Well this is my first article on this site and seeing as my passion has always been story telling rather than reporting etc, I figured my first piece should be a comicbook narrative that I have just started working on.
Anyways the story involves Superman and is passed in the New 52 era of the character.
I haven’t put much, if any dialogue in as this is more or a treatment (Story outline) than a script…Well without anymore of my ramblings I give you Superman – Man out of Touch (Working title)
The opening of this arc finds our hero strapped to a chair seemingly stripped down and his Superman suit appears ripped and torn at a table beside him. He looks worn down, cuts and grazes remain fresh upon his face, the blood slowly dripping from his nose.
Two contrasting lights illuminate the room; the first appears, through golf balled sized holes, which allow the unmistakable, feel of sunlight to rest upon the Man of Steels back. Each hole is strategically position to ensure the best possible beam of sunlight as it makes it daily course through the skies. The second light also has a familiar feel to Superman, the green glow of Kryptonite radiation emitting from a glass container directly in front of him.
Superman is greeted by a man who calls himself Randolph Grey, who confesses to having a bit of an obsession with the failings of so called ‘Super Villains’ and why many of Superman’s rouges gallery have never won in a conflict (Not sure if in the New 52 Supes has died yet), which gave him the idea on how to, not only beat Superman, but how to destroy his life and prove that with right planning and thought Superman can be made obsolete. He describes the major problem stemming from the fact that all his enemies have always tried to stop the “Super” whereas Randolph plans to stop the “Man” pointing out that despite his powers he is a man with faults to be exploited and used against him.
We cut to two weeks ago, here we see Clark and the rest of the gang at the daily planet, they are going about their daily routines, Lois writing up stories, while getting her spellings slightly off, Jimmy meanwhile is getting his latest pictures sent for print, as we see these characters going about their business we also see panels showing us pairs of hands communicating via sign language, we are told via dialogue boxes that they are await the word to ‘pull the trigger’ and then that word suddenly comes. Bang, the offices of the Daily Planet are hit by a blast, Clark looks around the devastated office, Lois is down hurt and he quickly races towards her, scanning with his x-ray vision to spot potential attacks making their escape, but all he sees is what appears to be distraught onlookers.
We come back to the warehouse where Superman is being held captive. Randolph explains that he was behind the attack, and the blast was designed, to cause only small amounts of harm, but as we learn through dialogue between the two, it appears Jimmy was closer than predicted and has lost his right arm in the explosion, which Randolph describes as an surprising bonus.
Randolph basically goes on to say that, he was able to plan away with Superman unaware of what was going on, as Superman himself has learned to rely on his abilities and that deep down, he does believe in his own arrogance that his great powers will allow him to always be there in the nick of time, which is why he attacked Clark and his friends in a place they would have thought safest, right under Superman’s nose.
He even goes on to describe how this would never had worked against fellow Justice League members going into detail how each other member would have figured out his schemes, because they all have limitations and vulnerabilities and are not so willing to accept Mankind’s natural instinct to be good to one another.
In terms of the suit, we discover that it isn’t just armour, but much like the Fantastic Four explanation of how their suits worked, the suit bonds with its wearer down to a molecular level and changes its own structure to be more in line with its host, thus Superman has almost unbreakable skin, once he puts on the Krypton costume it too reads this and becomes stronger (I would get into more detail with explanation, but will done if write this out) So Randolph states that all he had to do, was convince the suit to bond with something and take on its weaker traits so he could experiment with the material and that is why the costume is in shreds.
The scene ends with Randolph placing a iPod to the chair and pressing play as he leaves the room. What plays are voicemails left on Clarks phone by Jimmy who is suffering from the attack, his fear of never being able to work again and how he feels let down by Superman, but also ashamed that he let himself also rely on him in the first place. The lights go of and that would be the end of chapter one.
So a lot of words there wasn’t expecting to go on this long just got typing away. I know there will be one or two and perhaps a few areas that need tweaking, but that is why I have put this up for all to see. So yep sound off below, please if don’t like it say why in a constructive way so that I can improve.
Anyways hope you enjoy if goes well I will right chapter two.