Static Shock – AC/DC – MK Stangeland Jr.

(5 Panels)

Panel 1: STATIC flips his flying disk around with his feet (similar to how a skateboarder would do a kickflip) causing the far end to hit LIVEWIRE under the chin.

STATIC: Look Lively!

SFX: Zzz-gkong!

LIVEWIRE: Eeeaa!

Panel 2: Close-up on LIVEWIRE’s chin as the board connects, showing some kind of electrostatic cling connection being made.

SFX: BzZZZzz!

Panel 3: As the board flips around, LIVEWIRE gets dragged with it, and it should be clear that moving along her current path is about to cause her to impact with STATIC. STATIC is noticeably unprepared for this turn of events, leaving him unable to do anything but wait for the imminent collision.

STATIC: What the…!?

Panel 4: STATIC and LIVEWIRE impact with one another, though LIVEWIRE goes through STATIC. The result is a giant electrical surge that hurts both. STATIC is shown with his skeleton lighting up much like you see when someone is electrocuted, while LIVEWIRE is shown with an electrical lighting bolt stick-figure running inside her frame since she really doesn’t have a real skeletal structure anymore. The background should be lit up as a result of the electrical charge they’re causing.

STATIC: GUUAAAAHHH!

LIVEWIRE: AAAHHHHHGGGGGG!

Panel 5: Short panel that stretches across the bottom of the page as both LIVEWIRE and STATIC fall to the ground. Both are alive, but they’re singed and half-way unconscious.

(END PAGE)

(As much as it might look like it, this isn’t intended to be any kind of prequel to Ryan’s page. I am, however, amused by how we both thought that pitting Livewire against Static would be a good idea on some level.)

Static Shock - Gesundheit - Grant McLaughlin

Quick set-up: Virgil is sick, but he is insisting on going to school nonetheless. His mother will have none of it and insists that he stay home to get better.

Alright, let's see if I can explain what I'm imaging panelwise for this one. Four “rows” of panels. The first row takes up a quarter of the page. The third row takes up about half the page. The fourth row takes up the remaining quarter.

The second “row” is actually three panels that are kind of floating in the top part of the third row. The three panels increase in size, going from small to large. As I said, they are “floating”, so they don't touch each other either. Maybe it'll make more sense in the panel descriptions.

1 – A shot of the Hawkins' family kitchen. Virgil's mom on one side of the room and Virgil sits at the table on the other. Virgil's mom has her hands on her hips and is wearing a rather stern expression. Virgil is slouching and generally looks really tired and super sick. The background is going to sound really busy, but bear with me. Virgil's sister is looking at an iPad, it's screen visible to the reader. His father is preparing some breakfast – he's got eggs going on the stove, juice in the blender, and toast in the toaster. You also have stuff like a microwave, fridge, and so forth. Finally (and unrelated), for Virgil's dialogue, think a really big and empty word balloon, with his words written small and faintly.

JEAN: You're sick.

VIRGIL (weakly): I'm fine.

2 – Small panel. Virgil is about to sneeze. Cue the most ridiculous about-to-sneeze face you can. Go as wild on this one as you'd like.

Virgil: ah-!

3 – Middle sized panel. Virgil is still about to sneeze. Move in a little closer, showing mostly just his face.

Virgil: Ah-!

4 – Large sized panel. Virgil is almost there. Move all they way in to focus on his mouth (and maybe nose). We're just on the cusp of the sneeze, so things still look pretty silly.

Virgil: AH-!!!

5 – This is a big, black panel. There's nothing going on here except for the onomatopoeia representing Virgil's actual sneeze. In that vein, we get a huge “CHOO!” written as if it were electricity / lightning. Go really crazy on this one, having streaks fly out in all directions, filling up this otherwise blank panel. As mentioned above, panels 2 through 4 will be floating above most of this, but feel free to have the streaks go “behind” these panels.

SFX (Virgil): CHOO!

6 – Repeat panel 1. Virgil's mom has her arms crossed, one eyebrow raised. Virgil looks even more exhausted. His father and sister look super surprised. Everyone's hair is ridiculously frizzy, as if they've just been shocked. All of the electronic appliances are fried. The blender has exploded juice all over the place. The eggs have burst. The toaster is on fire. The iPad is dead.  The microwave and fridge are sparking.  You get the idea.

Virgil (weaker): I'm sick.

Static - Bang & Blame - Rol Hirst

I think I've unconsciously written a sequel to Ryan's page yesterday...

Panel One.

Static sits on a rooftop, sulking, his hands over his head, elbows shielding part of his face. It’s night time and we can see the lights of the city in the background.

Static: I’m sick of it, all right?

Panel Two.

Elsewhere. Street level. A man in a business suit has parked his car at a meter. He’s just got out of the car and is reaching to close the car door when he’s jolted by a spark of static electricity.

Man: Yeoww! @!#$!

Panel Three.

In her bedroom, a young woman pulls on a woolly polo-neck jumper. Her hair stands up from her head due to the static. She glares into the mirror.

Woman: Grrrrr!

Panel Four.

A romantic scene – a cosy apartment lit only by candles. A young couple snuggling on the sofa lean closer to kiss each other, their lips about to touch…

Panel Five.

Pull out from this scene, through the open apartment window as though we’re looking in from outside. We can see the apartment is on the top floor and that on the rooftop above, that’s where Static is sitting in his sulk. We can’t see much inside the apartment, maybe just the back of the sofa and the silhouettes of the young couple, standing now. The curtains are billowing slightly in the wind.

Girl: Owwwch!

Boy: Ooh… sorry, hon’… kinda spoiled the mood, I guess, huh? Damned
static!

Panel Six.

Angry and unappreciated, Static flies away from the rooftop on his saucer. He doesn’t hear the girl’s reply.

Static: I get the blame for everything round here!

Girl: No, no… actually, I liked it. Let’s try that again…

Static– Breaking Bad Timing – Ryan K Lindsay

PAGE 20 - 4 PANELS

1. Static is raised off the ground in a massive hero pose. He’s putting everything he’s got into sending out an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse). This pulse should be echoing out from him in a circular fashion – however you can make that happen :) The surrounding street, full of apartment buildings, is losing all power. Hitting the ground in front of Static, after a very long fight, is Livewire. She is being knocked down, and powered down due to the EMP. She is losing her powers, perhaps becoming just an ordinary human – we don’t know yet but we know she’s not electric anymore.

NO COPY

2. Static is bent over, hands on his knees, he’s pretty worn out. Livewire is comatose on the ground in front of him.

Static: You left me no choice, dammit.

3. A guy sticks his head out the window of a nearby apartment. All the lights are off, there’s no electricity in a pretty wide radius.

Guy: C’mon, man, it’s the Breaking Bad finale. What am I s’posed to do now, ya jerk?

4. Static stands there with his hands on his head, he’s tired and a little bewildered. Windows are opening up all over the building, people shaking fists, a tomato sails through the air at Static.

Static: You’d be dead if I didn’t stop her, you know?
Guy: I’d rather be dead than miss the show, you know?
Static: {sigh}

Static Shock – Fundamental Interactions - Ben Rosenthal

Just a bit of house keeping - firstly, you may want to brush up on knowledge of particle physics so you know what I'm getting at here. Secondly, Panels 3-6 should all appear on the same line, and be the same size.

1. Virgil Hawkins, in his Static costume is coming to after being knocked unconscious. His hand is to his head as he tries to get his bearings. The background is not too descriptive, but does resemble a science lab.

STATIC

Wha...where am I?

VOICE (off panel)

It isn't obvious to you?

2. We are seeing this panel from behind Static. He is looking up to see Deathstorm (Professor Stein) standing before him. Suspended high above Deathstorm are the costumed heroes The Ray, Geo-Force and the two men who make up Firestorm – Jason Rusch and Ronnie Raymond.

DEATHSTORM

Somebody hasn't been doing their physics homework.

3. A close up of the unconscious Geo-Force suspended in the science lab.

DEATHSTORM

Gravitation.

4. A close up of the unconscious Jason Rusch and Ronnie Redmond suspended in the science lab.

DEATHSTORM

Both a strong nuclear force--

5. A close up of the unconscious Ray suspended in the science lab.

DEATHSTORM

--and a weak.

6. A close up of the confused and somewhat scared Static.

DEATHSTORM

And of course, electromagnetism.

7. Back to a similar framing of Panel 2. However Static is now standing, ready to battle. Deathstorm towers above him, looking imposing.

DEATHSTORM

You select few make up the basic building blocks of the universe.

And by harnessing your powers, I can end it.

Static Shock - Magnets, How Do They Work? - Maxy Barnard

Premise: The return of a fun concept from Morrison's JLA run, transferred from Blue Superman to Static, presented through the filter of Milestone's thinly veiled references to their universe and creator's place in the universe and treatment thereof. So pretentious, derivative, but at least I've managed to post it eventually.

This page/scene occurs just after Mister Terrific has told Static of his gargantuan task.

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#.1
STATIC is standing out on a grey expanse (it's the moon!) with MISTER TERRIFIC, whose T-balls (is that what they're called? Filth!) ar flitting back and forth between two gigantic, off-panel tesla coils.

STATIC: You want me to do WHAT?

TERRIFIC: If anyone can, it's you.


#.2
Close on STATIC, looking down at his feet, teeth gritted, yet his eyes are more sad than angry.

STATIC: Don't tell me that! No-one can stand this pressure, man.


#.3
STATIC is now looking up and yelling.

STATIC: It's too much!


#.4
MISTER TERRIFIC has put his hand on STATIC's shoulder, supporting him and looking him directly in the eyes.

TERRIFIC: Look, Virgil, I know what it's like. To have so much difficult stuff going on, and only adding more. It makes it harder to do the small things.

TERRIFIC: But believe me when I tell you; something like this? Something bigger than anything else?


#.5
Close on MISTER TERRIFIC as he looks directly at the reader (STATIC's POV).

TERRIFIC: Something this big... When it's beyond anything you've done before, it can break you in the right way. And be as easy as breathing.


#.6
Long-distance shot of STATIC and MISTER TERRIFIC standing on the moon, between the two huge tesla coils, both looking up into space.

TERRIFIC: Pep talk over. You ready to stop the universe collapsing in on itself already?

STATIC: Well, when you soliloquise like that, how can a guy say no?

Why Static Shock?

Aside from him being one of the best characters of all time, an effective modern Spider-Man style character, part of the best comics line of the 90s (Milestone!!), a favourite of mine from his old TV show (a show that at one point had as many viewers as Pokémon) and being part of DC Comics' New 52 relaunch?

No reason.

For real though, this is a chance to take a young teen character who thinks he's hip and cool and with proper geek credentials. Kid's smart and proving it everyday as a hero in New York. There's stuff to play with here.

You can read about Static here
(IT'S NOT A COP-OUT I SWEAR)

And buy a trade of his early adventures and Rebirth of the Cool miniseries HERE

[yeah sorry this isn't a substantial why post, real life takes priority. Script should follow soon, if not back-posted shortly]