Comic Book
Page 1 We are introduced to the Stepmother along with Braht and
Systra
Panel Description Dialog
1.1 A very stern looking woman Caption: "Once upon a time..."
is standing in the front yard
of a Floridian home in the STEPMOTHER
suburbs. "BRAHT! SYESTRA! Come here you
beasts!"
1.2 Two hungry looking children SYESTRA BRAHT
in tattered clothes run to the "Yes stepmother?"
angry woman.
1.3 She is pointing to a rusted STEPMOTHER
lawnmower and a badly spotted "This yard is despicable! You
yellow green lawn. lazy, good for nothing, useless!"
1.4 Braht and Syestra are dirty, BRAHT
sad and covered in paint. "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 SYESTRA
her stepmother "You promised we could have lunch
today..."
1.7 Stepmother STEPMOTHER
"For two lazy children? BAH!"
1.8 Stepmother looks are her STEPMOTHER
stepchildren with her hands "I know just what to do with you
on her hips. brats"
Page 2 The children get some helpful advice on their way to Baba
Yaga.
Panel Description Dialog
2.1 Ominous view of a strange STEPMOTHER
house, unkempted, filed with "I know where to send bad
unsettling garden decorations stepchildren like you"
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.
2.2 Showing the children walking Caption: "Now you’ll live with
away from their home, dejected Baba Yaga, do everything she
and lonely. says."
2.3 A kind looking neighbor NEIGHBOR
woman calls the children, "Be care with Baba Yaga"
conspiratorially to her.
2.4 She is an old face full of NEIGHBOR
smiles. Her features resemble "Remember to be kind to everything
a good version of Baba Yaga. you meet at her house."
She hands them cookies and a
ham sandwich on a plate.
2.5 The chldren are walking Caption: "Remember to do
cautiously up to Baba Yaga’s everything she tells you to..."
house on flamingo feet.
2.6 Baba Yaga looks at the Caption: "...or she’ll eat you
children through the door up!"
menacingly. Large panel
showing all the scary features
of her tacky, unkempt yard and
strange house.
Page 3 The children use kindness to get some help.
Panel Description Dialog
3.1 Syestra is at a vintage sewing
machine. There are mice
surrounding her and eyeing
her cookies.
3.2 Syestra looks at the mice SYESTRA
offering a cookie. "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 BRAHT
backyard where Braht is "I just can’t fill this pound
sitting down next to an empty using a bucket with holes in it!
koy pond with a holey bucket It’s impossible!"
at his feet, feeding birds
cookie crumbs.
3.5 The birads look up at Braht BIRDS
and his sister. "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.
3.7 Baba Yaga and the children BABA YAGA
are sitting uncomfortably at "Looks like you did all of your
the table. She is cutting up a chores so well."
roast pig with a apple in it’s
mouth.
3.8 The children are sleeping BABA YAGA
on the floor as the shadow "Maybe you won’t be so lucky
of baba yaga in the doorway tomorrow. Goodnight tastey
looms. children"
Page 4 The Children contemplate their predicament
Panel Description Dialog
4.1 Syestra and Braht are in the BRAHT
dark lying in bed. (One large "She wants us to fail you know."
full page panel)
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 Description Dialog
5.1 It’s dark and Syestra is up SYESTRA
and getting her brother awake. "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 CAT
in the door way. "Going somewhere?"
5.3 Syestra is looking through a SYESTRA
bag. "We were looking for you."
5.4 She pulls out the ham SYESTRA
sandwich. "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 CAT
table where there is a comb "Take those with you. When you
and a beach towel. hear Baba Yaga come after you drop
them on the ground."
5.7 The children take the objects
and go our the back door.
5.8 The cat is licking his paw BABA YAGA
while in the door frame we see "You let them escape?"
Baba Yaga’s scrawny legs.
CAT
"What can I say, I was won by a
sandwich. More than you ever did
for me."
Page 6 Baba Yaga begins the chase.
Panel Description Dialog
6.1 The children come upon a
creaky gate.
6.2 The children oil it.
6.3 The children run on.
6.4 Baba Yaga comes up to the gate 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 MICE
the children in the dark. "This way, come on"
6.7 Baba Yaga leans down to BABA YAGA
talk to one of the mice left "You showed them the way you
behind. 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.
Panel Description Dialog
7.1 Baba Yaga continues to chase
the children. (long panel
showing Baba Yaga following
behind the running children.
7.2 Baba Yaga looking triumpant. BABA YAGA
"There you are!"
7.3 Syestra throws down the towel.
7.4 The towel turns into a canal
between them and baba yaga.
7.5 Baba Yaga climbs into a boat BABA YAGA
and looks hungrily at the "You can[’t stop me. I’ll catch
children. you yet!"
7.6 Braht throws down the comb.
7.7 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 Description Dialog
8.1 Baba Yaga looks at her sister NEIGHBOR
who is standing on the bank of "It’s over Baba."
the canal, Baba Yaga is on a
small boat.
8.2 Baba Yaga glares. BABA YAGA
"You bitch."
8.3 The neighbor bends down and
pulls at the canal like it was
just cloth.
8.4 The neighbor pulls up the BABA YAGA
towel which is half towel "That’s not fair!"
and half canal with baba yaga
still in it on her boat.
8.5 The neighbor begins to fold NEIGHBOR
a towel which has embroidery "Well now children"
that looks like a woman on
a small boat on water. The
children look awed and amazed.
8.6 The kind neighbor and the NEIGHBOR
children begin to walk back "Lets have a little talk with your
home. stepmother, shall we?"