Jones St., Chapter 2: Pages 9-10
Page 9, 6 Panels- EPB Bookstore, Las Vegas NV
Panel 1-2: A two-part set of panels that shifts the attention to Tara a few beats later, carefully looking through each of the books while paying attention to the books from the Woman’s list. You can see the names of some of the books from such authors as Simone de Beauvoir, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ritter Beard and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in view of the reader among many others. In Panel 2, he tilts his view down toward her direction, holding a few of the books in his right hand; his power bar is at 79% in both panels.
TARA [Cont. explanatory, to the Woman; Panel 1]: My mother was the one to do it when the store opened. She taught me how to do it before she got sick... TARA [Cont., Panel 2]: Thought it’d be a great coping tool for whenever I get a meltdown.
Panel 3: Back to the Woman a few steps away from the stool. She looks on with a degree of confusion at the statement from the previous panel. You can see the bulge from her phone inside the pocket of her jeans as she speaks. In the background, you can also see bits and pieces of the other bookshelves and displays inside the store.
WOMAN [to Tara]: “Meltdown?”
Panel 4: Back to Tara in the same setting and layout as Panel 2. This time, he’s back toward gathering more of the books from her list, nodding in agreement to the query nonchalantly. Where some of the books once stood in the page’s first two panels, you can see the gaps in the shelves in the panel view. As for the power bar, it's down to 77%.
TARA: Yeah, it’s connected to my mental condition. It usually flares up whenever I’m angry or in a really stressful situation— WOMAN [interjecting haltingly, Off-Panel]: Oh, cool…cool.
Panel 5: Same setting/layout as the previous panel. The statement catches the young man off-guard slightly, resulting in a moment of silence between the two that lasts for a few seconds. The energy of the moment seemingly sucked out of him then and there. You can see the stack of five books gripped in both hands as he speaks (Woman as a Force in History. A Study in Traditions and Realities, La Rosa Muerta, A Room of One's Own, The Second Sex, The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman); his power bar now tumbling to 64%, which continues on in Panel 6.
TARA [trying to regain his train of thought while not looking affected]: O—Okay. Um…it’s not quite the authors you had listed. But it should be sufficient for your assignment and the timeframe you were gunning for.
Panel 6: Cut to a few moments later with the two of them standing in front of one another. Tara stands to the right of the panel view, handing the books to the young woman; his gaze is tilted down toward the ground as he speaks. You can see a little more of the Young Adult and Science Fiction sections of the store in the background.
TARA [Cont., courteous]: I’ll ring you up in a jiffy. WOMAN [equally courteous nod]: Thanks.
Page 10, 4 Panels- EPB Bookstore/Lit Crawl, Jones Street, Las Vegas NV
Panel 1: We move to a shot of Tara behind the desk a few moments later, going through the motions of checking each book into the system; the power bar at the same rating as the last panel of the previous page. His eyes peering over to the screen in front of him to keep a track of it as he moves. You can see the rest of the books lying on a pile nearby ready to go through the same routine, along with the back of the young woman waiting patiently in front.
TARA [caption]: That went...about as predictable as most social interactions go for me. Am I expecting the Lit Crawl will be any different?
Panel 2: Cut to later that evening at the Jones St. Lit Crawl with the same central focus on Mr. Myers. This time, he's standing in the middle of the street, looking around as a group of revelers his age and younger pass him by going up the street. You can see him clutching the zip drive in his left hand in an attempt to keep his mind balanced amongst the chaos; his power bar somewhere in the upper 50s, which is where it hovers around for the rest of the page.
TARA [Cont. narration caption]: No...no I'm not! Could be wrong though... CAPTION [top left corner of the panel]: Jones St. Lit Crawl That Night TARA [thought bubble]: Relax...relax, you're good! Remember the melody...
Panel 3: Action shot of the young Mr. Myers walking up the street moments later; the amount of people all around him a little bit greater than what we saw in the previous panel. In his left hand, he starts to nervously flip the zip drive at a faster and faster speed as a way to contain the anxiety. that is building up inside him.
TARA [singing to himself]: There's a hundred and four days of Summer vacation And school comes along just to end it...
Panel 4: Cut to a side shot of Tara a couple of seconds later, looking on as the crowd around him starts to grow a little bit larger than earlier. They're on their way to the first stop of the Crawl, which is off-panel but relatively close compared to where he is in terms of the panel's view. You can see the zip drive still spinning in his left hand at the same intensity as before. As for his anxiety, it is also increasing even as he tries to contain it.
TARA [Cont.]: But the annual problem of our generation Is finding a good way to spend it... Like maybe!