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ONE:
A woman’s boot, visible beneath the rather fancily ruffled hems of her skirts and petticoats. The boot, obviously, is somewhat incongruous when compared to the fabulous gown that Sabre is wearing.
The boot is landing – we’re in a full sprint here – on the industrial, rivets-and-rust gantry-way, but of course, we’re in pretty close, so we don’t know the where as yet.
1. GUARD/off: STOP!
2. GUARD/off/linked: Stop HER!
TWO:
Tight angle, railing of the gantry-way, as SABRE passes – maybe we’re getting a bit of her chest from the side, an elbow, an arm pumping. Maybe hair as her petite and somewhat precious top-hat comes loose and falls. Her hair has come loose, and I’m imagining she has quite the impressive mane.
A SLUG IMPACT on the railing – someone’s shooting at her from behind, and missing.
3. SFX: KRAK
4. SFX: spak
THREE:
Long shot, wide horizontal, as I envision this. Reveal of the gantry-way, the length of the run. This is the central walkway in this compartment, maybe the upper chamber, but that may not make a terrible amount of sense.
The idea here is to give a sense of enclosed, though very large, space, with lots of darkness and shadow filling in the details surrounding the walkway. I’m imagining moisture in here, too, but again, that may not make a lot of sense.
Approaching panel right is SABRE, in the DRESS but steadily shedding what pieces she can as she runs. She’s carrying a narrow tube in one hand – a map case.
On panel left, there’s a group of FIVE SCHRADE GUARDS, including the CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD (HANS), all chasing after her. Several have stopped to take aim, and HANS is knocking their weapons down, furious.
I’m envisioning something pseudo-Prussian about their garb, but with face-masks, like gas-masks but more sinister. The Captain of the Guard is the only one unmasked.
5. HANS: No SHOOTING!
6. HANS: Drop your weapons!
Awesome. Airship pirates for the win. Looking forward to seeing more of this.
Yeehaw! Looks like a fun ride.
Oh my this is going to be a fun ride. I can’t wait for more.
This is terrific. I wasn’t sure what to expect after the announcement was made. Can’t wait for the next installment!!
First of all, I am incredibly excited about this project. I have been since I first heard about it a couple hours ago.
Okay, now this is a dumb question, but it’s killing me. On the character page for Lady Sabre it makes references to years as “IV.E. xxx.” I assume the IV.E. is some kind of date notation like AD or BC, but I’ve tried every permutation of Google search I can think of to no avail. I can tell you anything you may want to know about Social Security Act Title IV-E, but I somehow don’t think they’re related.
Thanks Greg and Rick!
(And may I be the first to suggest…Grick?)
Well met all! *waves to Ken*
Willy, the dating convention is unique to the story world, and is universally used amongst almost all the major powers of the Sphere. It’s a pretty straight-forward convention: IV.E.760 would be year 760 of the Fourth Era.
And Grick… yeah, I’ll probably use that.
Huzzah! First heard of this on word balloon. I was tranferred through by Bleedingcool. Very happy this is now live. It’s in the RSS & I hope to be the first on my block to purchase a beautiful collection! (I will be ^_^)
Really cool that you’re including the script for these.
So far, so good. I look forward to the rest. I also really appreciate the panel descriptors, it makes it so much more interesting to see what effects you’re going for.
I’m totally stoked to see where this is going.
It’ll be a slow burn for the next couple weeks. Learning how to pace appropriately for the form is the next trick Rick and I have to master, I think. As we progress, I think the story will begin to move more quickly, relatively speaking.
Our intention is to keep posting the script pages, as well as some of Rick’s preliminary work, etc, so there’s a behind-the-scenes view.
This looks great. I’m especially excited about the script pages! I’m really happy you’re providing those. Can’t wait for more.
my appetite has been whetted gentlemen! tally-ho!
I have a great feeling about this and hope it all works out well for you two!
Also, will every page you finish have a script to match it?
A fine start. Can’t wait to see how it turns out.
Never mind, my question got answered by the first post.
*waves back*
Is building this world more difficult than the world-building you and Eric did with Carl Draper’s journal for Checkmate?
Wooow, never see this coming (A comic by Greg Rucka about lady sky pirate) I HAVE to see more of this, it looks amazing!
Larry – I’m not sure EVERY page will have the companion script; sometimes the script has information that I don’t want the reader to necessarily know. Maybe we’ll publish them with compromising material ‘redacted’.
Ken, I wouldn’t say it’s more difficult, but it’s infinitely more detailed. Doing Checkmate, there was, at least, an extant DCU. This is all Rick and myself, with flourishes from Eric.
This looks awesome. It’s my first webcomic. I love that you’ve included the script. It’s nice to see you and Mr. Burchett working together again, you have great chemistry.
Thanks, Erica. Yeah, working with Rick is much like working with Michael Lark of JH3 for me – it’s a very effortless collaboration, one where we seem to be on the same wavelength almost instantly.
Wow. A new webcomic from Greg Rucka and Rick Burchett? For free? And it’s about pirates you say? Just…wow. Looking forward to the adventure, gentlemen. May I ask how far ahead you’re scripting this? Is there a larger plan, or more improv. Or a bit of both? Regardless, thanks for this, and keep up the good work.
I’m setting down to write Chapter Three this weekend, been discussing how that’ll work with Rick the last couple days. Chapter Two is written, but I’m going to be revising that first to try and incorporate what I’ve already learned, and hopefully tweak the pacing.
And yes, there is a plan, but like all my plans, it’s fluid.
very cool comic, was just searching around for pirate comics cause I am on a bit of a bender with watching all the poc movies. Have you thought about adding this to inkOUTBREAK.com?
Know nothing about the site, actually.
Star Wars as a mother, eh Greg?
After adding this months ago via RSS feed to my MyYahoo! homepage, I’m finally getting around to actually reading it, as I always meant to. (Work’s been busy.) Love it already; eager to dive into the story.