The Bloodiest Looking Villain in this Country - Kid Flash 8-page comic #15 of 16 in series 2
Characters: Bart Allen (Kid Flash), Preston Lindsay, and supporting cast.
Rating: G.
Content: Humor.
Page Count: Eight pages of comics script.
Summary: Kid Flash has promised to watch over Darrin Chambers’s meeting with his old crime boss, “G.G.” But the night before that appointment, they discover the man is holding Darrin’s family. Meanwhile, Bart has just realized G.G. is also linked to his murder investigation. And unknown to him, the director of his movie is also under pressure from G.G.
Continuity: Starting from the DC Comics standard, this series of eight-page backup stories about Bart Allen started here. This is part of the second story of that series, starting here. Bart is living in Keystone City with Jay and Joan Garrick; Barry Allen and Max Mercury are back.
Disclaimer: Kid Flash and his family and friends are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely as entertainment for fans.
PAGE ONE (six panels)
Panel 1. Early morning dusk. Bird’s eye view of BART of Kid Flash running through the poor neighborhood of Keystone City where GRANTHAM’s gang rules, zipping in and out of buildings. His crackly trail shows his path.
BART:
Oh, grife. Oh, grife. Oh, grife.
Panel 2. PRESTON LINDSAY pulls up in his student car, with DARRIN CHAMBERS in the passenger seat. PRESTON looks scared, CHAMBERS determined. BART skids to a halt beside the car and yells.
BART:
I can’t find your sister and grandma, Darrin!
Panel 3. CHAMBERS gets out of the car.
CHAMBERS:
Don’t worry, man. G.G.’ll bring ’em to this meeting. He only cares about me.
Panel 4. HANNAH DINH pulls up in her car with PETER KARLSON beside her. BART is pleasantly surprised, CHAMBERS a little suspicious.
BART:
Peter? Hannah?
PETER:
We’re here to shoot you, dude.
Panel 5. HANNAH clips a microphone and transmitter to CHAMBERS’s clothing.
HANNAH:
Wireless mike.
PETER:
We’ll be shooting from this car across the street.
BART:
What about me? Where should I go?
PETER:
In this scene you’re hiding inside the building.
Panel 6. Bird’s eye view again of BART zipping away from the group into 3858 Lampert Street.
BART:
Ooh, good idea!
•
PAGE TWO (four panels)
Panel 1. Distant shot of CHAMBERS sitting alone on the stoop of 3858 Lampert Street. The sun has come up.
Panel 2. PRESTON sits at the wheel of his car, parked two blocks from 3858 Lampert, watching CHAMBERS.
Panel 3. Inside 3858 Lampert, BART looks up the stairs, thinking.
Panel 4. In HANNAH’s car, she and PETER crouch over their camera and recording equipment, trained on 3858 Lampert. HANNAH has earphones on. PETER has another pair of earphones around his neck, and is whispering into his cell phone behind HANNAH’s back.
PETER (whisper balloon):
Okay, get in position.
Panel 5. Looking up the street, CHAMBERS sees GREG CHECK “G.G.” GRANTHAM approaching on foot. With him are his bodyguard MANNY, holding the leashes of two attack dogs, and GRANDMOTHER and DEBRA CHAMBERS.
•
PAGE THREE (four panels)
Panel 1. With a dismissive wave, GRANTHAM lets GRANDMOTHER and DEBRA go.
GRANTHAM:
Okay, ladies. I don’t need you.
Panel 2. GRANDMOTHER rushes to embrace CHAMBERS while DEBRA points back at GRANTHAM.
GRANDMOTHER:
Darrin! We couldn’t find you last night!
DEBRA:
G.G. told us he knew where you were!
GRANTHAM:
I told you I knew where Little G.G. would be. And I did.
Panel 3. DEBRA embraces CHAMBERS, who points her and GRANDMOTHER down the street to PRESTON’s car.
DEBRA:
You never came home from work last night.
CHAMBERS:
Yeah, we’ll have to talk about that.
CHAMBERS:
For now, go get in that car with Preston, okay? Whatever happens, he’ll get you home.
Panel 4. GRANDMOTHER and DEBRA start toward the car as CHAMBERS turns back to GRANTHAM and his dogs.
CHAMBERS:
I love you.
CHAMBERS:
Now G.G. and I have a lot to clear up.
•
PAGE FOUR (five panels)
Panel 1. BART is in the room where Raemond Ferguson was shot, dialing his cell phone. Around him are thought balloons containing images from the investigation: the yellow hairs in his tweezers, DEBRA CHAMBERS’s yellow kitten, the LOST CAT poster, HERSEY’s laser pointer, and the can opener.
BART:
Ooh!
Panel 2. Close up of BART speaking on his phone.
BART:
Mrs. D.? It’s Bart Allen! I figured out how Raemond Ferguson got shot!
Panel 3. Big flashback panel. G.G. and MANNY are in the doorway of the dim room, surprised and angry to find someone in the building. G.G. is about to fire a pistol at RAEMOND FERGUSON, crouched in the center of the room pouring a pint of milk into a bowl. On the far end of a line formed by the gun and RAEMOND’s head is a yellow cat and a litter of yellow kittens. In the rear, there is a lock on the door to the next room.
BART (off panel):
Raemond found a yellow cat who went into that building to have her babies, and he was bringing her food and milk.
BART (off panel):
Raemond didn’t know that Big G.G. and his gang were using the next room to hide…some sort of bad stuff.
BART (off panel):
G.G. must’ve come in, spotted Raemond, and shot him in the head!
BART (off panel):
One of those shots hit the cat.
Panel 4. Flashback panel. MANNY’s large hands gather up the yellow kittens. At the edge of the panel is a glimpse of their dead mother.
BART (off panel):
G.G. probably wanted to feed the kittens to his dogs.
BART (off panel):
But one of his thugs took the kittens and passed them out to people in the neighborhood.
Panel 5. Back to BART yelling into his cell phone.
BART:
We have to tell Deputy Hersey! We have to tell Detective Timmins!
•
PAGE FIVE (five panels)
Panel 1. Title and credits space.
TITLE:
The Bloodiest Looking Villain in this Country
CREDITS
Panel 2. CHAMBERS addresses GRANTHAM, who looks smug in his tailored suit.
CHAMBERS:
What’s so important to you, G.G.?
Panel 3. GRANTHAM takes CHAMBERS by the elbow and leads him a few steps from MANNY the bodyguard.
GRANTHAM:
Well, little man, I hear in juvy you turned queer.
CHAMBERS:
No. I was in juvy when I figured out I’m gay.
Panel 4. GRANTHAM takes his hand off CHAMBERS and speaks more harshly.
GRANTHAM:
That causes a problem for me.
CHAMBERS:
How?
GRANTHAM:
You know our business--
CHAMBERS:
Your business now. I’m a cook.
Panel 5. GRANTHAM accuses CHAMBERS.
GRANTHAM:
I have to look tough.
GRANTHAM:
Everyone knows I called you “Little G.G.” ‘cause I saw something of me in you.
GRANTHAM:
How will it look now when everyone hears that you are a fag?
•
PAGE SIX (seven panels)
Panel 1. CHAMBERS dismisses GRANTHAM’s concern.
CHAMBERS:
The fact that I’m gay doesn’t say nothing about anyone else.
GRANTHAM:
People will still talk about me.
Panel 2. CHAMBERS speaks out to his old mentor.
CHAMBERS:
It’s always gotta be about you, huh?
CHAMBERS:
I thought the gang was turning me into a big man, but I was just your little pet. And you’re nasty to your pets.
Panel 3. CHAMBERS turns the tables, poking GRANTHAM’s sensitive spot.
CHAMBERS:
You don’t want nobody to wonder if you’re queer? First thing--stop acting obsessed about your “Little G.G.”
Panel 4. Close-up of GRANTHAM reacting with shock and anger.
Panel 5. Close-up of GRANTHAM’s face turning hard again.
GRANTHAM:
Manny! Set the dogs loose!
Panel 6. From a distance, we see over PETER’s shoulder as he films the dogs about to spring at CHAMBERS. PETER, wearing earphones, shouts over his shoulder to someone off panel.
PETER:
Now! Go go go!
Panel 7. CHAMBERS, the dogs, and GRANTHAM all suddenly crumble to the ground.
SFX:
Mmmoooooff!
•
PAGE SEVEN (five panels)
Panel 1. NEGOSHIAN strides into view in his silver costume, his arms outstretched in front of him since he just fired off his graviton tubes.
NEGOSHIAN:
Double the powers, double the Gravitas!
Panel 2. Long view of CHAMBERS struggling back up to his knees as the dogs roll on the sidewalk. NEGOSHIAN points his arms at the building.
PETER (off panel):
Do the speech.
Panel 3. NEGOSHIAN looks back over his shoulder at PETER. HANNAH stares at PETER, wondering what’s going on.
NEGOSHIAN:
But--
PETER:
The whole speech!
Panel 4. NEGOSHIAN turns back and addresses the GRANTHAM and the men pinned to the sidewalk.
NEGOSHIAN:
By reversing the--
PETER (off panel):
Louder!
NEGOSHIAN:
--coils of my graviton suit, I can create fields that contain double the natural gravitational pull, and temporarily bring you to your knees!
NEGOSHIAN:
Bow before Gravitas, for I have the power to crumble Keystone!
Panel 5. NEGOSHIAN shoots his gravitation bubble over the heads of GRANTHAM, CHAMBERS, and MANNY at 3858 Lampert Street.
SFX:
MMOOOOOOOOFFFFfffff!
•
PAGE EIGHT (one panel)
Panel 1. As all the people on the sidewalk watch in surprise and horror, the whole of 3858 Lampert Street collapses straight down into a heap.
SFX:
KERRRR-ASH!!!
Continued here.
Rating: G.
Content: Humor.
Page Count: Eight pages of comics script.
Summary: Kid Flash has promised to watch over Darrin Chambers’s meeting with his old crime boss, “G.G.” But the night before that appointment, they discover the man is holding Darrin’s family. Meanwhile, Bart has just realized G.G. is also linked to his murder investigation. And unknown to him, the director of his movie is also under pressure from G.G.
Continuity: Starting from the DC Comics standard, this series of eight-page backup stories about Bart Allen started here. This is part of the second story of that series, starting here. Bart is living in Keystone City with Jay and Joan Garrick; Barry Allen and Max Mercury are back.
Disclaimer: Kid Flash and his family and friends are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely as entertainment for fans.
PAGE ONE (six panels)
Panel 1. Early morning dusk. Bird’s eye view of BART of Kid Flash running through the poor neighborhood of Keystone City where GRANTHAM’s gang rules, zipping in and out of buildings. His crackly trail shows his path.
BART:
Oh, grife. Oh, grife. Oh, grife.
Panel 2. PRESTON LINDSAY pulls up in his student car, with DARRIN CHAMBERS in the passenger seat. PRESTON looks scared, CHAMBERS determined. BART skids to a halt beside the car and yells.
BART:
I can’t find your sister and grandma, Darrin!
Panel 3. CHAMBERS gets out of the car.
CHAMBERS:
Don’t worry, man. G.G.’ll bring ’em to this meeting. He only cares about me.
Panel 4. HANNAH DINH pulls up in her car with PETER KARLSON beside her. BART is pleasantly surprised, CHAMBERS a little suspicious.
BART:
Peter? Hannah?
PETER:
We’re here to shoot you, dude.
Panel 5. HANNAH clips a microphone and transmitter to CHAMBERS’s clothing.
HANNAH:
Wireless mike.
PETER:
We’ll be shooting from this car across the street.
BART:
What about me? Where should I go?
PETER:
In this scene you’re hiding inside the building.
Panel 6. Bird’s eye view again of BART zipping away from the group into 3858 Lampert Street.
BART:
Ooh, good idea!
•
PAGE TWO (four panels)
Panel 1. Distant shot of CHAMBERS sitting alone on the stoop of 3858 Lampert Street. The sun has come up.
Panel 2. PRESTON sits at the wheel of his car, parked two blocks from 3858 Lampert, watching CHAMBERS.
Panel 3. Inside 3858 Lampert, BART looks up the stairs, thinking.
Panel 4. In HANNAH’s car, she and PETER crouch over their camera and recording equipment, trained on 3858 Lampert. HANNAH has earphones on. PETER has another pair of earphones around his neck, and is whispering into his cell phone behind HANNAH’s back.
PETER (whisper balloon):
Okay, get in position.
Panel 5. Looking up the street, CHAMBERS sees GREG CHECK “G.G.” GRANTHAM approaching on foot. With him are his bodyguard MANNY, holding the leashes of two attack dogs, and GRANDMOTHER and DEBRA CHAMBERS.
•
PAGE THREE (four panels)
Panel 1. With a dismissive wave, GRANTHAM lets GRANDMOTHER and DEBRA go.
GRANTHAM:
Okay, ladies. I don’t need you.
Panel 2. GRANDMOTHER rushes to embrace CHAMBERS while DEBRA points back at GRANTHAM.
GRANDMOTHER:
Darrin! We couldn’t find you last night!
DEBRA:
G.G. told us he knew where you were!
GRANTHAM:
I told you I knew where Little G.G. would be. And I did.
Panel 3. DEBRA embraces CHAMBERS, who points her and GRANDMOTHER down the street to PRESTON’s car.
DEBRA:
You never came home from work last night.
CHAMBERS:
Yeah, we’ll have to talk about that.
CHAMBERS:
For now, go get in that car with Preston, okay? Whatever happens, he’ll get you home.
Panel 4. GRANDMOTHER and DEBRA start toward the car as CHAMBERS turns back to GRANTHAM and his dogs.
CHAMBERS:
I love you.
CHAMBERS:
Now G.G. and I have a lot to clear up.
•
PAGE FOUR (five panels)
Panel 1. BART is in the room where Raemond Ferguson was shot, dialing his cell phone. Around him are thought balloons containing images from the investigation: the yellow hairs in his tweezers, DEBRA CHAMBERS’s yellow kitten, the LOST CAT poster, HERSEY’s laser pointer, and the can opener.
BART:
Ooh!
Panel 2. Close up of BART speaking on his phone.
BART:
Mrs. D.? It’s Bart Allen! I figured out how Raemond Ferguson got shot!
Panel 3. Big flashback panel. G.G. and MANNY are in the doorway of the dim room, surprised and angry to find someone in the building. G.G. is about to fire a pistol at RAEMOND FERGUSON, crouched in the center of the room pouring a pint of milk into a bowl. On the far end of a line formed by the gun and RAEMOND’s head is a yellow cat and a litter of yellow kittens. In the rear, there is a lock on the door to the next room.
BART (off panel):
Raemond found a yellow cat who went into that building to have her babies, and he was bringing her food and milk.
BART (off panel):
Raemond didn’t know that Big G.G. and his gang were using the next room to hide…some sort of bad stuff.
BART (off panel):
G.G. must’ve come in, spotted Raemond, and shot him in the head!
BART (off panel):
One of those shots hit the cat.
Panel 4. Flashback panel. MANNY’s large hands gather up the yellow kittens. At the edge of the panel is a glimpse of their dead mother.
BART (off panel):
G.G. probably wanted to feed the kittens to his dogs.
BART (off panel):
But one of his thugs took the kittens and passed them out to people in the neighborhood.
Panel 5. Back to BART yelling into his cell phone.
BART:
We have to tell Deputy Hersey! We have to tell Detective Timmins!
•
PAGE FIVE (five panels)
Panel 1. Title and credits space.
TITLE:
The Bloodiest Looking Villain in this Country
CREDITS
Panel 2. CHAMBERS addresses GRANTHAM, who looks smug in his tailored suit.
CHAMBERS:
What’s so important to you, G.G.?
Panel 3. GRANTHAM takes CHAMBERS by the elbow and leads him a few steps from MANNY the bodyguard.
GRANTHAM:
Well, little man, I hear in juvy you turned queer.
CHAMBERS:
No. I was in juvy when I figured out I’m gay.
Panel 4. GRANTHAM takes his hand off CHAMBERS and speaks more harshly.
GRANTHAM:
That causes a problem for me.
CHAMBERS:
How?
GRANTHAM:
You know our business--
CHAMBERS:
Your business now. I’m a cook.
Panel 5. GRANTHAM accuses CHAMBERS.
GRANTHAM:
I have to look tough.
GRANTHAM:
Everyone knows I called you “Little G.G.” ‘cause I saw something of me in you.
GRANTHAM:
How will it look now when everyone hears that you are a fag?
•
PAGE SIX (seven panels)
Panel 1. CHAMBERS dismisses GRANTHAM’s concern.
CHAMBERS:
The fact that I’m gay doesn’t say nothing about anyone else.
GRANTHAM:
People will still talk about me.
Panel 2. CHAMBERS speaks out to his old mentor.
CHAMBERS:
It’s always gotta be about you, huh?
CHAMBERS:
I thought the gang was turning me into a big man, but I was just your little pet. And you’re nasty to your pets.
Panel 3. CHAMBERS turns the tables, poking GRANTHAM’s sensitive spot.
CHAMBERS:
You don’t want nobody to wonder if you’re queer? First thing--stop acting obsessed about your “Little G.G.”
Panel 4. Close-up of GRANTHAM reacting with shock and anger.
Panel 5. Close-up of GRANTHAM’s face turning hard again.
GRANTHAM:
Manny! Set the dogs loose!
Panel 6. From a distance, we see over PETER’s shoulder as he films the dogs about to spring at CHAMBERS. PETER, wearing earphones, shouts over his shoulder to someone off panel.
PETER:
Now! Go go go!
Panel 7. CHAMBERS, the dogs, and GRANTHAM all suddenly crumble to the ground.
SFX:
Mmmoooooff!
•
PAGE SEVEN (five panels)
Panel 1. NEGOSHIAN strides into view in his silver costume, his arms outstretched in front of him since he just fired off his graviton tubes.
NEGOSHIAN:
Double the powers, double the Gravitas!
Panel 2. Long view of CHAMBERS struggling back up to his knees as the dogs roll on the sidewalk. NEGOSHIAN points his arms at the building.
PETER (off panel):
Do the speech.
Panel 3. NEGOSHIAN looks back over his shoulder at PETER. HANNAH stares at PETER, wondering what’s going on.
NEGOSHIAN:
But--
PETER:
The whole speech!
Panel 4. NEGOSHIAN turns back and addresses the GRANTHAM and the men pinned to the sidewalk.
NEGOSHIAN:
By reversing the--
PETER (off panel):
Louder!
NEGOSHIAN:
--coils of my graviton suit, I can create fields that contain double the natural gravitational pull, and temporarily bring you to your knees!
NEGOSHIAN:
Bow before Gravitas, for I have the power to crumble Keystone!
Panel 5. NEGOSHIAN shoots his gravitation bubble over the heads of GRANTHAM, CHAMBERS, and MANNY at 3858 Lampert Street.
SFX:
MMOOOOOOOOFFFFfffff!
•
PAGE EIGHT (one panel)
Panel 1. As all the people on the sidewalk watch in surprise and horror, the whole of 3858 Lampert Street collapses straight down into a heap.
SFX:
KERRRR-ASH!!!
Continued here.