This is the proposed Prologue to The Town of Tymes, Teddy Attack. After listening to some reviews of my comic from others I have come to the conclusion that I need to begin with a badass action sequence of the highest order. If its a comic about time-travel why not begin with a giant golden planet that explodes? Take a read and let me know what you think.
PAGE 1
{ A golden planet spirals through space, with strange nebulas behind and stars}
Time is really frigin’ complicated. As much as I know now, I am probably more confused then at the beginning of this whole adventure.
{ZOOM in on the planet, and see it is covered in golden marks and geocentric circles}
I think back to the start and remember how simple life had been. I was your typical American teenage girl watching MTV, talking on the phone, and listening to Madonna with my friends. It was a kinder and simpler world and in my small town of Tymes there was such a feeling of safety and security. It would have been perfect had it not been so horribly boring. It’s strange to think about how far I have come since that girl in 1990 and how much different I am now, and how different I may be when I look back on “now” from another “now” in the future.
PAGE 2
{ZOOM MORE to see the gold buildings and archways of a giant planet wide gold city dotted with high-tech factories and reactors. What is it?}
The one thing I have learned through my travels is that the universe is absurd. It doesn’t make any sense, at least any logical sense we were meant to understand.
It may sound like a simple way of describing the nature of our existence, but everything is kind of like a huge joke. Like any joke there are either those who get it and laugh and those who don’t. A smart man once told me this analogy and it has proven to be true time and time again, despite me not getting it the first time.
{Teddies wander the streets. In the streets golden robots churn and humm. What is this place??}
See, take this story for instance. It begins at the beginning and ends at the end. That makes sense, cause and effect, beginnings have endings, and so on. This is not the way the Universe works, and that is kind of the joke. We think we understand but we have no clue about what is really going on until it happens and we’re all screwed and there are killer Teddy Bears in your living room.
PAGE 3
{Zoom into a deep chasm. At the bottom is a bright white light}
{At the bottom is the AEVOLAIR, a gold gear looking device, locked into the larger structure of gold}
I hope that this was the way things were supposed to turn out. Hope is all that keeps me alive right now. I would like to think this all happened for a reason.
{Karen looks into the gear as it glows white hot. Something electrical is happening!}
Or maybe I just didn’t get the joke.
PAGE 4
{She turns glowing white! The streets turn glowing white! Teddies turn glowing white! The Gold Planet turns shimmering white like an explosion!! WTFFF??!?!?!?!}
