[Image one: The first page of a digital comic based on Jim Halsey and John Ryder from the film The Hitcher. It begins with an image of Jim holding a large gun with his face solemn and doused in shadows. Next to it, there's the sentence "You didn't cry like you thought you would.", accompanied by two panels: a close-up of Jim's stony gaze, and one of his hand around the gun barrel. The words continue "You just fall into a heap; all abrupt and violent.". Two panels show his knees collapsing, and Jim is hunched in a heap at the middle of the page, looking dejected. Beneath this, it says "It's a harsh sound... but far softer than that which preceded it;" and the words trail towards the legs of John's corpse, surrounded by blood and the muzzle of Jim's gun.
Image two: The second page of a digital comic based on Jim Halsey and John Ryder from the film The Hitcher. This page is chaotic, starting with four guns coming from the top left, with the pistol being shot - the words start with "the guns firing,". It travels down to the gas station on fire and billowing with smoke, now reading "the fire blazing,". It says "the cars crashing," next, accompanied by a police car pursuing Jim's original car as it is enveloped in the smoke and flames. This leads into a helicopter whirring down, also gushing smoke, and the words "the air exploding,". Finally, it says "her flesh tearing." next to the chained up hands of Nash, bloodied and limp.
Image three: The third page of a digital comic based on Jim Halsey and John Ryder from the film The Hitcher. It starts with the sentence "Two shots; that's all it took.". This is accompanied by a panel of the gun being fired, and a panel of John's torso being blasted out of itself. In the middle of them is two pools of blood and three bullets. "Just two." it continues, surrounding a small upright drawing of Jim and an upside-down one of John, features obscured by shadow. Further down it says "You could've done it earlier (with more ammo, with more guts). On the left is Jim once John placed the coins over his eyes, terrified and his cheeks cupped by John's hands - the two coins are below it. The middle shows under the table as John brandishes his hand as a gun against Jim's real one. To the right is John looking towards Jim, grinning. Intestines snake above the panel, and blood ascends from them to John. At the end, there's the sentence "But it's over now." with Jim holding up his two bloody hands, a trail of blood passing between them.
Image four: The fourth page of a digital comic based on Jim Halsey and John Ryder from the film The Hitcher. It begins with the sentence "The past is behind you now; the past is all around." Two small panels show glimpses of Jim's outfit at the start of the film and at the end, nigh indistinguishable. Jim kneels to the centre right of the page, face still stony and eyes in shadow, his hands raising as they drip with blood. Intersecting him are two panels, one of the sunset and one of a casket. They are accompanied by the words "The past is collapsing inwards.". To the left there's a shovel flush to Jim's gun, tied up in an intestinal ribbon. This leads to the last two panels - one of Jim's mouth set straight, and one of his eye tearing up. The final sentence is "Bile rises in your throat; you stand up.".
Image five: The fifth page of a digital comic based on Jim Halsey and John Ryder from the film The Hitcher. There are two panels - Jim's bloodied shoe trudging through the dirt, and his bloody hand surrounded by red - with the words "Walk forwards instead of brushing yourself off". Next to them is a petri dish filled with dirt and blood that shapes into John as he holds his thumb out to hitch a ride, followed by the words "(the blood and dirt are skin-deep by now).". Below, it says "He is the single worst thing that has happened in your life", surrounding a panel of John's greyed-out silhouette being impacted by a blood shaped arrow, making a blood-coloured site of impact. Finally, at the bottom, there's two panels. The first is of the face of John's corpse as he lays dead, skin grey and blood oozing down, with the words "His face is still -". The second is a close-up of him smirking when he was alive, face more flush, and the words "you miss the motion already.".
Image six: The sixth page of a digital comic based on Jim Halsey and John Ryder from the film The Hitcher. It begins by saying "For him, in your gut, a hatred", alongside three panels - John's pained smile on the rainy night they met, a close-up of Jim's flannel, and Jim's fingers clutching the gun to the point of bleeding. This half of the sentence concludes with "boiled-" in a blocky, angry font, leading into a cloud of heart-shaped smoke. This smoke wafts off one of the bullets, which is below a locket that frames the image of the bloody bullet holes on John's torso. The words continue "a pressure cooker that exploded outwards and left a bloody hole". At the bottom, there's two panels - a dark void with a blood-coloured hole in the middle, and Jim's flannel with a blackened hole at its middle - alongside the phrase "twin voids".
Image seven: The seventh page of a digital comic based on Jim Halsey and John Ryder from the film The Hitcher. Jim kneels at the top again, hand in the pocket of his jeans. A sequence of hands show that he has taken out the two coins John placed on his eyes in the diner. The sentence begins "And yet... you hope his passage into the afterlife", showing two hands holding the coins apart, connected by a red string that is snapping at one end. In the middle is two panels showing Jim licking one of the coins, placed above an image of John's dead face having these coins over his eyes. The sentence continues "will be easier than your journey into", flanked by three mini panels showing the red of police sirens and John's blood pooling at his feet.
Image eight: The final page of a digital comic based on Jim Halsey and John Ryder from the film The Hitcher. It finishes the sentence from the previous page with "the life laid out before you." The rest of the page is a large panel showing Jim with his back to the view - lit by police sirens, but mostly shadowed - as he looks down at Jim's corpse, eyes covered by coins. One glints. The pool of blood is large and reaches out to Jim. Three bullets lead to John, ascending from the foot of the guns muzzle. This side of the dirt has adopted the blue light of the sirens.]
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