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Credits

Art by Bob Camp
Story by Bob Hall, Liz VanWormer, Judy Diamond
Lettering by Ted Sikora
Web Site by Bolero Information Systems LLC

Title: C’RONA COMIX II  BY BOB CAMP  9/28/2020

BAT FLYING AND GOAT ON SKATEBOARD OVER THE TITLE.

Title panel: GOAT AND BAT FACE OFF.

GOAT: I AM THE GREATEST, THE COOLEST, AND THE FASTEST.

BAT:  UH… NOT THE FASTEST. NO WAY.

GOAT: AM! AM! AM!

BAT: MIGHT  I PROPOSE … WE  RACE?

GOAT: YOU’RE ON… VIRUS BREATH.

Strip One

Panel one-three: TAKES UP THE ENTIRE STRIP.  MOUSE IS ON HER LADDER BETWEEN TO GOAT AND BAT. ON ONE SIDE IS ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF BATS, LARGE AND SMALL, ALL WITH MASKS AND SOCIALLY DISTANCED.  ON THE OTHER SIDE ARE JUST THREE GOATS. THE BATS ARE HOLDING SIGNS THAT SAY: BATS EAT INSECTS, 1400 KINDS OF BATS CAN’T BE WRONG, BATS RULE – GOATS DROOL. A MEXICAN LONG-TONGUED BAT HOLDS UP A SIGN WITH ITS LONG TONGUE: WE POLLINATE PLANTS! THE GOATS HAVE SIGNS THAT SAY: GOATS, YAY FOR GOATS!, GOAT MILK IS GOOD FOR YOU!

BOX:  TWO DAYS LATER.

GOAT: GONNA WIN THIS.

GOAT: I’M NO SCAPE GOAT. 

GOAT: I’M THE SKATE GOAT!

BAT: YOU READY?

BAT: I’M READY!

MOUSE: IF YOU’RE BOTH DONE TALKING…

MOUSE: GET SET…

Strip Two

Panel one: MOUSE WITH MASK HOLDS OUT ARM.

MOUSE: GO!

Panel two: MOUSE FALLS OFF LADDER AS GOAT AND BAT TAKE OFF.

BAT: UP AND AWAY!!

GOAT: HERE I COME!

Panel three: GOAT IS UPSIDE DOWN ON ITS SKATEBOARD. BAT IS IN AIR LOOKING AT HIM.

GOAT: HOW ‘BOUT THAT, BAT?

SOUND EFFECT: WOOSH!

Panel four: BAT MAKES ‘WOOSH’ SOUND AROUND GOAT. IN SPITE OF THE SKATE BOARD, GOAT IS MUCH SLOWER THAN BAT.

BAT: CUTE!

BAT: BUT NOT FAST!

GOAT: YOU’RE STILL A VIRUS BREATH!

SOUND EFFECT: WHOOSH

Panel five: BAT STREAKS ON AHEAD. 

BAT: OK!!

BAT: THAT DOES IT!!

Strip Three

Panel one: THE FINISH LINE WITH GOAT HEADING TOWARD IT. BAT IS WELL PAST THE FINISH LINE SMUGLY WAITING FOR GOAT. BATS IN BACKGROUND CHEERING WITH SIGN: YAY BATS!

SOUND EFFECT: ZOOM

BAT: NO HURRY.

BAT: TAKE YOUR TIME.

BAT: WE’LL WAIT…

Panel two: GOAT AND BAT FACE OFF AGAIN, AND THEIR MASKS ARE FALLING OFF.

GOAT: YOU WON…

GOAT: … BUT I GOT YOUR GOAT, DIDN’T I? HEE HEE.

BAT: THAT IS SO LAME.

Panel three: MOUSE STANDS BETWEEN GOAT AND BAT AND PUSHES THEIR MASKS ON THEIR FACES WITH A ‘FAP’ SOUND.

MOUSE: HEY YOU TWO!

MOUSE: MASK UP!

Panel four: MOUSE, GOAT, AND BAT SIT SOCIALLY DISTANCED WITH MASKS ON. 

BAT: VIRUS BREATH? REALLY?

GOAT: SORRY…

GOAT: I’M JUST TIRED OF ALWAYS BEING THE GOAT.

MOUSE: YOU ARE THE GOAT.

GOAT: YEAH.

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Credits

Art by Bob Hall
Story by Bob Hall, Liz VanWormer, Judy Diamond
Lettering by Ted Sikora
Web Site by Bolero Information Systems LLC

Title: C’RONA COMIX BY BOB HALL     9/14/2020

Title panel one: SLENDER PANEL. POD IS IN MIDST OF THE CYTOS, WHO ARE CALMING DOWN  BUT STILL CHATTERING.

PROFESSOR: CYTOS ARE CALMING DOWN.

PROFESSOR: FINALLY.

Title panel two: LOOKING PAST THE POD TOWARD B-CELLS SLIDING DOWN ROPES FROM THE TOP. THEY LOOK LIKE PROFESSIONAL CLIMBERS WITH PITONS (Y SHAPPED) HANGING FROM THEIR VESTS.

MOUSE: HEY! WHO ARE THESE GUYS?

PROFESSOR: THERE’S MORE WAYS THAN ONE TO STOP A VIRUS.

PROFESSOR: MACROPHAGES… T-CELLS… AND NOW… B-CELLS!

Strip One

Panel one: THE B-CELLS HURL THEIR ANTIBODIES.

PROFESSOR (IN BOX): “TOOK THEM A WHILE TO GET HERE, BUT NOW…

Panel two:  A VIRUS IS ABOUT TO UNLOCK A LUNG CELL. THERE ARE INCOMING ANTIBODIES.THAT TURN TO JAM, COVERING THE VIRUS KEYS. 

VIRUS: HUH?

PROFESSOR(IN BOX): …CHECK OUT THEIR ANTIBODIES!“

Panel three: ANTIBODIES FROM THE B-CELLS TURN TO JAM, COVERING THE KEY OF A VIRUS AND THE LOCK IT WAS ABOUT TO OPEN.

PROFESSOR: “ANTIBODIES COVER THE VIRUS KEYS…

VIRUS: HEY! WHAT’S THIS?

PROFESSOR: … AND THE LOCKS ON GRANDMA’S CELLS.”

Strip Two

Panel one: LONG SHOT THE VIRUSES ARE STRATEGICALLY COATED WITH ANTIBODIES AND CELLS ARE BLOCKED. THE B-CELLS CONTINUE TO THROW THEIR ANTIBODIES.

VIRUS COMMANDER: FALL BACK!

VIRUS COMMANDER: TAKE COVER!

Panel two: THE B-CELL AND THE MACROPHAGE.

B-CELL: AND THAT AS THEY SAY, IS THAT!

B-CELL:HEY MAC, GET T’ WORK!

MACROPHAGE: WHY DO I ALWAYS GOTTA CLEAN UP THE MESS?

Panel three: THE MACROPHAGE AT WORK IN THE FOREGROUND. T-CELL AND B-CELL BEHIND.

MACROPHAGE:BURP.

T-CELL: VIRUSES,WE KNOW YOU NOW!

T-CELL AND B-CELL: COME ON… WE ARE READY!

Strip Three

Panel one: THE POD GOING AWAY. THERE WILL BE MULTIPLE IMAGES OF THE POD UNTIL IT DISAPPEARS.

PROFESSOR: CRISIS IS OVER FOR NOW.

PROFESSOR: TIME TO GO HOME.

CAT: CAN WE STOP FOR ICE CREA–

Panel two: CAT, MOUSE, GOAT, BAT AND PROFESSOR STANDING OUTSIDE GRANDMA’S WINDOW. GRANDMA IS A GRAY SILHOUETTE BEHIND THE GLASS SO WE DON’T SEE HER CLEARLY. ARROW POINTS TO VIRUSES IN THE AIR.

CAPTION: TEN DAYS LATER

CAT, PROFESSOR, AND BAT: WELCOME HOME!

MOUSE: GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK,GRANDMA.

GOAT: YO, GRAMMA.

ARROW: VIRUSES

Panel three: CLOSE-UP OF TWO VIRUSES.

VIRUS 1: DO THEY KNOW SOME OF US ARE STILL AROUND?

VIRUS 2: NAH. WE CAN HANG OUT IN THE AIR FOR A WHILE.

VIRUS 1: AS LONG AS THERE’S NO VACCINE, WE’RE A-OK.

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Credits

Art by Bob Hall
Story by Bob Hall, Liz VanWormer, Judy Diamond
Lettering by Ted Sikora
Web Site by Bolero Information Systems LLC

Title: C’RONA COMIX BY BOB HALL     9/7/2020

THE POD SHOWS CAT, THE PROFESSOR, AND MOUSE. THEY ARE REACTING TO THE T-CELLS ARRIVING.   

CAT: OH BOY! T-CELLS

Title panel:  T-CELLS ARRIVING. THERE IS A CLOUD OF CYTOS LEADING THEM. MACROPHAGES ARE CLEANING UP VIRUS DEBRIS.

MOUSE: ARE THEY COMING TO THE RESCUE?

MOUSE: WHAT’S GOING ON?

PROFESSOR: THE MACROPHAGES ARE DOING THEIR THING, AND THE CYTOS HAVE CALLED IN MORE T-CELLS. 

Strip One

Panel one: CUT TO THE VIRUSES ON THE DEFENSIVE. A CROWD OF VIRUSES HAVE THEIR KEYS OUT. THE COMMANDER POINTS IN FRONT OF HIM.

PROFESSOR: “THE VIRUSES ARE UNLOCKING GRANDMA’S CELLS…

PROFESSOR: …TO GET INSIDE AND MULTIPLY.”

COMMANDER VIRUS (LOOKING WORRIED): GET BUSY MAKING MORE VIRUSES!

COMMANDER VIRUS: HURRY!

Panel two: A WALL OF GRANDMA’S CELLS. SOME ARE BEING INVADED BY TONS OF VIRUSES WHILE BEING UNLOCKED. THE COMMANDER IS IN THE FOREGROUND. SEE T-CELLS COMING.

COMMANDER VIRUS: DANGER! INCOMING T-CELLS!

Panel three: GRANDMA’S CELLS HOLD OUT A FLAG WITH A PICTURE OF A VIRUS. INDENTED HAND IS VISIBLE. 

PROFESSOR: “THE CELLS HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO VIRUS-MAKING FACTORIES AND ARE SIGNALING FOR HELP.”

Strip Two

Panel one: A LINE OF T-CELLS ARE DOING A ‘HAND TOUCH’ WITH THE INFECTED GRANDMA CELLS.

T-CELLS: YOU’RE INFECTED. EXTERMINATE!  

Panel two: T-CELLS ARE TASERING GRANDMA’S CELLS.

MOUSE: THEY’RE KILLING OFF GRANDMA’SCELLS.

PROFESSOR: GRANDMA’S INFECTED CELLS NEED TO BE DESTROYED.

Panel three: THE T-CELLS ARE BEING SUCCESSFUL AT DESTROYING THE INFECTED CELLS. WE SEE HER CELLS CRUMBLING.

PROFESSOR: T-CELLS ARE LIKE FIRE FIGHTERS WHO TEAR DOWN BLAZING BUILDINGS SO OTHERS DON’T CATCH FIRE. 

Strip Three

Panel one: POD WITH PROFESSOR AND MOUSE AND CAT. THROUGH POD WINDOW THEY SEE THE CYTOKINES GETTING NUTTY.

MOUSE: WHAT’S UP WITH THE CYTOKINES?

PROFESSOR: IF THEY DON’T CALM DOWN, TOO MANY OF GRANDMA’S CELLS WILL GET DESTROYED!

Panels two and three:  TOTAL CHAOS. NOW THE CYTOS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL. THEY’RE ARE CALLING IN MORE AND MORE T-CELLS.

PROFESSOR: HOLD ON TIGHT!  IT’S GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE!