QUANTUM Rock of Ages

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QUANTUM: Rock of Ages #1 - Page 18

DreamchildNYC

on Oct. 7, 2006

PAGE FOURTEEN (Five Panels)

Panel 1. A little closer. NICK, still in his pajama bottoms, has discovered to his surprise that he�s no longer in his bedroom, but at the emergency room across town. Behind him, a bedridden patient is frantically pressing a call button and yelling. Another patient not far from him is looking on.

NICK: UUHHH�WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BATHROOM?

PATIENT #1: NURSE! NURSE!!

Panel 2. Another angle. NICK�S attention has turned to the people around him, who are growing more and more anxious at the sudden appearance of this stranger. Another patient is pointing at NICK and yelling something.

PATIENT #2: I SEEN IT, TOO. CAME OUTTA NOWHERE.

PATIENT #2 YOU THINK IT�S THE INVISIBLE MAN?

NICK: –THE FUCK?!

Panel 3. Close shot. NICK has closed his eyes tightly and covered his ears, trying to wish himself out of the E.R.

NICK: OK–

NICK: �THERE�S NO PLACE LIKE HOME�

NICK: �THERE�S NO PLACE LIKE HOME�

NICK: �THERE�S–�

Panel 4. Medium shot. NICK disappears from the E.R , leaving a lot of people dumbfounded. The little boy is staring in awe.

SFX (NICK vanishing):vvvVVip!!

BOY: GOLLY�

Panel 5. Same Angle. NICK rematerializes back in his own bedroom, weary and even more shocked than before. Next to him, we can see the chair with the clothes hanging off of it.

SFX (NICK reappearing):vvvVVIP!!

NICK: “–NO PLACE–“