Comic Scripts

Shelly’s Captive pages 41-50

Page 41: 3 panel
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Panel One: (wide panel) Shelly: “You probably don't feel it yet because you were a lot bigger than a dog before you got shrunk,"

Panel Two: (wide panel) Shelly: “But if we don't do something fast, you'll run out of breath and suffocate!"

Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: Schatzie was a punker chick the same age as Shelly and Nick. She was in the process of being scolded by her father…

Father: “Schatzie, did you assist that homeless man who won the lotto last week?"

Schatzie: “Yeah, dad, but he needed it!"

Page 42: 4 panels
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Panel One: Father: “Honey, I'm an anthropologist. I made a pledge to never use time travel for monetary gain, and to never divulge future knowledge, or to interfere with this primitive society!”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Father: “That includes sports statistics and lotto results! I realize you're 14 years old now and you perceive yourself as an adult, but you need to start thinking like an adult!"

Panel Three: Caption: Just then there was a knock at the door…

Father: “We'll deal with this later,"

Panel Four: Schatzie's dad opened the door…

"Hi, I'm Shelly Capehart. I need to talk to Schatzie."

Page 43: 4 panels
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Panel One: Schatzie: “Hey, I know you from school!"

Panel Two: Shelly: “Let's cut to the chase,"

Panel Three: (wide panel) Shelly: “are you guys from the future? I have a problem that only a time traveler can help me with."

Father: “I don't know what you're talking about,"

Panel Four: (wide panel) Caption: Shelly pulled Nick out of her jacket pocket and showed them.

Shelly: “I've got a little guy who's gonna suffocate unless he receives futuristic medical attention. Can you help me?"

Page 44: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Meanwhile, at the university...

Sound effect: Crash!

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: Six skinheads climbed through a window of a building at Matheson University that they broke with a baseball bat…

Cheesedog: “We're getting a lot of money to get that meteor, so let's thrash this place!"

Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: The skinheads broke everything in the room, until:

Cheesedog: “I found the meteor!"

Page 45: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Meanwhile, back at Schatzie's house...

"The truth is, Shelly,”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Father: “I and my family were sent here from the distant future to study your primitive culture."

Panel Three: (wide panel) Shelly: “Can you help Nick?"

Father: “Well, I can't currently restore him to normal size, because it could alter future history. I need to get my temporal integrator fixed first. However, I can analyze, his physiology to see if he's okay.”

Page 46: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Schatzie's dad pulled out a device from a shelf and turned it on and passed it over Nick's body several times, slowly.

Panel Two: (wide panel) Father: “This device is detecting a dimesional membrane surrounding Nick's body. It is consistent with dimensional braning technology used in our own century with miniaturization weapons."

Panel Three: (wide panel) Shelly: “Will Nick be okay?"

Father: “Yes, the dimensional brane reduces the size of air molecules that Nick breathes in, and it will also allow his miniaturized body to process normal-sized food and water. Wherever the technology came from that shrunk him must be quite sophisticated! He will be okay!"

Page 47: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Nick: “Thanks, you saved my life!"

Father: “The device I used on you will make you immortal, Nick! You won’t need food or water while you’re shrunk.”

Panel Two: (wide panel) [Shelly told Schatzie's dad] Shelly: “I hope you can keep this a secret, I don't want anyone finding out about Nick. I'm keeping him."

Panel Three: (wide panel) Father: “Well, Shelly, we really have no choice... you kind of have us over a barrel. You're the only one who knows we're really time travelers. By the way, how did your friend end up getting shrunk?"

Shelly: “ A meteorite shrunk him!”

Page 48: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Father: “It must've been extra-terrestrial in origin, an ancient weapon of some sort."

Panel Two: (wide panel) Father: “Humans from the future fought against aliens who wanted to invade Earth five thousand years ago, and this must be the remains of a space craft that was partially annihilated.”

Panel Three: (wide panel) Schatzie: “Do you want to go hang out?" [Schatzie asked Shelly.]

Shelly: “Yeah, we have a lot to talk about. You're the only friend I have who knows about Nick being shrunk."

Page 49: 4 panels
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Panel One: Schatzie: “And you're the only person who knows that I'm a time traveler!"

Panel Two: Caption: The girls went to a fast food place and got food…

Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: then took it to a remote stretch of beach in Bullet Bay...

Schatzie: “It's good to finally have a friend who knows the truth about me,"

Panel Four: (wide panel) Shelly: “I'm just glad your dad didn't have a gizmo that could restore Nick to normal size."

Page 50: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Shelly’s cell-phone rang…

Shelly: “Hello? Oh, hi professor. We're going to be on the news tonight? Where am I? I'm in Bullet Bay! I'll meet you on the corner of Pomeroy and Dolliver! Oh, and my friend Schatzie is with me!"

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: Shelly put her phone back in the inner pocket of her jacket.

Schatzie: “Who was that?"

Panel Three: (wide panel) Shelly: “That was the professor I gave the meteorite to. He's picking us up to take us to Matheson University. We're going to be on the eleven o'clock news!"