Writing Portfolio of Daniel Wayne Cole | Comic Samples, Scripts & Proposals (2013)

8/13/2019 Writing Portfolio of Daniel Wayne Cole | Comic Samples, Scripts & Proposals (2013)

1/16

The Writing Portfolioof

Daniel Wayne ColeComic Samples,

Scripts & Proposals

(336) 554-6815

[email protected]


2/16


3/16


4/16

I was in thetop of my class

when I graduated.

I wanted to writestories on riots, politics,

and general unrest.


5/16

... The amazing.

God


6/16


7/16


8/16


9/16


10/16

LESSER EVIL Sample Script for Five Pages

PAGE ONE (four panels)

Panel 1. Establishing shot. The Kraken, the giant octopus of Scandinavian legend, has burst through the San

Francisco bay this night of the full moon. In one tentacle, the beast clutches his victim Frankensteins monster

SFX: SPLOOOSH!

THE MONSTER: RHNNN!

Panel 2. On the docks below, a slightly drenched Djeserit (Jes) looks towards the Kraken. Dracula lingers

behind her.

JES: *Egyptian Swear*

DRACULA: The next time Jonathan Grave asks me to run an errand, I believe I shall eviscerate him.

JES: We are not succeeding in our goal.

DRACULA: Whatever gives you that notion, my dear Djeserit?

JES: I need you to take a message to Stockton and Lake.

Panel 3. A glowing purple glyph begins to form underneath Dracula a transportation spell.

JES: Tell him we do not have much longer. Tell them it is time to put the plan into motion.

DRACULA: I shall alert the good Captain, but I shall get there on my own--

Panel 4. Dracula begins to shift into a mist form, heading away from the action.

Panel 1. On a rooftop a few blocks away, Captain Richard Stockton watches the battle through a pair of binocu-

lars. One of his men, Michaels, stands beside him.

MICHAELS: Hows it looking out there, Capn?

STOCKTON: Its lookin like a dang-blasted octopus is tearing San Francisco apart, Michaels. Keep

your attention on Lake.

MICHAELS: Yes, sir. Sorry, sir.


11/16

Panel 2. Michaels returns to the tent cover set up over a makeshift lab. Working away are Dr. Chad Lake and Dr.

Vincent von Frankenstein. Lake looks slightly pale, a little sweaty.

LAKE: *Cough* Stockton tear into you again, Mikey?

MICHAELS: Little bit.

FRANKENSTEIN: Lake, could you focus on the task at hand? It is bad enough that your attention isalready divided

Panel 3. Lake begrudgingly returns to examining a sample in the microscope, a slight snarl curling his lips. A

glint of the animalistic anger in his eyes.

FRANKENSTEIN (OP): --But must you risk everything to socialize?

LAKE: Back off Vic, or so help me Ill--

Panel 4. Lake takes a breath. He centers himself - calms the beast.

Panel 5. Lake looks toward his microscope, focusing himself and diving into his work.

LAKE: Sorry. Youre right. I need to focus on the work.

DRACULA (OP): No need to apologize, young man.

PAGE THREE (six panels)

Panel 1. Dracula materializes from the mist. Michaels is a little shocked, but Lake and Frankenstein seem to

take it in stride.

Hello there, young one.

FRANKENSTEIN: What is the news, Count? The living scab cannot retain strength under pressure?

Panel 2. Dracula gets uncomfortably close to Michaels. The look on his face is similar to that of a child looking

at a pretty pastry.

play her part.

FRANKENSTEIN: She will have to stall for another half hour, at least.

Panel 3. Captain Stockton interrupts the conversation. Draculas attention is drawn away from the soldier.

STOCKTON:Half an hour? Have you seen the destruction this creature is causing? We dont have half

of a minute!


12/16

LAKE: Sir, with all due respect--

STOCKTON: With all due respect, Dr. Lake, you said you would have a working sample of that

cell-eater chemical by now.

LAKE: And we do, its just--

STOCKTON: Just nothing!

Panel 4. Frankenstein erupts from his chair, Lake goes to calm him down. Dracula seems to enjoy the idea of

possible violence.

FRANKENSTEIN: You little man! You cannot --

LAKE: Vic, settle down.

STOCKTON: Listen to the man, Frankenstein, or youll be six feet under - next to your father.

FRANKENSTEIN: Why you --

LAKE: Enough! Both of you!

Panel 5. Lake pulls Frankenstein out of the fray, trying to reason with him.

LAKE (whisper): Victor, we were only running the last of the tests. Everything so far has come up

positive. This chemical will destroy the beasts statocysts, the organs that would keep this beast

balanced, with little error.

FRANKENSTEIN (whisper): But we could do more with it - we could develop it to attack brain tissue

directly! Given a more time--

LAKE: Victor, look around.

Panel 6. Victor looks down in defeat.

LAKE (OP): Our time is up.

Panel 1. Below the bay, the submarine Nessie sits.

CAP: Step One --

CAP: -- Delivery.

Dracula (OP): I am an immortal --


13/16

Panel 2. Dracula hands two a crewman the canister Lake had. Dracula is drenched, reforming from mist from

the ships air ducts. The crew are a little surprised.

DRACULA: I am more

Panel 3. The crewman attaches the canister to a peculiar looking torpedo - metal body with a plexi-glass top.Inside, we see the faint outline of a humanoid body, thrashing about as its enveloped by the chemical as it turns

to gas.

CAP: Step Two --

CREWMAN: Here you go, ugly. Bottoms up!

CAP: -- Make sure our vector is completely immersed in the chemical.

STOCKTON (radio): Everything ready?

CAP: Step Three --

CREWMAN: Yes, sir.

Panel 5. Outside the Nessie once more, the torpedo is launched carrying its human payload.

STOCKTON (radio/op): Fire!

SFX: Spssssh!

CAP: -- Insertion.

PAGE FIVE (six panels)

Panel 1. The torpedo stops short of its target, the Kraken, and the plexi-glass hatch bursts open.

SFX: Fwooosh!

Panel 2. The Creature is revealed, and it looks pissed.

Panel 3. Back on the surface, Lake begins removing his clothing. Hes looking a bit better now, but he has a bit


14/16


15/16


16/16

Writing Portfolio of Daniel Wayne Cole | Comic Samples, Scripts & Proposals (2013)

Documents

Transcript of Writing Portfolio of Daniel Wayne Cole | Comic Samples, Scripts & Proposals (2013)