DIABOLOS FANTASTIK (horror, adv, mystery)
CHARACTER BIO:Abel Winston is a bored millionaire in Victorian England when he decides to dress up like a vampire and stalk the dark alleys of the East End scaring people. One night, he stumbles on an attempted murder and scares the thugs away by accident when he slips and falls from his hiding place. News spreads about the "vampire hero" and Abel decides to carry on fighting crime dressed as the vampire. At first, he is sloppy, but soon gets better and enlists the aid of assistants who create weapons and special effects for him. His alter-ego is Diabolos, more of an anti-hero, not fighting crime because it is the right thing to do, but because it takes him away from a very boring life. His costume looks like a poorly-applied Nosferatu makeup. This comic will have a very dark, comedic tone.
ATMOSPHERE REFERENCE: Dr. Who - The Talons of Weng Chiang. Kind of a cross between E.C. Horror and Eightball, if David Lynch directed it.
VOLUME 1: The Cane of Abel
NOTE: Narration text should be spread out over the panels.
PAGE ONE
MULTI-PANEL: Show Abel going to his closet, getting his costume, putting it on, applying make-up, all with his back to us. On the nightstand is a copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
NARRATION
England, 1897. Welcome good readers to the posh, bedroom within the London mansion of Abel Winston. Though he wallows in money like a sow in shit, the young man is bored. And when he gets bored by the daily grind of spending his fortune, entertaining beautiful socialites and gorging of the food of the rich, Abel retreats to his fevered and diabolical imagination. But don’t feel sorry for him, good reader, for he is about to find something to occupy his passing days, and steal time away from you as we follow him from the comfort of his silken mansion…to the mean streets of London’s East End. But first, our young mister Abel must don his new skin, to strike fear in the hearts of the downtrodden… good people living in fear and filth… the last thing they want to see…
PAGE TWO
SPLASH PANEL: Abel turns to reveal himself in a close-up on the horrible make-up made to look like a grotesque version of the Nosferatu vampire with the only word bubble.
ABEL
…is me.
posted by jon @ 1:22 AM
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