KINGDOM COME Page 68


 
Page 68 PANEL ONE, TOP HORIZONTAL:  THE HEROES LINE UP IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING--THIS AS SHOT OVER THE SHOULDERS OF EAGER REPORTERS SWARMING OVER THEMSELVES, HANDS WAVING, CHARGING THE U.N. BUILDING. 

1 TAILLESS: You heard me!  HOLD PAGE ONE

2 TAILLESS: SECOND COMING of SUPERMAN

3 TAILLESS: making a STATEMENT?

4 TAILLESS: Everybody SHUDDUP, will ya?  When THIS guy talks--

PANEL TWO:  SUPERMAN, BACKED BY HIS LEAGUERS, ADDRESSES THE MASSES.  ALEX, SUPERMAN DOESN'T NEED A PODIUM; IF ANYONE CAN PROJECT HIS VOICE, HE CAN.  NOTE THAT I'VE CALLED FOR STARKINGS TO GO UP A NOTCH IN LETTERING SIZE HERE, AND DOUBLE-BORDER THE BALLOONS, TO SUGGEST SUPERMAN'S BOOMING VOICE.

[Mr. Starkings, kind sir--on this page only, please enlarge Superman's lettering and double-border his balloons to suggest a booming voice.  Thanks.]

5 TAILLESS: --we LISTEN!

6 SUPERMAN: Good AFTERNOON.

7 SUPERMAN: Many of you may REMEMBER us.  We have been AWAY for a while.

8 SUPERMAN: That was our MISTAKE.

PANEL THREE:  MEDIUM ON SUPERMAN.

9 SUPERMAN: In our ABSENCE, a NEW BREED of METAHUMANS has arisen...a VAST PHALANX of self-styled "heroes" UNWILLING to preserve LIFE or defend the DEFENSELESS...

10 SUPERMAN: ...a legion of VIGILANTES who have PERVERTED their great powers...who have FORESWORN the responsibilities DUE them.

PANEL FOUR:  TIGHT ON THE CROWD OF REPORTERS, AWESTRUCK.

11 SUPERMAN: We have RETURNED to TEACH them the MEANING of TRUTH and JUSTICE.

12 SUPERMAN: Together, we will GUIDE this new breed with WISDOM...and, if necessary, with FORCE.  Above ALL, we will restore ORDER.

PANEL FIVE:  TIGHT ON SUPERMAN.

13 SUPERMAN: We will make things RIGHT again.



From Kingdom Come script, courtesy of Mark Waid.
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