THE COLD SNAP- CHAPTER 1
Page 1: 4 panels, landscape.
Panel 1: Horizon shot of the Gate Watch in SALVAGER VILLAGE. The WATCHER stands silhouetted on a junky radio tower that has been refashioned into a watchman’s post. The gate is an arch cobbled together from rusted pieces of an otherworldly kind of metal. The landscape is barren and snowy, and the weather is overcast and dreary. Mountains are visible in the distance. The WATCHER is wearing puffy, insulated clothing and sits next to a spotlight and a radio. They sit in a small chair huddled up for warmth. Their breath is visible as mist.
Panel 2: The WATCHER stands up as a light is visible on the horizon followed by a trail dispersed snow. They stumble to reach for the spotlight as if caught off-guard. The light draws closer.
Panel 3: The WATCHER uses the spotlight and waves. We see a vehicle getting closer that resembles a Snowmobile. The figure on the snowmobile is visible waving back as he approaches.
Panel 4: The Snowmobile vehicle zooms through the gate and past the camera, revealing a thruster of some kind that keeps the back half of the vehicle afloat. Snow is scattered as it hovers past and the light of the thruster trails behind it. The WATCHER has sat back down again, seemingly recovering from the surprise.
Page 2: Panel 1: Various VILLAGERS watch from their doorways as the vehicle slows to a halt. This is AARON’s vehicle. The village seems to a reappropriated industrial station with various hodgepodge garages and shelters made from salvage to suit the needs of the VILLAGERS. Panel 2: AARON’s vehicle slows to a halt, remaining on the wide shot. He is getting off the vehicle. The second vehicle is ANGELO’s. We see a graveyard beyond the fence of the settlement. It has many shoddily made wooden crosses planted in the snowy ground. The disturbed snow from the vehicles blows away and falls to the ground.