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- #1“THE VIOLET GHOST CHAPTER TWO: FRED’S PAST 30-PAGE COMIC SCRIPT PAGE 1 — BLEEDING BEHIND THE WHEEL PANEL 1 — WIDE Fred’s rusted gold Silverado rolls slowly across the rain-soaked Shop-Stop parking lot. The damaged truck door rattles as the three injured attackers disappear behind him. Rain smears the red and yellow store lights across the windshield. CAPTION:AKRON, OHIO. CAPTION:A FEW MINUTES AFTER THE PARKING-LOT ATTACK. PANEL 2 Inside the cab. Fred grips the steering wheel with one hand while p”
- #2“PAGE 2 — THE MEMORY OPENS PANEL 1 Close-up of Fred’s bleeding hand on the steering wheel. The dark red blood begins visually transforming into older blood running across white tile. PANEL 2 The steering wheel fades into a steel slaughterhouse railing. PANEL 3 — WIDE A slaughterhouse in the industrial ruins of Akron nearly twenty-five years earlier. Steam hangs beneath rusted overhead rails. Pig carcasses swing from hooks. The concrete walls sweat with condensation. CAPTION:TWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARL”
- #3“PAGE 3 — THE KILL FLOOR PANEL 1 Fred drives a heavy knife through a hanging hog carcass with practiced precision. SFX:SHUNK PANEL 2 He pulls the blade downward, opening the carcass cleanly. Blood pours into the drainage trench beneath his boots. PANEL 3 Other slaughterhouse workers keep their distance from him. One whispers to another while watching Fred lift a weight that normally requires two men. WORKER ONE:Man ain’t built like the rest of us. WORKER TWO:That ain’t always a good thing. PANEL ”
- #4“PAGE 4 — THE DEBT PANEL 1 A betting slip lies beside Fred’s timecard in the employee locker room. Several handwritten amounts are circled in red. PANEL 2 Fred opens his wallet. It is nearly empty. PANEL 3 A rough-looking bookmaker stands outside the slaughterhouse speaking into a pay phone. Fred can be seen through the dirty window behind him. BOOKMAKER:Tell Moretti I found him. PANEL 4 The bookmaker hangs up. A dark sedan waits across the street with its engine running. CAPTION:Fred had one wea”
- #5“PAGE 5 — FIVE MEN ARRIVE PANEL 1 — WIDE The slaughterhouse’s rear door opens. Five members of the Moretti crew enter the kill floor: Sal, Mikey, Jimmy, Frankie, and Paulie. They wear dark coats that do not belong in a place like this. PANEL 2 Sal closes and locks the door behind them. SFX:CLICK PANEL 3 Mikey carries a length of iron pipe. Jimmy keeps one hand inside his jacket. Frankie and Paulie each carry knives. PANEL 4 Fred continues cleaning his station without turning around. SAL:Frederick”
- #6“PAGE 6 — THE WARNING PANEL 1 Fred sets the cleaning hose down. SFX:CLACK PANEL 2 He slowly removes his rubber gloves. His scarless younger hands are enormous. FRED:I don’t have it. PANEL 3 Sal steps closer, smiling. SAL:That wasn’t the answer we came for. PANEL 4 Fred turns toward the five men. His expression is calm rather than frightened. FRED:Then you came for the wrong thing. PANEL 5 The five men spread out around him. SAL:Break his hands first.”
- #7“PAGE 7 — REFLECTION PANEL 1 Fred watches the men through the reflection in a polished stainless-steel carcass table. Sal approaches from directly behind him. PANEL 2 Close-up of Sal raising both hands to grab Fred. PANEL 3 Fred’s eyes shift toward Sal’s reflection. PANEL 4 Fred steps backward with sudden, crushing force. SFX:THOOM PANEL 5 Sal is trapped between Fred’s back and an overhead iron meat rail. His chest buckles against the steel. SFX:KRUNCH”
- #8“PAGE 8 — SAL GOES DOWN PANEL 1 Close-up of Sal’s face as the air is driven from his lungs. His eyes bulge. PANEL 2 Fred presses backward harder, deliberately crushing Sal’s chest into the rail. PANEL 3 Fred steps away. Sal drops to his knees. PANEL 4 Sal collapses onto the wet tiles, clutching his chest and trying unsuccessfully to breathe. SAL:HKK—HKK— PANEL 5 Fred turns toward the remaining four men. FRED:You should take him outside.”
Art Style: Dark Fantasy
Color Mode: Full Color
Panels: 8
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