So begins One Last Night. Shane Heron’s on art duties for this one and after seeing how he was grey scaling his work I thought I would leave it as is and not colour this particular story.
It’s been a busy week, hockey playoffs have started and, being the gambler that I am, I’m in a couple of pools. The playoffs are great without it but when your in a pool, and money is on the line, it gives watching each game a little something extra.
This weeks comics were a mixed bag. Brightest Day #0 was alright, Kill Shakespeare #1 had it’s moments but like most number ones was largely setting up the series, and will need a bit of time to really get going. Marvel put out a couple of Siege one shots. The Loki book was entertaining, I’m a big fan of the villain, and I thought he carried the story quite well. I thought the other Siege book, Captain America, would have been the better of the two but boy was I wrong. It was crap. The artwork was horrible and the story itself was largely a Bucky whine fest as they battled some lame ass villain. I wish I had flipped through it at the shop first so I could have spared myself the agony of having to read that. I really hate when I buy spin off books that have been put out solely as a means of making money from the main event and do little to help evolve the overall story. It makes me feel like I’ve been ripped off.
Maybe this time I’ll have learned my lesson.
I doubt it.
Panel 1 – Dominates the page. Credits will go here.
Two men, in their mid to late twenties, are walking through a wood at dusk/early evening, heading down the slope of a hill into a little valley. In the background atop the hill is a parked pickup truck. Its lights are shining through the trees. The man in front, Bill, has long hair and side burns sticking out beneath a ball cap. The second man, Joshua, is clean cut, with hair shaven close to the scalp, a style he’s stuck with since leaving the military. In his right hand is a 9 mm glock. His sleeves are rolled up; he’s got a military tattoo on his forearm.
Bill: Trust me. It’ll never end.
Panel 2
Zoom in on the two men, Bill is looking down, watching his step. You can see that he’s wearing a Philadelphia Eagles cap. Joshua has his eyes trained on Bill.
Joshua: There’s gotta be something. Gene therapy…natural remedies…hell even locking you in a steel cage when it happens.
Bill: No.
Panel 3
View from over Bill’s shoulder. He’s looking up into the sky through the trees at the full moon.
Bill: I won’t to be locked up and prodded like a rat to be studied. Forget it.
Panel 4
Bill is worried looking at Joshua.
Bill: My skin’s starting to itch.
