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doe138
05-01-2006, 05:44 PM
Hello again, everybody.

Here is the next part. Took me awhile to get there, as I have been buried under real work and figuring out that comics SHOULD be my real work.

If you want to read parts 1-4 (or haven't), as well as see rough artwork for the first part and character sketches, visit angriestrobot.blogspot.com.

And without any more blabbing, here we go:

Adventures of the World’s Angriest Robot
Dead Leaves and the Bloody Ground
Part 5 – Eight Times Over Miss October

Page 1
Panel 1 – Focal panel of the Death King standing over the fallen Destroyer. Blood and guts everywhere, as Destroyer is crawling away from him. One of his hands is trying to stuff his intestines back inside of his body.

Down the right side of the page, we’ll have four panels, with some space for the title and credits.

Right panel 1 – The Robot is fighting his way back into the room, with zombies hanging all over him.

Right panel 2 – The Death King is lifting his weapon high above his head, obviously with the intent of delivering the killer blow.

Right panel 3 – A shot of Destroyer’s face, with a shadow of Death King looming down on him, obviously making a slash toward his neck to behead him.

Right panel 4 – Death King is dropping his weapon toward Destroyer.

Page 2
Panel 1 – Destroyer’s eye are closed. He’s obviously making his peace with whatever maker he has.

Panel 2 – Destroyer is being pulled violently backwards as the weapon crashed into the ground in a shower of sparks. Destroyer’s face is surprised.

Panel 3 – Destroyer looking freaked out.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “What the…”

Panel 4 – Robot is pulling Destroyer by his spinal cord away from the Death King. Destroyer is in great pain, now that he realizes what is happening.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “ARRRRHHHHHHH!”

Panel 5 – Death King’s angry face, obviously displeased by what is happening.

Panel 6 – Robot runs out of the room. Destroyer is screaming at him.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “You forgot my ****ing legs!”

Page 3
Panel 1 – Robot is yelling back at Destroyer.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “I’m sorry, I was a bit more concerned about the ****ing embodiment of death killing you.”

Panel 2 – Destroyer is yelling right back at him.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “I’m not going through my life without my lower half. Turn around.”

Panel 3 – Robot turns his head and is screaming.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “No. We’re going to get to somewhere normal and figure out how to get these zombies out of my house.”

Panel 4 – Destroyer is holding the ground with his hands.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “Yes. We’re going to go get my legs.”

Panel 5 – Robot looks frustrated.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “No.”

Panel 6 – Destroyer is screaming.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “Look, you may be asexual, but I’m not. My cock is back in that room and right now, a zombie might be feasting on it. So turn it the **** around, Tranzor Z.”

Page 4
Panel 1 – We see Robot running the upper torso of Destroyer back into the room, scrambling like a maniac. Zombies are getting ready to eat Destroyer’s legs.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “Remind me why I’m doing this?”

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “Because you want the cock, robo-mo. Hey, you undead ****s! Get away from my legs!”

Panel 2 – Death King is swinging his weapon around, narrowly missing Robot and Destroyer.

Panel 3 – Destroyer grabs his legs.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “Let’s go! Let’s go!”

Panel 4 – A huge group of zombies, followed by the Death King, starts to chase them.

Panel 5 – Robot lifts up Destroyer and jumps through a door, splintering wood all over the hallway.

Page 5
Panel 1 – Robot is running down a hallway, carrying what’s left of Destroyer, who is frantically trying to hold onto his legs.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “Run, run, run! Forget about opening that door! Don’t you have super speed or something?”

Panel 2 – Robot is in motion, opening a door, and then continuing to run. This could be drawn as a Flash-like effect of multiple bodies moving to show speed. This could be done throughout this page, unless we close up on a face, to show speed (and depending on how much you feel like drawing).

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “I’m running at 68 kilometers per hour. That should do.”

Panel 3 – Destroyer is laughing.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “Of course you use metric. I should have known.”

Panel 4 – This should be a long, horizontal panel that splits the page in half. Robot is running hard through the hallway. Through doors, we can see into other worlds inside the doors, including a jungle, outer space, a pyramid being built by workers…just go crazy, as this hallway should appear to be able to lead to anywhere.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “Oh, I’m sorry, just because the US doesn’t keep up with the rest of the world…”

Panel 5 – Robot runs past a window that has mermaids swimming up to it.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “Where the hell are we?”

Panel 6 – We see the zombies starting to shamble through the hallway.

Panel 7 – They walk near the door that Robot opened earlier.

Panel 8 – Through the doorway, we see a western style Native America scene.

Page 6

Panel 1 – A big action panel, as several Apache braves jump out of the doorway, hollering and screaming. They should be painted and carrying appropriate weaponry. Some have tomahawks, while others are firing arrows.

Panel 2 – Another big action panel. You might consider splitting the page into three panels, with each panel of equal size. In this panel, the Apache are just ripping the zombies to shreds, scalping them, slicing off their heads.

Panel 3 – The zombies are in pieces, defeated, and we see the last Apache closing the door behind himself.

WORD BALLOON
Apache: “Silver Face’s home must always be respected.”

Page 7

Panel 1 – The Robot is carrying Destroyer down the hallway. He is explaining what is going on, as best as he can.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “My house is the big tree at the center of all things. And this hallway is the root that runs through all of it, connecting every world and reality with a door, window, or opening.”

Panel 2 – Robot’s face as he talks.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “It started as a haunted house. And it just kind of grew from there.”

Panel 3 – Robot continues to run, carrying Destroyer.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “It just keeps on growing, with me and my house at the center of it.”

Panel 4 – Destroyer is getting woozy.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “We need to get me some whiskey before I bleed out. You stopped making sense at the words my house.”

Panel 5 – Robot is pondering as he drops Destroyer to the floor.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “Now that I’ve had some time to think, I don’t blame you for any of this.”

Page 8

Panel 1 – Destroyer thuds as he falls to the floor.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “AARRGGGGGG! What the…it’s not my fault anymore?”

Panel 2 – Robot is stepping inside a doorway. We can see that it’s Germany during World War 2, with bombs falling and explosions everywhere.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “It’s no coincidence those zombies at in the house. Be right back.”

Panel 3 – Destroyer is slumped on the floor, trying to get his spine to fuse back together so that his top half and bottom half grow back together.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “Never had this happen before.”

Page 9

Panel 1 – The Death King makes a grand entrance, weapon drawn.

WORD BALLOON
Death King: “He’s right, you know.”

Panel 2 – A horizontal panel that shows Death King and Destroyer are about twenty feet apart. Death King is stalking toward Destroyer.

WORD BALLOON
Death King: “This house is at the center of all things.”

Panel 3-5 – Death King’s face gets closer and closer.

WORD BALLOONS:
Death King: “The gods believed in Yggdrasil, the world tree. This house is more. It is the tree whose skein holds every universe together. Without this house, there is no life, anywhere.”

Panel 6 – Another horizontal panel that shows just how much closer Death King is to Destroyer.

WORD BALLOON
Death King: “I have killed the gods and it was just not enough.”

Page 10

I’m thinking that this page should have a huge shot of Death King, not in panel but on his own, really over the top and screaming these operatic villain lines. Go crazy making him look completely insane.

WORD BALLOON
Death King: “Every world, every being, every atom has it’s roots here in this house. At this hallway, at the center of it. This is where blessed nothingness will find it’s ebon root. Here, at the beginning and end of it all.”

Small panel near the bottom of the page of Destroyer, looking out of it

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “It may be the blood loss, but that makes no ****ing sense.”

Page 11

Panel 1 – The door opens and Robot is coming out of the other side, firing a Luger into a crowd of Nazi soldiers and holding a bottle of whiskey with a Swastika and eagle on the label.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “And that’s not the first Hitler I’ve killed, either! So there!”

Panel 2 – Robot swivels his head to notice Death King.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “Oh, it’s you.”

Panel 3 – Death King speaks to Robot.

WORD BALLOON
Death King: “My quarrel is not with you, soulless beast. I must end his life, as I pledged. And then, I end reality.”

Panel 4 – Robot screaming.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “Oh, just shut the **** up and kill him already.”

Page 12

Panel 1 – Destroyer looks incredulous.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “What?!?”

Panel 2 – Robot is laughing.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “Somewhere back there in the reality where the Nazis won the Civil War, I decided that gimpy here is holding me back. Just get it over with.”

Panel 3 – Death King is lifting his weapon. He is about five feet from Destroyer.

WORD BALLOON
Death King: “So be it.”

Panel 4 – Destroyer’s face, looking worried. He is screaming his last words at Robot.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “You’re not allowed to speak at my memorial service, you ****ing shit.”

Panel 5 – Robot is laughing.

WORD BALLOON
Robot: “You seem to think anyone would care enough to have one for you.”

Panel 6 – The weapon is coming right for Destroyer, again, just like in the beginning.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “I’m gonna rise from the grave and shit all over you. Zombie shit. I swear this on my soon to be ended life. Zombie shit.”

TO BE CONTINUED

daweir
05-01-2006, 05:52 PM
You guys are killing me!!! So many scripts to go through!

It's ok, I love it. It distracts me from MY work. That's good, right?

I'll add this one to my list. Once I've gotten everything up for DannoE I'll get to this one.

Cheers!
Devon

doe138
05-02-2006, 10:49 AM
Cool. It may not make much sense as it's part 5, but you can always go back and read the earlier parts on the site.

Thanks for taking the time to read through my stuff.

Knuckles
05-02-2006, 01:22 PM
Panel 4 – Robot is pulling Destroyer by his spinal cord away from the Death King. Destroyer is in great pain, now that he realizes what is happening.

WORD BALLOON
Destroyer: “ARRRRHHHHHHH!”



Ok, was he in pain before the robot pulled him?


Right panel 4 – Death King is dropping his weapon toward Destroyer

This line confuses me. Is his weapon about to cut destroyer or has he just dropped the weapon.

Also I think having the word "Word Balloon" is unnesessary.

Otherwise this was as always a funny story. Hope this helps.

doe138
05-02-2006, 01:36 PM
Good calls. I just don't want to do 12 pages of Destroyer screaming every few panel. I think when he looks down and realizes he's chopped in half, and gets his spine yanked, that's when it kind of dawns on him.

I'll fix the dropped part. Thanks for the kind words.

DannoE
05-03-2006, 04:24 PM
You're right. This didn't make a lot of sense without the earlier parts. But I slogged through, so here goes:

I wasn't the biggest fan of you panel/page descriptions. Sometimes it makes sense to sketch this stuff, and the reason why is because a little sketch is a million times more intuitive and easier to follow than 17 sentences describing panel placement on the page, especially when the artist is going to have his own opinions about panel placement and timing and emphasis. Clarity is key, and this is one place where the writer needs to jump on into the visual medium and literally show us what this should (or at least could) look like.

While we're talking about it, these guys seem to have very few to absolutely no facial expressions. What are they thinking and feeling? Or, more to the point, WHY are they doing this crap? Or... even more to the point... what purpose does each of these panels serve?

Bottom line: a script is a set of instructions. When you write instructions, it's useful to think in terms (stolen from the Army) of TASK and PURPOSE.

- What are we doing?
- Why are we doing it?

The first is essential, of course. The second should be clearly explained if it isn't obviously implied. Artists like to make changes to stuff and put themselves into their work. That is a good thing. We enable that by explaining the purpose of our actions so that they can make all the changes that they want and still stay within the intent of the story.

Look at the way Marvel forces their guys to write. This is the most useful example of task/purpose I can think of in comics. Marvel scripts are almost ALL purpose. The artist is left to figure out the specifics of the story. There is nothing wrong with that. It usually works.

Okay, that's it. I have no idea what the purpose or plot of this story is. Let's clean this up and make it clear, and maybe then it'll make sense.

doe138
05-03-2006, 04:52 PM
I agree - this part, because I am working with an artist and this is the best way we work together is this style of writing, may not make much sense. But I agree - I definately need to get more in depth with my facials and emotions.

Thanks for the advice - it will definately be heeded in the future.

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