Script, written in notepad , looked like this:
Panel 1: soldier hacking through jungle
Caption alone
Panel 2: close up of arm. Bubbles around a festering bite mark.
Caption I think I’ve been bitten.
Panel 3: standing in jungle. Being him statues of ancient Burmese gods.
Caption totally alone.
Panel 4 his face as he looks up skyward. Night.
Caption you can see the star s from here.
Panel 5 amazing sit from the web space telescope.
Caption it’s glorious.
-ENDS-
I wrote this at 5am, It’s only notable because I don’t normally script them at all. Mulling over a few things I wanted to do, one was do something with all the Chindit stuff still floating around my head – I learnt how to draw those bloody hats, so I’m doing more of it, dammit.
Wanted to draw abandoned Burmese statues in the jungle (something I didn’t draw for Lion and the Eagle) and I wanted something to marry that up with all the space Web telescope doing the rounds and … well, that was it.
Sometimes you do these things and you edit and rewrite as it goes, and somehow there’s a few ways to interpret some it and so you end up trying to ease up on some and lean harder on others. As drawn panel 3 caption said “But civilisation is out there” and that could lead you to conclude that the chindit didn’t consider whatever he found in the jungle as civilisation (it wasn’t my intent, but certainly I could see how that could be read as that). “I think I’ve been bitten” felt tonally wrong, but I dunno, it could all do with a rewrite. Somehow the little me talking to camera strips are a lot easier to write the dialogue for as they are me writing letters to myself, more than anything.
Anyway, a slight depature and somehow a companion piece to this other story (which I eventually retitled ALONE)
