Pokemon - The Fiend Strikes Again - R.A. Wonsowski

5 wide panels, one on top of the other.

Panel 1 - It's a beautiful day in the forest.  The sky is blue, the pine trees are lush, the grass seems freshly mowed, even though there isn't a John Deere in sight, the sun is a yellow ball, and here comes PIKACHU, lightning shooting out of its...hindquarters (?), zipping left to right with an agonizing expression on its face.

PIKACHU:  ...kapikapikapikapikapikaaa...


Panel 2 - Same background, but here comes ASH KETCHUM, following the lightning streak, grasping his stomach with both arms clutched to it, his face a cross of pain and panic and tinted green. 

ASH:  ...ooh...


Panel 3 - Same background, and along comes Team Rocket partners JESSIE and JAMES, following ASH.  JESSIE is running frantically, her hands clutching her backside desperately.  JAMES is running in the same cartoonish style, but the back of his pants is starting to lump as he panics.

JAMES:  ...oh, sweet mother of...


Panel 4 - Background scenery only.

NO COPY


Panel 5 - Same background.  Along comes TRUTH-SAYING BASTARD SPIDEY (see http://www.thought-balloons.com/2012/09/the-rarebit-fiend-next-weeks-preview.html ), walking after our cast as if enjoying the lovely day, pumping his shotgun-shaped "Ronco Bowel Disrupter" (it says so on the barrel, and is set to PROLAPSE), smiling at us, cigarette in his teeth.

TSBS:  ...gotta catch'em all...

Pokemon - The Show - Niel Jacoby

Disclaimer: I never got too into the whole Pokemon thing, so I took a bit of a different tack with it.

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Panel 1: We see a referee in the middle of a dilapidated football stadium. A circle has been drawn, about 10 feet in radius, with a circle in the middle with a 1ft. radius. This would be where he's standing. At each side of him, we can see red/white pet carriers, one at each end of the circle. By each carrier, a trainer stands with 4 other carriers. The trainer on the right side of the panel is well-dressed, in black slacks, a maroon sport coat, and a white t-shirt. The other is a 15-year old in a baseball cap, ragged jeans, and a blue puffy vest. There's a crowd, but the stadium is still relatively empty. There are dark red stains on the ground, as this is not the first time this has been the stage for events like this.

REF: LET'S GET READY TO RUMMMMMMMBLE!

SFX: DING-DING-DING!

Panel 2: Another trainer stands by what would be the concessions stand, in a trancelike state. He has the same sport coat, slacks, and shirt as the trainer in panel 1, but he's considerably younger, and a baseball cap, with a stylized, cubistic rocket with its trail tracing a capital R on the front, shades his eyes. There's a small trail of blood coming from his nose, somewhat congealed. He has a carrier with him, the same color scheme as the carriers in the first panel, and it emits a light mauve glow.

MYSTERIOUS TRAINER(SPEECH BUBBLE BACKGROUND LIGHT MAUVE, TEXT AND BORDER DARK PURPLE): WE'RE LATE.

Panel 3: Close on the front of the carrier. The interior is darkened, but we can see a pair of light mauve hands grasping the bars, almost human, but not quite. A pair of eyes glows from the darkness, in the same light mauve. There is a metal plate on the front of the carrier, below the eyes but above the hands, bearing only the greek letter μ.

MYSTERIOUS TRAINER(OFF-PANEL; SPEECH BUBBLE BACKGROUND LIGHT MAUVE, TEXT AND BORDER DARK PURPLE): NO MATTER. WE'LL HAVE OUR CHANCE.

Pokemon - Shades of Your Journey Await - J.D. Coughlan

Four normal panels, one large panel at the bottom.

Panel 1: Red (the player character from Generation I) sits on a pier at the southern end of Pallet Town, gazing hopefully out. It is sunrise, so colour appropriately.

NO DIALOGUE

Panel 2: Same, except now Daisy (Gary Oak's sister) approaches from behind. Red half-turns to look at her.

DAISY: So today's the big day, huh?

RED: Heh.

RED: Yup.

Panel 3: Daisy sits beside Red.

DAISY: Excited?

Panel 4: Daisy and Red both sitting. Red looks back out to sea. Daisy looks at him.

RED: I've waited for this day for as long as I can remember... but...

RED: But part of me is really gonna miss this place.

Panel 5: Red and Daisy from behind. They both gaze out across the glass-like water. Cinnabar Island can be seen in the distance.

NO DIALOGUE

END OF PAGE

Pokemon – Trained For This- Shaun Richens.

PAGE ONE – 5 PANELS.

LAYOUT

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1. Night. Outside of a large country mansion. Picturesque forest and well-kept gardens surround the mansion. In the foreground, crouching down casing the joint is a BURGLAR, she wears all black and a mask of hides her face. Her long purple hair hangs out in a ponytail out of the back of the mask. A Kadabra kneels at her side.

         CAPTION:

         Just outside Fuchsia City.

         BURGLAR:

         Time to work your magic Kadabra.

2. Inside the mansion. In a grand hallway (Reference) KADABRA and the BURGLAR stand in the hallway, a small cloud of smoke around them.

         SFX: (Around the cloud of smoke.)

         BAMF

3. The BURGLAR holds a pokeball in her hand.

         NO COPY.

4. Now sat in front of the BURGLAR is her MEOWTH. It looks graceful, sleek and cunning.

         NO COPY.

5. Three shot of the BURGLAR, KADABRA and MEOWTH walking down the grand hallway. The BURGLAR walks in the middle, flanked by her pokemon. Kadabra hold his arms ready to cast a move if needed, MEOWTH walks on all fours, tail held high, sniffing the air.

         BURGLAR 1:

         Do your thing Meowth.

         (Linker)

         BURGLAR 2:

         Sniff out the safe.

         

Pokémon – Attack of the Ditto People – MK Stangeland Jr.

Page 1

Note: The ‘Text Boxes’ for this page should look as though they’re hand written on paper to signify that they are excerpts from a letter written by AGENT WHITE.

(6 Panels)

Panel 1: Night, right outside a tall building in the seedier part of a city. A man dressed as a G-Man – AGENT WHITE – has just been thrown out a window.

SFX: CkkK-RIiSH!

TEXT BOX/LETTER: To my friends and allies:

TEXT BOX (2): I believe my time is short. I shall keep this the same.

Panel 2: Panel is positioned above AGENT WHITE as he and the glass around him fall to the alleyway below. A pair of dark sunglasses have fallen away from his face. AGENT WHITE doesn’t show signs of fear, but rather of regretful acceptance – he knows his life is about to end, and takes comfort in the fact that he did all that he could before it happens.

TEXT BOX: Last I spoke to you, I was investigating a Dr. Moore for illegal genetic experimentation.

TEXT BOX (2): My suspicions have proven worse than true, beyond what I would have guessed.

Panel 3: Panel is positioned underneath AGENT WHITE as he nears the ground.

TEXT BOX: I have included a list of what notes I could encode to aid you in stopping him. I trust that you will know how to decode them for your own use.

Panel 4: Panel of the alleyway, with the shadow of AGENT WHITE as he hits the ground as a discretion shot against his death.

SFX: krAa-unk

TEXT BOX: The names included are those you should focus on exposing to reveal Moore’s plan to the world.

Panel 5: Panel of AGENT WHITE’s dead body on the ground of the alleyway. A DITTO is in the background sliding towards his body.

TEXT BOX: His Ditto could be anywhere.

Panel 6: Similar appearance for AGENT WHITE, but the DITTO from PANEL 5 is seen starting to transform into a human-shaped individual which will become a copy of AGENT WHITE on the next page.

TEXT BOX: Trust NO ONE.

(End Page)

Pokemon- The Wanderer Returns -Dan Hill

Disclaimer: I missed the whole Pokemon phenomenon. I know scant details about it or the franchise. Obviously I went with a slightly different take.

Page One

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We OPEN on a shot of a cell door with the number 151 stencilled on it in black deep in the bowels of a maximum security facility. The door and corridor are both a brilliant, pristine white.

We can partially see  four people, two either side of the cell door, standing with their backs to us.

VOICE

Ah, this is perhaps our most interesting guest.

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ZOOM IN on the door, focusing on the eye level hatch. A hand enters from off panel and begins to open the hatch.

VOICE

The once great, Doctor Ashley Kanto.

VOICE 2

Wait...the shrinking man?

VOICE

The very same.

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ZOOM IN on the door, almost through it. The hatch is now open and through it we can see inside. The cell is spartan, with a bed set against the back wall and a stainless steel toilet a little further up on the left wall.

Sitting on the bed is DOCTOR KANTO, a Japanese man with thick black hair and a youthful looking face, devoid of lines and wrinkles. Kanto is sat on up on his bed, the left side of his face facing us.

VOICE 2

I thought he was dead.

VOICE

He was found wandering around Machida City.

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Still zooming in, through the hatch and into the cell, closer in on Kanto.

VOICE

His once famous claims of being able to exist at an almost microscopic level could not be confirmed.

(link)

He’s quite mad.

1.5
Pushing in more, a tight shot on Kanto.

VOICE

He’s prone to fainting fits, bouts of mania and claims to have ‘evolved’ to the point where he has mastery over several hundred different species of insect.

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Kanto has turned to face us completely now, revealing a dead milky white eye.  A small smirk plays across Kanto’s face.

VOICE

He says they will come for him when they are ready.

KANTO (quietly)

Heh.

VOICE

Let’s move on, shall we?

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Wide panel: extreme close up on Kanto’s eye, an image of what looks like a POKE BALL where his pupil is.

KANTO (whispering)

めざめるパワ

(link)

Heheheh.

Pokemon - Osôshiki - Grant McLaughlin

The top row is made up of panels 1 through 3.  Panel 4 takes up the second row.  Panels 5 and 6 are equally divided on the last row.

Night time.

1 - Close-up on an ornate, Japanese coffin. The nails stand half nailed down along the coffin's edges. This should be far enough that the object is clearly a coffin, but close enough that there isn't much else visible, positioned so that one of the nails is the focal point of the panel.

CAPTION: Before.

2 - Repeat panel, except a gloved hand holding a fist-sized black and gray igneous rock is smacking the focal point nail of the previous panel into the coffin with a loud "smk!".

SFX: smk!

3 - Repeat panel one, but the nail is now knocked in, flush with the coffin edge.

4 - A man stands seemingly alone in the darkness of the night. From the strong illumination on his face and features, it is clear that a big fire is before him and it burns brightly against him. He wears a look of determination.

CAPTION (MAN): There must be a way to tame these creatures.

5 - Reverse the angle. It's clear that there is a large funeral pyre, cremating the coffin and body from panels 1 through 3. The blaze shines brightly in the dark night, a heavy plume of smoke coming from its top. It's also clear that the man isn't actually alone, but the other mourners stand apart from him, leaving him as the sole figure between us and the fire. The darkness in the middle of the blaze. The man stands with his hands behind his back, holding gloves in his hands.

CAPTION (MAN): To control them.

6 - Close up of the man's clasped hands, still holding the gloves. There is a wedding band on his right hand. First caption above the hands, second caption below.

CAPTION (MAN) (1): To stop things like this from happening.

CAPTION (MAN) (2): And I will find it.

Pokemon - Team Rocket - Ben Rosenthal

1.  Inside a bank.  People are laying on the floor, covering their heads and afraid. Members of Team Rocket are standing in various spots looking menacing.  The ring leader stands in the middle of the room.

LEADER

We have no interest in your money. We require only your Pokemon.  Hand them over and no-one gets hurt.

2.  The hostages who were lying on the floor are now standing, pokeballs in hand putting them into the sacks held by the various members of Team Rocket.  The leader stands, watching.  At the back of the panel a man 

is trying to sneak out the door, pokeball in hand.  The Leader has seen him.

3.  The Leader is throwing a pokeball.

LEADER

Gyarados—

4.  The door which the man was trying to escape through is now blocked by the hulking Gyarados ( http://swiftor.com/attachments/f22/3159d1303755260t-what-your-favorite-pokemon-gyarados.png ).  It stares down at him.  The man is scared.

LEADER (off panel)

--use Bite.

5.  Gyarados has bitten off the man’s arm.  The man screams in pain.

MAN

YARGHHHHHHH!

6.  The leader is standing above the severed hand of the man, his pokeball still in the hand. He smirks at the horrific scene.  In the background the other hostages are suddenly scared for their lives.

THE LEADER

I did say ‘hand’ them over, didn't I. 

Why Pokemon?

piikaa pikaa.

Pi Pikapi pi kaa pii Piikaa pi Pikaa pi ka. pi-i Pika Kachu pika-chu pika-pika chu Pi piika kaaa Pi chu pi-i Chu. pi Chuuu kaa Pi-i pika-chu-kaaa-Pi pikaa Pi, kaa Pi Chuu Kachu piii kaa pika-pika

’pi Kachu.

pi chu Pii pi-ka-chu Pika-pika Pi chuuuu ka Pi kachu chu pika-pika. pi Kachu pi pikachu ka kachu Pi pipi Pi kachu pi Pikachu pi-i, Pi piika chuuu Chu chu Kachu pi kachu Chu Pika-pika piika, pii pi piii Piii pi-kaaa-chu Pika-pi-pipi Kaa pikapi chuuu chuuu Pi pika-chu Chu chu Pikapi Chu. pi Pii Kaa ka Chuuu, Pikaa.

chu chu pi-i pi pi kachu pi pi-ka-chu ka chuu Pika-pi Pi pikapi pikachu chu pika-pika. pika pii ka pikachu pi Chuuu chu Kaaa Piikachu Kachu pi Ka. Pika Pi pikapi Chu chu pi pipi pipi. pi’pi kachu pipi Kachu chu pi.