Count Obsideo

In my ongoing quest to find an artist for Count Obsideo, I have posted an ad at Digital Webbing. I included the first five pages of the script. I figure that if I included it there, the world can now see it, and I should include it here as well.

I know I have mentioned my paranoid nature before, but there aren't a lot of details of the entire storyline or even the powers of Count Obsideo so I feel safe posting this. Besides, I have to break new ground to really bait the hook for the elusive carnivorous species called comic book artist.

Here it is...

PAGE ONE:
PANEL 1- The panel is black but for the glow of a light in the distance.

CAPTION
Such a simple thing.

PANEL 2- Small panel, extreme close-up of Count Obsideo’s eye. Some of his arm is covering his face beneath the eye. He’s straining in action but unclear exactly what he is doing.

CAPTION
One light.

PANEL 3- Move in closer to the glowing light. We can begin to tell it is a fire. Some of the immediate area around the fire is illuminated; a railway car and tracks.

CAPTION
In a world of darkness, sometimes it is all that’s needed.

PANEL 4- Small panel, extreme close-up of the top of Count Obsideo’s head. A large scaly hand is reaching to grab it.

PANEL 5- We can clearly tell now that the fire is in a railway yard. You can show the fire but Count Obsideo is still outside the panel. You can show a shadow of the following scene on one of the railway cars if you want. I don’t know if it matters to you yet, but the railway yard is in Kansas.

CAPTION
To show someone the way.

NOTE- Feel free to sprinkle other small panels of Count Obsideo locked in combat as long as the page is not too cluttered looking. Make sure all of them are extreme close-ups.

PAGE TWO:
PANEL 1- Splash page. Count Obsideo is fighting with Duke Dragon. Count Obsideo has the Duke in a headlock, which clearly takes great strength because the Duke is easily twice or three times his size. The Duke is breathing fire. The rail yard around them is in flames. Duke Dragon is wearing prison fatigues, black and white stripes. His clothes are ripped since he is usually normal size but grows into the monster. He recently escaped incarceration. Currently the Duke is trying to get Count Obsideo off of him before he runs out of breath.
Note- STRANGER SAVIOUR, PART ONE, is in large font across the page somewhere.

CAPTION
Occasionally the light needs a little help.

PANEL 2- Duke Dragon slams backwards into a train bed, crushing Count Obsideo.

SFX
TCHCRASH!

PAGE THREE:
PANEL 1- Duke Dragon goes down on one knee. His arms flail behind him trying to grab Count Obsideo.

DUKE DRAGON
Get…off me…freak!

PANEL 2- Count Obsideo seems to tighten his hold.

COUNT OBSIDEO
21% of oxygen is needed for optimum burning, exactly the percentage you need to breathe. I would save your breathe if I were you.

PANEL 3- A few puffs of smoke escape from the Duke’s nostrils as his eyes roll back into his head and he losses consciousness.

DUKE DRAGON
Wha….

PANEL 4- Duke Dragon falls onto his face. Count Obsideo lands behind him a few feet. Fire is all around them.

PANEL 5- Count Obsideo carries Duke Dragon through the fire. He has the Duke over his shoulder.

PANEL 6- Close up on Count Obsideo’s head as he realizes something happened. He just lost his super strength.

COUNT OBSIDEO
Oh, great.

PAGE FOUR:
Panel 1- Count Obsideo is partway underneath the still unconscious Duke Dragon. Count Obsideo no longer has the strength to move the Duke’s massive body off of him. A fire engine siren wails in the distance.

COUNT OBSIDEO
I suppose this is what I get for taking an easy job, practically in my own backyard, for once. Giant mutant salamanders in Guatemala, I can handle. One fire breathing runaway con in Kansas, obviously not so much.

SFX
WROOOOOO!
WROOOOOO!

Panel 2- Count Obsideo tries to push himself out from under Duke Dragon. No luck.

Panel 3- Count Obsideo tries again. No luck.

Panel 4- Count Obsideo eventually succeeds in rolling out from under the Duke. He is attempting to stand again. He and the Duke are at the edge of the blaze of fire.

COUNT OBSIDEO
How embarrassing.

PAGE FIVE:
Panel 1- We see the shadow of Count Obsideo fall across the still unconscious Duke Dragon’s back. The light from the flames exaggerate the silhouette. The sirens sound closer.

COUNT OBSIDEO
Well, my dragon friend, I place you in the hands of the almighty God and those of the authorities.
SFX
(Larger letters then last time.)
WROOOOOOO!
WROOOOOOO!

Panel 2- Close up of Count Obsideo from about the chest or waist up. His head is tilted down.

COUNT OBSIDEO
May you find…

Panel 3- Same shot of Count Obsideo as before. His head is tilted up. He is fading away.

COUNT OBSIDEO
…mercy.

Panel 4- The same shot as before but now Count Obsideo is completely invisible. It is like nothing is there.

Panel 5- Pull back and look down at the scene. A fire truck pulls up to the railway area with lights flashing. A police car is there too. Firefighters are rushing to get out of the vehicle and put the fire out. Maybe a police officer can be getting out of their car too. You can even draw a small BBQ joint if you pull back far enough, no customers though. The only other buildings that might be around the railway yard are a couple of warehouses. The fire is concentrated in one area of the railway yard but spreading fast. We can make out the spot where Count Obsideo left Duke Dragon. There is no sign of Count Obsideo.

PAGE SIX:
Panel 1- Close up of Count Obsideo’s mask on a mannequin head. The mannequin is a head only, like you would find in a hat store or something.

CAPTION
He’s called “Count Obsideo”.

Panel 2- Pull back to see the mannequin head is on a stand sitting on a desk. There is a large mirror with round lights across the top. There is a picture of Vincent Platt (head shot) taped to the mirror along with a few small posters for movies he has starred in. The movies have titles like “The Devil Hands” and “Space Zombies”. Count Obsideo’s gloves are on the desk along with pens, paper, several newspapers, a laptop computer and maybe a can of cola. In the reflection of the mirror we can see tall bookcases filled with books and an open door. Count Obsideo’s costume is hanging from the back of the open door on an ordinary clothes hanger. The open door leads to another room, but it’s hard to tell what kind of room. All of the light in the room comes from the open doorway.

CAPTION
It’s a name he came up with himself. It sounded like someone Boris Karloff would have played.