"Jewel of Man" is a One-Page complete story created for the anthology
"THE PROMPT"
Written:
Kelly Bender
Art & Colors:
James Leong
Letters:
Micah Myers
"The Prompt" is an anthology created by
Nic J Shaw. It is a challenge to make a complete one page comic book based on a prompted theme.
This prompted theme was "Coming home..."
Here is how this one page story became a completed comic page:
STEP 1: SCRIPT
I wrote a script for artist James Leong & letterer Micah Myers.
A typical comic book script I write is formatted like this:
Jewel of Man By Kelly Bender Page
01
PAGE 01 (8 PANELS)
PANEL 01 (panel 1
is tall and narrow)
This is our location shot. CAMERA IS ZOOMED back and we’re
looking at a KNIGHT riding on a horse that’s going up a mountain trail covered
in snow, there is a cave near the top.
NO DETAILS REQUIRED IN THE RIDER AND THE HORSE JUST SILHOUETTES. The
main focus is the location Mountain with a cave.
TITLE:
Jewel of Man
CAPTION:
For Centuries men
have been pining for the jewel.
PANEL 02 (panel 2
and 3 are wider and on top of each other next to panel 1. Panel 2 and 3 onto of each other is the
same height as panel 1)
We’re looking at the knight walking towards us (WAIST UP) we
can see she is wearing armor and a helmet. Her SWORD is out and she has a torch
(you know the kind with the stick and the cloth?) WE WANT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT
IT’S A FEMALE UNTIL PANEL 6!!
CAPTION:
Deep within these caverns rests
the one heavenly trinket that man yearns for most.
PANEL 03
We can see the KNIGHT walking down the path in the cave His
sword still out and holding onto the torch. There are pieces of armor with skeleton bones coming out of
them, and swords stuck into the ground.
Many men have died trying to posses the jewel.
CAPTION:
Its location has been widely known,
and yet that it still alludes capture has driven the wisest of men to madness.
PANEL 04
We can see an opening in the CAVE a small room, We are
looking at the back of The KNIGHT who is on the LEFT, she is standing there,
and her sword is lowered and the torch up. To illuminate the room. The JEWEL (it is a red jewel) is there on a small mound of
skeleton bones. The jewel is on
the small mound as nobody can touch it with ANYTHING without dying. The mound is just past the KNIGHTS
chest in height off the ground.
BETWEEN the KNIGHT and the JEWEL we can see dozens of
skeleton bones lying there on the ground.
CAPTION 1:
Kings have spent fortunes and lost
many brave souls trying to obtain it.
CAPTION 2:
Minstrels sing ballads pertaining
to the allusiveness of the jewel, and how no man will ever possess it.
PANEL 5 (small
panel)
Just the feet of the hero as she’s walking and has dropped
her helmet. There are skeleton bones on the ground.
SFX:
Tink! (metal
helmet hitting the ground)
PANEL 6
We can see the KNIGHT face and long hair now. We can tell
it’s a girl!! She is just about to
touch the JEWEL (like INDIANA JONES and the gold statue from Raiders of the
lost ark :))
the Jewel is glowing now.
CAPTION:
But I’m no man!
PANEL 7
We can see the KNIGHT is turned to a skeleton in a
flash. JUST an effect like you’d
draw a body in the fire. But this
is a skeleton.
SFX:
Foosh! (like a
blast of energy or fire)
SFX:
Ahhhhh!
PANEL 8
We can see the SKELETON fingers of the woman falling away from
the jewel.
CAPTION: (at the
top)
The end
CREDITS: (bottom of the panel or
along the bottom in the black part)
Story: Kelly
Bender
Art: James Leong
Letters: Micah
Myers
PENCILS
