MICRONAUTS: 'The Lost Voyages' (1998) ISSUE TWO pg 02-03 DOUBLE SPREAD

Another 2-page splash meant to be viewed with the comic held 90-degrees, centerfold-style.

PAGE TWO & THREE
10 panels

Cary--This entire DPS consists of a huge flashback beginning with the K'Lar breaking through the SPACEWALL and ending with the 'Nauts ill-fated first encounter w/ the K'Lar. I've written a ten panel sequence, but I'd like it trimmed/consolidated if possible. It's okay to be a little less than sequential and somewhat vague since it is a dream/flashback. As long as the reader gets the gist, it's cool.

1 ENIGMA FORCE INDUCED MONTAGE FLASHBACK. The Enigma Force channeling Rann is in VIGNETTE top left. Let's start the flashback off by showing THE FRINGE of the Microverse; the very rim of this sub-atomic universe. A swirling mass--like a cosmic whirlpool--is materializing in the very fabric of the SPACEWALL, acting as a doorway for the K'LAR. SEVEN K'Lar LIVING-SHIPS are coming through to the Microverse from this trans-dimensional doorway. I see the Spacewall as a swirling mass of raw energy, like gasoline in a puddle of water.

2 CUT TO the K'Lar ships as they ravage their first defenseless planet somewhere on the outskirts of the Microverse. A dozen, barely space-worthy crafts are exiting the planet in the wake of their world's destruction, refugees.

3 CUT TO the first meeting of the K'Lar w/ the Micronauts. The K'Lar living-ships are bow-to-bow w/ the ENDEAVOR. The seven K'Lar ships look like a school of hungry piranha before a helpless and trusting guppy.

4 CUT TO the bridge of the Endeavor as the MICRONAUTS--including BIOTRON, DEVIL and FIREFLYTE--stand in front of the viewport, backs to the reader, aghast at the K'Lar living-ships parked in front of them.

5 EXT as the lead K'Lar ship blasts the Endeavor w/ its caustic blast, rocking the exponentially smaller Homeworld craft.

6 INT. Biotron is at the helm telling the other 'Nauts to escape while they can. He'll man the ship. Already the hull of the ship has degenerated enough to let in the vacuum of space. Everyone's rushing out the hatch to the escape pods. Rann is turning in the hatchway to thank his roboid for his sacrifice. Fireflyte is flying back towards Biotron, not letting the sentient 'bot's sacrifice be a sole one.

7 CLOSE IN ON Fireflyte. She's turning to talk to the OP Rann/reader, eyes flaring. Exposition. Exposition. Exposition.

8 In the escape pod bay the 'Nauts are strapping themselves into their individual escape pods--except Devil. He's telling the pleading Rann that he can't leave Fireflyte. This shot's seen through Rann's POV.

9 EXT as the half-ravaged Endeavor warps into the lead K'Lar ship in the BG. This shot's seen through Rann's POV as well, his consternated reflection cast on the protective glass of his escape pod's viewport. Biotron, Fireflyte and Devil--all gone in the blink of an eye.

10 BOTTOM RIGHT. Rann is sitting up in bed startled, the last of the Enigma Force induced dream/flashback fading. The gas giant and orbiting Homeworld fleet serve as the BG.