All right, first issue time! This series will feature, for the most part, self-contained stories. This one will only have two to five characters, so not much design work is necessary. But the facial expressions will have to convey the emotions well. Also, this issue will be told in a two-by-three grid (two across, three down). I will specify when this is to be broken and will tell that by listing more than one panel at once. For example, if I wanted the first two panels to be one panel, I’d puts “Panels 1 and 2” before the panel description. If you have any questions don’t be afraid to ask.

Panel 1: Totally black with just a word balloon that has no tail.

Word balloon: So, what seems to be the problem, Jesse?

Panel 2: Close-up of Jesse’s face, thinking. He’s lying on a couch, mind you.

Jesse Church is about twenty-seven, has a close-shaven head, blue eyes, is about 6’1”, 160 lbs. and dresses casually. You know, t-shirt that looks nice with khaki pants and sneakers.

Jesse: I don’t know, Doc. I guess I’m a little suicidal, that’s all.

Panels 3 and 4: A wide shot of the therapist’s office. The office has a desk right in front of some huge windows that overlook the city. The blinds are OPEN. There are two chairs that face opposite one another and a couch up against the wall, with a coffee table in between all three items of furniture. There are also some plants, a bookshelf filled with big books and a full entertainment centre off to the corner. Don’t forget the requisite plaques on the wall to prove that the therapist is a real therapist.

Jesse is lying on the couch. There is a coffee on the coffee table that he is drinking intermittently.

The therapist is sitting in the chair that faces both the couch and the other chair, with a pad of paper and pen, writing after Jesse says something.

The therapist is woman who is in her late forties, long black hair, wears a nice female skirt/suit. She wears glasses. She also wears a cross around her neck on a gold chain. She doesn’t have a name that we know of yet. Jesse only refers to her as “Doc.”

Therapist: Why do you feel suicidal?

Jesse: I don’t know. I guess I don’t really want to kill myself, I just find myself thinking about it a lot. I don’t want to, I just do, you know? It’s like when you get a song stuck in your head and you hate it and want it to go away, but it won’t. Understand?

Panel 5: An above view of what the Therapist is writing in her book. Its scrawled in big letters: “Jesse=sexy” and “I love Jesse!” and “J+M=luv4ever” in a big heart (just the last one).

Therapist: I see.

Panel 6: Jesse is looking up right at us.

Jesse: I’ve imagined myself dying two hundred and twenty different ways. It’s quite disturbing.

Panel 1: Jesse continues to look up at us.

Jesse: I guess that’s what my entire life has been like: I get these really weird, creepy thoughts that won’t go away no matter how hard I try.

Panel 2: Jesse looks back to the therapist. Don’t show the therapist, just make it clear that Jesse is looking back towards her. His eyes are wide in shock.

Jesse: Like right now; I’m thinking about you-

Jesse(quietly): Shit.

Panel 3: Where the therapist should be is a corpse that is on fire and is covered in bugs. Totally from Jesse’s POV.

Therapist(corpse): What, Jesse?

Panel 4: Same view as panel 2. Jesse closes his eyes and concentrates.

Jesse(quietly): it’s not real it’s not real

Panel 5: Same view. Jesse opens his eyes again.

Panel 6: Same view as panel 3. The therapist is back to normal.

Therapist: Jesse? Are you okay?

Panel 1:Jesse sits up and sort of shakes his head in dismissal.

Jesse: Yeah, yeah, I’m fine.

Panel 2: Therapist takes off her glasses.

Therapist: What were you saying?

Panel 3: Jesse lies back down.

Jesse: I . . . I have very disturbing thoughts. I think about death and killing and . . .

Panel 4: Close-up of Jesse’s face. A look of terror is present in his eyes.

Jesse: I think I’m the Anti-Christ.

Panel 5: The therapist looks in disbelief.

Panel 6: She responds with disbelief.

Therapist: The what?

Panel 1: Jesse just looks up.

Jesse: The Anti-Christ.

Panel 2: Jesse smiles a nervous smile.

Jesse: It’s not just the thoughts. I can do stuff, too.

Panel 3: Therapist looks intrigued. Now this is a patient!

Therapist: What kind of things?

Panel 4: A window washer comes to that floor and begins to wash the windows to the office.

Jesse: Bad things. One day I wondered how many people I could kill on my way to work before getting caught. No reason for the killing, just mindless slaughter for experimentation.

Panel 5: Show a newspaper on the desk. The headline reads “Man Kills Twenty-Six”

Therapist(off panel): ohmygod

Panel 6: Jesse closes his eyes.

Jesse: Remember Kosovo? I wondered what if Hitler had been reincarnated as another European dictator. Or what if Kennedy’s spirit was inhabiting the president’s body, but had no taste. You want more?

Panel 1: The window washer continues.

Therapist: Are you sure you weren’t imagining your thinking of those events before they happened? Sort of like deja vu?

Panel 2: Over the window washer’s shoulder we can see some birds flying in his direction. They’re still a bit away.

Jesse(off panel): No. No, I don’t think so. It’s happened too often to be deja vu.

Panel 3: The birds get closer. He’s still washing the windows.

Jesse(off panel): I’m not crazy, Doc.

Panel 4: The birds are right on top of the guy, who’s heard them and is turning to look.

Therapist(off panel): Jesse, you can’t really be claiming to have made all those things happen. Are you?

Panel 5: The birds attack the window washer.

Jesse(off panel): It’s true. In fact, I was just . . .

Panel 6: Jesse sits up. He’s looking towards the window.

Jesse: Look.

Panel 1: The therapist turns to see one of the birds pulling out an eye. She’s shocked.

Therapist: OHMYGOD!!!!!!!!

Panel 2: She rushes over to the window. Jesse rises.

Therapist: We have to help him!

Jesse: No one can.

Panel 3: Look into the office from outside. Jesse is standing behind the therapist, who is mortified. Show the reflection of the birds attacking the man.

Jesse: I was just thinking of this. Next will be the tongue. See? And now--

Panel 4: The window washer falls off his platform.

Panel 5: The therapist covers her mouth in horror and watches the guy plummet. Jesse is still eerily calm.

Jesse: See, Doc? That’s what I do. I can’t help it. They just . . .

Panel 6: Pull back so we can most of the top of the building.

Jesse: Do you think I’m evil, Doc? Just tell me I’m good. Please tell me I’m good.