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 II  BY BOB HALL 10/26/2020

Title panel one: FELICIA FOX IN WITCH COSTUME AND ON TV.

FELICIA: REPORTER FELICIA FOX HERE… AND IT’S HALLOWEEN!

FELICIA: ENJOY IT, BUT REMEMBER TO STAY SAFE.

Title panel two: FELICIA FOX AGAIN. SHE SHOWS A HEAD AND TORSO DRAWING OF A KID IN A SUPERHERO COSTUME WITH AN EYE MASK AND A FACE MASK.

FELICIA: WEAR A MASK WITH YOUR MASK…

FELICIA: …AND DON’T DO ANYTHING BATTY. HEH HEH.

Strip One

Panel one: GOAT IS DRESSED AS A VAMPIRE BAT. HE WEARS A MASK WITH THE VAMPIRE MOUTH AND TEETH AND SPREADS HIS CAPE. WE SEE SILHOUETTES OF MOUSE, BAT, AND THE PROFESSOR IN FRONT OF HIM. BAT IS  IN THE AIR. THEY ARE  HAVING A SAFELY DISTANCED GATHERING ON THE ROOF OF MOUSE’S BUILDING.

GOAT (IN SPOOKY BALLOON):  I VANT TO DRINK YOUR BLOOOOD.

MOUSE: UH… NOT FUNNY.

BAT: BLOOD?

BAT: MOST BATS LIKE NECTAR OR FRUIT OR INSECTS.

PROFESSOR: THERE ARE 1400 DIFFERENT KINDS OF BATS.

Panel two: SHOT OF GOAT, MOUSE IN COSTUME, AND PROFESSOR ON THE ROOF, WHICH HAS HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS. BAT FLIES ABOVE. PROFESSOR IS HOLDING OUT HIS OWN VERSION OF VR GLASSES.

BAT: BUT ONLY THREE FEED ON BLOOD.

GOAT (A BIT DISAPPOINTED): I GUESS BATS DON’T TRY TO HARM PEOPLE.

MOUSE: BUT THINK WHAT PEOPLE DO TO WILDLIFE.

PROFESSOR: TRY THESE SPECIAL VR GLASSES.

Panel three: THEY PUT ON THE GLASSES. CLOSE ON GOAAT AND MOUSE.

MOUSE: WOW.

GOAT: MINE AREN’T WORKING!

GOAT: I DON’T SEE ANYTHI…

GOAT: HEY…A FOREST!

Strip Two

Panel one:  OUR CHARACTERS WALK THROUGH A SOUTH-EAST ASIAN JUNGLE. A PANGOLIN AND A CIVET COME OUT TO SEE THEM.

MOUSE: WOW! A PANGOLIN.

GOAT: AND A CIVET.

PROFESSOR: WE’RE FRIENDS.

PROFESSOR: TELL US ABOUT HUMANS.

PANGOLIN: HUMANS CATCH US…

PANGOLIN: …TRANSPORT US TO MARKET.

Panel two: CLOSE ON THE PANGOLIN AND CIVET.

PANGOLIN: THEY THINK OUR SCALES CAN BE MADE INTO MEDICINE.

CIVET: WE GET TAKEN AND SOLD IN MARKETS …

CIVET: …AS MEAT.

Panel three: MEDIUM SHOT OF THE CIVET, PANGOLIN, PROFESSOR, AND BAT.

CIVET: OUR VIRUSES SOMETIMES GO TO HUMANS.

PROFESSOR: THAT’S HOW THE FIRST SARS GOT SPREAD… BUT WE STILL DON’T KNOW HOW COVID-19 GOT TO PEOPLE.

Strip Three

Panel one: PROFESSOR AND THE PANGOLIN

PANGOLIN: PROTECTING US WILD ANIMALS PROTECTS HUMANS, TOO.

CAT (FROM OFF PANEL):EVERYONE! TAKE OFF YOUR GLASSES.

Panel two: THEY ALL TAKE OFF THEIR GLASSES AND STARE TOWARD THE CAMERA.

CAT: HOW DO YOU LIKE MY COSTUME?

MOUSE: UH …CAT.

PROFESSOR: WELL…

GOAT: GREAT EARS.

BAT: NOT ANOTHER BAT!?

Panel three: CAT STANDS ON THE EDGE OF THE WALL OF THE ROOF IN A BATMAN-LIKE COSTUME.  THE OTHERS STARE AT HIM.BAT IS WEARING NO COSTUME – JUST HIS SWEATER AND FACE MASK.

CAT: WRONG CHOICE?

CAT: SORRY…

MOUSE: EVERYONE WANTS TO BE A BAT THIS YEAR.

 Panel four:THE CHARACTERS TALK DIRECTLY TO THE READER.

PROFESSOR: HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE.

CAT: BUT STAY SIX FEET APART.

MOUSE: AND WEAR YOUR MASK!!

GOAT: STAY COOL, DUDES.

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 II BY BOB HALL  10/19/2020

Title panel one: A STICK FIGURE IMAGE OF A BAT FLYING, A BIRD FLYING, AND A 737 AIRPLANE. THE FOCUS IS ON THE SCREEN, WITH BAT IN THE AIR AND PROFESSOR AND CAT IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN.

CAT: LAST TIME YOU SAID BAT WAS SPECIAL.

BAT: I LIKE THAT.

PROFESSOR: LOOK AT THIS SLIDE.

PROFESSOR: YOU ARE THE ONLY MAMMAL THAT FLIES!

LABEL: THINGS THAT FLY

LABEL: MAMMAL (ARROW POINTING TO THE BAT).

LABEL: NOT MAMMAL (ARROW POINTING TO THE BIRD AND THE AIRPLAN).

Title Panel Two: NARROW PANEL – BAT AND PROFESSOR.

PROFESSOR: PERHAPS YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM BECAME MORE TOLERANT BECAUSE YOU FLY.

BAT: HMMM…OKAY, A TRADE OFF… GUESS IT’S WORTH IT. 

PROFESSOR: NEXT SLIDE…

Strip One

Panel one:  THE GROUP STANDS IN FRONT OF SCREEN WHICH NOW SHOWS A SCIENCE MAGAZINE COVER WITH A TITLE ‘AMAZING BATS’ WITH A PICTURE OF A BAT POLLINATING A FLOWER. OUR CHARACTERS HAVE THEIR BACKS TO US AND ARE IN SILHOUETTE.

CAT: UH…IF WE GOT RID OF BATS WOULD WE GET RID OF BAD DISEASES?

BAT: HUH?

PROFESSOR: NO, IT’S A FAIR QUESTION.

PROFESSOR: BUT COMPLICATED.

Panel two: PROFESSOR WALKS INTO THE SCREEN AND THE OTHERS FOLLOW.

PROFESSOR: LET’S GO THROUGH THE SCREEN.

BAT: HOW DO WE DO THIS?

PROFESSOR: SOMETHING TO DO WITH DIMENSIONAL COMIC STRIP HARMONICS.

Panel three:  THEY WALK (AND FLY) INTO THE SAME MAGAZINE COVER WITH PICTURE A ON THE SCREEN SEEN FROM THE FRONT SIDE, OUR GROUP SHOULD BE SMALL AND THE FLOWER AND BAT LARGE.

PROFESSOR: YOU SEE.

CAT: WOW WE’RE IN A MAGAZINE!

BAT: ARE WE FAMOUS?

Strip Two

Panel one: IN A NEW PAGE IN THE WORLD OF THE MAGAZINE, THERE IS A CLOSE UP OF A BAT FEEDING AT A DURIAN FLOWER. IT HAS THE LATIN NAME ABOVE THE PHOTO: Durio zibethinus. CAT IS PULLING A BANANA OUT OF HIS PACK.

CAT: DUR… UH… RIO …UH…NEVER MIND.

PROFESSOR: IT’S A TROPICAL FRUIT.

PROFESSOR: WITHOUT BATS, THIS PLANT COULD NOT REPRODUCE.

Panel two: THEY ARE IN A PICTURE OF CASHEW, GUAVA, AND MANGO FLOWERS. CAT STARTS TO PEEL HIS BANANA.

PROFESSOR: BATS POLLINATEHUNDREDS OF PLANTS WE LIKE TO EAT.

PROFESSOR: MANGO.

PROFESSOR: GUAVA.

PROFESSOR: CASHEW.

CAT: JEEZ. ALL I HAVE IS A BANANA.

Panel three: CAT PEELS THE BANANA. THERE ARE MOSQUITOS FLYING AROUND. 

PROFESSOR: WILD BANANAS ARE POLLINATED BY BATS.

PROFESSOR: BUT THE BANANAS WE EAT ARE CLONES THAT DON’T REQUIRE BATS.

BAT: REAL CATS DON’T EAT BANANAS.

CAT: YEAH, AND REAL CATS DON’T WEAR MASKS EITHER.

Strip Three

Panel one: CAT AND THE PROFESSOR ARE NOW SWATTING MOSQUITOES EXCEPT BAT WHO WOULD EAT ONE EXCEPT HE KNOWS THIS IS VIRTUAL REALITY. THERE ARE LITTLE BROWN BATS AT THE TOP OF THE PANEL AND SOME BEGIN TO SWOOP DOWN.

PROFESSOR: OH YES! BATS EAT HUGE NUMBERS OF INSECTS.

PROFESSOR: AND SOME OF THOSE INSECTS EAT CROPS.

BAT: INSECTS! YUM!

Panel two: LITTLE BROWN BATS SWOOPING DOWN ON MOSQUITOES AT NIGHT.

BAT: WOW! WE SHOULD BE PROTECTED.

PROFESSOR: AND THAT MEANS PROTECTING BAT HABITAT.

CAT: YEAH, YOU SHOULD BE LEFT ALONE TO,YOU KNOW…

CAT: …DO YOUR STUFF.

Panel three: PROFESSOR, BAT, AND CAT TURN DIRECTLY TOWARD THE READER.

PROFESSOR: WE NEED TO STOP BOTHERINGBATS.

CAT: YEAH, LET THEM LIVE IN PEACE.

CAT: BESIDES, THEY’RE VERY COOL.

BAT: OH THANKS.

BAT: YOU’VE MADE BAT VERY HAPPY.

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  ART BY BOB CAMP  10/12/2020

Over title: CAT AND PROFESSOR ARE WALKING ALONG TOGETHER WITH BAT FLYING ALONG. ALL ARE WEARING MASKS.   

Title pane one: DIFFERENT ANGLE ON BAT, PROFESSOR, AND CAT STILL WALKING ALONG.

BAT: WHY DO PEOPLE BLAME US BATS FOR BAD STUFF?

CAT: LIKE CAUSING A FOREST FIRE?

BAT: NO. THAT’S SILLY…

BAT: …LIKE SPREADING DISEASE TO PEOPLE!

Panel two: PROFESSOR IS PULLING DOWN A SCREEN FROM THE TOP OF THE PANEL.

PROFESSOR: THESE DISEASES ARE CAUSED BY VIRUSES CARRIED BY BATS.

PROFESSOR: THEY ARE VERY DANGEROUS TO HUMANS…

Strip One

Panel one: THE SCREEN IS DOWN.THERE ARE IMAGES OF BATS WITH NECK PLAQUES THAT SAY MARBURG, RABIES, NIPAH. THE PROFESSOR HOLDS FORTH. CAT AND BAT LOOK ON.

PROFESSOR: …PEOPLE GET THEM FROM DIRECT CONTACT WITH BATS

PROFESSOR: …OR OTHER ANIMALS INFECTED BY BATS.

CAT: NIPAH?

Panel two: PROFESSOR RIPS A HOLE IN THE PAGE.

PROFESSOR: COME WITH ME.

Panel three: THEY STEP INTO A NEW ENVIRONMENT, A BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL RAINFOREST.

CAT: THIS IS AMAZING!

BAT: BEAUTIFUL!

PROFESSOR: IT WAS. 

Strip Two

Panel one:  DEVASTATION: DEFORESTED LAND. BATS FLY IN THE SKY WHERE THERE WERE ONCE TREES. THE PROFESSOR AND THE REST ARE IN THE FOREGROUND STARING AT THE DEVASTATION.

PROFESSOR: THEN THIS HAPPENED. 

CAT: YIKES!

BAT: BUT I SEE BATS.

Panel two (NARROW PANEL):  BAT AND FRUIT BAT FLY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.

BAT: HEY, THIS LOOKS BAD.

FRUIT BAT: IT IS. 

FRUIT BAT: OUR HOME WAS CUT DOWN…

FRUIT BAT: OUR FOOD IS GONE.

Panel three: IN THE BACKGROUND WE SEE A PIG FARM. FRUIT BAT FLIES TOWARD A MANGO TREE ON THE FARM. PROFESSOR, CAT, AND BAT ARE IN THE FOREGROUND AS PROFESSOR CONTINUES THE STORY.

FRUIT BAT: NOW WE FEED ON THE TREES IN A PIG FARM.

BAT: THAT BRINGS YOU AWFULLY CLOSE TO WHERE HUMANS ARE.

PROFESSOR: FRUIT GETS CONTAMINATED…

PROFESSOR: …WITH BAT SALIVA THAT HAS THE NIPAH VIRUS.

Panel four: DOWN SHOT FROM A TREE INTO THE PIG ENCLOSURE. BATS ARE IN THE TREES EATING MANGOS. LOTS OF PIECES OF FRUIT FALL INTO THE CORRAL. WE SEE PIGS EATING BELOW. THE PROFESSOR CONTINUES HIS SPEECHES IN BOXES.

PROFESSOR – BOX: “THE FRUITFALLS INTO THE CORRAL..”

PROFESSSOR – BOX: “…AND PIGS BECOME INFECTED.”

Strip Three

Panel one: FARMER IN THE CORRAL WITH THE PIGS. CAT, BAT, AND THE PROFESSOR WATCH FROM A SAFE DISTANCE.

CAT: SO FARMERS GET THE VIRUS FROM THE PIGS?

PROFESSOR: YES.

BAT: BUT WHY DON’T THE VIRUSES MAKEBATS SICK?

Panel two: LONG SHOT OF THE PROFESSOR AND CAT WALKING AWAY AND BAT FLYING AWAY TOGETHER.

PROFESSOR: YOU BATS ARE MAMMALS… JUST LIKE PEOPLE.

PROFESSOR: …SO YOU TOO HAVE AN IMMUNE SYSTEM.

BAT: REALLY? WOW.

PROFESSOR: AND SCIENTISTS THINK YOURS IS MORE TOLERANT OF VIRUSES.

Panel three: CLOSER ON BAT, PROFESSOR, CAT.

BAT: I THOUGHT IMMUNE SYSTEMS WERE SUPPOSED TO FIGHTVIRUSES…

BAT: …NOT TOLERATE THEM!

PROFESSOR: YES, BUT YOURS IS SPECIAL…

Panel four: FROM ABOVE LOOKING DOWN AT MOUSE, CAT AND THE PROFESSSOR. THE BAT SWOOPS JOYOUSLY INTO THE AIR, DOING SOME ACROBATICS JOYOUSLY.

PROFESSOR: …BECAUSE YOU CAN FLY!

BAT: HEY! I‘M SPECIAL!!!

CAT: WISH ICOULD FLY.

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  10/5/2020

Title panel: PROFESSOR, BAT (HANGING UPSIDE DOWN), AND GOAT LOOKING AT HIS PHONE WHILE LEANING AGAINST A TREE.

PROFESSOR (TRYING TO RUN BUT HUFFING AND PUFFING): YOU GUYS ARE BOTH TOO FAST FOR ME. WHO WON?

BAT (WINKING): ISN’T IT OBVIOUS?

PROFESSOR: NOTHING IS OBVIOUS WITHOUT EVIDENCE.

Strip One

Panel one: PROFESSOR AND BAT (HANGING UPSIDE DOWN) LOOKING ON. GOAT IS POINTING TO NEWS ON HIS PHONE.

PHONE (POINTER): COVID-19 LINKED TO BATS.

GOAT: HEY PROFESSOR, IS THIS TRUE?

Panel two: PROFESSOR TALKING TO BAT AND GOAT.

PROFESSOR: WELL, WE KNOW SOME BATS HAVE SIMILAR VIRUSES TO THE COVID-19 VIRUS…

PROFESSOR: … BUT WE DON’T KNOW IF PEOPLE CAUGHT THE DISEASE DIRECTLY FROM BATS.

Panel three: CLOSE-UP OF BAT HANGING UPSIDE DOWN. PROFESSOR AND GOAT ARE SMALLER AND LOWER DOWN.

BAT: REMEMBER A FEW YEARS BACK?  THERE WAS ANOTHER SARS VIRUS OUTBREAK.  WE GOT BLAMED FOR THAT ONE, TOO.

Panel four: PROFESSOR PULLS A SCREEN ACROSS THE PANEL.

PROFESSOR: I THINK WE COULD USE A GOOD VISUAL.  

Strip Two 

Panel one: PROFESSOR TALKS IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN WHICH HAS A DRAWING LABELED ‘SARS’ WITH ARROWS FROM A BAT TO A CIVET TO A LABEL ‘SICK PERSON.’

PROFESSOR: SARS DIDN’T SPREAD AS WIDELY AS COVID-19…

PROFESSOR … BUT WAS STILL DANGEROUS.

Panel two: PROFESSOR PUSHES NEW EDGE OF PANEL LABELED ‘MERS’ TO REVEAL A PICTURE WITH ARROWS GOING FROM BAT TO CAMEL TO LABEL ‘SICK PERSON’.

PROFESSOR: AND DO YOU REMEMBER THE CAMEL VIRUS THAT CAUSED MERS?

PROFESSOR: THAT VIRUS MAY HAVE COME FROM BATS, TOO.

Panel three: THE PROFESSOR OPENS A HOLE IN THE SCREEN AND GOAT AND BAT FOLLOW HIM INTO A NEW WORLD.

PROFESSOR: OPEN THE LAST PANEL…

PROFESSOR: …AND WE WALK INTO A RAINFOREST.

PROFESSOR: COME ON.

Strip Three

Panel one: BAT (FLYING), GOAT, AND PROFESSOR ARE IN THE WORLD THAT THE PROFESSOR HAS REVEALED. PANGOLIN ON A ROCK LOOKING AT THEM.

BAT: WHAT ABOUT THIS COVID-19 PANDEMIC? DID WE CAUSE THAT, TOO?

PROFESSOR: THE VIRUS IN BATS IS NOT EXACTLY THE SAME.

PROFESSOR: IT’S A MYSTERY.

Panel two: PROFESSOR TALKING TO THE PANGOLIN.

PANGOLIN: US PANGOLINS GET BLAMED FOR BRINGING THE VIRUS FROM BATS TO PEOPLE.

PROFESSOR: THAT’S A MYSTERY, TOO.

Panel three: BAT (FLYING) WITH PROFESSOR AND GOAT. IN THE DISTANCE ARE SCIENTISTS IN FIELD CLOTHES AND MASKS TREKING OUT IN THE FOREST. PANGOLIN IS STARTING OFF IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SCIENTISTS.

BAT: SO HOW DO WE FIGURE IT OUT?

PROFESSOR: SCIENTISTS ARE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS RIGHT NOW.

PANGOLIN: ME, TOO.