Faiza Hussain - Silver's Anatomy - Danial Carroll

PANEL 1. Faiza Hussain and Pete Wisdom are watching a flaming trail cut across the sky.

FAIZA:

What is that? A meteor?

PETE:

Whatever it is, it looks like it's going to land in Surrey. We'd better move.

PANEL 2. In the bottom of a smoking crater lays the Silver Surfer. A crowd, including media, has gathered around the crater's edge. Pete and Faiza are at the front.

FAIZA:

Oh, my.

PETE:

This can't be good.

PANEL 3. Faiza and Pete have moved to the Surfer's side. He has a gaping wound across his torso.

PETE:

What could have possibly done this to... him.

FAIZA:

It doesn't matter--I have to try and heal him.

PANEL 4. Faiza is leaning over the Surfer, her hands on his wound. A look of intense concentration is upon her face.

PETE (OP):

Can you even--

FAIZA:

Shh!

PANEL 5. Close up on the Surfer, sitting up.

SILVER SURFER:

Thank you, friends. I owe you a great debt. I--

SILVER SURFER:

I feel... different.

PANEL 6. The Surfer is looking to Faiza, confused.

FAIZA:

I apologise. Being unfamiliar with your race's physiology, I had to alter it in order to heal you.

FAIZA:

For all intents and purposes, you're now--

SILVER SURFER:

Human?

[Did anyone happen to catch the little sci-fi nod?]

Faiza Hussain – At The Centre, Lies The World – Ryan K Lindsay

1. Faiza is sitting back in a chair at a table in a kitchen.

Faiza: You know what I can do, right?
Voice (op): Yes, of course.

2. Doctor Doom stands in front of Faiza, a cup of tea in his hand.

Doom: Do you mean to threaten Doom?
Doom: That would be a drastic and fatal course of action to take, girl.

3. Faiza leans forward, she doesn’t want to waste time with Doom’s posturing.

Faiza: Not what I was intonating, good Doctor.
Faiza: What I wanted to discuss was what we each do with our powers. It’s probably rare that any of us have ever sat down and tried every little combination of what we can do.

4. Doom sits down, sipping his cup.

Doom: I seriously hope there is a point here or I will have missed an opportunity to whip a stablehand for no good reason.
Faiza: Doom, I could rearrange you into a pretty little candelabra, so just pipe down.
Faiza: What I’m saying is, I guess sometimes there are happy little miracles.

5. Faiza is walking towards the kitchen bench.

Faiza: I didn’t think I’d be able to do this.

6. Faiza turns with the point of Excalibur aimed at Doom’s throat.

Faiza: But I’ve unlocked a very old mystery, within this weapon, and your mother is at the heart of it.
Faiza: Care to stop being an arrogant prick long enough for us to help each other?

Faiza Hussain - Call of Duty - Sime McDonald

1. Completely red.

CAPTION

It was seven forty when the street exploded.

2. Faiza Hussain is propped up against an overturned bus. The London street around her is in ruins, bodies strewn about, the dead and the dying. Faiza appears relatively unharmed; a few cuts and bruises but nothing obviously life threatening. She's holding her hand to her head, as though ensuring it's still there.

CAPTION (1)

It was seven forty-three when I woke up in Hell with something buzzing in my ear.

CAPTION (2)

No, not buzzing.

3. Close-up of Faiza's ear, blood dripping from a wound just above it. There's a small communication-device planted there; her connection to MI-13.

PETE WISDOM

(from comm-link)

--za?

Faiza?

CAPTION

Pete Wisdom.

MI-13.

4. From Faiza's perspective. A young child is trapped under debris, unconscious. We can't tell if the child is dead or alive, but the outlook doesn't look good.

PETE WISDOM

(from comm-link)

Faiza?!

We need you!

We need Excalibur, damn it!

5. Faiza dashes towards the child. Unbeknownst to her, towering above, is a Sentinel, its arm raised, fingers splayed, ready to fire another blast at the London street. Targeting who? Why? If only we had another page... 

FAIZA HUSSAIN

And these people need a doctor.

PETE WISDOM

(from comm-link)

Faiza, you don't understand.

We need y - 

Faiza Hussain - Rising From The Ashes - Rol Hirst

Panel One.

The location: The Sydney Cricket Ground, New South Wales.

The scenario: During the the final of The Ashes Series cricket contest 2010/11, the two opposing sides have been transformed into undead opponents. The English cricket team has become bloodthirsty vampires while the Australians are lumbering zombies. (I should state at this point that, while English myself, I have little interest in cricket – nor any great sense of national pride. I’m of the opinion that most team sports would be enlivened considerably were some supernatural element to be included.)

Anyhoo, the story opens with a largish panel of undead cricketer-slaying mayhem. MI13 have been called in to trounce the monsters on both sides. Captain Britain is bowling a zombie cricketer’s head at a group of bat-wielding vampires. Blade is staking a vamp with a wicket. Black Knight is hacking at encroaching zombies with his ebony blade. Pete Wisdom is calling the shots from the umpire’s position. All this is taking place in the background…

...because in the foreground, Faiza Hussain walks towards us with Excalibur held at the ready.

CAP (FAIZA): Final Day of the Fifth Test of the Ashes, I always dreamed of watching it live.

CAP (FAIZA): I should have known it’d end up like this. English vampires versus Aussie zombies, and the only one who can put it all back to normal in time for the final over is…

Panel Two.

Faiza approaches a zombie and a vampire who are fighting to hold The Ashes Urn.

CAP (FAIZA): …a Muslim doctor cum superhero from Essex.

FAIZA: ‘Scuse me, fellas – you’ve kinda got something I need there…

Panel Three.

Dropping the urn, the vampire and zombie both lunge to attack Faiza. She swings Excalibur in response…

Vampire: Die!

Zombie: Rrrrrrrrgh!

Panel Four.

…and lops off both their heads. Vampire blood and zombie slime splatter everywhere.

FAIZA: Ughh! Yuck!

CAP (FAIZA): Almost as gross as Saturday night in A&E.;

Panel Five.

Wiping the blood and slime from her face with one hand, Faiza kneels before the dropped urn. She waves her other hand out before her and the blue light of her healing power begins to glow over the ceremonial ashes that have spilled from the urn onto the pitch.

CAP (FAIZA): Still, no time to be squeamish now. I’ve never used my powers to this extent before and they don’t normally work on magical entities, but if Pete and Brian are right, this is something beyond magic…

Panel Six.

Faiza is concentrating and using her power with both hands now. The Ashes rise from the ground and begin to swirl in the air, forming the shape of a man in cricket clothing, holding a bat.

CAP (FAIZA): …this is cricket!

Faiza Hussain - Caledfwlch - Max Barnard

Faiza Hussain - Caledfwlch - Max Barnard

The Premise: Um... Pixie is Welsh. Excalibur has a distinctly interesting Welsh name, let alone the stories history of it in a variety of Welsh works, specifically Preiddeu Annwfn... So... Let's MARVEL TEAM-UP this thing? Also no-prize to anyone who can explain Pixie's magic working differently to normal.
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(Note: This is page 2 of a greater story. Page 1 was Pixie panicking over some mysterious object in the distance in the fields of Wales, and coming up with an idea of who to summon. We join her halfway through her spell)

Page 2 - X Panels

1-- Pixie generates a large amount of pixie dust, out of which Faiza Hussain has appeared, coughing.

SPEECH BUBBLE/MEGAN GWYNN - --CHINOTH!

SPEECH BUBBLE/FAIZA HUSSAIN - *cough**hakk*..where?*cough*


2-- Pixie is dragging Faiza, who is still dazed by her sudden teleportation.

SPEECH BUBBLE/FAIZA HUSSAIN - What? Who are you? Where are you taking me?

SPEECH BUBBLE/MEGAN GWYNN - NO TIME! BIG TROUBLE! THIS WAY!


3-- Faiza has pushed off Pixie and is pointing at her, shouting angrily.

SPEECH BUBBLE/FAIZA HUSSAIN - OI! I don't know what it's like where you come from but where I'm from we have a thing called manners! No stop dragging me around and tell me what I'm doing here. And where IS here?


4-- Pixie is trailing behind Faiza, trying to get her attention as she storms off in a huff.

SPEECH BUBBLE/MEGAN GWYNN - Um...

SPEECH BUBBLE/FAIZA HUSSAIN - No, forget it! I don't have time for this, I have to get back to MI13 before Pete and Dane think something awful has happened.


5-- Pixie grabs Faiza's head.


6-- Pixie turns Faiza's head towards the earlier off-panel item.

SPEECH BUBBLE/MEGAN GWYNN - Look!


7-- We view the scene from the other side of our two characters as they look up at a giant glass fortress.

CAPTION - Annwfn: EXACTLY what it looks like.

SPEECH BUBBLE/FAIZA HUSSAIN - Oh... My.


[Note: So... can you tell that panel 7 really should have been its own page? But still, this is what it is.]

Faiza Hussain - Hail - Ben Rosenthal

With apologies to all British people everywhere.


1. Close up of Faiza, sweat on her face as she runs.

CAPTION
This isn’t what I signed up for.

2. A wider shot, showing the torso of Faiza as she runs. We can see, vaguely, figures behind her. She is running from these figures.

CAPTION
I’m a doctor first. I just want to help people. My abilities help me do that.

3. A close up of Excalibur, hanging from Faiza’s belt.

CAPTION
As does this thing. Right now though...

4. A birds’ eye point of view, with Faiza running ahead of a large crowd of people.

CAPTION
It’s not helping a hell of a lot.

CROWD (large font, as they are chanting)
HAIL, THE TRUE MONARCH! HAIL EXCALIBUR!

5. Same framing as panel one. Faiza looks horrified at the chant.

FAIZA
Oh bollocks.

Faiza Hussain - Hippocratic Oath - Matt Duarte

Faiza Hussain in “Hippocratic Oath” by Matt Duarte

This page is to be set up in four long vertical panels from the top to the bottom of the page, all equal in size.

Panel 1

Description: Faiza is running, talking on a communicator piece. Excalibur hangs in a strap by her waist. Around her, civilians are running in the opposite direction. She looks confused by the situation.

FAIZA: Pete, what’s going on? I was enjoying a quiet evening but now it sounds like World War Three out there.

PETE WISDOM (over com): Excalibur?! Are you in North London? Listen to me, stand by, Cap is heading there as we speak.

Panel 2

Description: Faiza is now closer to the source of the destruction, which we can now see is The Fury. The robot is destroying everything around it, while Faiza watches from a distance (with her back facing the reader).

FAIZA: Is... is that what I think it is?

WISDOM (over com): Yes, it’s the bloody Fury! We don’t know how or why, but it showed up two minutes ago and started wrecking havoc without rhyme or reason!

Panel 3

Description: Faiza stands there with Excalibur in hand, as if she had just taken it out of its holster. There is a shadow of doubt and worry over her body. Around her, there are more people running away from The Fury.

FAIZA: That’s the thing that fought Cap a few years back and nearly killed him. Pretty much invincible...

WISDOM (over com): Exactly. Listen, do NOT engage, support is en route. Cap is almost there, we warned the Avengers and the X-Men too.

FAIZA: ...Negative. I’m engaging.

Panel 4

Description: Faiza is now approaching the Fury, which looks in her direction with intent, almost as if analyzing her. She has Excalibur clutched in her hands, and is ready to strike at The Fury.

WISDOM (over com): What?! No! You are going to get killed out there.

WISDOM (over com): Excalibur! Faiza! What the #$%@ do you think you are doing?

FAIZA: What I’ve always done, Pete...

FAIZA: Saving lives.

Next: Excalibur vs The Fury!

Why Faiza Hussain?

Because I love to give my fellow ThoughtBallooners a good challenge!

Now, don't get me wrong, writing Faiza should be hard enough as it is. She is a relatively new character, also going by the code name of Excalibur, in the pages of Captain Britain & MI:13. She has the power to control the parts of  living organisms with extreme efficiency, which comes real handy since she is also a doctor. On top of that, she is also the wielder of the mythic Excalibur sword. 

But wait, there's more!

A few weeks ago, Paul Cornell, the creator of Faiza, put out a call for fan fiction of characters he has created, and that he would share it with all his readers over at his blog. So that means that all entries this week will be read by Cornell (as long as the writer wants to share it with him by sending him a link to it, make sure to read the rules outlined in the previous link if you want to participate at home). Is that challenging enough for you?