soooo I made a lyric comic for The Incident At Devil's Mound by Dane Terry
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[Image ID: A comic that is 3 pages long, the background is a light blue and the panels themselves are a dark purple. The speech bubbles are light green with dark purple letters. All other text is written in light green. The text is in all caps.
The first 3 panels show a character in short-overalls and a t-shirt with their back to the viewer, a knife and compass, and a closeup of a hand holding the compass, respectively. The text reads: "Me, I had my" "knife and compass" "needle spinning round and round"
The next 2 panels show a closeup of a character with a backwards baseball cap and baseball tee holding up a radio, and a wide shot of 3 silhouetted figures at the bottom of a tree lined hill. The text reads: "Joey had his father's radio" "and we lit out to Devil's Mound"
The next panel reaches the edges of the page on either side, showing the night sky with stars and a crescent moon, with five bright spots in a pentagon shape and a sixth in the centre to one side of the panel.
The next 2 panels show the 3 kids looking up at the sky with the girl on the right pointing up at it, and the girl pointing her thumb at herself with the two boys looking at her. The text reads: "Those ain't airplanes, boys" "I've seen an airplane"
The next 3 panels take up the bottom third of the first page, with 2 on the left side and 1 on the right. Jagged speech bubbles with a staticky texture are coming out of a radio, phone, and tv. The text reads: "Static on the radio static on the tv static on the telephone"
The first 2 panels on the second page show the night sky with the six lights again. In the first panel they look as they did prior (circular), but in the second they are smeared slightly with movement. The text reads: "Then the lights" "they started moving"
The next two panels are identical to the two above, but the smear is more intense. The text reads: "Slow at first" "then really fast"
The next 3 panels show the kids running and looking up over their shoulders at the light, the boy with the baseball cap tripping in the 3rd panel. The lights in the sky are just visible in the second panel and moving into frame in the third. The text reads: "Coming for us right toward us" "not a sound" "not trail of gas"
The next 3 panels show a hand in the grass beside a radio, the same television, and a person talking into a phone, respectively. The same staticky bubbles are coming out of the devices. The text reads: Static on the radio" "static on the tv" "static on the telephone"
The next 3 panels show a fuzzy circle, 2 converse shoes hovering off the ground and a closeup on the face of the first boy shown looking surprised. The text reads: "A beam of light it hit me" "I was floating off the ground" "I could hear voices suddenly distant but all around"
The last 3 panels of the second page show the boy getting lifted in a beam of light, bushes of simply drawn flowers and his friends looking up at him in horror, and the same shot of the beam of light with the boy twisted, back to the camera, limbs stretching stiffly outward. The text reads: "My body turned in the air slowly i was paralyzed" "the honeysuckle below me looked like it was on fire" "thats when they say it happened but i really dont remember at all" "they say my body stiffened they say i straightened out like a doll"
The first 3 panels of the final page show the boy with the baseball cap rubbing his eyes, a man standing beside him with a hand on his shoulder; an extreme closeup of the man's mouth; and a shot of the boy with the baseball cap looking at the viewer, crying. Speech bubbles coming out of the man's mouth read: "Joey, stop crying." "tell the officer the rest of the story."
The next panel reaches the edges of the page on either side, showing the night sky with stars and a crescent moon, the lights now missing. Text reads: "Then it was over" "and the thing was gone"
The next 3 panels are progressive closeups of the same image: the first boy lying in the grass, an object in either hand. The text reads: "He wasnt moving" "lying on the" "ground"
The last panel shows a closeup of the boys hand holding his compass, the needle pointing north. The text reads: "In his hand his knife and compass, needle standing oh so still" On the blue background behind the panel, the text is repeated over and over in a faint purple font. End ID.]
