The Community, Issue 11: Part 4.4

Page 282 Panel 1: Slight close-up on the two of them a few moments. Winnie is up in a crouched, seated position glancing up at Ms. Borah as she's speaking.

JESMINDER

(caring, to Winnie) You okay?

WINNIE

(nod, to Jesminder)

...Just a few bruises and a singed elbow, nothing major. You think that was Sentry?

Panel 2: We move to a close-up of Jes glancing away at the presence of a shadow drifting down in the distance.

JESMINDER

(worried) I'm gonna go with no on this one!

Panel 3: Cut to a shot of Prime, regenerated and refresh compared to when we last left them; his bright red eyes brimming with power and anger.

PRIME

(to Jesminder and Winnie, robotic) You are friends of the ones called Celia and Seanna. Revenge is owed to you!

Panel 4: Meanwhile, back Stateside, we see Seanna's vehicle arrive in the front office of Eye on Hollywood just as night's about to set in the city.

Panel 5: A short time later, we see them and Aurora meet up just outside of her office. You can see the bullpen around them is sparsely populated with other reporters at this point of the evening.

AURORA

(impressed, to Seanna) Not gonna lie: had my doubts you were actually gonna make it by tonight.

SEANNA

(smirks, to Aurora) Just got lucky traffic wise.

Page 283

Panel 1: The two of them head over side by side to the studio area where the interview will take place. You can see more of the same office space from a different angle in the background.

AURORA

(down to business, to Seanna) Our cameraperson Riley's just setting up in the studio. We should be ready to start in a few minutes...need a water?

SEANNA

(shakes his head, grateful; to Aurora) No. Thank you though...

Panel 2: We move to a shot of Walsh in a dressing room off in Italy, looking at a mirror with a confident and certain look on his face. He's dressed in a lovely looking plaid suit and bow tie; his hair styled in an equally snazzy fashion.

WALSH

(to himself) I'm ready!

Panel 3: Action shot of the billionaire heading down a hallway in the direction of the stage where the press conference is taking place, flanked by a pair of bodyguards who look quite similar to Prime, albeit slightly shorter than him.

Caption

(Walsh)

"Last night, there was a documentary about the early days of the pandemic. I realized halfway through that...we were incredibly fortunate."

Panel 4: On stage, we see Walsh on the podium taking hold of the packed audience and TV cameras focused squarely on him. You can see a section of gray and yellow curtains in the background.

WALSH

(Cont.) A bad leader in place here, a bad policy enacted there, and millions more would be either dead or irretrievably scarred. That isn't to say it's been all flowers and sunshine. We saw that in action in the, thankfully, aborted attack on the state house in Ohio as well as the shooting in Louisville I just heard about before I came on.

(Bubble 2) It also reminded me of the sense of optimism that our world had early on in the pandemic.

Panel 5: Same setting as the previous panel. The layout shifts slightly to the left as he goes off on a separate tangent a beat later; the microphone in his right hand, ready to pluck off.

WALSH

(Cont.) It was a beautiful thought that helped inspire me to dust off an old doodle I had made in elementary school back in San Jose, inspired by an old Cable comic from the early 2000s. Nearly 3 years and many billions of dollars later, that vision is now a reality; a child of one of the world's shining cities, I bring you...

Page 284

Panel 1: We move to a full page spread of, through the parted curtains, the skyline to Nuevo Roma- a pristine, ivory white utopia of a city that balances between futuristic and Rome at its peak.

WALSH

(Cont., Off-Panel) Nuevo Roma!