did this happen?”

Chino:  “…”

Myung:  “Please, just tell me.”

Myung:  “Look, Chi told me about what you used to do when you were upset.  I know already.  Just please tell me that you’re feeling now, okay?”

PAGE 7.  PANEL 3.

Chino runs his hand through his hair.

Chino:  “Something happened while we were in Coachella.”

Myung:  “I know, after you came out of the hospital you’ve been different.  I think that head trip was a lot worse that you’ve been letting on.”

Chino:  “You have no idea.  Things have been messed up in my head, and I can’t think straight.  It’s like I keep going into these…states…and it’s like distant dreams and memories.”

PAGE 7.  PANEL 4.

Myung has finished unwrapping the bandage and is looking over it.

Myung:  “Do you remember doing this?”

Chino has pulled his arm against himself.  He looks away from Myung as she continues to look at him.

Myung:  “Fei?”

PAGE 7.  PANEL 5.

Repeat the same panel.

PAGE 7.  PANEL 6.

Myung has moved closer to Chino.

Chino:  “I’m so fucked up.  You don’t even know.  All this shit that I just can’t control.  I need to be able to stop myself, but I can’t.  I just drink, smoke, get high, and do whatever I want.  It needs to stop.  People could get hurt.”


PAGE 8.  PANEL 1.

A panel of the security guard burning in flame in his car.

Chino (caption):  “Innocent people.”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 2.

A panel of the dude bros from the last issue, hauling away their injured friend.

Chino (caption):  “People caught up in my wake.”

Myung (caption):  “Fei…”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 3.

A panel of Myung trapped by an invisible wall, glowing eyes behind her.  The burning man in front of her.

Chino (caption): “People that I…”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 4.

Myung is running her fingers through his hair.

Myung:  “Stop.  You’re not hurting anybody.  Those guys in the truck didn’t get hurt, and they were being assholes anyway.”

PAGE 8.  PANEL 5.

Chino looks at Myung.  The door is opening as Chino is talking.

Chino:  “I’m not talking about them, I’m talking about…”


PAGE 9.  PANEL 1.

A man with a hat is driving Narcissca around.

Man:  “…and that is the objective, sir.”

Narcissca:  “I wish they would have sent somebody more…feminine.”

Man:  “Sorry sir, but I’m one of the only soldier to have been given a partial brain transplant to house the brain of one of the test subjects.”

Narcissca:  “How very boring.  I’m going to smoke.  Maybe there is a bar we can stop at.”

Man:  “Sir, it is 8:00 A.M., plus we are getting…”

PAGE 9.  PANEL 2.

Narcissca is holding a gun to the head of the man with hat.

Narcissca:  “I do believe I asked nicely.  Please do not stand in the way of what I want to do, unless you want to lose that new precious brain of yours.”

Man:  “No…no sir.”

Narcissca:  “Great...”

PAGE 9.  PANEL 3.

Narcissca has put his gun away, he leans back and his hands are behind his head in a relaxed position.

Narcissca:  “I knew you’d see it my way.  Let’s find a young, hip place.”

PAGE 9.  PANEL 4.

Narcissca is leaning in to the car window and talking to the man in the hat.  In the background we notice Mala on her cell phone, walking out of a coffee shop with a to-go cup of coffee.

Narcissca:  “Wait here.  Let’s see how this place turns out.”

PAGE 9.  PANEL 5.

Narcissca is looking around outside the bar and notices Mala.

Narcissca:  “Scratch that, I’m in the mood for Mexican.”


PAGE 10.  PANEL 1.

Mala is talking into her cell phone as Narcissca is approaching her.

Mala: “Are you okay?  MYUNG!  HELLO?!”

Narcissca:  “Cell phone service is always to terrible.  We really need to come up with a better network.”

Mala:  “Huh?  Yeah, whatever.”

Narcissca:  “Maybe I can be of assistance?”

PAGE 10.  PANEL 2.

Mala is putting her phone away, she is guarded, wearing a cautious look upon her face.

Mala:  “No, I’m cool.”

Narcissca:  “You misunderstand miss, I really want to help you.  I think you need my help right now.”

Mala:  “Well…no, no.  I’ll be okay.”

PAGE 10.  PANEL 3.

Mala is holding her head.  Narcissca is grabbing onto her arm.

Narcissca:  “Come.  We must get you somewhere more comfortable, and into something a little more…feminine.”

Mala:  “No, get off of me.”

Narcissca:  “Don’t struggle miss.  You will only make it harder on yourself.”

PAGE 10.  PANEL 4.

Mala is throwing her coffee cup into Narcissca’s face.  Narcissca screams in pain.

Mala:  “FUCK YOU.  GET OFF OF ME.”

Narcissca:  “AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!”

PAGE 10.  PANEL 5.

Mala is running, she passes the man in the car with the hat.

Mala:  “PERV!”


PAGE 11.  PANEL 1.

The man in the hat has run up to Narcissca, Narcissca is covering his face.

Man:  “Sir, we must follow that girl, she is somehow linked to—“

Narcissca:  “FUCK FOLLOWING HER.”

PAGE 11.  PANEL 2.

Narcissca is cocking his gun.

Narcissca:  “…WE’RE GOING TO FIND THAT CUNT AND I’M GOING TO SHOW HER…”

PAGE 11.  PANEL 3.

The man with the hat looks away as Narcissca looks at him, we only see the back of Narcissca head.  It hasn’t been revealed to us yet.

Narcissca:  “THAT WHEN I WANT SOMETHING…”

PAGE 11.  PANEL 3.

Narcissca has uncovered his face.  It is badly burned from the coffee.

Narcissca:  “…NOTHING STANDS IN THE WAY.”


PAGE 12.  PANEL 1.

The burning man is driving in a van down a city street in an big urban area.  He is exiting Chicago.  There is sign indicating that he is taking a highway west (I’ll found out which highway soon).

The Burning Man:  “Wait.”

PAGE 12.  PANEL 2.

The burning man has pulled to the side of the road in his van.  He is getting out of the front door.

PAGE 12.  PANEL 3.

The burning man is opening the back of the van.  All we can see is his back to us.

PAGE 12.  PANEL 4.

He has placed a tarp on the ground, and now he is dropping duffle bags on it from inside of the van onto the road side.

PAGE 12.  PANEL 5.

He is driving away.  The duffle bags are in the foreground.

PAGE 12.  PANEL 6.

We get closer to the duffle bag and realize that they are very lumpy and that they are leaking.


PAGE 13.  PANEL 1.

Chino is talking to Myung on the couch as the door is being knocked on.

Chino:  “…Talking about…”

Mala (off panel/from behind door):  “LET ME IN!”

Myung:  “Mala?”

PAGE 13.  PANEL 2.

Mala has hurried into the apartment, she is standing over Chino.  Myung is shutting the door.

Chino:  “What happened?”

Mala:  “This guy tried to grab me as I was having my coffee.  I was headed over here anyway because I heard you scream.  Was it because of him?  Where the hell were you?  Abe’s walking around like he’s a kid again, and you’re nowhere to be found.  What’s up?”

Chino:  “Um…”

Myung:  “Mala, give him a break.”

PAGE 13.  PANEL 3.

Mala takes a seat on the table, as Myung sits down.  Chino has covered his arm.

Mala:  “Come on cuz, what’s up?”

Chino:  “Nothing, I just had some thinking to do.  I need to reconsider what I’m really doing with myself.  Look how quickly a life could end.  Abe could have been crippled, or even dead.  Shit, that was almost me a few days ago, all because I wanted to get messed up at a concert.  We need to be smarter, more responsible.”

Myung:  “I agree, but I think you’re taking this really hard, more than you need to.”

PAGE 13.  PANEL 4.

Chino has gotten up, and is walking to the hallway.

Chino:  “No!  Not hard enough.  I’ve been awful and I need to control myself.”

PAGE 13.  PANEL 5.

Chino has left the room, Mala looks at the couch with the bandage on it.

Mala:  “Damn.  He’s started doing it again.”

Myung:  “Oh!  Yeah, I think he’s just trying to process so much that it’s overloading him.”

Mala:  “That, or he’s feeling bad about something.”

Myung:  “What do you mean?”

Mala:  “Nothing.”


PAGE 14.  PANEL 1.

Chino is putting a band-aid on his left arm.

Chino:  “Gotta control it.  Can’t let it out.  Nothing is getting past me.” 

PAGE 14.  PANEL 2.

Chino is now looking at himself in the mirror.  As he does this items behind him begin to become disturbed, almost like a magnet is pulling them up.

Chino:  “Keep control.  Contain.  Hold it in.  You can’t lose control again.  No—“

PAGE 14.  PANEL 3.

The toothbrush is falling towards the ground.  Chino is looking at it as it falls.

Chino:  “--more accidents.”

PAGE 14.  PANEL 4.

Chino has stopped the toothbrushes fall, he is looking down at it.  Behind him are other items floating.  In the mirror is the faint image of Man in the White suit, Wikki, and Mythos.

Chino:  “…”

Man in the White suit:  “The Final…”

Mythos:  “…Puzzle piece...”

Wikki:  “…in place.”

PAGE 15.  PANEL 1.

Mala is having a drink of water, Myung is drinking her tea.  Chino is coming into the room from the bathroom.  He has covered his arm with a band-aid.

Mala:  “Feel better cuz.”

Chino:  “Yeah, Myung, do you think…”

Myung:  “Coffee coming right up.”

Chino:  “How did you know?”

Myung:  “I don’t know…I just had a feeling that you really wanted coffee.”

PAGE 15.  PANEL 2.

Mala is talking to Chino, who has taken Myung’s seat.

Mala:  “When this guy was trying to grab me I had this feeling for second that I wanted to go with him.  Like I knew that’s what he wanted me to do and I had to do it.”

Chino:  “That is weird.”

Mala:  “He was somehow forcing me.  There was this thought pushing on my mind that I had to fight or else it would break—“

PAGE 15.  PANEL 3.

An older model (1950’s) car comes crashing through the wall of Myung’s apartment.

PAGE 15.  PANEL 4.

Myung and Mala have hit the ground in panic.  Chino is not in the panel.  It is kind of dusty, so it’s hard for them to see each other.

Mala:  “YOU OK?”

Myung:  “YEAH.  THE HELL WAS THAT?  CHINO?  CHINO, YOU OK?”


PAGE 16.  SPLASH PAGE.

Chino is standing in the dust.  Pieces of glass are floating in front of Chino, his hand extended, like Neo in the Matrix when he is stopping bullets.  The car doors are opening as Chino stands there.

Chino:  “I’m fine.”


PAGE 17.  PANEL 1.

Narcissca has exited the car, as well as the man in the hat.

The man in the hat:  “This is our target sir.  The girl was connected to him like I thought.”

Narcissca:  “I want the girl.  If this fucker is standing in my way then he’s dead.”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 2.

Narcissca fires two shots at Chino.  The glass is still held in front of Chino.  Mala is crawling away.

Man in the hat:  “NO!”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 3.

Chino has stopped the bullets in front of him.  The glass is still being held up.

Man in the hat:  “Amazing.”

Narcissca:  “Hmmmm…I want that.”

Chino:  “I want you to put down the gun.”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 4.

Narcissca throws the gun away, Chino has lost control of the glass and bullet and they are falling to the ground.

Narcissca:  “How…”

Chino:  “No…”

PAGE 17.  PANEL 5.

Narcissca punches Chino.

Narcissca:  “Can’t block this.”


PAGE 18.  PANEL 1.

Narcissca is kicking Chino while he is on the ground.

Man in the hat:  “Sir, we need him.”

Narcissca:  “This won’t kill him.  You’ll still have plenty left.”

PAGE 18.  PANEL 2.

The man in the hat is checking on Chino.

Man in the hat:  “This is definitely him.  Did you see his level of telekinesis?  How were you able to get him to drop it?”

Narcissca:  “I wanted him to.  Remember soldier, I always get what I want.  Speaking of which…”

PAGE 18.  PANEL 3.

Mala is helping Myung up off the ground.  Narcissca’s arm coming down to grab Mala.

Mala:  “We need to get out of here before…”

Narcissca (nearly off panel):  “Before what dear?”

PAGE 18.  PANEL 4.

Narcissca is pulling Mala towards him, his hands are pulling and pinning her arms against her.

Narcissca:  “Don’t you want to stay?”


PAGE 19.  SPLASH PAGE.

A big shot of his burnt face from Mala’s perspective, skin peeling, sinister grin and mad eyes that are determined to make Mala his slave.

Narcissca:  “Give me a kiss.”


PAGE 20.  PANEL 1.

Chino lies on floor, somewhat conscious.  We see him from above the man in the hat leaning over him.

Man in the hat:  “Power levels of your size…it’s just amazing.  We’ll be unstoppable now.”

PAGE 20.  PANEL 2.

We see Chino’s face, tighter shot, not from above.  The man in the hat only has his hand in the panel, with the hat in the hand.  Chino is looking up at the man.

Man in the hat (somewhat off panel):  “Blicero is going to have you cut open and examined, and shoved into different soldiers.  I’m jealous of whoever gets your brain.”

PAGE 20.  PANEL 3.

We see the man in the hats full face and scarring on his head.  Make it look pretty awful.

Man in the hat:  “They had to test five different brains until they could find one subservient enough for me.  Five times cutting open and stitching.  I hope you’re less trouble.”

PAGE 20.  PANEL 4.

Chino is closing his eyes, he is concentrating very hard.

Chino:  “Help…help…help”

THE END