(5 Panels)
Panel 1: NICK FURY, AGENT JUNIPER, and AGENT MANELL lead GABRIEL JONES down an alleyway.
GABRIEL JONES: I didn’t get your name.
NICK FURY (1): Nick Fury.
NICK FURY (2): I command SHIELD.
Panel 2: The four come to a dead end. A number of posters line the brick walls.
One is a variation on the classic UNCLE SAM ‘I want you to join the US army’, but with Uncle Sam replaced by a noir version of CAPTAIN AMERICA. NICK FURY is closest to this poster, and looks as though he’s about to interact with it.
GABRIEL JONES: Nick Fury? I thought you were just a rumor.
Panel 3: NICK FURY lifts the CAPTAIN AMERICA poster up and has his other hand up against one of the bricks. At present, it looks like just more brick wall.
NICK FURY: I am.
Panel 4: NICK FURY pushes a selection of separate bricks into the wall.
GABRIEL JONES: But you’re standing right…
NICK FURY: Nick Fury does not actually exist. Neither does SHIELD.
Panel 5: A portion of the brick wall opens up to reveal a doorway. JUNIPER is passing through, while FURY and MANELL wait for GABRIEL JONES to follow JUNIPER in.
NICK FURY: And as of today, Mr. Gabriel Jones does not officially exist, either.
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(Since it probably helps fit the theme better if I provide a tad more information, part of the idea I’m running with on the Noir version of Nick Fury/SHIELD is that in addition to SHIELD being a secret, covert organization, rather than Nick Fury having LMDs or the infinity formula, Nick Fury isn’t just a single man, but instead an identity. When one Nick Fury bites it, another agent of SHIELD takes his place and assumes the identity of Nick Fury in his place.
How Gabriel Jones plays into this is that I imagine that, by the end of the tale, the Nick Fury we are introduced at the start of the story would not be fortunate enough to survive to the end. The story would then end with Gabriel Jones becoming the new Nick Fury, essentially becoming the Noir version of Ultimate Nick Fury.)
