Comic Scripts

Inch High issue #1 (24 pages)

Inch High (Script)

Page 1: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) [Jason Lynch was sitting with his sister and parents eating breakfast.]

Jason: “Why do you always show up for Lavender’s birthday, but never to mine?”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Mr. Lynch: “Your birthday is in the winter, and the weather is too sketchy that time of year. Besides, it’s the first day of school for both of you, it’s your first day of your junior year of high school, and your sister will be starting as a freshman. I wanted to be here to send you off, before I head back to Sacramento.”

Panel Three: (wide panel) Lavender: “Will you show me around and introduce me to people, Jason?”

Mr. Lynch: “He won’t be in any condition to do anything like that, Jason is getting miniaturized and will be living on campus in a dorm for shrunken offenders.”

Page 2: 4 panels
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Panel One: Lavender: “Oh, I forgot about that,”

Panel Two: Lavender: “I hope I don’t get judged by the teachers for being his sister.”

Panel Three: (wide panel) Mr. Lynch: “I’m really disappointed in you, son! I thought I had taught you better than that. I’m a United States Marine! I don’t want you to bring dishonor to my family name!”

Panel Four: (wide panel) Jason: “Maybe if you spent more time with me and taught me some semblance of values, I wouldn’t do crazy stuff with Sadler and his outlaw friends. You can’t just throw seeds into some soil, never water them, and expect a plant six months later. It takes time and patience to raise a kid.”

Page 3: 5 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Mr. Lynch: “Once you go down the criminal path and you’re in the system, you’ll be in and out of jail for the rest of your life!”

Panel Two: Jason: “Dad, that’s not true! I’ll prove that people can be redeemed!”

Panel Three: Mr. Lynch: “I’ll drive the two of you to school before I head back to Sacramento.”

Panel Four: Caption: Jason and Lavender were dropped off in front of the school…

Panel Five: Caption: After posing for the pictures for their identification cards, they both headed to the auditorium for an assembly…

Page 4: 4 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) The principal stood on the stage and addressed the students.

Principal: “Your identification cards are loaded with a specific amount of treats you can get per week. Students who got straight As last school year during the spring semester can get five more cups of hot chocolate per week than a normal student.”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: Lavender sat next to Jason and looked at the bar code on her ID card…

Principal: “Next, I want to tell you about the Cosmic Cruisers. They came from a parallel universe ten years ago, and introduced technology hundreds of years ahead of what was then the current state of the art. They encrypted their inventions with a secret code. We’ve decrypted some of the inventions, but there are still some we haven’t decoded yet. There is a cryptography club that meets after school, and you can earn extra credit if you or your team decrypt a new invention.”

Panel Three: Lavender: “Have you ever joined that club?”

Panel Four: Jason: “Yes, but decrypting codes is complicated. I doubt any student here could do it.”

Page 5: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Principal: “There are some students who broke the law who are currently on probation. They will be miniaturized with neutrino dissimilators and they will live on campus in a system of dorms.”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Principal: “They will be known as Therapeutic Occupational Youth, or TOYs for short, no pun intended. I’m sure you’ve seen the tram system here, it is a miniature conveyance system that will allow the shrunken students to get to their classes on time.”

Panel Three: (wide panel) Principal: “If anyone swallows a shrunken student, they will be charged with a crime, and that student will also be miniaturized!”

Page 6: 5 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Principal: “If you witness a TOY being swallowed, there are neural stimulators located throughout the campus next to fire extinguishers, and anyone is welcome to break the glass and utilize one to make the predator vomit up their captive. We will do whatever is needed to keep our students safe.”

Panel Two: Lavender: “How close did you come to cracking the code last year?”

Panel Three: Jason: “I don’t know, the decryption program is still running, I’ll have to check up on it when I get to my dorm.”

Panel Four: Principal: “Am I keeping the two of you from something?”

Panel Five: Jason: “Sorry about that, principal Navarro!”

Page 7: 4 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Principal: “Just who I was about to call on, Jason Lynch, Sadler Sullivan, Blip Bowman and Hack Hagar, can you all please come up onto the stage?”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: All four of them walked up onto the stage, and entered separate chambers…

Panel Three: Caption: The principal activated the device while they were sealed inside, as a nurse stood by.

Panel Four: Caption: They were miniaturized instantly!

Page 8: 4 panels
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Panel One: Caption: When the chambers opened, they were all around an inch tall…

Panel Two: They were lifted onto a table next to a wall by the female nurse…

Panel Three: (wide panel) Principal: “These students have had size inhibitors planted into their spinal columns. This will make it impossible for them to be restored to normal if someone used a neutrino dissimilator set to reverse on them. They shall remain miniaturized for the duration of the school year and live on campus!”

Panel Four: (wide panel) Caption: When the principal was done with his speech, the shrunken students rode a tram to their first class…

Page 9: 3 panels
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Panel One: (Wide Panel) Caption: Jason rode the tram to his first class…

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: He ignored his hoodlum friends, because it was them who convinced him to break the law in the first place.

Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: Sadler, Hack and Blip were dropped off first, because Jason’s class was on the other side of the campus…

Page 10: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: When he exited the tram, he found his seat, which has been miniaturized down to his scale.

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: There was a ledge where he could sit and pay attention to the teacher and the other students.

Page Three: (wide panel) Caption: A girl was the first of the other students to arrive, she approached him and introduced herself…

[she was a Latina the same age as Jason.]

Regan: “I’m Regan Ramirez, I want to be a journalist when I grow up, so I was hoping I could interview you. Is that cool?”

Jason: “Yeah, I guess so,”

Page 11: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Regan got out her electronic notepad and brought up a file with questions she had typed out some time before…

Regan: “How do you feel about the Therapeutic Occupational Youth program you’re currently a part of?”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Jason: “It’s embarrassing, but I think it sends a strong message to criminals, it might make them think twice before breaking the law again.”

Panel Three: Regan: “You make it sound like you’re not cut from the same cloth as the other juvenile offenders. What in your mind makes you different from them?”

Page 12: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Jason: “I fell in with a bad crowd, and they wanted me to join them in their criminal exploits. I’m just a guy who made a mistake in life, I’m not a career criminal.”

Regan: “What was the crime you committed to end up in the TOY program?”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Jason: “My criminal friends convinced me to try to steal a roll cage made of an alloy that is ten times stronger than titanium. Sadler, the leader of our group, has a convertible and he wanted the roll cage for his car.

Panel Three: (wide panel) Jason: “His on and off again girlfriend talked him into doing it, because she felt it was unsafe to ride in Sadler’s car without one. We got caught trying to carry it out of a warehouse we broke into and we all got a year of probation, as well as some fines we have to pay off.”

Page 13: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Regan: “Why isn’t she in the TOY program?”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Jason: “Her parents hired an expensive lawyer, so she got a slap on the wrist. We all had public defenders, so we got shafted.”

Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: Other students started to shuffle into the classroom…

Regan: “Can I meet up with you in the quad during break after second period to continue this interview? There’s a table near the spot where the tram can drop you off.”

Jason: “Sure!”

Page 14: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: By the time second period was over, Jason rode the tram to the spot where Regan had agreed to meet with him…

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: She collected him and took him to a table where a group of students gathered around him to check him out…

Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: Four cheerleaders with red hair approached the table…

Regan: “Those cheerleaders are named Maude Sienna Todd, Ruby Thompson, Scarlett Turner, and Ginger Trexler. They are known as the Crimson Quartet. Maude is their leader, so they are sometimes known as the Maude Squad. They think they rule the school.”

Page 15: 5 panels
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Panel One: Jason: “I’m familiar with them from last year,”

Panel Two: Caption: Maude stood in front of Jason and Regan…

Panel Three: (wide panel) Maude: “I’ve always wanted to swallow a shrunken man, will you volunteer? It’s not against the law if you let me do it, as long as I puke you up afterwards!”

Panel Four: Regan: “He’s not going to let you swallow him, Maude! Get away from us!”

Panel Five: [Maude turned away, but before leaving said]

Maude: “I have my eye on you, Jason!”

Page 16: 4 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: When Jason boarded the tram to get to his third period class after break was over, Sadler sat next to him…

Sadler: “Me and the other TOYs are planning on hacking into the government database and downloading one of the inventions brought over by the Cosmic Cruisers and selling them to North Korea.

Panel Two: (wide panel) Sadler: “The invention allows you to communicate instantly with a base on Mars by manipulating a temporal displacement field. We need your help to accomplish this, I checked the decryption website and it said your program was 99% solved.”

Panel Three: Jason: “Are you serious?”

Page Four: Jason: “I don’t know about this, let me think about it first, Sadler.”

Page 17: 5 panels
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Panel One: Caption: Jason thought about Sadler’s proposition throughout third and fourth period.

Panel Two: Caption: When lunchtime arrived, he took the tram to his dorm and saw that Sadler had been correct.

Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: His decryption program had almost completely solved the code for the communication technology that would make it possible for people on Earth to communicate with people on Mars instantly.

Panel Four: Caption: Jason quickly ate his lunch in his dorm…

Panel Five: Then took the tram to the quad…

Page 18: 4 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Jason’s sister Lavender was socializing with kids who had gone to her junior high school the previous school year.

Panel Two: Caption: Regan was waiting for Jason, and approached him.

Panel Three: Caption: Lavender joined Regan…

Panel Four: (wide panel) Lavender: “Jason, don’t fall under the spell of peer pressure! If Sadler tries to get you involved with more trouble, turn away!”

Page 19: 4 panels
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Panel One: Jason: “I’m not dumb enough to get involved in another scheme,” [Jason to Lavender]

Panel Two: “You’re my brother, I know when you’re lying!”

Panel Three: (wide panel) Lavender: “If Sadler is trying to get you wrapped up in another scheme, just think of the consequences and don’t do it!”

Panel Four: (wide panel) [Lavender turned and walked away. Regan remained, hovering over Jason with her electronic tablet.]

Regan: “The school newspaper assigned me the task of interviewing you and the other TOYs. They gave me more questions to ask you.”

Page 20: 4 panels
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Panel One: Regan: “Oh no, it’s the Maude squad!”

Panel Two: Maude, Ruby, Scarlett, and Ginger approached the table…

[the inch tall Jason was standing on the table, while Regan stood over him.]

Panel Three: (wide panel) Maude: “Jason, last school year we got along pretty well, if you had been an athlete we might have gone out. Then you ended up with hanging out with Sadler and those losers, and now you’re in the Therapeutic Occupational Youth program.”

Jason: “What about it?”

Panel Four: (wide panel) Maude: “Would you go out with me? And experience love on the scale of Gulliver?” The other three redhead cheerleaders signed audibly, thinking this size disparity was somehow romantic.

Page 21: 4 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Jason: “What do I have to do?”

Maude: “I’m chewing bubble gum, let me stick you in my mouth and blow a bubble with you inside!”

Panel Two: Regan: “That’s gross!”

Panel Three: “Maude is one of the hottest girls at our school, Regan!”

Panel Four: (wide panel) Jason: “I’m willing to let you do that, Maude!”

Page 22: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) [Maude picked up Jason, and lifted him up over her open mouth] Maude: “Prepare to surrender to the tongue of a sovereign sixteen-year-old!”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: Jason could see the ample pink gum below him that had been chewed up in Maude’s mouth…

Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: She dropped the inch tall Jason into her mouth, and tried to blow a bubble, failed, then pulled Jason back into her mouth with her tongue…

Page 23: 3 panels
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Panel One: (wide panel) Ruby: “It would be funny if the size inhibitors within the spines of the TOYs couldn’t be de-activated when their probation was up, and they were forced to remain at one inch tall!”

Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: This caused all four members of the crimson quartet, including Maude, to laugh uncontrollably, causing Maude to swallow Jason.

Panel Three: (wide panel) Maude: “I can’t believe I just did that!” [Maude had a concerned look on her face.]

Page 24: 6 panels
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Panel One: Caption: Regan acted swiftly, breaking a glass panel containing a neural stimulator…

Panel Two: Caption: She rushed back to where Maude was standing…

Panel Three: Caption: She pointed the device at Maude’s head and pulled the trigger, causing Maude to vomit instantly.

Panel Four: Regan caught Jason as he fell out of Maude’s mouth, covering her hand in vomit.

Panel Five: Regan: “Jason, are you okay?”

Jason: “Yeah, I’m okay, a little wet, but none the worse for wear!”

Panel Six: Regan: [to Maude.] “You’re getting charged with a crime for this, I hope you know that!”

Maude: “My dad will just hire the best lawyer in the county! I’ll beat this rap!”