Comic Book

Comic Book Page 1 We are introduced to the Stepmother along with Braht and Systra Description A very stern looking woman is standing in the front yard of a Floridian home in the suburbs. Dialog Caption: "Once upon a time..." STEPMOTHER "BRAHT! SYESTRA! Come here you beasts!" Panel 1.1 1.2 Two hungry looking children in tattered clothes run to the angry woman. She is pointing to a rusted lawnmower and a badly spotted yellow green lawn. SYESTRA BRAHT "Yes stepmother?" 1.3 STEPMOTHER "This yard is despicable! You lazy, good for nothing, useless!" 1.4 Braht and Syestra are dirty, sad and covered in paint. BRAHT "But we were painting the house like you told us..." 1.5 Stepmother looks furious. STEPMOTHER "And that took you FOREVER, you good for nothing child!" 1.6 Syestra looks pleading up at her stepmother SYESTRA "You promised we could have lunch today..." 1.7 Stepmother STEPMOTHER "For two lazy children? BAH!" 1.8 Stepmother looks are her stepchildren with her hands on her hips. STEPMOTHER "I know just what to do with you brats" Page 2 The children get some helpful advice on their way to Baba Yaga. Description Ominous view of a strange house, unkempted, filed with unsettling garden decorations such as gnomes, plastic flamingos, plywood cutout folk art and overgrown plants. The house is pin and resembels a flamingo in it’s shape and features with long flamingo legs. Showing the children walking away from their home, dejected and lonely. Dialog STEPMOTHER "I know where to send bad stepchildren like you" Panel 2.1 2.2 Caption: "Now you’ll live with Baba Yaga, do everything she says." 2.3 A kind looking neighbor woman calls the children, conspiratorially to her. She is an old face full of smiles. Her features resemble a good version of Baba Yaga. She hands them cookies and a ham sandwich on a plate. The chldren are walking cautiously up to Baba Yaga’s house on flamingo feet. Baba Yaga looks at the children through the door menacingly. Large panel showing all the scary features of her tacky, unkempt yard and strange house. NEIGHBOR "Be care with Baba Yaga" 2.4 NEIGHBOR "Remember to be kind to everything you meet at her house." 2.5 Caption: "Remember to do everything she tells you to..." 2.6 Caption: "...or she’ll eat you up!" Page 3 The children use kindness to get some help. Panel 3.1 Description Syestra is at a vintage sewing machine. There are mice surrounding her and eyeing her cookies. Syestra looks at the mice offering a cookie. Dialog 3.2 SYESTRA "Here, would you like some?" MOUSE "Thanks a bunch. You know, we could help you out with this." 3.3 Syestra starts to get up. SYESTRA "Thank you so much!" MOUSE "One good turn deserves another" 3.4 Syestra walks out to the backyard where Braht is sitting down next to an empty koy pond with a holey bucket at his feet, feeding birds cookie crumbs. The birads look up at Braht and his sister. BRAHT "I just can’t fill this pound using a bucket with holes in it! It’s impossible!" 3.5 BIRDS "You helped us so we’ll help you. There is a nicde new bucket hidden over there in the grass." 3.6 Braht pulls a bucket out of a thick patch of tall grass with a smile. Baba Yaga and the children are sitting uncomfortably at the table. She is cutting up a roast pig with a apple in it’s mouth. The children are sleeping on the floor as the shadow of baba yaga in the doorway looms. BABA YAGA "Looks like you did all of your chores so well." 3.7 3.8 BABA YAGA "Maybe you won’t be so lucky tomorrow. Goodnight tastey children" Page 4 The Children contemplate their predicament Panel 4.1 Description Syestra and Braht are in the dark lying in bed. (One large full page panel) Dialog BRAHT "She wants us to fail you know." SYESTRA "I know." BRAHT "She’ll keep giving us harder and harder things to do until..." SYESTRA "I know." BRAHT "Until we’re diner." SYESTRA ("I know") Page 5 The Children make their escape. Panel 5.1 Description It’s dark and Syestra is up and getting her brother awake. Dialog SYESTRA "We HAVE to leave, now! You’re right, she’s never going to stop until we’re dead." 5.2 The children stop as a cat is in the door way. CAT "Going somewhere?" 5.3 Syestra is looking through a bag. SYESTRA "We were looking for you." 5.4 She pulls out the ham sandwich. SYESTRA "We thought you might be hungry." 5.5 The cat devours the sandwich. CAT "Well, you don’t have much finnesse, but I never turn down a sandwich" 5.6 The cat gestures over to a table where there is a comb and a beach towel. CAT "Take those with you. When you hear Baba Yaga come after you drop them on the ground." 5.7 The children take the objects and go our the back door. The cat is licking his paw while in the door frame we see Baba Yaga’s scrawny legs. BABA YAGA "You let them escape?" CAT "What can I say, I was won by a sandwich. More than you ever did for me." 5.8 Page 6 Baba Yaga begins the chase. Panel 6.1 Description The children come upon a creaky gate. The children oil it. The children run on. Baba Yaga comes up to the gate Dialog 6.2 6.3 6.4 BABA YAGA "You let them pass you stupid gate?" 6.5 Baba Yaga passes through the gate. GATE "Treated me better than YOU ever did." 6.6 View of several mice directing the children in the dark. MICE "This way, come on" 6.7 Baba Yaga leans down to talk to one of the mice left behind. BABA YAGA "You showed them the way you little vermin?" 6.8 THe mouse is in her bony hand. MOUSE "They treated us better than you ever did." Page 7 She then chases after the children. They use the towel and the comb to stop her. Description Baba Yaga continues to chase the children. (long panel showing Baba Yaga following behind the running children. Baba Yaga looking triumpant. BABA YAGA "There you are!" Dialog Panel 7.1 7.2 7.3 Syestra throws down the towel. 7.4 The towel turns into a canal between them and baba yaga. Baba Yaga climbs into a boat and looks hungrily at the children. BABA YAGA "You can[’t stop me. I’ll catch you yet!" 7.5 7.6 7.7 Braht throws down the comb. The comb turns into the kind neighbor who looks sternly at Baba Yaga while the children look surprised. Page 8 In which the children are saved by a kind neighbor. Panel 8.1 Description Baba Yaga looks at her sister who is standing on the bank of the canal, Baba Yaga is on a small boat. Baba Yaga glares. Dialog NEIGHBOR "It’s over Baba." 8.2 BABA YAGA "You bitch." 8.3 The neighbor bends down and pulls at the canal like it was just cloth. The neighbor pulls up the towel which is half towel and half canal with baba yaga still in it on her boat. The neighbor begins to fold a towel which has embroidery that looks like a woman on a small boat on water. The children look awed and amazed. BABA YAGA "That’s not fair!" 8.4 8.5 NEIGHBOR "Well now children" 8.6 The kind neighbor and the children begin to walk back home. NEIGHBOR "Lets have a little talk with your stepmother, shall we?"