We are excited to announce that our new issue, exploring the life of The Goose after leaving the League of Powers in less than perfect circumstances is now available online via Comicsy in both Printed and PDF formats. The printers have done a lovely job with Dan's colours and we only have a limited number of these available, so you should act soon if you want to get your hands on that. Go here to buy your copy, and while you're there why not pick up some more of Dan and Amsel's work, including their collaborations with Underfire Comics.
To celebrate and get you in the mood, here's a preview of the first five pages (full size images are under the cut).
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
What Came Before
Though the artwork may have been shredded for hamsters' nests it turns out that hard-drives are sometimes made of stronger stuff. The file was heavily corrupted, but we have managed to salvage and clean up the script of the last three pages of League of Powers #247, the last known appearence of The Goose in any ACC publications, and the inspiration for the start of our new series.
Page 25
Panel 1
An
energy bolt blasts into the side of the panel above the head of a ducking MYTH.
NATHALIE: [off panel, radio voice] ‘Livewire, status
report.’
LIVEWIRE:
[off panel] ‘It’s too late!’
Panel 2
Pull
back to LIVEWIRE and myth on the top of a burnt out, building-sized robot, in a
load of girders that once might have been a command nodule. MYTH is crouched in
a defensive position behind a bit of blasted hardware and he looks unhappy
about it. LIVEWIRE looks disgusted with the technology before her.
LIVEWIRE: ‘The thing’s completely burnt out.’
MYTH: ‘My
pages are blank, Live’.’
Panel 3
Cut
to the ATOM TWINS, BILLY THE KID and THE GOOSE, all sheltering in a crater. NATAN
ATOM is unconscious between them all, NATHALIE ATOM talks on her suit radio, in
command, THE GOOSE looks lost and BILLY THE KID looks like he sees a threat
coming.
NATHALIE: ‘Then why are they still coming? I thought
that Brainbox’s command routines were being augmented by the mega-suit.’
LIVEWIRE: [on radio] ‘That’s right.’
NATHALIE: ‘But he’s gone, so the suit should have no
more effect?
LIVEWIRE: ‘I know, but it looks like the structure is
acting as a synaptic hub, and now it’s baselined to a feedback loop that just
says kill.
Panel 4
Pull
back even further to show a mass of people coming to kill THE LEAGUE OF POWERS.
They flow round the broken-down robot in the middle of the shot, its arm
outstretched to show that it had been fighting the League, and caused the
crater that most of them now sit in. BILLY THE KID is sending out a laser beam
from his eyes to blast back the closest of the horde.
NATHALIE: ‘Damn. There’s not enough time to change the
chemical structure of something that big before
they overwhelm the city, and there’s no guarantee that that’ll even work.’
BILLY: ‘I can’t stop them!’
THE
GOOSE: ‘I can.’
Page 26
Panel 1
SPLASH
PAGE.
The
whole thing is one panel, but the panel outline is in the shape of the
silhouette of the giant robot. In the centre of the page there is THE GOOSE, powering
up with her head up and her arms outstretched and leaching energy into the
overarching structure of the robot. BILLY and NATHALIE look at her, but they
are not important. Around her we see the faces of BRAINBOX’s slave army, they
are just ordinary people. White leaches into their heads as their minds are
drained.
CAPTIONS: ‘It’s all in the structure’
‘I can connect out, find their minds
with mine.’
‘Only those already linked.’
‘And drain them of purpose.’
Page 27
Panels 1-6
A
succession of panels showing members of the army of mind slaves suddenly
realising the futility of their existence and either dying spontaneously, or
committing suicide. Essentially, the
entire army gives up and dies.
CAPTION: ‘Is this then freedom? When the pressure to
act is lifted, what remains?’
Final Panel
BILLY
and NATHALIE look on horrified at the carnage. There is accusation towards THE
GOOSE as well.
BILLY: ‘What have you done?’
GOOSE: ‘I gave them... nothing, a void where their
lives once were. I thought they would just... stop, that all I was taking was
what Brainbox had left behind.’
NATHALIE: ‘This... this is too much.’
END
CAPTION: ‘What next, for the Goose?’
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