Transcript:
Four page comic about a priest finding an injured man outside in the middle of the night. Limited colour pallet of red, yellow, and teal.
Page one:
Panel 1:
A priest is seen speaking at a pulpit, speech implied by empty speech bubbles. There is a stylized spotlight shining on him.
Panel 2:
A close up of the priest’s hand hanging up his chasuble.
Panel 3:
Another close up of the priest’s hand putting out a candle with a candle snuffer. The panel is in the shape of a red circular church window.
Panel 4:
The view through one of the church windows shows a wolf lurking outside in the snowy woods, its eyes are red. The panel is in the shape of a gothic church window.
Panel 5:
A close up of the priest’s hand opening the church door
Panel 6:
Another close up of the priest’s hand holding a red gas lantern.
Panel 7:
The priest exists through the church doors holding the lamp. It is snowing. He can be seen from the waist up, face concerned as he hears a groan. The sound of the grown is depicted through large wobbly text.
Panel 8:
Close up on the priest’s face lit by the lamp. His eyebrows are lifted in worry as he says “Hello?” into the dark. The text is shaky.
Panel 9:
Zoomed out shot of the front of the church, the priest can be seen in the doorway as it snows around him. The lantern from panel 6 overlaps with the top of this panel.
Panel 10:
Zoomed out shot of a man laying in a pool of blood in the snow surrounded by darkness. The blood trails up off of the panel.
Page two:
Panel 1:
Wide shot of the priest shining a light on the man laying on the ground. He is facing away and three large gashes can be seen across his back. The priest is on the left side, the man is on the right.
Panel 2-3:
Two shots of the blood trailing off far into the woods with a speech bubble overlapping with them of the priest asking “Sir? Are you okay?”
Panels 4-8 are set against a black silhouette of the man’s body lying on his side in the snow.
Panel 4:
Close up of the man’s back and the three large gashes which are still bleeding. The priest’s light is shining on him.
Panel 5:
Close up the side of the man’s face, where more gashes are visible. The man is now on his back, implying the priest has turned him over.
Panels 6 & 7 have no borders, just figures set against the black background.
Panel 6:
The priest is kneeling down, he has lifted the man up and leaned him back against himself in a sitting position.
Panel 7:
The priest has lifted the man up and draped him around his shoulders to carry him. He has now gotten blood on himself as well. The man is still unconscious.
Panel 8:
Zoomed out wide shot showing the whole church and the rectory. There is a small trail leading from the pool of blood to the rectory and one light is on inside.
Page three:
Panels 1-4 depict the priest bandaging the injured man, the panels are all squares with black backdrops, the body parts are flat red tones and the bandages are white.
Panel 1:
The priest bandaging the man’s hand.
Panel 2:
The priest bandaging the man’s calf.
Panel 3:
The priest bandaging the man’s foot.
Panel 4:
The priest bandaging the man’s bicep.
Panel 5:
Wide shot of the couch in the priest’s home with a window to the right of the couch. The man is lying on the couch bandaged and covered with a blanket. The priest sits on the arm of the couch solemnly looking at the man.
Panel 6:
Close up of the man’s face and upper body as he sleeps, blood can be seen seeping through the bandages. There is a cut going through his eyebrow and just barely missing the inner corner of his eye. There is another cut through his left ear onto his cheek and two on his right cheek.
Panel 7:
Super close up of the man’s face, only his nose and left eye are fully visible.
Panel 8:
A headshot of the priest staring longingly, this is not contained within a panel.
Panel 9:
Wide shot of the room, the details of the room are obscured with black except for the couch, the window, and the door that the priest is now walking through.
Page four:
Panel 1-3: Close up shots of the man’s face showing the gashes on his face closing/healing progressively. The first two panels only show his left eye but the final panel is zoomed out a bit to show both. In the first panel his eye is shut, in the second it is starting to open and in the third both eyes are open, red, and his pupils are reflecting like a cat’s eyes.
Panel 4:
Close up of both eyes looking directly at the viewer, they are red and glowing in the dark. His eyebrows are furrowed. The gashes on his face are fully scars now.
Panel 5:
Wide shot of the priest sitting on the left side of his bed. He has his face buried in his hands, his arms resting on his knees. There is a lamp in the right corner that is illuminating his back.
Panel 6:
Close up birds eye shot of the priest’s hands gripping his knees.
Panel 7:
Close up of the priest’s eyes looking frightened with dramatic lighting as he hears a crash. The text “crash” is done in bold scratchy lettering with a light to dark red gradient.
Panel 9:
Mirroring panel 9 on page three, another wide shot of the main room except now the couch is empty, the blanket is strewn onto the ground and the window is broken. The priest looks out into the room shocked.
Panel 10:
Close up the broken window, curtains blowing. It is snowing outside and red eyes can be seen glowing in the darkness. This panel is not contained within borders, it is in the shape of the window.
