Chapter 1, Page 23
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Panel 1: Alice continues running along the street.
ALICE: Come ON, where’s the damn –
Panel 2: … but suddenly, the street starts to lose definition, as she runs along it – losing color and returning to black and white.
ALICE: … where’s…
Panel 3: Now the street has no only lost all color, it has lost inkline definition, looking like a sketch.
ALICE: where…
Panel 4: Alice has run off the “page” itself, and finds herself in a white void, confused.
ALICE: Where am I?
ALICE: It’s all…
ALICE: Like an…
Panel 5: Now we see the interior of Alice’s apartment, Her drawings have been invaded – the monsters are in every painting and she is looking out of a sketchpad, not sure what she’s seeing.
ALICE: … unfinished…
ALICE: … painting.
ALICE: I’m inside the…
ALICE: How…
ALICE: How is this…
ALICE: Happening…
Panel 6: Back in the white space, there’s a single isolated panel of Alice reaching out towards the viewer.
ALICE: Wait…
ALICE: What’s…
ALICE: … out there?
Panel 7: Alice withdraws her hand, as it too, has briefly reverted to being sketchlike.
ALICE: Ahhhhh…!
Panel 8: Alice covers her ears, hearing a cacophany of noise and static, one word repeated over and over, in many styles… with one exception to the repetition.
ALICE: AUUUGGHHHH!!!
VOICES: ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF ETE’WOF
VOICE: Alice?
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