MICRONAUTS: 'The Lost Voyages' (1998) ISSUE ONE pg 02 / 03 DOUBLE SPREAD +Prelim

Note that this 2-page spread was rotated 90 degrees, the reader would have had to turn his comic on its side to read it (just like that famous Fantasic Four issue by Byrne).

PAGE TWO 1 panel

Panel 1:

1. RANN: ...WE DID IT TO HELP US CRUSH THE K'LAR THREAT BEFORE THEY DEVOUR HOMEWORLD AND THE REST OF THE MICROVERSE.

2. CAP: THE MICRONAUTS.

3. CAP: COMMANDER ARCTURUS RANN. THEIR THOUSAND YEAR-OLD LEADER.

4. CAP: HUNTARR. POLYMORPHIC TERROR AND LIVING WEAPON.

5. CAP: PRINCESS MARI. HEIR TO THE HOMEWORLD THRONE.

6. CAP: ACROYEAR. DEPOSED KING OF A WARRIOR RACE.

7. CAP: MICROTRON. MARI'S ROBOID VISIER.

8. CAP: BUG. INSECTIVORID ROGUE.

9. BUG: YEAH >TIK< SO DON'T GET ANY BRIGHT IDEAS ABOUT TERRORIZING THE >TIK< 'VERSE AGAIN!

10. BUG (Whispering [small text only, no perforated balloon]): IF THERE'S ANYTHING LEFT AFTER THE K'LAR ARE THROUGH WITH US.

11. KARZA (OP): SILENCE THE INSECTIVORID BEFORE I SILENCE HIM MYSELF. I HAVEN'T THE PATIENCE OR THE TIME.

12. KARZA (OP): I HAVE A BATTLE TO--

Panel 2:

13. SFX (along top of panel 2): AROOGAROOGAROOGAROOGA

14. SFX (large [top left, over 12]): KA-CHOOM!

PAGE TWO & THREE (Cont.)

15. RANN (Shouting): WHA--?!

16. MARI: ULF!

17. SFX (MICROTRON [small]): KLUNK!

18: BRIDGE OFFICER (Shouting): WE'RE HIT!

Panel 3:

19. RANN: REPORT.

20. BRIDGE OFFICER : COMMANDER--SHIP'S DEFLECTORS HAVE BUCKLED. WE'VE SUSTAINED SEVERE HULL INTEGRITY DAMAGE.

21. BRIDGE OFFICER : WE WONT SURVIVE ANOTHER BLAST LIKE THAT!

Panel 4:

22. KARZA (Shouting [large text]): UNACCEPTABLE!

23. KARZA: I WASN'T BROUGHT BACK FROM THE PITS TO LORD OVER A DECIMATED MICROVERSE!

Panel 5:

24. RANN (dripping w/ menace): BE WARNED, KARZA...

25. RANN (dripping w/ menace): ...I BROUGHT YOU BACK TO AID US IN DEFEATING THE K'LAR--NOT TO RECLAIM THE THRONE YOU STOLE FROM MY MOTHER AND FATHER A MILLENNIA AGO.

Panel 6:

26. RANN (overlap onto panel 4): MARI--GATHER YOUR TROOPS. THIS BATTLE WONT BE WON SHIP-T SHIP, BUT MAN-TO-MAN.

27. RANN: BUG, KEEP YOUR TROOPS IN RESERVE UNTIL I GIVE THE ORDER.

28. BUG: AYE >TIK< AYE, COMMANDER.

29. BUG (small text): AH, GRUBBERS.