The script for the tenth issue of the superhero comic book, Rapid City, has now been posted.

Panel 2. Sidekick on the ground. He has knocked over one of those black waste barrels and several pump hoses have come out of their cradles. He is gesturing to one of the hoses, or holding one up, as an example,

SIDEKICK

Careful? Doesn’t look like you’re too…

Panel 3. Kinetic has grabbed Sidekick by his jacket and is swinging him in a high arc.

SIDEKICK

careful!

Panel 4. Kinetic completes the high arc by slamming Sidekick hard into the ground. Monkey is leaping clear of the impact and bits of gravel are spraying up.

Panel 5. Kinetic gripping his bandaged abdomen in pain and grimacing. Sidekick is climbing to his feet again

KINETIC

Damn.

SIDEKICK

What was the point of…. Oh!

SIDEKICK

Are you ok?

Panel 5. Shot of Monkey looking over at the slightly larger crowd.

MONKEY

Sidekick, this isn’t working.

Read and discuss this issue of Rapid City, plus all of the ones leading up to it, for free here.

The script for the fifth issue of the superhero comic book, Rapid City has now been posted.

Read and discuss it here.

Panel 5 Max lets the pressure off a little bit and the kid slumps.

MAXWELL MURDER

Yeah? That’s right where she was. Was there a girl there? Dead girl in a costume?

YOUNGER KID

No. No girl. I just saw the phone so I picked it up. I was gonna sell it.

MAXWELL MURDER

When? When did you find it?

YOUNGER KID

Thursday. Thursday night.

Panel 6 Max starts to walk away leaving the kid breathless and bleeding behind him.

MAXWELL MURDER

No girl. No body. So where is she?

This issue is the first part of the second story arc. The direction that Kinetic had been searching for finds him when the mysterious Hourglass needs his help to solve a murder.

This is part of what I have been working on today.

Panel 2 Flamethrower is smiling.

FLAMETHROWER

Sure. Likely story.

SIDEKICK

I just hate stuff like this. I don’t know what this guy knows, or what she wants people to know. I mean, I can’t tell this guy “I know her, but I don’t know her secret identity”. You know? What if he knows her, but not as “Hourglass“? This must be what its like to be gay.

FLAMETHROWER

What? What is wrong with you?

Panel 3 Shot of Sidekick, he is speaking seriously.

SIDEKICK

I’m serious. Like, not knowing who is out to who, or whose secret you might be blowing. The whole thing is really stressful. Why can’t everyone just be “out”?

FLAMETHROWER

Easy for you to say. You’ve got no family, all of your friends are superheroes, and you’re invulnerable.

FLAMETHROWER

You don’t know. She could have kids or something.

If this were the 90′s I could make the whole book about Sidekick jabbering on like that….throw in some Soundgarden…. and you’re done! But, alas, times change and now you have to dramatize a conflict and have dynamic characters.

This is the latest version of the second issue of my superhero comic book, Rapid City.

Read it here.

SIDEKICK

It’s a science word, right? Means, like, motion energy? Right?

KINETIC

Right. Like my powers. Kinetic energy.

SIDEKICK

That makes sense. I like it when names make sense.

In this issue, Kinetic gets closer to acting on his dream, and Maxwell Murder makes a move. In this version, some of the secenes were tightened up to make room for Max.

This is the script for the second issue of my monthly superhero comic book, Rapid City.

Read Issue #2 here.

Panel 4: Rat’s eye view, peeking out from some hidey-hole as the two walk past.

SIDEKICK

“Could be I’m shooting at the same 3 or 4 rats every day and they don’t mind it at all…”

In this issue, the running changes start to show. The character who had been named Rampart in the previous issue is now named Kinetic. There are a few other details that, as of “press time”, have not been ironed out. They aren’t that important, and apart from some name confusion, the story is intact.

Enjoy.

This is a short piece that I wrote a while back a favor for a friend.

Red Lion: B-Sides

It is based on some characters from our Rapid City comic book and some of his daughter’s toys. The germ of the idea came from her suggestion of “Red Lion vs Blue Zebra”

If you follow this link, please let me know if it works.

I would, of course, appreciate comments on the script itself, but I am mostly just testing to see if the basic set-up work.