Transcripts 2002-09

Transcripts from September 2002 strips.
==September 2==
Panel 1The Taipan flashes through the sky, leaving vapour trails in its wake. Two unspecified characters appear in the foreground, gawping at the Taipan as it flies past. One is red and has a brown muzzle and grey hair, with multiple piercings in one ear. The other is white with blond hair and points up at the Taipan.Caption (Sticks): Thinking about it, the Taipan wasn't such a bad thing to use. Although the thing sticks out like a sore thumb it doesn't look too much different to the aircraft of this era. However, creating a sonic book over populated areas would have turned more then a few heads!We've heard nothing from the press about this so I think I've got away with it! Well all but one paper that ran it on the front page... but that helps us prove thing happened in a way!Panel 2Sticks and Tessa look at each other, Tessa wrapping her hospital bed blanket around her legs.Tessa: How can being headline news help?Sticks: "Ghost of Concord" was the cover of the Sunday Sport*Tessa: Oh!Footnote* "The Sport" is the UK's version of the "National Enquirer" but with added tits!
==September 6==
Panel 1Close-up of Sticks in an inset of the caption, above an extremely crude stick figure scene drawn on yellow paper. The desert facility is labelled "ToP SecRat LAB THINGY" and has two stick figure "BADGVYS" approaching it with a "GRR!" A boxy shaped "VAN" is labelled as such, as are "HILLS", "SAND", and "MOON" in the foreground/distance.Caption (Sticks): Well the flight over the Atlantic went without incident and I parked the transport out of view of the building. Good job I did too as there where guards outside!Panel 2Close-up of Sticks in a similar inset, this time looking somewhat concerned(?). The drawing depicts a three-panel sequence where 1. Sticks ("ME") hides behind the hills and throws a "STUN GRINADE" at the "BAD GUYS" holding a "GUN" and a "RADIo" in hand, 2. a large "BANG!" goes off, and 3. Sticks observes the "UNCONCHUS BAD GUYS" as they lie sprawled on the ground with Xs in their eyes.Caption (Sticks): By this time I was using my head more! I kept out of sight and threw in one of the commanders home-made gas grenades! That stuff really does work like the commander says it would and all the guards went out like a light! So it was easy too...Panel 3Sticks looks upset as Tessa starts "*snigger*"-ing, trying to hold back her laugh with one hand as she holds the drawings in the other. An IV drip is visible in the background.Sticks: What's the matter?Panel 4The camera rotates 90 degrees from panel 3. Tessa is now laughing at Sticks's face, to his irritated "*humph!*"Tessa: This report you filled in! It's SO cute! Ever thought of making a web comic?Sticks: I don't draw THAT badly!
==September 9==
Panel 1Close-up of an angry Sticks in an inset of the caption, above a flashback of him wearing Tessa's CORE power armour and staring in confusion (indicated by a ?) at the wreckage from Tessa hot-wiring the lift.Caption (Sticks): You may laugh at my drawings but I saw the mess you made of that elevator! What is it with you and electronics? If you so much as look at something with a current you somehow manage to fuck it up!Panel 2Sticks crosses his arms and looks away in annoyance as Tessa scowls at him from her hospital bed.Tessa: You're still not holding a grudge about when I tried to fix your leg myself are you?Sticks: I limped for a month because you wouldn't pay for an engineer!Tessa: Well they where con-artists! Anyway I paid in the end didn't I?Sticks: Only because I refused to have sex with you until you did!
==September 13==
Panel 1Close-up of Sticks in an inset of the caption, above an extremely crude stick figure comic on yellow paper. The first panel depicts an angry Sticks (labeled "ME" and saying "GRR!") holding a "GUN" and stepping out of a shape labelled "ELEVATEOR" while broken stick figures labelled "DEAD GVYS" surround him. The second panel shows Sticks holding the "GUN" and pointing it at the "NASTY INLAY" facing away from him and saying "DUR!"Caption (Sticks): Anyway, I managed to get the elevator working again and made my way down to the basement. I wanted to use stairs, as I knew the Inlay would hear the lift come down but I couldn't find any! By luck the Inlay was distracted and wasn't by the doors when they opened like I expected. In fact it had it's back turned to me!Panel 2Close-up of a smug Sticks in an inset of the caption, above an extremely crude scene of Sticks shooting the Inlay with a "POW!" from the "GUN" as he flies backwards "MATRIX STYELE" from the recoil, as the plasma beam hits the Inlay, who protests, "OW!" and "I DIE"Caption (Sticks): I took aim and fired as the droid spun round to take a shot! I jumped back like that guy in "The Matrix" so the Inlay only got in a glancing blow with its laser!Panel 3Tessa again reviews his drawings with a smirk, as Sticks angrily responds by sticking out his tongue at her. A device that looks like an oscilloscope is on the small dresser next to the bed.Tessa: "Matrix styele" huh?Tessa: How about "I-didn't-know-the-220-had-this-much-recoil-and-I-fell-on-my-arse" style?
==September 16==
Panel 1Close-up of Sticks in an inset of the caption, above an extremely crude scene of Sticks inside a bunker (as indicated by the "BIG DOOR TO BVNKER" note) with Michael ("GEEK BOY") and David ("RAMBO-WANNABE"), the latter holding a "GUN" in hand.Caption (Sticks): After I picked myself up I found what the Inlay was so focused on when I came out of the elevator! It was a big safe door type thing.Caption (Sticks): After "picking" the lock with the 220, I found it lead into some sort of bunker with two, unusually alive, jokers inside! The cat looked like a scientist and was no trouble but the Doberman half-breed pulled a gun!"Panel 2Crude scene of Sticks being shot with a "BLAM BLAM" from David's gun. The bullets ricochet off Sticks's "ARMER" and fly in different directions.Caption (Sticks): When waving his gun about and shouting did make me go away, he opened fire! You know, after two clips of ammo most people would figure out that a pistol does fuck all to fullerene armour, but not him!Panel 3Sticks is holding up David by the throat as he chokes out a "GRAAK!" and grabs Sticks's arm, eyes bulging. A green medical box is visible on the back wall, as is a monitor.Caption (Sticks): I convinced him to stop though!
==September 20==
Panel 1Close-up of a concerned Sticks in an inset of the caption, above a shot of Sticks in the power armour, on his hands and knees and staring at the floor in despondency. The background is three shades of red bending in a way to suggest a sense of vertigo.Caption (Sticks): I'm afraid my memory of this bit is hazy too! I remember demanding where you were! I remember being told that you had died... then I think I fainted! Every system in my body failed at once and I slumped to the floor!Panel 2Close-up of Sticks from panel 1, but facing right and head lifted. The background shades of red continue the "warped space" effect.Caption (Sticks): The first thing, the thing that made me want to hurt stuff, had gone! Now a thing that made me want to curl up into a ball and cry took its place!Panel 3Sticks is standing again, next to a concerned-looking Michael, and staring down with sad blue robotic eyes at David's ears, barely in frame. David is not in the best shape, as evidenced by the "*" effect in a sparking dialogue balloon over David's head. A table with some small boxes on it is in the background.Caption (Sticks): I could hear the cat ask me if I wanted to see you. I could hear myself whisper "yes", as there was still hope that they'd got it horribly wrong... Hope was the only thing I had left!
==September 23==
Panel 1Close-up of a concerned Sticks in an inset of the caption, above a shot of Sticks and Michael walking side-by-side. Michael looks apologetic while Sticks again has the glowing blue sad eyes. Some assorted electrical devices are on the wall/in the background.Caption (Sticks): The cat was more grateful to me then the other one for killing the Inlay and he tried to talk to me as we walked deeper into the bunker.Panel 2A crude stick figure scene on a yellow background, of Michael and David dragging a body labelled "YOV" away from an Inlay, looking with confusion (indicated by "?") at a noisy box saying "YO SHIT HEAD!"Caption (Sticks): The conversation was all one way but he told me how they distracted the Inlay with a tape recorder so they could pull you to safety! It sound's like they only just made it as the droid wasn't fooled for very long and game charging back!Panel 3A crude stick figure scene of Tessa lying on a table with X-ed out eyes and a skull icon floating above her head, while David and Michael shrug helplessly.Caption (Sticks): He then told me what I didn't what to hear! He said they brought you in unconscious but after a few minutes you had stopped breathing! They tried everything they knew to bring you back but nothing had worked! He said that he felt like a failure for not being able to do more! I knew how it felt all too well!
==September 27 (beginning of Year 5)==
Panel 1Sticks stares upward with regretful eyes as Michael looks concerned. There is a kitchen area with cabinets and dining artefacts in the background.Caption (Sticks): The bunker was large and it took us a while to reach the kitchen. I'm guessing the place was a converted cold war structure they now used for storage. It had one of these large walk-in freezers, and I paused at the door to it! I knew what the cat had said was behind it but I didn't want to believe him! I couldn't believe him!Panel 2Sticks has taken off the helmet and is inside the freezer, tears in his eyes as he kneels over Tessa's body, covered with a sheet, which Sticks has pulled back so to touch her face. The freezer door and an icy industrial shelf with some boxes and bowls are in the background.Caption (Sticks): But he was right! It was you but I still couldn't believe it! All I could think was "Tessa can't die! That's something that happened to other people! Mostly to people who pissed you off, but not you!" I had to touch you to see if you where real... you where! Very cold and lifeless too!
==September 30==
Panel 1Sticks is sitting on the floor against the freezer door, tears in his eyes as he holds Tessa's body close to him. To one side is an icy industrial shelf with a box and some bowls on it.Caption (Sticks): I remember sitting on the floor and holding you! I forget how long I was there for. Trying to will you back to life! I talked to you, desperate that you'd answer back! ... that answer never came!Panel 2Tessa stares at Sticks with wide eyes, interest piqued as she leans slightly out of her hospital bed. Sticks is slumped in his chair, eyes closed and despondent.Tessa: So how did you "bring me back to life" then huh?Sticks: I couldn't make her better!Panel 3Same as panel 2, but Sticks leans his head back, a tear in his eye as he continues to moan, and Tessa now has a scared expression on her face as she sits back.Sticks: I couldn't do a thing! She was so cold! So cold!Tessa: Woah! Sticks look! I'm okay! I'm here! You got me out remember!Sticks: I had to go!Tessa: What are you on about Sticks?Panel 4Tessa looks over her shoulder toward a voice coming from the opposite direction from Sticks, in red text on a black dialogue balloon.Julian (off-panel): he had to leave youi'll never leave youPanel 5Sticks is burying his face in his hands as Tessa turns to face Julian with a shock. Julian is standing by the bedside and reaching lazily out to her with red eyes and a dead expression.Julian: stay with me
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