KELLY BENDER COMICS COLLECTION

KELLY BENDER COMICS COLLECTION
Here is just a sampling of the many comic book series I've written & co-created

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Mankind to the Third Power (5 Page script sample)



"Mankind to the Third Power" created and written by Kelly Bender

Mankind to the Third Power (Issue 1 pages 1-5)
Page 01 (4 panels)

Panel 1 (largest panel)
We can see a young Hispanic male (17) wearing skater clothes, he has longer black hair which is parted down the middle. He is skateboarding in the street. It is day time. 2:00pm in the afternoon.

BOY:
Look out.
Coming through.

Panel 2
We can see cop cars chasing him with their lights on and sirens going.

SFX::
Weeeee

SFX: 
Honk!

Panel 3
We can see the skateboard kid go on the sidewalk and heading for an alley. 

BOY:
I’m outta here.

Panel 4
Imagine that we are in the passenger seat of the cop car, We are looking to the left and we can see the driver he has a radio and is talking on it, passed him we can see out the driver side door window and we can see the skater going down the alley.

COP:
This is car 82, the suspect is going to go airborne require helicopter assistance.


Mankind3 Issue 01 Kelly Bender                                                                                                                               
Page 02 (4 Panels)

Panel 1 (largest panel)
The skater has reached a dead in the alley, he is standing there with one foot on the board and the front part of the board is raised. We can see a fire escape off to the left.  A dumpster on the right.

BOY:
Crap. 
Well I ain’t going back the way I came that’s for sure.
Guess we find another way out of here.

Panel 2
We can see the kid running up the metal stairs of the fire escape.  He has his skate board with him the whole time.

NO DIALOGUE

Panel 3
Still going up the fire escape this time going facing the other way (zig zag pattern)

NO DIALOGUE

Panel 4
We can see the kid climbing over the top and stepping onto the roof, still holding onto the skateboard.

BOY:
Hello New York.
How've you been?

Mankind3 Issue 01 Kelly Bender                                                                                                                                 
Page 03 (4 Panels)

Panel 1
We are looking at the boy he is smiling thinking that he got away.

BOY:
Who can’t get caught?
Me that’s who.

Panel 2 (largest panel)
We are looking down at an aerial view of the rooftop.  We can see the boy his is standing on the roof of an apartment building in New York City. There is a bright spotlight on him from a police helicopter.

POLICE HELICOPTER:
Freeze. You are under arrest for violating the “Mankind Code”.

BOY:
Oh crap.

Panel 3
The skater boy starts skating away in the opposite direction of the helicopter, he is heading towards the edge.  

BOY:
Skating abilities don’t fail me now.

Panel 4
We can see the boy doing an “Ollie” over the buildings edge.

BOY:
Wahoo!!!

Mankind3 Issue 01 Kelly Bender                                                                                                                
Page 04-05 (4 Panels)

Panel 1 (Splash Page) covers ¾ of the top of the two pages.
We can see the skater almost surfing in the sky using his skate board, the skate board is glowing a bright green color.  His eyes are glowing the same color. He has telekinesis powers, he is moving the skateboard in the air with his mind.  Imagine the “grey colored surfer” (from the other guys book but using a skateboard).
We can see the helicopter and the whole of Manhattan in the background.  The skater is the largest thing in the picture.

POLICE COPTER:
Halt, you are violating the “Mankind Code”, stop using your “evolutionary powers” or we will shoot. You are under arrest.  This is your last warning.

CREDITS:
MANKINDX3

ISSUE TITLE: The Evolution will be televised

Panel 2
We can see a guy hanging out from the helicopter with a machine gun and he is opening fire.

SFX:
Ratatata!! (machine gun noise)

Panel 3
Without looking around the skater just lifts his left hand and stops all the bullets.

NO DIALOGUE

Panel 4
The skater turns like he’s riding a wave and heads down another alley lower than the helicopter can follow.  Have some “energy” flowing or trailing behind him.

BOY:
Better luck next time losers. 

2 comments:

  1. Hello. I´m a sequential artist. I liked a lot the script. I wanted to avoid making comics with the topic of Superheroes. But this story promise a lot. I have a style similar to "amerimanga" (mixture between american comic and japanese comic or "manga")

    You can see my work here: http://fdrawer.daportfolio.com/gallery/271953

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  2. Hi "lipe01",

    Thanks for your interest in the story. I actually already have an illustrator lined up for this particular project.

    I have started a campaign to help fund the art here: http://www.rockethub.com/projects/22425-mankind-to-the-third-power

    I avoided writing super hero stuff like the plague, but then this idea hit me and I thought it was a great concept.

    Thanks for your interest your art is really nice and clean.

    Good luck with all you do.

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