Panel 1. Splash page, Steinner’s POV, as she holds up a perfect sphere of QUANTUM SILICA. Suffice it to say the stone’s a swirl of blues and greens (which is moot if we do black and white, just make it look cool and distinguishable). The sphere, in this panel, is a metaphor for the world, as it’s being described by the captions, and is being held in a woman’s hand. It has alien symbols engraved into it; a few characters, placed proportionately around the sphere, that aren’t any kind of language we’d recognize. From Steinner’s POV we also begin to see the time lab as her surroundings, and somewhere there is a digital time display of a one-minute countdown. “-00:01:00.â€Â
CAPTION: IMAGINE A WORLD
CAPTION: FOR NOW, WE’LL CALL IT EARTH.
CAPTION: THIS EARTH, HOWEVER, IS A TWIN TO THE PLACE WE CALL HOME. THOUGH VERY SIMILAR, THE COIN-TOSS THAT IS HISTORY FOR THIS PLANET SIMPLY LANDED ON A DIFFERENT SIDE.
CAPTION: NOW, IMAGINE THIS WORLD…
CAPTION: …WHERE THE SECOND WORLD WAR WAS WON BY NAZI GERMANY. A TRIUMPHANT ADOLF HITLER HAD A SON, WHO EVENTUALLY BECAME HEIR TO THE FEURHER’S LEGACY. A WORLD WHERE DARK SCIENCE HAS THRIVED, AND THE NEW FEURHER SEEKS TO USE IT AS A MEANS TO ALTER HISTORY ITSELF.
CAPTION: FOR NOT JUST THIS EARTH, BUT ITS SIBLINGS AS WELL.
CAPTION: PRESENTLY, FREDERICH STOLTZ, ONE OF THE REICH’S LEADING SCIENTISTS, HAS MADE AN AWESOME DISCOVERY.
STEINNER (OP): *
CAPTION: ONE MINUTE AGO.
CAPTION: *TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
BOTTOM OF PAGE: TITLE AND CREDITS BOX. LEAVE ROOM ALSO FOR INDICIA.
QUANTUM: Rock of Ages – Book One “Time and Tide…†Philip Clark – Writer Ozzy Cruz Longoria– Artist
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