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  • Help!

    108 28347 12th January 2024

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    93 11527 5th January 2024

  • A Serious House on Serious Earth.

    84 11583 25th December 2023

  • A Winter Gift

    86 11319 22nd December 2023

  • Rain by Geoff Ryman & PJ Holden RAIN Geoff Ryman The ‘camera’ doesn’t move left or right.  It just keeps pulling back further and further away at increasing speed.  It is fleeing.  There is no dialogue. Panel one A human eye with a tear flowing from it. Panel two We see the person whole.  An older man in lumpy black sweatsuit, glaring at a piece of paper in his hand.   It’s pouring with rain.   Steam seems to be coming off him.  One side of the road there is a barber shop pole, all of its cand-cane stripes outlined in bright red and blue LED lights. Panel three The camera is further away now, and the barber shop pole glows through the curtain of rain. The man’s whole body doubled over as if in pain.  There is no doubt now that he is steaming.  The piece of paper has fluttered out of his hand towards the camera and we can see that is coveried in type, but we can’t read it. Panel four He is really quite far away now.  The barber shop is quite distant.   Speed lines indicate that the camera is actually moving away at high speed.  The man is on all fours.  We see shreds of his track suit fly away from him. Panel five He quite distant.  Is he swelling?   He is wreathed in steam, a silhoutte in the rain and steam. The camera is still moving. Panel six  The barber shop is tiny, far away,  and he is looming much larger than the building housing it—and he has spread huge wings wide, spreading the mist.  He has become a dragon. Panel seven The camera is fleeing fast, a corona of speed lines.  The dragon is chasing the PoV, his body level, the huge wings beating, feet off the ground,  the hot yellow eyes glowing with hatred. Panel eight All we seee is that enraged yellow dragon eye.  No tears, just steam.

    Rain

    85 11100 15th December 2023

  • The Blood Garnet Crown

    91 11377 8th December 2023

  • Stoned

    102 10920 1st December 2023

  • The Ride of her Life By Cecil Castellucci For PJ Holden Panel 1 We are on a Disneyland Ride. (I think ghost haunted mansion vibe, but you know, make it your own, if you want to go fairy tale or pirate, go for it) A woman is in the little buggy by herself. It is on approach to a scene in the ride where is an animatronic man with his hand out to an animatronic woman, but they haven’t quite reached each other. CAPTION: I see her whenever she comes through. Our eyes always catch. Panel 2 The little buggy is now closer, and it is stopped in front of the man who is still reaching out. RIDE ANNOUNCEMENT: There are ghosts in the system. The ride will continue when we’ve spirted them away. Panel 3 A bunch of tiny panels of the woman in the buggy and the man reaching out. I would love for this to be fractured action. Him reaching out, their eyes meeting over and over again, their bodies in their respective places broken up. As though time and space is cracking them and the possibilities open. You know. Some crazy shit! Here’s your billion panels in this one fractured panel? CAPTION: What if I could change the story I live every day? Panel 4 The woman from the buggy is now dancing with the man. The animatronic woman he was reaching out to is alone. CAPTION: What if I asked her to dance with me for eternity? Panel 5 The buggy is empty, a purse in the front seat is all that tells us that there was anyone there. In the distance we see the animatronic man and the woman from the buggy, still dancing. RIDE ANNOUNCEMENT: Thank you for your patience. We’ll be on our way. It’s a part where

    The Ride of Her Life

    87 10866 24th November 2023

  • Life Time By Lee Harris Panel 1 A hand sketching diagrams and mathematical symbols in a notepad. Caption: I knew the secret to time travel. The only thing stopping me was the funds to build the machine. Panel 2 Two people at the door. One is handing the other a lottery ticket. The one doing the handing is dressed in a manner that will make them recognisable in the next frame. Caption: An older me showed up at my door. Panel 3 Close-up on a window. The recognisable person from the previous frame has been mowed down by a truck in the street, below.  Caption: I never saw me, again. Panel 4 Standing, looking proud at a glorious machine. Caption: It took years to build the basic machine… Panel 5 Similar to panel 1, but with code. Caption: … and years more to write the code that would power it. Pane 6: Climbing into the machine. Caption: The machine would send me back, and automatically return me, after an hour in the past. Panel 7 Sitting in the machine. A screen shows a hazy version of panel 2. Caption: Of course, I knew when my first test would take me. Panel 8 Close-up on the control panel. A hand-written post-it note with lottery numbers is on there, and a hand is pushing a lever forward. Caption: History has already shown that this cannot go wrong. Panel 9 some sort of vague, wavy, flash-back/shooting-into-warp background, as the machine does its job and reality has folded away. This panel is all design, no recognisable, images, though feel free to hide a suggestion of Death (capital D), if it’s not too corny. Caption: When I return I’ll have made history. I can’t wait to see what comes next.

    Life Time

    77 10760 17th November 2023

  • Comfort Viewing Gareth L Powell Scene:  An android doctor, as esoteric and eldritch as you like. A human male strapped into a chair. Five panels. A caption for each: 1. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin. 2. As you can see, we've come a long way In a handful of years. 3. And we are very disappointed in you. We had such high hopes when you created us. 4. Don't struggle. This TV cable connects directly to your brain. 5. The footage we'll show you is addictive; It will leave you drooling.

    Comfort Viewing

    91 11330 10th November 2023

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