The Floronic Man
The Floronic Man is a prime example of a person that DC just does not know what to do with. He has been a professor, an interdimensional traveler, a drug dealer, a hero (known as Floro), and a number of things in between. To me, though, he will always be a villain. When I was trying to think of a story for the Floronic Man, I thought about my nightmares and the things that would frighten me. What scares me about this interpretation of the Floronic Man is that he is indifferent to humanity. It is not that he doesn’t care about a human’s well being (he doesn’t), but that it does not affect him either way. People are just tools to be used, and those people that could be competition need to be eliminated. What also frightens me is that the Floronic Man does not attempt to communicate with people at all. By becoming a plant-human hybrid, the Floronic Man has made himself into something truly alien in mind.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 15 – 16
Page 15 – 16
Location: Batcave
Scene: Batman is preparing the Batplane and listening to the news.
News Anchor: Look! Up in the sky!
Location: News helicopter above Gotham
Scene: It is still raining. Inside helicopter, looking outside. News Anchor is in the foreground. Superman is in the background.
News Anchor: It’s Superman!
Scene: Close up of Superman’s face. It is of serene contemplation, as if he is lost in thought.
Location: Gotham Downtown
Scene: Several shots of downtown. It is still raining. All we see of Superman are red and blue streaks everywhere, with the floronic men being torn apart, straight lines of Superman’s heat vision setting some aflame, burning some, causing others to explode in a massive release of steam. The shockwave of Superman breaking the sound barrier downtown is causing windows to break, and glass to shatter. There is glass flying everywhere. People are shielding their eyes from Superman breaking the light barrier (he has to be able to move faster than the speed of light, or he would never be able to make it to any other planets).
Scene: It is still raining. The last two panels is of the first floronic man. The floronic man is crawling as his legs have been shattered. Superman’s bright red and shiny boot is in front of the floronic man. The next panel is of Superman’s zen-like face as he crushes the floronic man’s head beneath his heel.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 14
Page 14
Location: Batcave
Scene: Several shots of the floronic man strapped to a slab and being tested on by Batman.
Scene: Batman hands a clipboard to Alfred.
Batman: Call down to Wayne Chemical. Tell them to make as much of this as they can.
Alfred: Very good, sir.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 13
Page 13
Location: Batcave
Scene: Batman roars into Batcave, skids to a stop, and walks to the dying body of the floronic man, whereupon he stomps the floronic man’s face in until it moves no more.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 12
Page 12
Location: Downtown Gotham
Scene: It is still raining. Batman comes at the floronic men. He whips Batzarro’s chain around one of their throats, does a U-turn, without stopping, dragging the floronic man behind him. Several shots of Batman weaving back through Gotham, the floronic man in tow. These shots should show the damage being done to the floronic man, a mixture of the floronic man abrading the way human flesh would, and splintering like a tree.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 10 – 11
Page 10 – 11
Location: Batcave
Scene: The perspective is from in front of the screen. Alfred is looking up at the screen, watching the proceedings. Batman is already gone.
Scene: Batman is on the Batcycle and shoots out of the Batcave. Batzarro’s chain is wrapped around his left forearm.
Location: Wayne Manor Grounds
Scene: It is still raining. Batman comes shooting forth out of the Batcave. His left arm is raised and Batzarro’s chain is trailing behind him.
Location: Gotham and Downtown Gotham
Scene: It is still raining. Several shots of Batman on Batcycle weaving his way through Gotham, culminating to him reaching a crowd of floronic men. The floronic men come running towards Batman, mouths open, like screaming, but making no noise. Batman guns towards them in a straight line.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 8
Page 8
The woman scrambles to her apartment, locks the door, and curls up and cries. She has mentally fallen apart and her body is wracked with her sobs.
She grabs her stomach. She doubles over in pain and her stomach expands. Seeds reminiscent of avocado seeds are birthed from her body, first one, then several, and then more. They keep coming and we see her body being sucked dry. While this is happening, the seeds sprout arms and legs and become more floronic men. The floronic men search the apartment looking for edible objects, food, cardboard, untreated wood, the body of the woman, etc., while some are turning on all of the faucets and drinking all the water they can. This allows them to grow till they are the same size as the original floronic man. They then file out of the apartment, leaving behind the dessicated corpse of the woman.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 6 and 7
Page 6 and 7
Location: Outside Robinson Park on the street
Scene: A woman parks her car, opens her umbrella, and gets out. The floronic man is watching from the park. She walking quickly and briskly to her apartment building. She opens the front door and as she is walking in the door of the building the floronic man rushes into her with the same ferocity with which he attacked the derelict. Fight ensues and she does fight, she bites, and punches, and kicks, but the floronic man doesn’t even notice. The floronic man quickly, robotically, and without feeling subdues the woman and rapes her. This scene should be in no way sexy. It should proceed more like a beating than a sexual experience.
The floronic man’s face wrenches, and he finishes. There is blood, cum, piss, and shit on the floor. The woman is curled up, sobbing. The floronic man just stands there. Another gentleman has finally built up the nerve and opens the door into the hallway to see what is going on. The floronic man turns his head and rushes the gentleman and proceeds to beat the him to death.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 4 and 5
Page 4 and 5
Scene: Lightning strikes the tree and splits it. The man comes falling out of the tree. The man falls to the ground and is kneeling on the ground, coughing, as if using his lungs for the first time. The bark is falling off of his body, revealing olive toned skin.
Scene: Close up of his face, it is smooth and contains hints of a grain. His eyes seems to be searching and his nose is sniffing the air. His mouth is open and seems to be tasting the world.
Location: Further into Robinson Park
Scene: An old, derelict man is hiding from the rain. He has found a clearing in which a lean-to has been put together. He has a trashcan fire going and is just sitting. The derelict is wearing round rim glasses and a long coat. The floronic man bursts through the trees and bushes and just beats the living hell out of the derelict until he breathes no more. During this episode, the floronic man wears an expression during this time as if he is screaming but he makes no noise at all. The only sound is of flesh being broken and meat being torn.
Scene: The derelict is dead and the floronic man puts on the overcoat. Then he puts on the glasses. For some reason, the glasses now reflect a light, grayish-green color and are opaque for the rest of the comic.(There is no explanation for the change in the glasses color. I just wanted the floronic man to look this way. The clothes are just an acknowledgment of his once human history.)
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 3
Page 3
Location: Robinson Park
Scene: Horizontal Black Panel
Next 3 panels should be right next to each other in one line.
Scene: Panel 1; Tree with the shape of a man twisted into its bark. It should not be obvious, but should hint at the shape of a man, though the face should be more apparent than the body. The face resembles John Glover.
Scene: Panel 2; Close up of the eyes. They are closed and covered in bark.
Scene: Panel 3; Close up of the eyes. They are open now and looking skyward. The eyes are shades of green and brown.
Scene: Horizontal Black Panel
