PAGE ONE (seven panels)
Panel 1. BART ALLEN is in his bedroom, wearing ordinary clothes. He's sitting in front of a computer screen, tapping his finger impatiently.
Panel 2. Close-up of the computer screen, showing what BART is looking at: a page on a website called YourVids, which shows videos that people upload.
SCREEN:
YourVids
Trailer for Kid Flash Investigates!
Duration: 1:36 Views: 5
Panel 3. Same as Panel 2.
Panel 4. Same as Panel 3.
Panel 5. Same as Panel 4.
Panel 6. Same as Panel 5 except that the last line now says, "Views: 6".
Panel 7. BART has grabbed his phone and is babbling happily into it.
BART:
Someone's watching! Someone's watching it right now!
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PAGE TWO (five panels)
Panel 1. PETER KARLSON is speaking on the phone from his bedroom in his mother's garage. He's sitting at his computer. The walls have posters for Scarface, Ronin, Reservoir Dogs, The Italian Job, and other crime movies. There are (shoplifted) DVDs on the table and floor.
PETER:
Dude, that was me. I just watched it again. Isn't it kickin'?
Panel 2. Back to BART's room. Still on the phone, he's jumped to his feet and popped the control on his ring, making his Kid Flash uniform spring out.
BART:
What? Stay right there-we have to talk!
Panel 3. BART, tugging on pieces of his Kid Flash costume, races toward the front door past JAY GARRICK, sitting on his couch in civilian clothes reading a magazine.
BART:
Important meeting about my educational project! I'll be back for supper! Bye!
Panel 4. JAY zips up to the front door, bringing BART up short.
JAY:
Did you read the booklet I left for you?
BART:
What? No. Sorry! Didn't have time.
Panel 5. JAY rushes back in with the booklet and presses it on BART as he slips out. The booklet has a photo on the cover, but we can't read the type.
JAY:
It's a booklet. It will take you four hundredths of a second.
BART:
Okay okay-I'll take it with me!
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PAGE THREE (six panels)
Panel 1. BART as Kid Flash vibrates through the wall into PETER's apartment, carrying the booklet. PETER is looking at his computer screen.
PETER:
We've got seven views now.
BART (excited):
Really?
Panel 2. PETER is still peering at his monitor while BART gets exasperated, a black cloud coming off his head.
PETER:
Yeah, I just watched it again.
PETER:
Dude, we need better sound.
Panel 3. Close up as BART complains, and establishes the stakes for this installment.
BART:
What we need is other people to watch!
BART:
We gotta do something to show the Flash Museum that people want the whole movie!
Panel 4. Close up as PETER dismisses BART's concern, establishing the theme for this installment.
PETER:
But viral marketing's all about getting other people to spread the word for us.
Panel 5. Pull back to medium view as BART, both hands clutched in his hair, continues his complaint to PETER, who continues to be more lackadaisical.
BART:
Those other people aren't doing their job!
PETER:
You gotta give 'em time, man!
PETER:
You want to watch it again?
PANEL 6. The story title and credits at the bottom of the page.
TITLE:
A Chance to Whitewash a Fence
CREDITS
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PAGE FOUR (six panels)
Panel 1. BART enters the Garrick house through the kitchen door. In the kitchen, JOAN GARRICK is placing pork cutlets on plates with biscuits and peas.
JOAN:
So what did you think of that catalog? See anything that interested you?
Panel 2. BART frantically looks around and feels his pockets, realizing he's lost the booklet somewhere.
BART:
Very interesting, Joan! I, uh, want to read it more carefully!
BART:
Gotta go change for dinner!
Panel 3. BART, now back in regular clothes, is setting the dinner table impeccably at high speed.
BART:
Mmm, that smells good! Your cutlets always smell good, Joan! How do you make your cutlets smell so good?
Panel 4. As BART sits in his place, hands folded angelically, JOAN and JAY bring in the food.
JOAN:
Rhubarb, dear. We gave you that course catalog because we don't think it's good for you to sit in front of the computer all the time.
JAY:
I try to do something useful every day.
Panel 5. JAY and JOAN take their seats at the dinner table.
BART (glaring a little at JAY):
It's easier to be useful when you're not grounded.
JOAN:
We think it's time for you to think again about school.
Panel 6. BART reacts with alarm.
BART:
School? Can't I think about something else?
JAY:
Well, Max Mercury wondered if you might be available to help with a delivery.
BART:
Yeah! Yeah! I'll help Max!
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PAGE FIVE (seven panels)
Panel 1. BART is in his bedroom later that evening, wearing his Kid Flash uniform with the mask pulled down. He's drawing at great speed on a pile of small papers when his phone rings. The ring is some horrendously complex, fast Eddie Van Halen guitar solo, showing up as a series of eighth and sixteenth notes.
Panel 2. BART has his mask pulled up and his phone under his chin. He's stuffing all his papers in a backpack as he stands up to leave.
MAX (electronic balloon coming from phone):
It's time.
BART:
On my way!
Panel 3. Backpack strapped on, BART is with MAX MERCURY, also in costume, in a lab in the basement of the Keystone Central Hospital. A middle-aged female DOCTOR is pointing to two coolers on the table in front of them.
DOCTOR:
The red cooler goes to Memphis General, and the blue one to Charter Hospital in Coast City.
BART:
Gotcha.
Panel 4. BART is squinting under the bottom of the blue cooler's lid, trying to peek inside. MAX, respectfully cradling the red cooler in one arms, hands BART a small GPS device.
MAX:
My GPS tracker will lead you straight to Charter Hospital. When you're done, hit "Reverse," and it'll feed you directions home.
Panel 5. BART has put the blue cooler back on the table to pull a handful of papers out of his backpack.
BART:
Max, I've learned how to prepare for a job. We've got this thing called "Google Maps" now.
Panel 6. BART has zoomed out of the panel, leaving the path of his departure in the air. The DOCTOR is startled at his disappearance, MAX less so.
Panel 7. As MAX and the DOCTOR look dubious, BART reappears, sheepish grin on his face, to pick up his blue cooler and the GPS device.
BART:
Heh heh.
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PAGE SIX (five panels)
Panel 1. BART turns at high speed up the driveway of the hospital in Coast City. A big sign at the end of the driveway says, "Charter Hospital / Deliveries Department".
GPS (electronic word balloon):
Take a left into the parking lot.
BART (to GPS):
Oh, like I need you to figure that out.
Panel 2. BART holds out the cooler to a Filipino-American SURGEON on the Charter Hospital transplant team.
BART:
Delivery from Keystone Central!
SURGEON:
Thanks, kid. A nice lady in the next room's waiting for these heart and lungs.
Panel 3. BART once again stares at the cooler as the SURGEON carries it away.
BART:
Really? Wow.
BART:
Do you need any help? 'Cause I read all about transp-
SURGEON:
I think the thirteen doctors and nurses behind that door can handle it. You can head home now.
Panel 4. Back outside, BART runs back down the Charter Hospital driveway, a sly look on his face.
BART:
But first…some viral marketing.
Panel 5. BART speeds off into downtown Coast City, having left a hand-drawn sticker on the hospital sign in the foreground. It has a picture of a lightning bolt and the words "Kid Flash Investigates! Check out the trailer on YourVids!"
GPS (electronic word balloon):
You have turned the wrong way.
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PAGE SEVEN (four panels)
Panel 1. BART zigzags through the dark Coast City streets, leaving more stickers on lampposts, fire hydrants, walls, etc.
GPS (electronic word balloon):
Turn around at the next opportunity.
Panel 2. BART pastes a hand-drawn poster on a wall; it shows Kid Flash in the style of Shepard Fairey's Obama poster with the word SPEED at the bottom.
GPS (electronic word balloon):
Take the next right turn.
Panel 3. BART spray-paints a stylized caricature of himself as a "tag" on a metal fence around a construction site. His tag looks not unlike the Kid Flash in Tiny Titans.
GPS (electronic word balloon):
Calculating new route to Keystone City.
BART:
Quiet!
Panel 4. BART arrives back at MAX's apartment in Keystone, backpack depleted, and tosses the GPS to MAX, who's sitting on his couch.
GPS (electronic word balloon):
You have reached your destination.
BART (sarcastic):
Can't tell you how useful that thing was.
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PAGE EIGHT (three panels)
Panel 1. Having turned off the GPS device, MAX holds it up thoughtfully while BART, who's flopped on the other end of the couch, reacts with silent trepidation to his remark.
MAX:
You know, these devices also record exactly where you've been.
Panel 2. MAX continues to speak thoughtfully. BART answers while peeking at MAX out of the corners of his eyes.
MAX:
So…do you have any plans to be useful tomorrow?
BART:
I thought I might, um, help clean up graffiti in, um, Coast City.
Panel 3. Big final panel of BART hard at work the next day brushing a coat of white over his spray-painted caricature on the Coast City fence. He's wearing his Kid Flash uniform and, as a smock, an oversized T-shirt with his Fairey image and SPEED on the back. A plastic trash bag at BART's feet is stuffed with his stickers and crumpled posters. A hand-lettered sandwich-board set up nearby says, "This clean-up project brought to you by Kid Flash Investigates! Check out the trailer on YourVids!" He coyly peeks back over his shoulder at readers.