Clockwork Angels: Comic Script Read Online Free PDF Page B

guard in front of each arch, but these Regulators wear red uniforms.
    CAPTION (OWEN)
    Everything is so incredible! How could even the Clockwork Angels be more marvelous than what I’ve seen already?
    PANEL 5
    Big panel. Owen approaches Chronos Square, which is behind the three arches. He looks up at the Watchmaker’s Tower (seen in Issue 1), but the high doorways on the tower (where the Angels emerge) are closed up tight.
    CAPTION
    But I’ll bet they are …
    PAGE 6
    PANEL 1
    Owen marches up the stairs to the grim-looking red Regulator.
    OWEN
    Is this Chronos Square? When is the next performance of the Clockwork Angels?
    REGULATOR
    Do you have a ticket?
    PANEL 2
    Owen, baffled, looks out of place.
    OWEN
    A ticket?
    REGULATOR
    You should have been issued a ticket.
    PANEL 3
    The Regulator stares forward, stony faced, unimpressed as Owen pleads with him.
    OWEN
    Then how do I obtain a ticket? I’ve come a long way, and all my life I’ve wanted to see the Clockwork Angels …
    REGULATOR
    I’m not allowed to say. You should have been issued a ticket.
    PANEL 4
    Looking more intimidating, two other red guardsmen step up, shoulder-to-shoulder with their companion. Owen tries to peer between them through the arch.
    OWEN
    Is there a way I can just have a look at the Square? I’ve heard so much about it.
    SECOND GUARDSMAN
    Not without a ticket.
    PANEL 5
    Three guards standing together, implacable.
    PANEL 6
    Owen walks away, head down, dejected.
    OWEN
    Maybe I’ll try back tomorrow …
    PAGE 7
    SECTION HEADING—Make use of the Anarchist symbol, of “A” in a circle.
    Nick, crank up “The Anarchist” from the Clockwork Angels CD to get prepared for this. I would like all the panels in this section (pages 7-9) to have bold black frames, maybe like a slash from a stick of charcoal.
    PANEL 1
    Close-up, old-fashioned spectacles with black lenses on a man’s face. Think of Gary Oldman in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”
    CAPTION (ANARCHIST)
    Some people see the world through rose-colored glasses.
    CAPTION (ANARCHIST)
    I have no use for that.
    PANEL 2
    Pull back to show the Anarchist’s face, wearing the black-lensed spectacles
    PEDLAR (OUT OF PANEL)
    What do you lack?
    PANEL 3
    Farther back to show that the Anarchist is standing at the opening of a dark alley, looking out into a busy Crown City street. Very close, walking past, is the Pedlar with his funky steampunk cart (which we saw in issue 1; he is also the Watchmaker in disguise).
    PEDLAR (KEEPS CALLING OUT)
    What do you lack?
    ANARCHIST (MUTTERS)
    What do I lack?
    PANEL 4
    Anarchist’s profile as he drops back into the alley shadows; he is silhouetted, entirely black. Captions are scattered like haphazard thoughts around the panel.
    CAPTION (ALL FROM ANARCHIST)
    Freedom
    CAPTION
    Flexibility
    CAPTION
    Spontaneity
    CAPTION
    The right to make my own decisions
    CAPTION
    The right to make my own mistakes … no matter who they hurt.
    PANEL 5
    The Anarchist shucks out of his street clothes in the alley shadows to reveal that he is wearing one of the red worker jumpsuits we’ve seen before.
    ANARCHIST
    What do I lack? What do they lack? Those sheep don’t even know …
    PANEL 6
    Small panel. The black-lensed spectacles are tossed onto the heap of clothes in the alley.
    PAGE 8
    PANEL 1
    Wearing his red jumpsuit and carrying a metal toolbox (like a plumber’s toolbox, for instance), the Anarchist strolls up to a wooden door at the base of a tall clocktower, one of many in Crown City. He looks different without his black lenses, without his street clothes, but obviously the same person.
    PANEL 2
    The Anarchist presents a work order to an officious little clerk sitting at a desk (which has a clock on it) in a small office.
    CAPTION (ANARCHIST)
    It requires great effort and attention to keep a city running in perfect synchrony …
    ANARCHIST
    Reporting as ordered to check the clocks and adjust as necessary.
    CLERK
    Of course. Go on up.
    PANEL 3
    Up in the tower inside the