PAGE TWO (Five Panels). Page Summary: Establish BILLY’S TIMELINE (post-apocalyptic), and introduce BILLY’S character a bit, as he gives us his take on sloth.
Panel 1. Wide Shot. Billy barks at a passerby (presumably the person who was looking down on him on Page One). We get the next pages to establish BILLY’S timeline, which is post-apocalyptic. It’s about 25 years after WWIII, when the USA and the USSR bombed each other after escalating global tensions. BILLY lives in a smaller city, but he’s surrounded by the depressed state of the world around him (buildings have been looted, businesses closed down. Even the areas not hit by direct nuclear blasts have suffered loss of life and dignity. Most of the survivors of this reality are hard looking people, some with deformities, and all still carrying the weight of having to rebuild from the ruin of society. Billy has survived mostly by the grace of God. Today it’s dusk, and Billy is drunk (and more than likely stoned), as he is most days; and is panhandling for any kind of treasure or bauble that he could pawn to obtain the cash he needs to buy his next fix. Next to BILLY is a small bottle of whisky and THE BUM FROM NICK’S DREAM IN LAST ISSUE, passed out.
BILLY: IT’S NOT LIKE IT’S A BIG SURPRISE
BILLY: WE ALL BEEN HERE A WHILE.
Panel 2. Zoom closer. Billy continues, talking to his sleepy companion and reaching into his jacket for his flask. We see more of his depressed surroundings. Here we could expect to see wrecked and abandoned vehicles, accumulating trash, etc. It’s a ghost-town that’s been stagnating in mediocrity.
BILLY: I MEAN…YOU WANNA CALL ME LAZY? YOU WANNA CALL ME A BUM?
BILLY: WHAT’S THERE NOT TO BE LAZY ABOUT?
Panel 3 Another Angle. Billy takes a drink of whiskey.
NO COPY
Panel 4. Zoom out. Billy continues his tirade. Show more of the hazy atmosphere and aftermath of a society pitched in the throes of rebuilding after a global catastrophe.
BILLY: AFTER IT ALL WENT DOWN…
BILLY: “CIVILIZATION†CAME AND WENT, SO WHAT’S THERE TO WORK FOR?
BILLY: THE RICH ARE A SELECT, LUCKY FEW WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN US, AND THE REST OF US ARE POOR AND DYING.
Panel 5. Medium Close Shot. BILLY clutches his left fist, as it suddenly glows with power.
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