Sample of Friday the 13th Avatar Comcis Submission Script

FRIDAY THE 13th
REQUIEM
WRITTEN
by
Lee Gooden

PAGE ONE

(1 PANEL)

PANEL 1:
The night is illuminated by cold stark stars that salt a foreboding sky and a crescent moon tilted like an idiot's smile. There is something off about the night. We see the scene like the shots Orson Welles filmed of Xanadu in Citizen Kane; from the bottom up. We see a cornfield that has gone to rot after the corn season. There are dried corn stalks in random spots, the roots of the stalks are almost completely above the ground as if they were tentacle like legs that have tried to escape the earth. The stalks contain rotten ears of corn and fuzzy but black and grey corn silks. Jason is center stage. He is wearing a threadbare work shirt. The pocket is almost torn off. The sleeves of the shirt are ripped off just below the shoulder, showing Jason's considerable sized arms. His hands, arms and shirt are brownish red with dried blood. Jason is hefting a large blood stained machete. Jason's pants are ripped and frayed at the cuff. His boots are mud and blood splattered. His hockey mask is cracked in the upper left corner above the eye, revealing some blackened rancid flesh. This is Jason in all his frightful glory, Jason in his prime, a terrifying ass kicking Jason.

1-CAPTION
(On the top left side corner of the panel,)
THE NIGHT...

2-CAPTION
(On the bottom right side corner of the panel,)
...IS WRONG.

3-TITLE
FRIDAY THE 13TH
Bottom left corner of panel that stretches to the bottom middle of panel, (note to colorist: these letters are black, with tiny droplets of crimson to represent blood. I know, I know, cliché...but it works damn it.)

4-SUBTITLE
REQUIEM
(Directly below FRIDAY THE 13TH, some of the droplets of blood from the top have dripped down onto the word REQUIEM. And then more words below REQUIEM that read PART 1: DOORWAYS.

5-CREDIT INFO

(No dialogue)

PAGE TWO

PANEL 1

The panel stretches across the top of the page. Jason has reached the outside of the perimeter of the corn field. We can see the cornfield behind him. He has stopped his rapid walk towards his next murdering rampage, a ramshackle farm house, we can just make out the outline of the structure and rusty, beaten chicken wire fence is in the foreground. Framed by the wire is a crooked sign that reads, CRYSTAL LAKE FARMS.

(No dialogue)

PANEL 2
Cut to: A close up of Jason from the shoulders up.
He is a juggernaut of death. Behind him, near his shoulder we see the disembodied spirit of his mother whispering in his ear.

1-CAPTION
HIS FRENZIED RAGE HAS BEEN SPURNED ON FOR ALL THESE YEARS BY HIS MOTHER'S VOICE.
2-MRS. VOORES
KILL THEM JASON, KILL THEM ALL, MAKE THEM PAY!! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!
3-CAPTION
A VOICE SO COMPELLING, SO POWERFUL, A SIREN SONG THAT HAS BROUGHT HIM BACK FROM THE DEAD COUNTLESS TIMES, BACK FROM THE EDGE OF THE PITS OF HELL, TO KILL AGAIN AND AGAIN.
4-MRS. VOORES
KILL THEM! KILL! KILL! KILL!

(Until specified, Mrs. Voorhees spirit will be in every panel taunting Jason)

PANEL 3
Jason grasping the door to the farm house pulling it from its hinges.

(No dialogue)

PANEL 4
A rear view: Jason flying backwards away from the door. His body is bent at an impossible angle. His back is blackened and smoking from powder burns, rancid and raw meat bursts out from his body, including ropes of gangrened intestine; all of this is caused by the double blast of an over and under sawed-off double barrel shot-gun fired from inside the doorway by a stereotypical farmer dressed to the nines in stereotypical farmer duds; including, shit-kicker boots and bib-overalls. He has a big bomber joint attached to his lower lip. His face is covered with a scraggly beard and there is a wild look in his eyes as he peers over his granny- glasses, a ball-cap rests precariously on his head that reads, 'Git R done.'

5-SFX
BLAM! BLAM!

(No dialogue)

PANEL 5
The farmer reloads his shot gun. Both barrels are smoking.

(No dialogue)

PANEL 6
Cut to: Spent shot-gun shells falling to the ground.

(No dialogue)

PAGE THREE

PANEL 1
The farmer is standing over Jason's body. He is using the shot gun as a probe, pushing it into Jason.

(No dialogue)

PANEL 2
A close up on the Farmer's face. His grin is all yellow teeth.

1-FARMER
DAMN, IF YOU AINT ONE BIG UGLY SON OF A BITCH.

PANEL 3
Farmer pulls the trigger and fires both barrels into Jason point blank range. Pieces of Jason fly up into the air.

2- SFX
BLAM! BLAM!

(No dialogue)

Panel 4
The farmer hawks up a loogey from deep in his throat and spits phlegm and a gooey mouth full of chewing tobacco juice onto Jason.

3-SFX
HAAAAWK!
4-SFX
SPLOOCH!

Panel 5
The farmer has turned to go back inside. The door to his house is hanging from a single bent hinge. There is a blast hole through the door where the farmer fired. Jason has sat up, but the farmer is facing away from Jason.

4-Mrs. Voorhees
GET UP! GET UP AND KILL HIM JASON!

Panel 6
POV from inside the house looking towards the door. Jason's machete followed by his forearm bursts through the farmer's stomach.

(No dialogue)

Panel 7
Jason slices the farmer from stomach to the top of the head.

(No dialogue)

Panel 8
The farmer's body separates into two clean parts like an anatomical cross section. His brain is visible in both sides of his cleaved skull.

(No dialogue)

PAGE FOUR

Panel 1
Interior of the farm house: A rear view of Jason standing inside the doorway just across the threshold in a rustic foyer. A banister and some worn steps to an antiquated staircase can be seen through a large, gaping, dripping, hole in Jason.
(No dialogue)

Panel 2
Jason's POV: To the left of the staircase is a well lit but small hallway. At the end of the hallway is a set of large black steel double doors with a video camera moving back and forth. It is mounted above the upper frame of the doors.

(No dialogue)

Panel 3
Jason's POV:To the right of the stair case is a huge stuffed raven perched on a log. Think Poe and the Addam's Family.

(No dialogue)

Panel 4
Jason climbs the stairs.

(No dialogue)

Panel 5
Cut to: The black double doors spring open

1-SFX
Slam!

(No dialogue)

Panel 6
Jason pauses in mid-step on the stairs and leans slightly over the railing to see and listen in the direction of the double doors.