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.
