Golden Gate Comic Con, Chapter 3: Pages 3-4
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INT. LIVING ROOM, AMANDA'S HOUSE- Minutes Later
PANEL 1: Cut to Adam sitting on a recliner in the living room minutes after the end of the previous page. He looks over in the direction of the coffee table as he speaks, surprised by his sister's summation. To the sides of his chair, you can see his luggage laid out in view in the panel view's edges.
ADAM [to Amanda]: Really? I would've thought something like that would be the definition of absurdity.
PANEL 2: We move back to Amanda on the couch, placed closest to her brother. She looks at him with a sense of astonishment that is still on her face, even though she's gathered a little more composure compared to earlier. In the bottom left of the panel view, you can see the coffee table along with the cover to some type of console as well as the coffee cup which reads "San Jose Sharks- 2024 Stanley Cup Champions."
AMANDA [smiling and correcting, to Adam]:It's connected to the flight you were on- some Internet chain mail stories (for the most part). There were a group of others who, supposedly, were transported through time. I'll explain it in more detail later. Right now, I'm...just happy to see you.
PANEL 3-4: A two-part set of panels that that cuts back to Adam in the same setting and layout as the top of the page. In Panel 3, he nods with an equally grateful manner in his body language and the words he speaks; his eyes looking up toward the roof. In Panel 4, a moment later, a question pops into his head which shifts the conversation toward a different tact slightly.
ADAM [Panel 3]: Me too, sis...You look pretty good for your age. AMANDA [Off-Panel, Panel 3]: Thanks, bro! So do you...even if we're technically the same age. How are you liking the future San Francisco so far? ADAM [Panel 3, Bubble 2]: Kinda feels like an iPhone, or a big budget '90s action movie. Pretty to look at it, but lacking in heart and created by multinational corporations. AMANDA [Off-Panel; Panel 3, Bubble 2]: That's, sadly...pretty accurate. ADAM [Panel 3, Bubble 3]: Ugh... ADAM [Cont. curious/nervous, Panel 4]: Anyway, I'm--I'm not sure how to ask this without it feeling really weird or awkward. AMANDA [Off-Panel retort, Panel 4]: Hasn't stopped you before. ADAM [Panel 4, Bubble 2]: Good point. Back in 2018, when I---got sucked up in the portal. Did our parents--did you guys have a funeral for me?
PANEL 5: Back to Amanda in the same setting/layout as Panel 2. She nods at the question; the sense of astonishment that was visible on her face in that aforementioned panel has shifted to one of a slight melancholy remembering the day; her body just beginning to get up off the couch and move in the direction of the covered panel.
AMANDA [double checking]: You sure you want to see it? ADAM [Off-Panel]: Wouldn't you want to, in my shoes? AMANDA [Bubble 2]: Good point...
PANEL 6: Cut to a close-up of the cover on the table, which is now flipped open to reveal a touch-pad screen with the words "CAT Home Screen" scrawled on the very top of it. You can see her fingers pressing the light green button marked "ON" located to the right edge of the screen.
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PANEL 1: Cut to a ceiling shot of the living room a few moments later. Adam looks up with amazement as an energy emerges from the top of an egg-shaped device that is in front of the aforementioned console. You can see around them a holographic grid start to form around the edges of the panel view as the two of them speak.
ADAM [to Amanda]: Whoa...four-dimensional TV. This is definitely cooler than the helper droid I saw at the airport. AMANDA [not phazed, to Adam]: It's pretty cool, I'll admit. But if you want something really awesome, you should see the PFDs. ADAM [Bubble 2]: I did...man, they hurt!
PANEL 2-3: Same layout in Panel 2 as the previous panel, which happens to take place moments later. The setting around them has faded away, save for the floor underneath them, replaced by a light blue screen visible in the background. In Panel 3, with the couch in the foreground, the setting moves to a shot of the TV's home screen; the footage of a Bob's Burgers re-run in the lower right corner of the panel view. Just above that is a folder called "Adam's Funeral."
AMANDA [to Lexy, Panel 3]: Lexy, open file "Adam's Funeral.mov."
PANEL 4: Same layout as the previous panel. A few beats later, the setting has changed to the interior of a funeral house back in the present. There is a decent amount of people seated in the individual row; their backs to the reader, listening to the speaker in the center of the area.
ADAM [Off-Panel left]: No way--Reg made it! AMANDA [nods]: Yep, barely. She had to slog through a massive delay on the BART, and traffic on the freeway. But...she got there..
PANEL 5: Cut to a close-up of a suited Regina standing in front of the podium that was faintly seen in the center of the previous panel, speaking faintly underneath the dialogue from the elder Ms. de Connick-Walsh.
AMANDA [Cont.]: Personally, I thought her speech was the best of the whole thing. Really sweet... AMANDA [Bubble 2]: Volume up times 3. REGGIE: I think it was about...2011.