Golden Gate Comic Con, Chapter 4: Pages 9-10
PAGE 9
PANEL 1: Back to Michele moments later in the same setting and layout as Panel 5 of the previous page. After a brief flicker of thought, she comes up with a better idea; her body position shifting slightly compared to what happened the last time we saw her.
MICHELE [to Lil Jarvis]: Are there any cosplay or hardware stores still open nearby? LIL JARVIS [Off-Panel, to Michele]: There's a store half-dozen blocks away that sells movie/comic replicas. But the chance you'll find and craft an equivalent shield now, this close to the Convention, is 50,220 to 1. MICHELE [Bubble 2]: Annoyingly agreed. Save a reminder an hour from now to call the bus station's Lost and Found.
LIL JARVIS [Off-Panel, Bubble 2]: If you wish...
PANEL 2: Cut to a shot of the holographic display from the bathroom mirror that we saw back in Panel 3 of the previous page. There's a single reminder window that has blocked out the itinerary from that moment, describing a "Schmoozing Dinner" at a place called "Straight K's."
LIL JARVIS [Cont.]: Speaking of reminders, the "mega important dinner" you asked me to remind you of last weekend is starting in half an hour.
PANEL 3: Back to Michele in the same setting/layout as Panel 1. She stands up from the tub, reaching out for a towel that was hanging on a rack off-panel right; her gaze over on the periphery to address the AI's off-panel bodyless voice. You can see an audible "SIGH!" floating above her speech bubble and to the right.
MICHELE: Thanks...the hand charged up? LIL JARVIS [Off-Panel]: It should be in another 10 minutes. MICHELE [Bubble 2]: Excellent...
PANEL 4: An action shot showing the young woman getting out of the tub officially, wrapping the white hotel towel over her waist as she steps out. You can see the window in the background with the same warning that we saw in Panel 2.
MICHELE [Cont.]: Gives me enough time to look around for the good booze, 'cause there's no bloody way I'm going into that stupid ChedJob party not at least a tiny bit buzzed!
PANEL 5-7: A three-part set of panels that starts out on a table back in the main part of the hotel room; the top of Ms. McKinney's head the lone thing visible about her in terms of the shot, along with the bulk of the bed, ceiling fan and other basic amenities of the hotel room. It remains like this in Panel 6 moments later, and for a little bit more afterward till she pops back up in Panel 7 with a tiny bottle of what appears to be a clear booze in a relatively small bottle.
MICHELE [muttering, Panel 6]: No...No...No...No...No...YASS! MICHELE [proudly, looking at the label; Panel 7]: Didn't know they sold Black Cow in the States...
PAGE 10
PANEL 1: Same setting/layout as the last panel of the previous page, taking place a couple of beats later. We see Michele draining the contents of the bottle down her throat with the urgency and relief on her face of someone guzzling down water after a really hot day.
MICHELE [thought bubble]: Rue motherfuckin' Britannia...!
PANEL 2: Same setting/layout as the previous panel, a second later. She places the glass bottle down on the edge of the bed and looks over in the direction of the front door; a determined and reenergized bravery visible on her face, ready to take on the muck and skeeze of this party.
MICHELE [psyching herself up, to the reader]: Alright then, I'm ready babies...
INT. BANQUET HALL, CALIFORNIA CURRENT HOTEL/CASINO- A Little Over an Hour Later
PANEL 3: Cut to a similar looking shot of Ms. McKinney a little over an hour later, dressed in a formal dress and blue jeans combination with a pair of flat shoes on. She's looking inside the partially visible banquet hall full of rich people inside, enjoying the popular music that echoes past her to the hallway that's visible behind her in the background.
MICHELE [Cont., Off-Panel caption]: Time to milk some rich dicks!
PANEL 4-5: A two-part connecting set of panels that shows the full display of the dinner, and the people (over 150 total) chatting and laughing it up inside. You can see a caption bubble and arrow pointing to each person that reads "Egotistical Douches," save for only five- the "Preening Douche," the "Likely Rapist Douche," the "Definitely Rapist Douche," the "Man Still Stuck in 2002 Douche," and the "Golden Calf Douche" situated at the bar.
MICHELE [top corner of panel caption, Panel 4]: Smells like pretension, megalomania, and a nauseating amount of Axe body wash...same as last year! MICHELE [Off-Panel, to Lil' Jarvis; Panel 4]: Move the reminder to two hours...this might take a while. MICHELE [top corner of panel caption, Panel 5]: Here we go!
PANEL 6: We see a window showing a close-up of the "Golden Calf Douche" above where he was seen in Panel 5 and near the caption from that aforementioned panel- a Don Draper looking type of guy with Mark Zuckerberg-like hair as well as the similar "look like you don't care" shirt/coat combination.
MICHELE [caption]: One thing I've learned about the Valley- the lazier the fashion sense, the richer they are. Also, the skeezier he is, so...