Dave: Zombie Hunter

“Listen to the colour of your dreams...”

John Lennon

And so it comes to this.

SL AM!

trapped in an awfully wrong-smelling bathroom with flesh-eating zombies who think I’m finger lickin’ good!

Why am i here? Because I made the mistake of caring, of putting the interest of mankind before my own!

Just a few days ago I was on top of the world, I had it all: chicks, beer, chicks, an environmentally responsible career and chicks. but now...

SLAM!

Oh fuck! Dave, this may be it big fella. This may be it!

ok you freaks! today’s lesson is zombie killing 101, what you need to know to get the job done.

and class ...

part One: road trip

IS IN!!

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2 nights ago.

hello?

Is this Dave of dave’s zombie hunting and grocery delivery service?

grocery delivery?! what the fuck? dude it’s four am!

is this some kind of joke? is that you rove?

my name is dr magus and i can assure you that this is no joking matter. please take a look outside your window.

SL A P !

i trust i have your Attention dave? now listen and listen good. there has been a terrible accident and as a result mankind now stands on the precipice of absolute destruction!

wait a minute, the zombie hunting thing was a joke! we put an advert in the yellow pages and... tap water? from the tap? why would i drink tap water when i’ve still got half a slab of beer in the fridge?

Dave, my life is in danger as we speak! we have no time! now listen, have you drunk tap water in the last 24 hours?

thank god for that - i’ve reached you in time! i need you to meet me at the defence research facility in apple county.

I’m surrounded at the moment and I don’t know how long I can avoid detection, so make haste! Together I’m sure we can ...

DOC? Are you there? shit!

yawn!! what is it baby? are you ready for another go around?

no vera! i don’t need another go around, cos we’re already fucked! everyone’s fucked! the whole town is full of zombies!!

woah! slow down dave, you seem tense, are you sure there’s nothing I can do to help you relax?

WOMAN!

I’ve got to save the world!!

15 minutes later ...

WHOD! So we load up and head over to chuck’s place (my best mate). best I can figure somewhere some wires got crossed at the defence facility and now I’m gunning around town in a honda capping the undead with my COLT .45.

sounds like a song from ‘destroyer’ doesn’t it?

b ANG!

bANG!

bANG!

!

A b NG

Let’s get inside.

CHUCK, open up man, it’s me, DAVE!!

What??

How the fuck am I supposed to do that??

Shit! they’re getting closer see if you can distract them!

Improvise vera, You’re good at that!

CHUCK! it’s DAVE!! come on man! open up!!

yeah, you keep knocking that door hero!

DUDE!

dave, fuck man with all the banging! now’s not a good time for a visit.

less of a shit I could not give right now chuck. let us in!

!

SLAM

dude, The entire town is overrun with ZOMBIES! you need to take us to the Defence Research Facility in Apple County!

the what now...?

Come on man, don’t you remember all the work you did there last year?

last year. ok chuck Just let me know if this hurts.

hmmmmm...

well these clips are pinch...

fuck!

pain!! really PAInFUL, lots of hurt!! really hurting now!!

oh... Yeah, the uh, medical research work. thanks for reminding me.

WELL DAVE, I’d love to help you, I REALLY WOULD. but I kinda have company at the moment!

COMPANY!?

remember LAURIE? from high school?

Laurie Big boobS?! DUDE! NICE WORK! How’d you manage that??

Urrrm, Is Laurie still here CHUCK?

Well I was walking home last night when she literally jumped out of the bushes at me.

well yeah.

She’s in the bedroom.

why do you ask?

Chuck! dude, LAURIE’S a fucking zombie!!

I can’t believe you shagged a corpse and didn’t notice!

oh yes way!!

What?!

No way!

dude it’s laurie big boobs!

boobs aren’t everything

bANG! At least she went out with a bang.

15 minutes later ...

aw yeah!!

let’s rock

next stop apple county!

I was waiting for cheap day.

cheap day’s a fuckin’ scam dude. a scam!

well this fuckin’ sucks!

What? are you serious?

it says it’s pre-pay.

vampires I’d understand. but zombies?

we’re in the middle of a zombie apocalypse! dodgy bastards!

dude, I need to completely fill my car and you’re asking me to pre-pay? Can you just switch it on properly for me?

I don’t think you understand man.

I’m trying to save the world!

i’m sorry sir. but I’ll need you to pay up front before I’ll switch on the pump.

we do accept visa sir.

dude! switch on the fucking pump!! I don’t give a rat fuck if you think I’ll drive off without paying, because I can clearly see that you have the fucking car and it’s fucking license plate on your fucking closed circuit fucking monitor!

Now! I need to fill my fucking car, right to the fucking top and my best guess isn’t going to cut it!

hey! come back here!

then I must inform you sir that I cannot provide the service you request and I must ask you to now exit the fucking store.

sneaky mother fucker!

dave! god damn it woman! I’m trying to save the world here. there’s no time to fool arou...

ah shit...

oh...

DAVE! help!

chuck!

hold on DUDE!

i regret nothing!

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vera...

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gimme some sugar baby...

hey guys, I hate to ruin this great bruce campbell homage, but we’ve got guests. please tell me that’s not the fucking montys

great. it’s them, the world’s happiest pop stars.

Jolly Good afternoon friends. having a spot of trouble? oh father monty We’re out of fuel and all these ZOMBIES are around

pay before you fucking pump!

Well climb inside the MONTY van and join us on a fun-filled ride full of thrills and…

So who are you meant to be?

Didn’t you get the memo pal? grunge is dead! ha!

Can it father monty, we’ve all seen the show!

trevor monty, right?

well trevor unless you’re one of the fucking Beatles ‘pal’, I think you’re about three decades short of a reality.

oh you didn’t like that? What ya gonna do about it tough guy? Use your ‘summer of love’ powers on me?

GOnna hit me with some ‘love is all you need’ action?

here’s an idea! why don’t you take the last train to clarksville and check out itchycoo park with Henery the eighth, ya david cassidy wannabe!

now are you gonna ‘help!’ us or what?!

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TREVOR! Oh my lord!

TREVOR I’ll have no excuses.

but...

one punch?!

Now I think we need to apologise to this young man, the MONTY way.

oh dad...

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3 nights ago.

Congratulations, my love. We’ve done it!

Batch 24A has successfully replicated the original experiment.

You are amazing, Tiberius.

You make me feel so alive.

How do you mean, darling?

Funny you should put it that way, Eduardo.

it is time for me to tell you the truth Eduardo. a truth I have been keeping inside all these long years.

It all started back in 1944. May 17th, to be exact. I was sixteen years old. I had faked my birth certificate in order to enlist and fight the Germans.

I had quickly c0me to the attention of my superiors for my intuitive medical knowledge and my skill with a gun. why yes, darling. you certainly know how to handle a pistol! toward the end of the war, our unit volunteered for a top secret mission...

operation: gehanna

Please, go ahead my love while I soap your back.

hello mate!

We had been ordered to infiltrate a secret Nazi base where our Spies had reported that some sort of Top Secret experiments were being conducted.

What we found there...

achtung!!!

... I will never forget!!

englanders!

BKAM! BKAM!

attack!

bbRRRrraAApPpp!!

ungh!

bbBBbBBrrrRRrRrraAApPpPPp!!

DAMN it!!

Wayne’s gone ape shit again!

OH YEAH, BABY!!

sarge! behind you!

urk!

er ist meiner!!

ARGH!

unh!

BKAM! BKAM!

mein Auge!

magus, What the hell is that stuff?

BKAM!

Sir, i fear that chemical may in fact be the secret experiment...

nazi freak!!

bollocks... you mean?

wayne! wait!!!

Hey Sarge, it’s dead. all’s fine. just Relax. what the...

What the hell is happening, Magus? What was that liquid?

I have no idea, Sir. I’ve never seen anything like this!

But it looks like it brought that thing back to life!

come in tango one, do you read? over.

this is tango one, go ahead.

tango one, you’ve got a bunch of Jerry headed your way. You need to get out of there now!

Negative, we have a situation in here, We need more time! over.

roger that tango but evac is already en route. e.t.a. is five minutes. bring it home. over and out.

blast it all!

Whatever that shit was in that test tube, we can’t let Jerry keep it. it’s far too dangerous! magus! give me all your grenades son, and get the hell out of here.

I’ve got a mess to tidy up!

A RA A

AR RGH

I knew then as I do now, that this amazing life restoring chemical the Nazi’s had developed was the future of mankind. No more sickness, no more death.

Tell Great Britain I love her!

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I just couldn’t destroy it all!

SHA

BOOM!

i just couldn’t.

...I brought the notes back with me. But I never reported them. I kept them to myself and wrote my thesis at cambridge around them.

the Sarge never made it out. and I...

OOhH!!

eduardo!

oh, it stings!Â

Oh dear! we’d better get you to the infirmary.

oh this stings worse than that u.T.I we had last month!

Don’t you worry, Pumpkin, we’ll have you cleaned up in a jiffy.

just try to relax eduardo.

everything’s going to be alright...

Welcome back. Where were we? Oh yeah, toilet, zombies, gunfire, etc.

well there’s a bit more to tell you before we get to here and it starts with seven hours of the montys singing their hits on the bus ride from hell!

1 night ago.

the defence research facility. apple county.

JENNIFER. We’re relying on you to take care of the bus.

i still don’t understand why we’re here. this isn’t my problem!

so If there’s trouble, lock the doors, toot the horn and we’ll come running.

great story trevor. thanks for sharing.

part two: the facility I was involved in some research here a little while ago...

the memories.

all the things he did to me.

but why did i have to pose that way for science?

Why?

the photos he took. he said it was for science.

ok, DR MAGUS and his team should be inside. With any luck he’ll have a solution to this problem and...

uh dave we’re getting a ticket.

what the fuck?!

no need to get hostile sir. you’re in violation of the parking code as signed and you’ve been fined in accordance with regulation...

HEY!!

Asshole! what’s going on? hang on dude, i’m here to save the world! notice all the zombies roaming around?!

Fuck you, you filthy waste of tax dollars!!

Sir I’m afraid once the ticket’s printed there is nothing further I can do...

fucking really?!

I hope Satan has a parking violation the size of this bus to jam up your ass every single day you're in hell

Are you threatening me sir?

Dave Zombie Hunter doesn’t threaten.

Dave Zombie Hunter does!!!

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TREVOR!!!

Perhaps you’re not such a fuckwit TREVOR.

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Alright gang, let’s go!

vera, don’t get too close!

vera!! no!!!

R H R H G G R A !!

A R A A AA

shit!

stand firm people!

TooTtoot TooTtoot

Oh no!

Jenny must be in trouble!

now what?!

Not at all Trevor.

There’s nothing really going on here.

Oh well let’s all head out there right now shall we?

Really TREVOR? Well I don’t like your fucking face.

Let’s go check it out shall we?

I don’t like your tone DAVE.

Are you suggesting we don’t?

how do you like that?!

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DAD! JENNY!

for. fuck.

Sake.

CHUCK, what is it?

Who is that??

no!!! you!

It hurts.

It hurts. it hurts.

I can never have kids!!!

You... you fucking bastard!!

There will never be a little CHUCK-dude to play footy with...

chuck, what the fuck?!

little chuck-dude.

No... NO!!

NY A AAH!

Oh, You want a piece of me, huh?

Do ya?

You want an autograph or a photo, is that what you want?

you want to axe my show and cancel my recording contract because I’m not ‘hip’ anymore.

Is that it?

Well come on!!!

I. AM. good!

I AM talented!

ARGH!

I AM a monty!! mmr MM MMFRMRF!

CHUCK!?

CHUCK!!

b ANG! bANG!

click click

VERA... shit...!

click

fuck.

we gotta move.

TREVOR we’re leaving!

Come on!

let’s go VERA, the hippy’s fucked

ah shit.

It’s time for FATHER MONTY...

fear not dave!

what th...?

...to take out

the

trash!!

Come on VERA, let’s go find CHUCK,

he ran off in this direction.

This has to be it.

but...

Where... is CHUCK?

I don’t feel very good. go on dave. I’m done for.

Uh... yeah...

Come on babe get up and let’s do this thing!

With LAURIE BIG BOOBS?

No VERA, I’m not leaving you here to die vera. just inside this room is DR MAGUS. he’ll have the cure for the ZOMBIE virus coursing through your veins and you can continue living a full and active life for years to come.

You’re right DAVE. No ZOMBIE is gonna get the better of me.

that’s my girl!

Now, you go run a distraction, while I figure out this damn door!

now let’s see here.

try putting in his birthday!

yes... cos I know what that is...

dave hurry!

magus! it’s dave zombie hunter, open up!

click click

fuck! DAVE you’re out of rounds!?

magus!!! fuck!!!

click

vera, baby...

what the...?!

don’t just stand there!

get the flippin’ door open!

oh! oh...

You’d better come in quickly young man.

... *

uh... sure.

You and your friends.

Come on, quickly.

dear me, Are you alright?

yes. yes I am.

No we’re not alright, VERA has been bitten.

Hi. I’m DAVE, you called me about saving the world.

By a zombie.

and CHUCK has disappeared and we need DR. MAGUS. are you him?

I’m glad you’ve made it here DAVE, but I’m afraid you may be too late.

they’re all dead.

magus! snap out of it man.

it was so fast...

i discovered that fact too late...

experimental, but yes.

...for some. fortunately my dear,

vera’s bitten. do you have an antidote?

not so for you!

WHOA! Hang on!

Nobody mentioned anything about a fucking needle!

though it’s only effective if the infection is less than 48 hours old

my dear how else did you think we were going to deliver the cure?

You’ll be totally dead in less than a week if you don’t grow up!

nUh uh, you bastards have been trying that on me since I was two!

Come now it’s just like a little mosquito bite.

I’m yet to have a mosquito bite deaden my arm for whole fucking week!

well. yeah.

fine!

a

son of

bitch!

Is that door gonna hold?

If you stupid morons don’t help me out with some of that antidote, then pretty soon it won’t matter!

It has so far.

bm p b mp b mp

Yeah settle down TREVOR, we’re getting to you ok.

Women and children first man, jeez.

I know you don’t I son?

I’m TREVOR MONTY.

Oh yes, I did love your show

What was that song of yours that was a hit?

Oh yes, Time To Love.

That was... our song.

Doc. I need you to take me back to the start, how did it all begin?

You’re right DAVE.

It is time to come clean.

As a medical student I was exceptional, a protege if you will. My class mates resented me for my brilliance. But I cared not, lonely as I was, my work was my world.

I’ve been holding this inside for too long.

Please sit down and I’ll start at the beginning.

It truly all started to come together for me when I met a brilliant exchange student from Portugal.

His name was EDUARDO RICARDO and he showed me what a sham my life and my studies up until that point had been.

Go on Doc.

EDUARDO and I, we began a torrid affair.

Our love was unstoppable, if somewhat painful...

...as EDUARDO introduced me to the ways of brown love.

What the fuck!? I wanted to know how this whole zombie thing got started!!

Oh. oh! How embarrassing.

Um, I.. uh...

bmp bmp kkrr rrkk kk bmp bmp kr k b mp

Look Doc, we don’t have time for this right now.

We need to know how to get the antidote out and fast!

bmp bmp

bbmmpp bbmmpp bbmmpp

k rr K K

Well, making the antidote is quite simple actually and administering to the public at large is just a matter of releasing it into the town’s water supply.

we could just flush it down the toilet. No one’ll notice. Town water tastes like shit already.

are you quite finished mr hilarity?

Boys, please...

My dad’s not here to save you DAVE

...Let’s focus on the matter at hand, so we can get back to hearing more about EDUARDO from the good doctor!

fine.

kRAAKK

k rk

fine also!

don’t push me.

Is there a back door out of here doc?

settle down trevor.

the other exit leads to the rest of the facility

which is over-run.

But it appears we have no choice.

yes Ok, quickly then, follow me.

DR MAGUS can I hear the rest of your story later?

Why yes, of course my dear.

hey magus, we’re gonna need to find some ammo

maybe you should try conserving rounds.

shut up trevor.

kA SmaSh

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bbmmpp

oh man little chuck dude I’m so sorry

huh?

Jenny Monty?

now that you’re all caught up...

EDUARDO and I had just mixed our first successful batch of

DOC, you have to tell me how this started.

experiment 5038135, when poor EDUARDO slipped on the soap and hurt himself.

It was an accident DAVE. I’d discovered the secret of immortality. Neverending life, should you wish it.

the soap?

When he fell, he must have knocked 5038135 into the spa, when I returned to the laboratory I found the beaker was empty along with the spa water.

Yes. We were enjoying a victory spa and we’d lost track of the soap.

Poor EDUARDO.

Poor EDUARDO, he... he...

Sweet mother of god...

woah.

Fuck sake VERA is that all you...

!

H S CCRRA

Is that all you got you pus bag??

Come on!!

Oh christ, here we go again!

EDUARDO?!

EDUARDO!

SL A

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bANG!

bANG!

Oh TREVOR, you’ve been bit!

Did EDUARDO do that too you?

He’s dead you idiot. You can’t talk to him.

yes

You must let me talk to him

NO!

Please TREVOR, please.

I have to end it, I can’t leave him like this.

DOC...

EDUARDO It is I, TIBERIUS MAGUS. your little love muffin.

I’m going to open the door now.

Don’t be afraid.

No DAVE. Please Lower the gun.

I have come to set you free my love, as you once did for me.

It’s time to love, and to cry, and ask, wonder why It’s time to hug, and to laugh, and to dance, all around

Oh it’s so beautiful DAVE. Look how in love they are!

It’s time to love, and to cry, and ask, wonder why It’s time to hug, and to laugh, and to dance, all around It’s time to scream, and to shout, and to yell, let it out Time to bounce, up and down, and to spin, spin around…

It’s time to love, love, love, love It’s time to love, love, love, love So we smile, and we flirt, and we hit, but it don’t hurt And we kiss, and we cuddle, let our bodies get in a muddle Then we’ll talk, and we’ll chat, and we’ll say, “How ‘bout that?”

Then someone begins to say, “It’s time to love again!”…

No it’s not fucking lovely VERA. Have we all forgotten that a corpse is no place for a penis?

see!

I love you EDUARDO.

It’s time to love...

Oh for fuck sake...

!

b AN G

it’s time to love and time to die!

Heh!

NO!

AAAAAARRRRGGHH!! vera...

I...

I..

KNow...

I never understood why everybody loved you Monty.

Always happy and bouncy, full of hope for tomorrow and love for your fellow man.

It’s not that the sentiment Is wrong, it’s just that it’s so false.

No one’s that happy all the time, no one should be.

It’s not fucking natural.

But now I’ve met you and I realise, you’re no different or better than the rest of us.

Your life is on repeat, no wonder you’re so angry, what is there to look forward too?

More money?

More money?

More songs about dancing flowers of love? You did all that and you just kept doing it.

that’s not living.

That’s just existing.

I want to kill you trevor

but I won’t

fuck it.

bANG!

bANG!

bANG!

bANG! bANG! bANG!

we had some fun together, hey...?

...damn it

bANG!

Part One: Road Trip Written by Stewart Cook Illustrated by Timothy Ide Operation: Gehanna Written by Stewart Cook Illustrated by Timothy Ide Part two: the facility Written by Stewart Cook Illustrated by Rob O’Connor Edited by Anthony Sherratt Song Lyrics by John McCall Cover by Rob O’Connor Thanks to John, Paul, Gavin and Parris for the bits we did film.

To Jayman for long-time support and helping get Book One printed.

To Joel for being awesome.

To Owen Heitmann for support and publishing Operation: Gehanna.

To Ant for everything (Flamingoes) and to Rob O’Connor for bringing Dave to a close with me, thank you so much.

Finally a big thank you to anyone who has asked about Dave over the years and when it would be finished. Here it is, finally, I really hope you enjoyed it - Stewart davezombiehunter.tumblr.com facebook.com/davezombiehunter facebook.com/squarepegpublishing

bonus material page 65 Original cover for Dave: Zombie Hunter #1 - tim ide page 66 launch invitation for Dave: Zombie Hunter #1 - tim ide page 67 Variant Cover A (1:10) Dave: Zombie Hunter #1 - Joel van der Knaap page 68 Variant Cover B (1:10) Dave: Zombie Hunter #1 - Stewart Cook page 69 Dave heinrich page 70 dean rankine page 71 wolf reynolds page 72 jason steen page 73 stewart cook page 74 unused cover for operation: gehanna - stewart cook page 75 The monty’s - rob o’connor page 76 trevor monty design turnaround - rob o’connor page 77 design sketches - rob o’connor page 78-81 first draft of the operation: gehanna script

operation: gehanna first draft by stewart cook

Following is the original script for Operation: Gehanna, which first appeared in Vol. 2. Issue #4 of Fist Full of Comics in 2009. Operation: Gehanna was never originally planned as a core part of Dave. The original ‘middle’ of the story was intended to be a musical number from The Monty’s, which of course lost all it’s impact in the transition from film script to comic adaptation. So when the opportunity presented itself to put something Dave related into Fist Full of Comics, Operation: Gehanna as a new ‘middle’ was born. Quite frankly any opportunity to write more of Magus and eduardo is pretty hard to resist and so gehanna became what it is, but below is the original draft, which contains a few bits and pieces that never made the final cut.

PAGE ONE SCENE: World War II. It’s the Brit’s versus the Nazi’s. We’re deep inside German territory on a secret mission. A crack team of 6 soldiers have infiltrated via parachute in an attempt to take out one of those messed up transplant experiment bases, where the used to try sew monkey limbs and shit into/onto living patients to see if it would take.

The members of the team are largely irrelevant to the story so go your hardest on the designs however one guy needs to have a prominent knife as he goes ape shit with it later. Within their ranks is one very, very young Tiberius Magus.

A 16 year old who has signed up to the army by faking his age. He has ended up on this volunteer mission to kill Hitler because of his crack shooting skills and his innate medical ability. He is lanky but strong, he carries two hand guns, one a british service revolver and the other a Luger taken from a dead Nazi.

1. Establishing shot. We should perhaps make this ‘widescreen’ taking up the width of 2 panels across. It should be of the team unclasping their parachutes, readying weapons, etc. In the background the plane that has dropped them is flying off into the distance.

1.1 CAPTION: 12:44am. May 24th 1944. A secret location in Germany.

1.2 CAPTION: A super secret squad has just parachuted behind enemy lines.

2. Shot of the scout pointing out the base down below as the Sarge looks through his binoculars. There should be a chain link or barbwire fence around the base (whatever is historically accurate) 3. Shot of the soldiers having cut through the wire and holding it open for the rest of the team to head through. Perhaps one of the soldiers should be holding bolt cutters to make it extra obvious.

4. The Sarge is on the radio to the sniper on the hill.

4.1 SARGE: Operation Gehanna is go. Take ‘em out!

5. Close up of the sniper as he looks down the barrel. The scope should be large in the panel with the German Guards reflected on it as their heads explode from the huge round in the rifle. The sniper is smiling.

5.1 SNIPER: Eat lead Jerry!

PAGE TWO 1. The team has entered the base. We know this because we can see the entry door behind them. The entry team consists of the Sarge, Magus, Wayne and the two other ‘red shirts’. The remaining sixth member of the team being the sniper on the hill. Wayne is knifing a guard who was inside the door through the neck.

2. A shocked look on the teams face as they see what’s in the room.

3. Another widescreen panel. The room they are in is set up like an operating theatre. There is an operating table in the middle, it has one of those cool multi-light lights hanging over it and a Gestapo Uniform clad patient shackled to it. A crazy looking scientist is sewing gorillas arms onto him. There are also some nurses standing around etc. Behind them is a door that is bursting open and a couple more guards are entering the room firing MP-40’s.

4. Two of the red shirts are cut down by bullets. Magus and the Sarge return fire. Wayne is charging the Scientist and the nurses with his blood drenched knife at the ready.

5. Wayne is plunging his knife deep through the chest of the scientist in a gory display. In the background the Sarge is yelling at him.

5.1 SARGE: Nooo! We need him alive!

PAGE THREE 1. Twin handguns ablaze piccy of Magus, as he returns fire from behind some convenient cover in the room (a desk perhaps?)

2. A german soldier is cut down by Magus’s guns. One of the stray shots from his guns impacts a pile of test tubes, liquid explodes from it.

3. The liquid splashes upon the nurses and all over the monkey armed Gestapo agent on the the table. Perhaps his chest cavity is open and the liquid hits some of that as it is established that the liquid must be ‘ingested’ in some manner to be effective? If so we can do all sorts of cool sloppy intestine pics in the coming panels.

4. The Sarge puts two rounds through the knee’s of the remaining guard.

5. Almost like having ‘pulled back’ on the Sarge shot. We see Wayne with both arms raised above his head about to stab the Gestapo Monkey Soldier (almost sacrificially). Hairy monkey arm should be in the foreground of the shot.

6. Same shot, but now it’s of Wayne plunging the knife deep into the chest of the monkey Gestapo agent.

PAGE FOUR 1. Magus drops the two nurses with a shot from each gun.

2. Wayne turns to his companions with his knife in his hand. He is covered in blood from his stabbings. Behind him one of the gorilla arms is twitching.

3. Close up of Wayne’s top half as the gorilla arm grabs him by the top of the head and squeezes.

4. The gorilla arm tears the skin off of Wayne’s head leaving behind bits of dangly eyeball, muscle and bone caught in a pose of agonised screaming.

5. Magus and the Sarge look on in horror.

6. The Sarge turning to Magus and barking orders.

6.1 SARGE: What the hell is happening Magus? What was that liquid?

6.2 MAGUS: I have no idea Sir. I’ve never seen anything like this!

PAGE FIVE 1. Widescreen panel. The Gorilla Armed Gestapo agent (who has awesome glowing eyes) has grabbed one of the nurses and is biting down into her head in an attempt to eat her brains.

2. Sarge has the radio up to his ear, it is the Sniper calling in. Magus is behind him.

2.1 SNIPER: Sir we’ve got a bunch of Jerry headed your way. You need to get out of there now!

2.2 SARGE: Negative, we have a situation in here, hold them off. We need time!

2.3 SNIPER: I’ll do what I can sir!

3. The Sarge has turned to Magus.

3.1 SARGE: Whatever that shit in the test tube is we can’t let Jerry keep it... it’s far too dangerous! Set your explosives son and get out of here. I’ll take care of this thing.

4. Gorilla Armed Gestapo agent has turned to the two soldiers... he is holding the dead nurses, one in each giant hand.

Their heads are cracked open like walnuts and now devoid of brains. Blood and matter hang from his mouth and his own organs dangle from his open chest cavity. It’s a pretty horrific sight.

5. Close up of Magus.

5.1 CAPTION: I knew it then as I do now, that this amazing life restoring chemical the Nazi’s had developed was the future of mankind. No more sickness, no more death... I couldn’t let the Sarge destroy it all!

PAGE SIX 1. The Sarge is cocking his weapon (perhaps a Bren gun?) and looking all macho and shit.

1.1 SARGE: Tell Great Britain I love her Magus!

2. Magus take his his backpack of explosives off and sets them atop the convenient drum of flammable liquid (you know how they keep that shit lying around everywhere!)

3. Widescreen panel. Sweet looking shot of the Sarge and the Gorilla Armed Gestapo agent charging each other from opposite ends of the frame. Sarge is firing crazily as he runs and pumping rounds into the enemy.

4. As Magus heads towards the door he notices a folder of notes marked ‘top secret’ in German (streng geheim) and has a number after it 703813.

5. Magus swipes the file and looks a little guilty for doing so as he heads out the door.

PAGE SEVEN 1. We are back in modern day. Magus and Eduardo Ricardo are towelling off after the spa, Magus is finishing up his flashback tale.

1.1 MAGUS: Sarge never made it out before the bomb went off. I like to think he went out on top...

2. Magus is leaning against a bench, looking a little solemn. Behind him Eduardo is standing close to an obvious slippery soapy looking puddle of water on the ground.

2.1 MAGUS: So I brought the notes back to the motherland. But I never reported them. I took them and wrote my thesis around it at Cambridge.

2.2 EDUARDO: Where we met.

3. Close up of Eduardo’s foot about to step into the puddle.

4. Same shot as panel 2 but in the background Eduardo is slipping over and crashing into some test tubes. Magus is turning to look at him.

4.1 EDUARDO: Argh!

4.2 MAGUS: Eduardo!

5. Close up of an uncorked test tube spilling into the Jacuzzi.

6. Magus is helping Eduardo up. He is covered in chemicals and starting to burn and stuff.

6.1 MAGUS: Oh dear lord, we’d better get you to the infirmary.

6.2 EDUARDO: AHH it stings. It stings!

PAGE EIGHT This page is a series of 4 widescreen panels the same as Dave. The first 3 panels are all the same shot. The spa is in the foreground and we can see the water quite clearly.

1. In the background Magus is helping Eduardo walk as they head towards the exit. On the wall near the spa is a button that Magus is pushing with his free hand.

2. Magus and Eduardo are framed in the doorway as they exit. Water has started to drain from the spa as a result of Magus pushing the button.

2.1 MAGUS: Don’t you worry Pumpkin you will be alright. Everything will be alright.

3. The door has closed and the spa has virtually emptied. We can see the test tube sitting at the bottom.

4. The last widescreen panel is a close up of the Test Tube sitting at the bottom of the spa. It is empty. The sticker on it is labelled 703813 Batch 24A. 4.1 CAPTION: The End?

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