Comic Script: Family Story

Whoops! Forgot to post this earlier! Here it is now, though, so no worries!
My family story is about a vacation to Ireland, in a simple venture: grocery shopping for the week.
View story here.

Comic Script: Slice of Life

So, for my slice of life comic, I listened in on a particularly odd conversation that two of my roommates were having. We're all pretty close friends, so we talk about some really weird stuff.

The script can be viewed here.

Speed-Writing Exercise.

My plot is probably more like a cartoon episode than a comic, so please bear with me. Haa, I love Doctor Crock.

Who?

Ryan is a bit grumpy for a boy genius. He doesn’t really have any motivations to stop Dr. Crock from destroying his hometown except that it makes a lot of noise and disturbs his sleep. Not only that, but the screaming and yelling of random people around him always wake him up. He’s only 15 years old, and loves building robots. He has a younger sister, Casey, age 6, who is the only person he really cares about. Whenever she is threatened or in danger, he rushes to her rescue.

Need?

Ryan’s life almost revolves around his little sister. Even if he absorbs himself in his studies, and is intent on building a secret research facility so he may conduct research towards building the perfect robot companion for his sister. He also needs Doctor Crock to stop destroying the town so he can work on building his research facility in peace and quiet. Not only that, but he must collect special “solar rocks” to power his robots.

Go:

When Doctor Crock destroys the town water tower, Ryan has had enough. Without an adequate water supply, his secret research facility will never come to operation. Though a very ridiculous montage, he suits up and prepares to stop Doctor Crock and his giant….town-destroying-contraption-of-the-day.

Search:

Ryan rushes off to stop the town-destroying-contraption-of-the-day. But the contraption knocked over a wall of the school which is threatening to fall on a few children. Ryan grumbles and flies over in his mech suit to help them, pulling them out in the nick of time. He then flies off to reach the contraption, but is blocked by a force field. He then uses a giant magnet to disperse the field, and when he finally thinks he’s gotten to the contraption, it grabs him and begins to crush his mech, making it inoperable. It takes him a few moments of thinking before deciding to use a grappling hook to pull out the “safety shut down” pin that was conveniently placed on the contraption’s back. (Doctor Crock never was very bright when it came to designing contraptions.)

Find:

Doctor Crock climbs out of the contraption and goes on his big “evil plan” rant as always, holding the solar rock that had been in the top of the water tower high. He declares that he is the victor regardless of the fact that his contraption is broken, and starts to fly away on his jet pack, but Ryan grabs him by the ankle, resulting in a hilarious emptying-balloon-type flight scene around the town.

Dr. Crock: “You think you’ve beaten me, brat? I’m just getting warmed up! So my contraption has fallen, but it does not matter! I have the rock! It will power another of my machines on my quest for TOWN DOMINATION!” He pumps his fist in the air.

Ryan: “Town domination? I thought you were after the world?”
Dr. Crock: “Well yes, yes, brat! I am shooting a little low, but baby steps, baby steps. That’s what my motivational books on tape say!”

Ryan facepalms.

Ryan: “Just hand it over!”
Dr. Crock: “You think I would give up so easily? Haha! Well, you’re dead wrong, brat! Ta-ta!”

Dr. Crock presses a button on his vest and his jet pack comes to life, and he slowly ascends into the air.
Ryan: “No!”

Ryan tries to tackle Dr. Crock, but only manages to grab his ankle.

Dr Crock: “Hey, kid! What do you think you’re doing? Get off! You’re weighing me down!”

Ryan tries to reach up and turn the jet pack off, but instead hits the hyperdrive button, making them fly all around at a high speed, doing ridiculous loops and slamming through walls.

Take/Cost:

Even though Ryan gets the solar rock in the end, Doctor Crock gets away, and will terrorize the town again another day.

The Return:

Ryan climbs out of the rubble, victorious. Everyone congratulates him.

The Change:

Ryan lies back on his bed in his room, feeling proud of himself. Not only is he one step closer, he is more motivated to not be as lazy or grumpy next time around.

Comic Script: Dream

Since my dreams are really random, and occur in the third person (they're about a person who isn't me), I tried my best to arrange this into a narrative that you can follow while still maintaining the dreamlike movement.

The script can be viewed here.

Five-Minute Story

Here is a post of the five-minute story exercise from in class.
I decided to follow this format to re-create my own type of mythological creation story, using Norse Gods as the characters.


The Five Minute Plot:

Loki wakes up in a cave, discovering that he has been eternally banished from the realm of the gods. He feels aggravated and vengeful, and wants to get back at Odin for banishing him, but he doesn’t know how to get back to the realm of the gods.

Loki goes off in search of gods who live on Earth, hoping he can find someone who can help him. He sends a beetle up to the heavens, but it is burned by the sun, and falls back to the ground, dead. He then sends up a raven, in the middle of the night, but it gets lost among the stars.

Frigg is enraged by the loss of her animals, and comes down to punish Loki. However, she is compassionate, even when Loki tricks her and tells her that he wants to get back up to the heavens so he may make her a shawl of raindrops. Flattered, Frigg sends him back to the realm of the gods on a cloud, only to await his return with the shawl.

But Loki does not return. He has what he wants, and, instead, dumps all the raindrops from the sky at once. Frigg is saddened by this, but knows that there is nothing she can do as long as he is safe in the heavens.

Comic Script: Fairy Tale

For my fairy tale, I decided to do Father Frost, an old Russian story about how wickedness can kill, and kindness can earn great rewards.
The PDF file can be viewed here.

Comic Script: Short Story

For the first assignment, we are supposed to write an 8-12 page comic of a short story by a deceased author.

I, personally, chose The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe.
The script can be viewed here.

4-Panel Manga

Here's a 4-panel manga from the in-class exercise. In the first panel, we introduce a character, the second, a conflict. In the third, we heighten the conflict, and in the final, there is a resolution. As shown above, we have a penguin who sees some birds in the air, and thus, tries to fly like a bird using a catapult. Ultimately, this ends in failure as he smacks into the side of an iceberg.