Batman Vox Humana Issue #3 Page 4-5
Page 4 – 5
Batman leaves the podium and heads towards the limo. The press corps is going nuts and are shouting questions and trying, desperately, to get Batman’s attention. The crowd is mesmerized.
Batman gets into the limo. Alfred is driving. The reporters follow. The crowd slowly circles around the limo, intermingling with the reporters.
The crowd presses itself against the limo and push their faces to the glass. Some are crying, some are shouting, some are thanking Batman, some are cursing him. Alfred slowly pushes the limo through the crowd.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #3 Page 3
Page 3
Batman: but there doesn’t have to be.
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Batman: I made a choice long ago to become who I am. I now offer all of you that same choice…
Reporter (interrupting): What are you saying?
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Batman: What I am saying is that I am starting a school to create Batmen. Where people can, and will, learn to defend themselves and the people around them.
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Batman: I am saying I am putting my trust in the people of Gotham City. Any who want to join me, can, and together, we will save Gotham.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #3 Page 2
Page 2
Get ready for a big talky part. Panels should, of course, show Batman, but also the press reaction and the reaction of the people of Gotham so as to break up the repetition.
Batman:And I believe in Gotham City. I trust in Gotham to grow and flourish, despite the many obstacles before it. I trust in her strength and resilience in the face of adversity and her many tragedies, such as last night’s.
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Batman: What I haven’t trusted in is her people. I haven’t trusted you.
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Batman: This is despite the fact that I know you. I know your joys and kindnesses. I know your pains and heartaches.
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Batman: I have those same joys, and I have tried to repay your kindnesses.
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Batman: I know you because those same pains and heartaches have driven me to become who and what I am.
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Batman: Yet, even though I know you, I have not trusted you. I have not even trusted you with who I am.
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Batman: If I had, last night might have been prevented, but I didn’t, and last night happened,
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Batman: and I couldn’t do enough to save you, for there is only one of me,
Batman Vox Humana Issue #3 Page 1
Page 1
Location: Downtown Gotham
Scene: Downtown is in ruins after the floronic men and Superman’s involvement. There is shattered glass, dead bodies of men and women, and pieces of floronic men everywhere. It is as if Gotham had been hit with a tornado. There is a stand with a podium on it. In front of it are members of the press corps. Behind the podium is Batman as Bruce Wayne.
Batman: I’m the God damn Batman!
The reporters go all kinds of crazy. Flashbulbs go off. The reporters yell questions into the air, waving microphones and voice recorders.
Batman (the very epitome of decorum): I’m not answering questions at this time. Just please, let me finish. I am the Batman.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 19
Page 19
Location: Downtown Gotham, the next day, it is no longer raining.
Scene: Downtown Gotham is in ruins. There is broken glass everywhere, including ravaged cars, trash, blood, and parts of floronic men. Like tornado damage, but bloodier. In the background, a stand has been set up and there are reporters seated before it. There is a podium on the stand. In the foreground is a news reporter.
News Reporter: We are standing here amidst the wreckage of last night’s incident. Though we are all grateful for Superman’s timely arrival, massive amounts of damage were caused by him as well as the strange men who appeared during last night’s storm. What is even harder to measure is the human cost of this terrible tragedy. Not only did the sonic boom of Superman shatter glass and eardrums as he passed, but many people were also blinded as he broke the light barrier in front of people’s eyes. To others it may be a fair price for their lives, for others, a horrible reminder of a night that defies all logic. Now we are awaiting the arrival of industrialist, Bruce Wayne. The Wayne family has long been known for their charity and it is expected that he will announce a relief program for those affected by this awful catastrophe.
Scene: Batman as Bruce Wayne arrives and walks up to the podium.
Batman: Ladies and gentleman, you know me as Bruce Wayne, billionaire, industrialist, philanthropist, but there is something you may not know…
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 2
Page 2
Scene: Horizontal Black Panel
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Location: Gotham
Scene: Gotham skyline is lit up by lightning and it is raining.
Scene: Horizontal Black Panel
Location:Robinson Park
Scene: Overhead 3/4, skewed 10 degrees view of sign in the arch of the gate leading into Robinson Park
