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Writer Mark Millar's "Ultimate Vampirella" storyline
is already buzzing with controversy across the net and
Mike Mayhew's sizzling pencils are making fans drool with
anticipation! But you don't have to wait two months to
see Vampirella's goodies check out this exclusive sneak
preview of Vampirella #1, right here on Vampirella.com!
But take note when Vampirella #1 hits the stands in June,
there will be way less copies to go around! With four
incredible covers by four red-hot artists, we expect a
lighting fast sellout on this hotly anticipated issue.
Don't be caught with your pants down let your local comics
retailer know
that you want Vampirella #1!
FAO David Bogart, Harris Comics
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1/ Full page image, taking the logo,
title and credits into account. This is almost like
a second cover, but provides one of two full-page
Vampi pictures which book-end the issue. The first
should be a shot of Vampirella in the dark coming
towards us. Feel free to play around with the layout
and actual design however you please. All I want is
to suggest that Vampi is the one who’s afraid
of the dark here.
- CAPTION : There’s a lot of good reasons
to be afraid of the dark.
DESIGN : Title and credits
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1/ Cut to a bar in the middle of
nowhere a little after midnight. This town looks
like every scum-filled, white trash place we’ve
ever seen in a Harry Dean Stanton movie. This is
an exterior shot of the bar at closing time. The
bar itself is called ‘Big Bob’s Bar’
and the Big Bob in question is the deceased former
owner whom, we should imagine, was a real local
character. His son and his wife run the place now.
- CAPTION : Somewhere:
INSIDE : Drink up now, buddy. Bar’s closed.
2/ Bar interior. Big, white trash owner is
cleaning the glasses and shouting over to a
scuzzy, skinny, little customer who’s been
sitting drinking all night by himself. The little
redneck should look like trouble and he just
stares into space, ignoring the owner as he
continues drinking his beer. The owner’s
fat wife watches nervously.
- BARMAN : I said it’s time to make tracks,
big fella. Some of us unlucky
enough to have kids to get up for school in
the morning.
REDNECK : Go hump your fat wife, asshole.
3/ The owner’s wife looks worried, telling
the big owner she doesn’t want any trouble,
but the big guy looks ready to kick some serious
ass.
- WIFE : You want me to call the cops?
BARMAN : For this redneck piece of trash?
You gotta be pulling my chain, honey.
4/ The owner stands behind the little guy and
starts yelling, thumbing back towards a picture
on the wall of the original Big Bob. This picture
has a cheesy, almost divine quality with little
lights around the frame which suggests that
the guy idolized his dear, old Dad. The little
redneck just ignores him, mumbling a sinister
threat under his breath as he continues his
beer.
- BARMAN : I’ve been itching to throw
this little runt out on his skinny ass
since he set foot in my Daddy’s bar,
God rest his soul.
REDNECK : Your Daddy’s giving hand-jobs
in Hell now, man, and if you
so much as TOUCH my jacket you’re gonna
join him.
5/ The owner ignores the warning and grabs
hold of the little guy’s jacket. If he
isn’t going to walk out of the bar, the
owner plans to physically throw him.
- BARMAN : You get off on having your face
rearranged?
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1/ Dramatic shot as the little redneck
just cracks the owner with the back of his hand
and sends him hurtling towards us. Wife stands in
the background and watches in awe.
- REDNECK : You deaf?
BARMAN : Unff!
2/ Impact shot as the owner crashes into all
the glasses behind the bar in a bloody, tangled
mess. How could this little creep have such
superhuman strength?
- WIFE (off-panel) : Son of a bitch!
3/ Cut back to the wife, behind the bar, as
she holds a rifle in her hands and cocks the
gun. She can't believe what’s happening
here.
- SOUND F/X : CHIK CHAK!
WIFE : That’s my husband, you animal!
4/ Wife fires a bullet through the little redneck’s
shoulder, but he doesn’t even react. He’s
just sitting back down and drinking his beer
again with his back to her.
- SOUND F/X : P-CHOW!
5/ Cut back to the wife for a slightly closer
picture as she looks even angrier, cocking her
gun once again as she gets ready to fire off
another shot.
- SOUND F/X : CHIK CHAK!
WIFE : Get out of our bar, you stinking, ugly,
trailer trash, dog-screwing scum-bag!
6/ Reaction shot as this bullet takes a chunk
out of the guy’s head at the back, but
he still doesn’t even flinch.
- SOUND F/X : P-CHOW!
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1/ Shot of the little redneck sitting
at his table as he suddenly reacts, noticing the
bullet-hole which has gone right through his shoulder
and the jacket he was so worried about. Suddenly,
the little guy is really pissed off.
- REDNECK : Jesus H. Christ, woman! This jacket
was originally worn by
Cameron Mitchell in The High Chaparral and
probably cost
more than your little flea-pit business makes
in a year.
REDNECK : The second I finish this beer I’m
gonna come over there and
teach you a lesson in customer service.
2/ The wife drops the gun and backs off with
a very nervous expression. She’s unsteady
on her feet as she stumbles backwards towards
the door, unable to find the words.
- WIFE : Holy S#!T! It’s the Goddamn
Terminator…
3/ Close shot as the little redneck puts down
an empty bottle of beer on the table. We should
see quite clearly that he’s done with his
beer now.
- REDNECK : Finished!
4/ Fast cut to the door as the wife continues
to back off, only to find the little redneck
standing behind her. He moved at something close
to super-speed here and has a little smirk on
his face as he blocks off the door.
- WIFE
: Yaaaggh!
5/ Redneck starts to get rough, holding the
wife by the hair and pulling her head back to
expose her plump, white neck. His grin on the
previous panel turns nasty here and she looks
helpless and terrified.
- REDNECK
: Guess you are too, huh?
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1/ Cut to two little kids creeping downstairs
in their bath-robes. There’s a little boy
around seven here and a little girl around five
and both look more confused than scared at the
screaming sound from the bar. These are the
kids of the couple who own the place and they
have one of those apartments above the bar.
Hall lights are off.
- WIFE (off-panel) : AAAAAAHHHH!!!
2/ Kids continue to follow the sounds, opening
the door which leads into the bar, A chink of
light comes through as the kids peek through
the door to investigate.
- WIFE (off-panel) : AAAAH, NOOOO!
3/ Big panel. Shot from the kids’ POV
as the little redneck lies across the big, fat
mother and sucks every last drop of blood out
of her neck on the floor of the bar. She’s
lying here twitching and we can see the mess
of the place from the struggle earlier. Their
Dad is lying over in a corner, dead and bleeding.
As far as we can tell the vampire has no idea
that the kids are here. He’s got his back
to us as he feeds.
- NO DIALOGUE
4/ Reaction shot from the kids as they freeze
with fear, one of them turning around to the
other and putting his finger to his lips. The
older brother is trying to tell his little sister
to be quiet. It’s the scariest thing they’ve
ever seen, but they don’t make a sound.
NO DIALOGUE
5/ Cut back to the redneck in close-up as he
looks up, his mouth and chin covered in blood
as he looks around towards us with a grin which
shows his horrible vampire fangs. He knows the
kids are there and WE know he knows, but the
poor kids aren’t going to find out until
it’s much too late.
- REDNECK : Hey there.
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1/ Cut to noon next day and an exterior shot
of the bar as the dead kids are carried outside
by the local emergency crews. We can see their
pale, little faces here (eyes closed) and the
look of genuine sorrow on the faces of the locals
as they watch this miserable sight, hats off
as a sign of respect and pressed against their
chests.
- RADIO BALLOON : …where all four were
found brutally-murdered—
RADIO BALLOON : --their terrible demise matching
the same grisly M.O. as the
OTHER Satanic slayings which have gripped
this God-fearing
state these last two months.
2/ Cut to a diner some miles away. Interior
shot where we can see this broadcast on a
television set which many of the staff and
diners are watching. Everyone looks pretty
shocked and outraged by what they’re
seeing on the television screen.
- CAPTION : Somewhere Else:
RADIO BALLOON : A Caucasian male in his
early twenties, who describes himself
as a NIGHT-WALKER, was arrested on the spot
after being
found slumped over the BODIES of his tragic
victims--
RADIO BALLOON : --UNCONSCIOUS and apparently
DRUNK.
3/ Close on the TV set again as we get a
tough, but distraught policeman giving us
details of what happened. This is a head and
shoulders shot of the big, stern man and you
might want to include him in the first panel
somewhere. He’s also the same cop we
see later in the issue when the two girls
come to free Michigan from prison.
- RADIO BALLOON : Yes, MICHIGAN PIKE is
in custody at the moment and I can
confirm we’re following leads that
the son of a bitch belongs
to a much wider vampire-obsessed CULT.
RADIO BALLOON : I mean, eight families in
as many WEEKS means he was either
doin’ some SERIOUS OVER-TIME or he
AIN’T been
workin’ alone, right?
4/ Reaction shot from staff and customers
standing or sitting near the television set.
They’re scared, disgusted and completely
opposed to the idea of even admitting to themselves
that vampires might exist. Their faces suggest
they could get violent. Two fat diners eating
at the bar on stools are the main focus here.
- DINER ONE : Man, what is it about these
dicks with too much BLACK in
their wardrobe wishing they was re-animated
corpses?
DINER TWO : You ask me, they’re just
a buncha weed-smoking faggots
who discovered Anne Rice when the rest of
us found our
John-Thomases.
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1/ Big, money-shot of Vampirella. This is a
full-length picture of her eating a raw steak
next to the two diners and looking pretty serious
as she checks out the off-panel TV set. She
looks very mysterious and sexy here and in full
costume, but she really needs that cute, little
red leather jacket which Ed McGuinness used
to draw her in. The leotard would just look
too daft if she was dining in a restaurant.
Giving her a jacket and maybe even a little
back-pack would suggest that she’s passing
through this town during her investigations.
- VAMPIRELLA : Don’t bet the farm on
it, cowboy.
2/ Reaction shots from the two diners as
they snigger to each other.
- DINER ONE : What? You reckon this loony-tune
was genuine VAMPIRI?
A nocturnal carnivore with a passion for
HUMAN BLOOD?
DINER TWO : Hell, you’re as crazy as
HE is, little lady.
3/ Small, insert panel. Close on Vampi dropping
some change into a TIPS jar.
- SOUND F/X : Ka-CHINK!
4/ Cool shot of Vampi exiting the restaurant
and glancing back over her shoulder towards
the guys.
- VAMPIRELLA : Let’s just say it pays
to keep an OPEN MIND, handsome.
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1/ Cut to a wide, exterior shot of the restaurant
in this sparse, open area. See Vampi as a little
figure in the distance walking towards us. She’s
reaching into her jacket for her sun-glasses,
but she’s almost too small for us to notice
here. Important note; these are all wide-screen
panels of equal size. It’s important you
stick to the Bryan Hitch-style page layout here
because it’s the only way this is going
to work.
- NO DIALOGUE
2/ Wide-screen panel as we switch from colour
to black and white and zoom-in on Vampi as
she puts her sun-glasses on. The effect here
is to give the impression that Vampirella
is being photographed, but she’s unaware
it’s happening.
- BIG SOUND F/X : CLICK
3/ Cut to another wide, black and white shot
of a sexy Vampi hitch-hiking as a truck appears
in the distance.
- BIG SOUND F/X : CLICK
4/ A final black and white, wide-screen image
as we get a close interior shot of the truck’s
cabin and see Vampi looking grateful as she
climbs aboard. Big trucker looks pleased to
see her too.
- BIG SOUND F/X : CLICK
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1/ Cut to an establishing shot of an official
FBI-style building out of town.
- CAPTION : An Official Building:
2/ Cut to interior and we see one of the
two Men In Black-Dudes from the second issue.
This is Agent Mulligan and he’s sitting
back and checking out a file with an impressed
expression on his face.
- DUDE ONE : Well, I gotta say the hooters
are the best I’ve seen since I last
banged O’Hare’s skanky, old MOM,
but do we have any
intelligence on who this chick actually
IS yet?
3/ Pull back and see both Agents Mulligan
and O’Hare slacking around this semi-lit,
atmospheric office. There’s an older
federal type who’s obviously their boss
in this cramped, little place too and they’re
all poring over hundreds of pictures of Vampirella.
They’re investigating the murders, but
Vampi has become a major part of this and
they’re all going over her file. Agent
Mulligan laughs as Agent O’Hare swipes
the file from him.
- ELDER AGENT : According to her file, she
travels under the rather improbable
name of VAMPIRELLA, Agent Mulligan.
ELDER AGENT : Her background is a tad vague;
speculation ranging from an
alien succubus who hails from the planet
DRAKULON to the
eldest daughter of the QUEEN OF HELL.
4/ Closer as Agent O’Hare notices an
inconsistency, which the older Agent rationalizes
for him.
- DUDE TWO : How come this blood-sucker’s
jiggling her mamas in
DAYLIGHT, dude? She wearing Factor TWO HUNDRED
SUN-BLOCK or what?
ELDER AGENT : As far as we can ascertain,
Vampirella is unaffected by the
usual restraints placed on the rest of the
VAMPIRE SPECIES,
Agent O’Hare.
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1/ Older Agent continues going over the picture
and O’Hare looks disappointed.
- ELDER AGENT : In other words, she can
get a tan, take a bath in holy water and
use as much garlic in her linguini as the
recipe requires.
DUDE ONE : Great.
2/ Closer on the worried-looking O’Hare.
- DUDE ONE : Like it wasn’t bad enough
when we thought we were up
against ORDINARY mid-west nosferatu.
DUDE ONE : How the Hell are we supposed
to fight a semi-indestructible
vampire bitch with hypnotic goddamn BREASTS,
man?
3/ Closer on Older Agent.
- ELDER AGENT : Oh, Vampirella doesn’t
have anything to do with that little
scum-bag the POLICE are holding for us,
gentlemen.
ELDER AGENT : She’s a vampire with
a CONSCIENCE. One of the GOOD
GUYS, according to our profilers. The only
reason she’s in the
area is to stomp these monsters into the
DIRT.
4/ Reaction shot from Agent Mulligan.
- DUDE TWO : You reckon she knows that these
murders are just
the tip of the ICEBERG, sir? That we’re
on the verge
of cracking the biggest secret in the vampire
SUB-CULTURE?
5/ Pull back and see the Older Agent checking
out a wall covered in pictures of Vampirella.
This has obviously been a pretty big case.
- ELDER AGENT : UNLIKELY, Agent O’Hare.
- ELDER AGENT : As far as Vampirella is
concerned, this is probably just another
little LOCALIZED PROBLEM she wants wrapped
up before any more people get HURT.
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