Lego - Every Time! - Brian Manton

1.
High angle looking down at 3 Lego men.

A Lego Nicholas Hawksmoor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hawksmoor

To his right (panel left) is a blue suited Lego Spaceman (series 1)
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To his left (panel right) is a ginger-bearded Lego Robin Hood
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They look upward in pride and awe.

Robin Hood: You’ve only gone and done it again, Hawksmoor. Bloody good work.

2.
Opposite angle, looking up at Lego Westminster Abbey’s West Towers, constructed by Lego Hawksmoor. An impressive feat in Lego architecture.
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3.
On the three figures - panic & confusion! Some small Lego bricks fall into frame.

SFX: RRRRUMBLLLLE

4.
A gargantuan 4 year old child, dirty blonde hair and missing a front tooth, pounds into view behind the towers. We can see now that we are in his bedroom. His bedroom wallpaper provides a cityscape background. He posture is Godzilla-like.

5.
The child-monster cracks off the right tower.

6.
Close on the three as they look on in horror.

Hawksmoor: Noooooooo!

7.
The child flies the tower section like a spaceship.

Child: FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Child (linked): Spacesipp.

8.
The three again. The Spaceman is cheering, arms raised. Robin draws his bow in fear, teeth gritted. Hawsmoor crumples to his knees and cries.

Spaceman: YEAHHH!

LEGO - Legoland Theatre Presents: MIRACLEMAN! - by R.A. Wonsowski

NOTE:  Writer's block struck me as well, so this week, I am...co-opting...a few ideas from Messr. Alan Moore.  Enjoy!

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Rather than drawn, it would be supremely cool to see this actually built out of LEGO and photographed/shopped...

Panel 1 - Crisis at the Legoland Power Plant!  Lego TERRORISTS (3) have taken over the control room, carrying plasticky machine guns.  Lego PLANT WORKERS in hard hats have their u-shaped hands up as the plant is about to go critical.  Lego MIKE MORAN is tied up on the floor, as he looks to the door, plastiglass window with "Atomic" written on it observed in reverse.

BOSS TERRORIST:  We're the hippie, peace-loving nature-lovers!  And we will kill everyone and destroy everything if this plant isn't shut down!

MIKE MORAN:  ...k...K...


Panel 2:  An explosion of LEGO pieces, and in the middle of the panel, built out of red LEGO, is the Word:  KIMOTA!


Panel 3:  Lego MIRACLEMAN beats up the TERRORISTS, flying through the air in a flurry of fists.  The TERRORISTS cannot resist; the BOSS is flying toward us bloodied.

MIRACLEMAN:  Beware! I am loosely based on the creations of C.C. Beck!

BOSS TERRORIST:  And EDGY!


Panel 4:  From between a Lego woman's legs, the round Lego head of Miracleman's BABY has crowned and burst through, smiling wide-eyed and mock-innocently, ready to be guided out of the birth canal by MIRACLEMAN's u-shaped hands...

MIRACLEMAN:  Behold!  The cosmic miracle of childbirth!

BABY:  VERY disturbing!


Panel 5:  Lego KID MIRACLEMAN, with a plastic pipe through his bloody torso, is about to destroy Lego MIRACLEMAN, but is caught unawares by a transformative explosion.

KID MIRACLEMAN:  A-ha !! MIRACLEMAN!

Sound FX:  kaBOOM!

KID MIRACLEMAN:  ...crap...


Panel 6:  Amidst the street rubble, Lego MIRACLEMAN, face in a tortured expression of anguish, has twisted off the head of Lego JOHNNY BATES (the boy alter ego of Kid Miracleman), which looks annoyingly surprised.  Lego BATES's headless body lies across MIRACLEMAN's lap, and is not wearing pants.

MIRACLEMAN:  I'm sorry...This is the only way to save London...and YOU, Johnny!

JOHNNY'S HEAD:  Hey!


Panel 7:  The infamous (NSFW!) final pages of Miracleman #15, done entirely in LEGO, using scrap cloth, Tinkertoys, Hot Wheels cars, broken pieces of plastic, deli meat, whatever you can find - should look like Ted Bundy and Ed Gein's 4th grade diarama...

CAPTION:  Ta-DAA!!

CAPTION:  So, guys, whaddaya think?


Panel 8:  The psychiatrist from Watchmen, DR. MALCOLM LONG, sits across a table from ME, holding up another Rorschach blot card.  Fellow THOUGHTBALLOONERS watch through the observation window.

DR. LONG:  And this one?

ME:  Some pretty flowers...

...seeya next week!

LEGO - Stuck - Niel Jacoby

Panel 1: Lego Batman is chasing Lego Joker through his lair.

Joker: HAHAHAHAHA, CAPED CHUMP! YOU'RE NOT CATCHING THE CLOWN PRINCE OF CRIME THIS EASILY!

Panel 2: Close on Lego Batman, as he smirks in triumph.

Batman: OH YEAH? ROBIN! ACTIVATE THE BAT-ADHESIVE!

Panel 3: Robin pops out from behind a statue of Joker, and spurts a decidedly non-Lego superglue in Joker's path.

Joker: SUFFERIN' PSYCHOPATHS! I'M RUINED!

Panel 4: Batman and Robin stand with Commissioner Gordon as Joker tries in vain to move.

Gordon: YOU'VE DONE WELL, BATMAN, BUT WE CAN'T SEEM TO GET JOKER UNSTUCK SO WE CAN LOAD HIM INTO THE JAIL WAGON.

Inset panel: Batman deep in thought.

Batman: I MAY JUST HAVE AN IDEA...

Panel 5: A police helicpter begins to lift the segment of Joker's lair that he is superglued to, with Lego bars placed around him. Joker is ticked.

Caption: AND YET AGAIN, THE DAY IS SAVED BY THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE!

Lego - Block - J.D. Coughlan

Panel 1: The Lego Batcave set. In the chair in front of the Batcomputer sits a Lego version of me (JD). He is in fancy evening wear, and holds a Lego glass in his hand. He looks right at the reader.

JD: Good evening.

JD: Apologies to my colleague, Mr. Stangeland, but yes, this is another meta-script.

Panel 2: JD has risen from the chair and is now walking across the "set." If possible, we can already see the edge of a Lego pirate ship he is walking onto.

JD: I assure you, dear readers, my script for this week was going to be an awesome action-fantasy explosion multiplied by the infinity of ideas in every Lego set...

Panel 3: JD is now on the deck of the pirate ship, casually walking through a fight going on between two crews.

JD: You see, it was my birthday last week, and my sister said she'd get me some Lego.

JD: My script was going to be based on whatever set she got me.

Panel 4: Close up on JD. He swivels his claw-hands to make air-quotes, like Bad Cop does in the movie.

JD: But it's "arriving late" 'cause she bought it online.

Panel 5: JD now strolls through one of the Lego cities, people going about their business in the background.

JD: Am I just using that as an excuse for writer's block?

JD: PERHAPS.

Panel 6: A crowd scene, with various types of Lego figures facing the reader. JD is front and centre.

JD: Rest assured, however, that no matter what set she got me -- superhero, space, pirate, city -- I shall be happy for it.

JD: And it will probably fire up my imagination, making my next few scripts amazing.

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Lego - Building Blocks - Grant McLaughlin

Excuse my gross tardiness.  It seems stories about Lego are far harder to build than the playsets proper.  Oh, well.  I hope you enjoy.

1 - It's Christmas morning in the McLaughlin household.  Hard to say what year, but Grant can't be much older than 7 or 8.  His parents watch on from their easy chairs as Grant opens a big box.  Though still in the process of unwrapping the gift, he has gotten enough paper off to see that it's a Lego set (this one, let's say).  Grant looks overjoyed.

CAPTION: My parents have done a lot of great things for me

MOM AND DAD: Merry Christmas!

CAPTION: Buying me my first Lego set was certainly one of them.

2 - Maybe a small temporal jump.  Grant is building a Lego set with his Father - it's not necessarily the one he received in panel 1, but it isn't that long after either.  Lego pieces are everywhere, with a small whole coming into existence through their combined efforts.  Grant, holding onto the instructions, is the foreman of this operation, his father kind enough to humour him.

CAPTION: I wasn't the most innovative builder to ever wield the bricks.

GRANT: No, Dad!  The instructions say to do it this way!

3 - Yet another small leap.  Grant looks on at an amazing creation (this one, although not box art, obviously).  He holds the discovery ship and moves it as if it's floating underwater on some important mission.

CAPTION: And yet, even when following directions, those tiny little plastic pieces, ordered in the right way, would invariably add up to something amazing.

GRANT (quietly, small words in a balloon bigger than necessary to hold them): cool

CAPTION: A sum far greater than its individual parts.

4 - Grant, slightly older yet again, sits at the kitchen table, intently reading a book.  It's a chapter novel, without pictures or anything like that (if we're being historically faithful, probably something like this).  On the table, another Lego set (say, this one) lies, unopened.  Grant's Mother smiles at the unopened box, asking her son a question.

CAPTION: It's not unlike stories and their composite words in that way.

MOTHER: When are you going to open your new Lego?

GRANT: Soon, Mom.  Just gotta finish this chapter.

CAPTION: Fantastic totals constructed solely out of tiny base ingredients.

5 - Let's have one more time jump.  Repeat framing from panel 4, but Grant is now reading the instruction manual for a Lego set.  The box is open and pieces lie spread all over the table (it's this one).

CAPTION: Did I recognize those similarities while playing with the toy in my youth?

GRANT: Let's see...

CAPTION: Doubtful.

6 - Final time jump.  Grant (no older than 11 or 12) is playing with all the sets from the previous panels at the same time - each playing a role in the grand adventure that he's concocting as he plays.  The Star Wars gunship from panel 5 lies overturned some distance away from a town made up of the cowboy and Robin Hood playsets.  Various other sets (many not seen in earlier panels) lie between the town and the fallen ship.  Grant holds two figures who are talking (the active members of the cast, if you will).

CAPTION: But did it fuel some of my early spurts of creativity?

GRANT (1): The ship crashed in the far distance beyond the Evernight.  I don't know if we'll be able to get there in time to help, but we have to try!

GRANT (2): You're right.  Let's go!

CAPTION: Well, I can't imagine it hurt.

Lego – Apologies in Advance – MK Stangeland Jr.

(The entirety of this page should be done in a LEGO-esque art style. That is to say, everything should be drawn as if it were made out of appropriate Lego pieces.)

(8 Panels)

Panel 1: MK STANGELAND JR (seen here as a Lego minifigure) sits in front of his computer at his desk.

STANGELAND (1): Well I done goofed.

STANGELAND (2): And in about the most embarrassing way possible.

Panel 2: Similar to PANEL 1. STANGELAND looks like he’s panicking a little.

STANGELAND (1): I have no idea what to do for a script and I have to post one tomorrow.

STANGELAND (2): And it was my own dang pick this week, too!

Panel 3: STANGELAND looks like he’s deep in thought.

STANGELAND (1): How do I get out of this problem?

STANGELAND (2): Think think think…

Panel 4: STANGELAND has an idea, and looks excited about it.

Panel 5: Small montage of STANGELAND building something.

SFX: Click click click click click

Panel 6: Close up on STANGELAND’s face as he looks at what he’s built. There’s a glimmer of hope that his idea has worked.

Panel 7: Same as PANEL 7, but with a significantly less-thrilled look on his face.

Panel 8: STANGELAND stands in front of a wall of Lego bricks with the words “A SCRIPT” built into it.

STANGELAND: I have no idea why I expected that idea to have any other possible result.

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Why Lego?

Because LOOPHOLES! Like Lego comics exist out there, and the rules allow a pick if it has a presence in comics. And how not only are their Lego comics out there, but there are also webcomics out there that prominently feature or use Lego.

Because LEGO MOVIE! The existence of which is the reason I am making use of said loopholes. And how it’s…a…well, it’s a thing where I’m really glad it’s a thing. Also, Lego Batman, if need be. Because that’s both a Lego thing and a comic thing. It’s absolutely both things at once.

Because MESSING WITH STUFF BEYOND THEIR…ORIGINAL…CONSTRUCTION! Yes, that. Like said loopholes. And Legos, which can be built and unbuilt and built again into all sorts of other things.

Because…reasons! And stuff!...where I probably should have thought this through more before I picked it. BUT IT’S HERE NOW! NO GOING BACK NOW!

SO…LEGO! THAT! Have at it!