SPAWN # 266

Original Script by Erik Larsen

Page 1

Cap (Spawn): She didn’t show.
Cap (Spawn): Midnight came and went.

P2

Cap (Spawn): She was nowhere to be found.

P3

Cap (Spawn): There was no sign of her.

P4

Cap (Spawn): And how could she contact me anyway if something came up?
Cap (Spawn): Stupid.

P5

Cap (Spawn): If she was in trouble right now–lost, hurt.

P6

Cap (Spawn): How would I ever know?

Page 2

Cap (Spawn): How could I possibly help?
SFX: SHHINNG!

P2

Creep: Hnngh!

P3

Angela: …

P4

SFX: WRAMM!

P5

Cap (Spawn): Like so many things…I may never have the answers.

Page 3

Cap (Spawn): People disappear from my life all the time.
Cap (Spawn): I can’t save everybody.
Spawn: It’s okay.
Spawn: Everything is going to be okay.
Angela: Who…
Angela: Who are you?
Cap (Spawn): Some questions are never meant to have answers.

Page 4

Maxine: Why did you take her here?
Malcolm: I didn’t know what else to do, Maxine!
Malcolm: I didn’t want to take her to the police station–who knows where that would have led!
Malcolm: I know I’m a cop but I don’t want her getting locked up or having her secret identity revealed–that’s not cool.

P2

Maxine: Well, don’t go getting yourself into trouble, Malcolm. You need this job! You have a family to think about.
Maxine: You have three kids to feed!
Maxine: Not to mention an addiction to video games, comic books and pornography!

P3

Malcolm: There’s a superhero code! I can’t let her fall into the wrong hands!
Malcolm: Besides, it’s not like she can hurt the kids–even if she wanted to!
Malcolm: And I didn’t really have anyplace else to take her.
Malcolm: I don’t have a secret lair.

Page 5

Maxine: You should totally get a secret lair! Or a Dragon Cave with all kinds of trophies–like a giant penny and a dinosaur!
Malcolm: Ant said that the very planet was at stake!

P2

Maxine: Oh, the planet is always at stake! Don’t tell me you fell for that old line.
Malcolm: Kind of.
Malcolm: She was very convincing.

P3

Malcolm: Ant said that there’s a guy named Alzayah Stone who has the ability to give people superpowers.
Malcolm: And that all kinds of lowlifes were seeking him out. That could help explain why there are so many of those superpowered scumbags here in Chicago.

P4

Maxine: Look, Amy–the latex-wearing fetish doll is waking up!
Amy: Yay!

P5

Ant: Where–
Ant: Where am I?

P6

Malcolm: I thought I’d better take you to my apartment.
Malcolm: If I’m going to help you round up that Alzayah Stone character I really can’t have you sitting there rotting in police custody.

Page 6

Janice (from building): Where’s LENNY?

P2

Janice: Lenny’s missing!
Janice: Lenny split the rent and helped take care of Billy when I was working late–and now he’s gone–just like that! He just disappeared!

P3

Janice: Have you seen him? Have you seen my Lenny?
Al: I…no.*
Footnote: *Sure he has. Al sent him packing after Lenny broke into his apartment and tried to rob him at gunpoint. -Todd

P4

Janice: He was no saint, my Lenny–but he was good to Billy and I don’t have nobody else!
Janice: The rent’s overdue. Lenny said he’d come up with the money. He promised.
Janice: But he’s gone.

P5

Al: I’m sorry.
Al: I don’t know where Lenny is.
Al: I’m sorry.

P6

Cap (Spawn): Actions have consequences.
Cap (Spawn): You know that.
Cap (Spawn): Don’t get involved. Stick to the plan.
Cap (Spawn): You know that, too.

Page 7

Malcolm (TH): What am I doing?

P2

Malcolm (TH): This is crazy. I don’t know her.
Malcolm (TH): I don’t know that everything that Ant told me is true.
Annoying man: First time in the big city?
Annoying man: No, wait–I’m sure you must go there all the time!
Annoying man: Save the world. That sort of thing.
Annoying man: All the action’s in New York City!

P3

Malcolm: Sure, I’ve been there.
Malcolm: I was there when Osama Bin Laden came back as a giant radiation monster.
Annoying man: See, Madge?
Annoying man: He’s been there.
Girl: This is so exciting.

P4

Stewardess: Can I get you anything?
Malcolm: I’m good.
Annoying man: “Good”?”
Annoying man: He’s great! This is a great man!
Annoying man: Not like his father–no good bum!

P5

Malcolm (TH): What am I doing here?
Annoying man: Ever been to Tokyo?
Annoying man: Hear they have a giant monster problem over there.

Page 8

Malcolm (TH): Now what?

P2

Cabbie: Hey, Malcolm Dragon!
Cabbie: Mr. Big shot!
Cabbie: Need a lift?

P3

Malcolm: Uh…yeah, I guess.
Malcolm: I don’t know where I’m heading exactly but I’m pretty sure it’s not here.
Malcolm: I was supposed to meet somebody but she didn’t–

P4

Malcolm: –show.
Malcolm: There you are.
Ant: I’m not letting you out of my sight.
Ant: Get in.

P5

Malcolm: Yeah.
Malcolm: Well, let’s get this over with.

Page 9

Cap (Spawn): She didn’t show.
SFX: DOOM!

P2

Cap (Spawn): She told me about Alzayah Stone, a man who’s giving superpowers to anybody willing to pay his price.
Cap (Spawn): I had no idea how bad it’d gotten.

P3

Cap (Spawn): But in a sudden terrifying instant–

P4

Cap (Spawn): It became all too clear.

P5

Cap (Spawn): This was a whole new world.
Cap (Spawn): And right now my own powers are just starting to come online.
Al: Shit!

Page 10

SFX: THRAKOOM!

P2

Cap (Spawn): Everybody runs.
Cap (Spawn): I’m running too.

P3

Cap (Spawn): But while they run away from danger–I run towards it.

P4

Cap (Spawn): I made a promise to my wife–

P5

Cap (Spawn): –And I aim to keep it!

Page 11

Malcolm: That’s crazy talk.
Malcolm: You can’t possibly believe that.
Ant: It’s true–all of it!
Ant: They want the world to end.

P2

Malcolm: And then what? What good will that do?
Ant: They want to cause the Biblical rapture!
Ant: They think God will save them–that they’re the righteous! That they’ll be saved! It’s insanity, sure, but it’s happening! Look around you!

P3

Malcolm: What’s going on up there?
Malcolm: We haven’t budged in ten minutes!
Cabbie: Nobody has! Traffic’s stopped! Some kind of disturbance up ahead.

P4

Malcolm: I’m still not convinced.
Ant: You will be!

Pages 12-13

Ant: You will be!
Monsteress: Stop them, my army!
Monsteress: Monsteress commands you!
Monsteress: Bring them to me!
Cap (Spawn): Unspeakable horrors at all sides.
Cap (Spawn): It looks bleak but then I notice–
Cap (Spawn): I’m not alone.

Page 14

Cap (Spawn): Though she failed to meet me at our appointed hour she has come to aid me when I need her most!
Spawn: Ant!
Spawn: You’ve returned!
SFX: KRAK!

P2

Malcolm: And she’s brought company!
SFX: BRAM!

P3

Ant: Let’s do this!
SFX: HROKK!

P4

Monsteress: They are powerful indeed–but no match for us!
Monsteress: Stop them!

Page 15

Cap (Spawn): None of this makes any sense.
Cap (Spawn): And yet it does. It all feels right. Everything moves in slow motion and the three of us fight as though we’ve known each other our whole lives.

P2

Malcolm: Bam!
Malcolm: You felt that!

P3

Ant: Watch your back!
Spawn: Where do these creatures come from?

P4

Malcolm: Hold it right there!

Page 16

Monsteress: I will not resist you, officer.

P2

Monsteress: And you will not resist me.

P4

Cap (Spawn): And then it all goes to hell.
Monsteress: Go, seedling! Your queen commands it!
Monsteress: Seize the others!
Monsteress: They will be reborn as you have been! They will join my army–or die!

P5

Ant: This was going to be a squeaker before he switched teams!
Spawn: This is not good.

Page 17

SFX: THRA-KOOM!
Cap (Spawn): There’s no path to victory here.
Cap (Spawn): I’m outmuscled, overpowered and outclassed.

P2

Cap (Spawn): I’ll be lucky to survive the next few rounds.

P3

Ant: Why do I get the feeling that you’re the only one who matters in this fight?

P4

Ant: These creatures have no will of their own!

P5

Ant: Let’s see how well they fight without you pulling their strings!
Monsteress: Stay back!

P6

Cap (Spawn): Chains bind the monster but I know this is only a stopgap measure.
Cap (Spawn): He’ll burst these bonds in a heartbeat.
Cap (Spawn): I can feel the pressure building.

Page 18

Cap (Spawn): And then–

P2

Cap (Spawn): It’s over.

P3

Cap (Spawn): Monsters turn to men before our eyes.
Cap (Spawn): The curse is lifted.

P4

Malcolm: Hi, uh…Spawn.
Malcolm: Sorry about that.
Malcolm: I’m…uh…Malcolm Dragon. I believe you know my father…?
Spawn: Indeed.
Spawn: I had no idea Dragon had a son.
Ant: Anyway…
Ant: Yeah.
Ant: So, I thought the three of us might join forces and put a stop to this madness.

Page 19

Malcolm: Hold that thought.
Malcolm: Here come New York’s finest.
Malcolm: I should probably handle this.
Malcolm: You two might want to lay low for a bit.
Malcolm: Keep to the shadows as best you can. I’ll let you know when it’s safe to come out.

P2

Malcolm: Officer Dragon, Chicago police.
Malcolm: I know it’s not my beat but I thought you could use a hand.
Officer: You’re a long way from home, Officer Dragon.

P3

Spawn: I’m not sure what use I’ll be in the battle ahead.
Spawn: My costume is a work in progress.
Spawn: I’m not up to full power.

P4

Ant: How long do you need?
Spawn: I wish I could tell you.
Spawn: I wish I knew.
Spawn: It’s taking a lot longer than I had hoped.

P5

Ant: That may be…
Ant: But I can’t very well ask Malcolm to hang around while you get your act together.
Ant: He’s got responsibilities back home.
Ant: So your choice is simple–you can either help–or not.
Ant: What’s it going to be?
Cap (Spawn): There is no choice. Not really.

Page 20

Malcolm: Okay! You can come out now!

P2

Malcolm: There you are.

P3

Spawn: It looks like we’re going to be fighting together, Officer Dragon.
Malcolm: I feel like I just got traded up to the majors.
Spawn: Your father was a hell of a fighter. I hope some of that rubbed off on his son.
Malcolm: I do all right.

P4

Malcolm: So…now what?
Malcolm: If the three of us step onto a commercial jet and fly off to New Mexico to tackle this clown he’s bound to hear about it.
Malcolm: Any idea how we might slip in there unnoticed and sneak up on him?
Ant: Leave that to me.
Ant: Let’s just say–I know a guy.
Cap: To be continued in the pages of Savage Dragon #217!
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