CounterConspiracy Comics: Psycho Killer

Issue #3

“SAMSKARAS”

PANEL 1

[FORSAKEN CHURCH] View of an old abandoned stone church and it’s graveyard from above. The last rays of the setting sun filter through gathering storm clouds.

PANEL 2

Lighting streaks across the sky behind the tops of old oak trees as they are blown by strong winds. A cracked bell swings in the church’s belfry.

SOUND:

CRASH! (THUNDER)

DONG! (BELL TOLLING)

PANEL 3

[FORSAKEN GRAVEYARD] A crow takes flight from the top of a large cross shaped tombstone.

SOUND:

CRASH! (THUNDER)

DONG! (BELL TOLLING)

PANEL 4

Lightning bolts flash above a Gothic mausoleum in the center of the graveyard. It’s wrought iron gate hangs open.

SOUND:

CRASH! (THUNDER)

DONG! (BELL TOLLING)

PANEL 5

Aerial shot of a path leading out of the back of the graveyard. The ground disturbed as if something large has dragged itself out of the grave!

SOUND:

CRASH! (THUNDER)

DONG! DONG! (BELL)

PANEL 6

High altitude view of the land surrounding the church. The last beams of the setting sun sneak through the gaps between the storm clouds casting strange shadows on the cloistered rural landscape. A freight train lumbers towards a city far in the distance.

SOUND:

CRASH! (Thunder)

DONG DONG DONG (BELL)

PANEL 7

[RAILYARD]. Heavy rain pours down on a boxcar sitting on the track in an empty rail yard. Inside a rat sniffs the air.

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PANEL 8

A long dark maintenance tunnel illuminated by the faint green glow emanating from the large black outline of PSYCHO KILLER (PK) dragging himself along the floor. The caption box is shaped like a gravestone. [Signifying that the narration comes from beyond the grave!]

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

Psycho Killer was dead. Finished.

PANEL 9

PK slumps against the tunnel wall; his cybernetic alien hand inserted into a hole hidden behind a dilapidated bio-hazard sign. The dull green glow from it’s strange circuitry is just bright enough to show that he is covered in grievous injuries. A gory mess barely being held together by semi-coagulated blood and mud.

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

Happily so. Grateful to have reached the end of a long dark bloody road.

PANEL 10

Inside the safe room. View down from a dim bulb inside a cage mounted on the ceiling shows PSYCHO KILLER moving towards a first aid cabinet that hangs on a wall next to a stainless steel exam table. His alien arm and leg work in tandem to drag him forward. His mangled human leg and arm hang limp; useless as he moves across the floor.

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

Now we find ourselves back there.

Ripped from the afterlife.

Dropped back on the warpath.

PANEL 11

PK sits naked on the exam table. His tattered clothes in a pile at his feet while the alien arm wraps gauze around his flesh forearm; the last of his injuries to be treated. The first-aid cabinet is open and nearly empty. The remnants of it’s contents lay scattered on the table around PK. His body is covered in stitches, staples, gauze, and tape.

[PK’s ALIEN THOUGHT text box is drawn in black rectangles with a green digital style courier font letters. It looks like a computer terminal!]

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

Set out on a trail that leads to tragedy. Our only companions, pain and suffering.

Today it’s ours. Soon it will be that cult of sick fucks, Candelabra’s. ,,and anyone else that gets in our way. We’ll see who inflicts more in the end.

PSYCHO KILLER (ALIEN AI THOUGHT):

\\|//- Physical system stabilized at 9% capacity. Advanced stembot resources required to complete repair. \\/|/|/  Locate & Retrieve protocol contingency 47 in progress.. 10% complete. \||/\/-

PANEL 12

PK now wearing black pants (still shirtless) sits at a table in front of a large open gun locker. He’s pushing a large blade across a sharpening stone. Two large twin pistols and a combat shotgun lay on the table surrounded by full magazines and empty ammo boxes.

[PK’s SPEECH balloon is drawn with the harsh lines that would surround heavy metal lyrics being belted from a stage. He speaks in growls and screams.]

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

..but one thing I know is, that maniacal thing sitting there.. getting ready for war.. already carries a mountain of horrendous, twisted, really dark shit on it’s back. And its about to bring it down hard on some very powerful people, ..and institutions, . .and the world, ..in general.

Everyone is going to feel it.

PSYCHO KILLER:

GRRrr…FinD FrienNDs.

RowwRrr..KILL..STOPGAP!

RWAHH!!

PANEL 13

Overhead shot of PSYCHO KILLER placing a rope into a bag filled with blocks of C4, programmable detonators and det cord. His hair lays across his bandaged and scarred shoulders.

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

Giving that monstrosity a reason to look in your direction is a fatal fuckup.

Just being in it’s path equals the worst day of your life. When it’s motivated.. When it’s jet black heart is in it! Your ticket is punched.  And it’s a one-way express trip to a hard goodbye. You’ll be looking up from the cold side of the grave in no time.

Like me.. I guess.

And if I’m here, it means I ain’t in there. Which means this go around will be worse than ever. There is only monster and machine in that monstrous shell of a man now. No conscious. No compassion. No mercy. No letting go and moving on. Just the mission, and a shit-ton of RAGE.

PANEL 14

PK’s alien hand grasps a large conduit marked FIBER. This panel highlights the deep dent in his skull and the extensive damage to his body.

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

Look at it! It’s being held together with stitches, staples, and tape. He is fucked up! Big time!

And that means the alien AI is 100% running the show. For sure.

That means things are about to get  blacker-than-black ops psycho-logic tactical.

PSYCHO KILLER (ALIEN AI THOUGHT):

/\/[\- Next steps: Shadow Candelabra asset. \]\| Capture handler. Interrogate. //\\| Locate Stopgap. Locate black site holding Rebecca and Brooke.>=[[/\

PANEL 15

Top down closeup shot of PK’s face as he holds the fiber optic cable. His eyes glow dull green as his symbiotic cybernetic alien tech processes the data feed.

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

If that homicidal xenomorph AI wants to get to you, it’ll find a way. It’s just a matter of time.

When it has to compensate for loss of physical function, it does it with ruthlessness. Collateral damage will not be considered. It will bring down a building full of people to get to one man. Hell.. It will bring down a country.

Care it doesn’t. Fuck around it does not.

PANEL 16

PSYCHO KILLER stands over the table full of weapons buckling a battle belt filled with magazines around his waist. The shotgun hangs by his left side from a sling. One 45 rests in a holster on his right hip. The other sits in a shoulder holster in his left armpit. He now wears a black plate carrier vest with a large knife sheathed in it.

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

And it will have to do a lot of compensating for that wreck of a body. That head wound alone is going to take months to heal.

Whatever this is.. Wherever I am… I’m going to be here a while.

PSYCHO KILLER (ALIEN AI THOUGHT):

|// Acquire Candelabra asset. Task them with locating Lt. Stopgap. //\|\|| Use Stopgap to find Cindy’s daughters.\|\|

PSYCHO KILLER:

KILL STOPGAP!

PANEL 17

PSYCHO KILLER from behind. He is now wearing a long dark olive trench coat and grey leather combat boats and is pulling the straps of a steel mask (PSYCHO KILLER MASK) over his long hair (BLACK with SILVER STREAKS).

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

PSYCHO KILLER was gone. Dead and buried.

PANEL 18 – Splash Page

Closeup of PSYCHO KILLER (DARK REVEAL) walking towards the reader in full combat gear as a COMM ARRAY goes up in flames in the background.

GRAVESTONE CAPTION:

But the sick fucks running the so called free world couldn’t let their favorite science project retire in peace. Instead they decided to destroy the only family he had ever known. They just couldn’t let it go.

So now its back. It’s fucking pissed, and it’s going to burn it all down.

PANEL 19

A light rain falls on a large picture window on a busy city street. On the other side of the glass, large square screens broadcast the “news” from multiple networks. Screen 1 has the FNN network logo and a light brown adrogynous man with a banner that says, ‘#1 threat far-right terrorist’. Screen 2 has a KROX logo a portly Asian women in men’s clothes on half the screen and an extremely tall and manly looking middle aged black women on the other. The ticker reads, “BLOXY-28 cases on the rise in children”. Screen 3 has an RRPN logo and a handsome white man in a suit. The ticker reads ‘ Operation Crapistani Freedom – Day 6,666’. Screen 4 has a cartoon Kangaroo standing in front a picture of a burning building.

TV #1:

Patriotic, liberty loving, white nationalist are the biggest threat this country has ever seen! They should all be rounded up in put in camps!

TV #2:

Can you believe these disgusting anti-vaxers! You people better comply.. or else! Your body is your body.. sometimes. Like with abortion. But this is different!

TV #3:

Congress approved another 20 billion dollars and increased US troop presence for the special operation in Crapistan today..

TV #4

A VigilTap communication array mysteriously caught fire outside Hapstraw township early this morning…

PANEL 20

PK lurks in the shadows on the rooftop above the electronic store. It’s late and the streets are empty except a bum sleeping under cardboard on the sidewalk. The flash from the TVs throw strange shadows on the buildings.

CAPTION:

5 days and 500 miles later.

PANEL 21

Closeup of PK staring at the screens from the rooftop across the street from the electronics store.

PSYCHO KILLER (ALIEN AI THOUGHT):

//\\| Candelabra asset located. Moving to target. |\/\|

PSYCHO KILLER (GRAVESTONE CAPTION):

Ah yes. Candelabra’s social engineering & population control golden oldies.

Cultivate civil unrest, peddle death disguised as health, and misguided nationalism via a far-off protracted war. Tried and true methods for subjugating the masses.

PANEL 22

The ambient light of the building barely reveals a blacked out PSYCHO KILLER as he moves towards a skyscraper brandishing the FNN logo, duffel bag in hand.

PSYCHO KILLER (ALIEN AI THOUGHT):

/\|/Incapacitate and abduct.\[/|

PSYCHO KILLER (GRAVESTONE CAPTION):

Looks like old PK has some classics of his own he’d like to play.

PANEL 23

A grappling hook flies towards the reader. The blurry black outline of PSYCHO KILLER throws it from below.

PANEL 24

HOLLIE BEE (FNN news anchor) sits behind his desk and talks into the camera. A graphic displayed on the screen behind him reads, “Resist with Hollie Bee”.

HOLLIE BEE:

..our poles show that the number of Christians is the lowest it’s been in 1000 years. But, that doesn’t mean our work is done. We’ve  got to keep the heat on ya’ll!

  So make sure to let them know how you feel if you meet one. If you find a church, dox it and let the SJ Mob do their thing. We have to show them that we aren’t going to kowtow to their self-righteous moral superiority ever again!

Do it so we can live how we want. So we can love who we want, how we want. Only we can deliver a more inclusive tomorrow. So resist for me ya’ll, and we will make this a better world.

Ok. I’m outta of time. So much more to talk about though, so make sure to be here tomorrow night. Love yall.

Hollie Bee’s got ya back. Bye.

PANEL 25

Shot from behind the camera. Crew wraps the set. HOLLY BEE exists stage left towards an illuminated exit sign.

HOLLIE BEE:

Dammit Latoya! You gotta be the worst director this show has ever had! That last segment was terrible! I can’t believe I had to trim my wrap monologue for a Sue Ling puff piece about overcrowded homeless shelters. Why would you end with that! How does that help trigger the audience?!

Shit like that makes them sad. Our demo stays in bed and cries all day when they’re sad! Plays video games… watches cat videos.. stuffs their face with snack cakes!

We want them mad! So they’ll get out there and stir shit up. Push their delusions into some normy faces!

PANEL 26

Hollie Bee sits in a makeup chair talking on the phone, as a makeup artist removes his eye shadow.

HOLLIE BEE:

Yeah? No. I’m not going to do that tonight. Not a chance.

STEVE (FROM PHONE):

What!? But we promised them! It’s there 20th anniversary Bee and their our best frie…

HOLLIE BEE:

Those are your best friends! They stopped being my friend when they refused to get vaxD22346. Just ‘cause Brent’s brain swelled up for a week after vaxD22345.. That doesn’t give him the right to put me at risk for the latest strain of super gum disease!

Who cares if you were in the hospital for week. That shit stinks man!

STEVE:

Please baby.. please don’t make me show up to another party without you. You don’t have to agree with everything a person does to be their friend. You got to let people live their own lives.

HOLLIE BEE:

Yes I do! No I don’t! Bye!

PANEL 27

[FNN EX OFFICE]. HOLLIE BEE sits in a stylish leather chair in front of large expensive looking modern style glass desk centered in the back-half of a large well-furnished office.

HOLLIE BEE:

I know I was not at my best tonight Lar. That Sue Ling piece really threw me off my game. Right before the close-out inception too. I’m sorry. I’ll get it right tomorrow.

LARRY:

Nah.. C’mon. You did good tonight. You kept the heat on the Christians. Worked the oppression lever. Gave our audience something to be angry about. Perfectly adequate.

PANEL 28

HOLLIE BEE sits in the chair talking to LARRY. A green light shines above a shiny set of elevator doors in the background.

HOLLIE BEE:

But no Goeblitzer award nominee right?

LARRY:

HA! HA! HA!

No. Certainly not Goeblitzer material.

SOUNDS (ELEVATOR):

Ding!

PANEL 29

A hip looking young man (PIPER) and his two-man security detail stand inside the elevator. PIPER wears a tan suede tracksuit. His arms are raised above his head, fingers spread. A large toothy grin across his shaggy bearded face.

PIPER:

What a show! What a show! You killed it Hollie Bee. What a great way to wrap a strong week.

PANEL 30

PIPER stands with his arm resting on Hollie Bee’s chair looking at his phone. His security detail stands guard behind him.

PIPER:

The numbers are up. 700 pre and post show engagement. 1.2 retention average. Decent chatter. Above average link sales. Super acceptable.

HOLLIE BEE:

..but not Goeblitzer.. Damn Sue Ling and that stupid puff piece.

PANEL 31

Closeup of PIPER his faces inches from HOLLIE BEE’S.

PIPER:

Au contraire. Sue Ling’s puff piece was perfection. It did exactly what it was intended to do.

PANEL 32

A view of the conversation looking in through the windows behind LARRY’S desk.

PANEL 33

PIPER stands in front of HOLLIE BEE as he sits in her chair.

PIPER:

In order for your closing inception to really resonate, we have to activate the audience’s heart shakra first. We stimulate feelings of pity and guilt, then manipulate the resulting call to action. Get it?

PANEL 34

PIPER faces LARRY, face full of excitement, arms extended in front of him and spread (reveal gesture). HOLLIE BEE sits behind him arms crossed with a pouting expression on her face.

PIPER:

Next week we start a new arch. I’m calling it Operation FARMSHAME.

We will dissuade people from raising their own food by convincing them that it is archaic, dirty, and dangerous. Something best left to the professionals.

PANEL 35

PIPER stands to the side of Larry’s desk. HOLLIE BEE and LARRY turn their heads to face him. The security detail stands just behind PIPER. Behind them the midnight high-rise view of the surrounding buildings through the large glass windows is magnificent. At the top of the window, PK’s hand places a breaching charge.

PIPER:

We are going to tell them it increases the likely hood of food poisoning and puts you at risk of catching an animal born disease. That means it’s hazardous to the public, and the planet, and just plan irresponsible. It should be left to the government regulated corporations.  Yada, yada.

PANEL 36

Close up shot of PIPER with a wide grin and stars in his eyes.

PIPER:

Buzzword is.. wait for it.. you’re going to love this… FARMERISTS!

The sheeple are going to eat it up. I’m pumped.

PANEL 37

The window behind LARRYSs desk exploding sending glass in all directions.

PANEL 38

LARRY’S OFFICE floor covered in class; smoke in the air; fire alarm lights flash; water rains down from fire sprinklers . HOLLIE BEE & LARRY look scared; their hair and clothes disheveled from the explosion. PIPER’SSECURITY DETAIL stands guns at the ready, back-to-back over PIPER who is kneeling on the ground hands covering his head. Thick white smoke pours out of a grenade laying on the floor nearby.

SOUND (ALARM):

WAwa WAwa WaWa!

PANEL 39

PSYCHO KILLER swinging in on a rope,  cybernetic alien leg extended in the flying sidekick position, smashing into PIPER’S SECURITY DETAIL. The kick smashes through the neck of SECURITY DETAIL #1 and into the back of the head of SECURITY DETAIL #2. The breeze generated by the force of his swing parts the thick smoke exposing a shocked HOLLIE BEE,  who is down on all fours feeling around on the floor for his phone.

SOUND:

CRAAACK!

PANEL 40

PSYCHO KILLER crouches over SECURITY DETAIL#2 as he slits his throat with his combat knife. HOLLIE BEE scrambles across the floor to his phone.

HOLLIE BEE:

Fuck.. fuck.. fuck..

PANEL 41

LARRY pulling a stainless steel .357 from his desk drawer.

PANEL 42

PSYCHO KILLER walks towards LARRY as he fires the revolver. The shots landing dead in the center of his chest.

SOUND: (GUNSHOTS)

BANG! BANG! BANG!

PANEL 43

PSYCHO KILLER swats the pistol from LARRY’s hand with a backhand left. LARRY gasps, eyes wide, disheartened by the ineffectiveness of the shots and shaken by the force of the blow.

SOUND:

SMACK!

PANEL 44

PSYCHO KILLER holds LARRY by the throat with his right hand. His left hand on his back. Sweat pours from LARRY’S forehead, his eyes bulge, and spit flies out his mouth as he pleads for mercy.

LARRY:

Wait. Please. I’ll do anyth..

PANEL 45

PSYCHO KILLER choke slams LARRY through his desk to the floor. Desk adornments and papers fly as it comes a part.

PSYCHO KILLER:

NOOO!!

SOUND:

SMASH!!

PANEL 46

HOLLIE BEE sits on the ground crying as he holds his phone pointed at PK, camera rolling as he walks towards him. PK’s right hand rests on the butt of sidearm in the holster on his thigh. PIPER runs towards the elevator.

HOLLIE BEE:

Oh my god.. Larry..

PANEL 47

PK shoots PIPER in the lower half of his left calf in mid-stride.

SOUND:

BANG!

PIPER:

AHHH!

PANEL 48

PK crouched in front of HOLLIE BEE, his mask inches from his face. HOLLIE BEE’S head is turned away from him. He is terrified. Eyes filled with tears. Phone camera still rolling clinched against his chest.

HOLLIE BEE:

Please Jesus.. Forgive me. I’m sorry. Please don’t take me lord.

PANEL 49

PK’s large hand plucking the phone from HOLLIE BEE’s grasp.

HOLLIE BEE:

Gasp!

PANEL 50

PSYCHO KILLER walking away from HOLLIE BEE towards PIPER.

PIPER:

Stay the fuck away from me man. Do you know who I am. Do you know who I work for?! I’m untouchable  You can’t fuck with me! You’re a dead man!

PANEL 51

Closeup of PIPER on the floor, scared and bleeding profusely from the leg. PK’s jet black shadow covering the majority of his body.

PIPER:

Oh shit! C’mon man… Who are you? What do you want?! Money? Girls? I got girls! Boys?

I can get you anything. Just tell me what you need and I’ll get it for you..

PANEL 52

[SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT] PIPER hangs upside down from a chain wrapped around his ankles a few feet above a large pool of churning raw sewage. One leg of his pants are ripped and there is a rag tourniquet tied just under his knee. The calf beneath it is a bloody mess of a gunshot wound. The chain extends up to a pulley, then down to PK’s hand at the edge of the pool. He stands in the shadows underneath a disabled facility light pole just behind his captive. PIPER’S face has the expression of a man desperate to make a deal.

SOUND (CHAIN MOVING):

Chink.. Chink.. Chink

PIPER:

C’mon bro! What’s this all about?! Talk to me. What should I call you? What do you want? Piper can make it happen. I know how to get anything you want. I can introduce you to all the right people.

PSYCHO KILLER (GRAVESTONE CAPTION):

Ha! That things not your bro.

PANEL 53

PIPER being lowered towards the churning sewage shot from the view of a roach crawling across a pipe that runs into the sewage treatment tank. PIPER’s head is just a foot above the water. His hair is soaked in cold sweat.

PIPER:

No no no no. What do you want man? Don’t put me in man. Don’t put me in!

Let’s talk. We can work this out.

Fuck! C’mon! TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT!

PANEL 54

Closeup of PIPER as the top of his head enters the sewage. He ‘s expression has changed from extremely amenable to furious.

PIPER:

How dare you!I We’re Cadalabra!! We run shit!  No one fucks with us!

You will be tortured. Your family massacred in front of your eyes! We will rip you a part piece by piece!

PSYCHO KILLER (GRAVESTONE CAPTION):

We? You got a mouse in your pocket chief? Looks to me like your diving solo.

This guy obviously has no fucking clue who he is talking to. That thing holding the other end of the chain is Candelabra’s first and longest active blackhole level operator. Codename: Psycho Killer. The franken-merc himself!

And he’ set to no-mercy mode. He’ll be doing the terrorizing, torturing, and murdering tonight kiddo.

PANEL 55

PIPER’S head submerged in the swirling sewage.

PANEL 56

Bubbles coming out of the water around PIPER’S neck.

PANEL 57

PIPER’s head just above the pool expelling raw sewage out of his mouth and nose. Feces and piss flow off him. Flies circle him. A roach sits on his chin.

SOUND:

RETCH!

PANEL 58

PSYCHO KILLER standing behind PIPER holding the chain.

PSYCHO KILLER:

YoU’rE MiNe! DO As you ARe TOld.

PIPER:

Cough! … whatever you want.. uuuggh.

PANEL 59

PIPER hanging from the chain covered in sewage. PK’s outline looms large in the background holding the chain.

SOUND (CHAIN):

chink chink chink

PIPER:

I’ll do it. I’ll do whatever you want just don’t put me back in there. Please. pls.. Please!

PANEL 60

PIPER’S submerged up to his waste in the swirling sewage.

PANEL 61

Bubbles coming out of the water around PIPER’S crotch.

PANEL 62

PK’s alien hand holding PIPER’S cellphone.

PSYCHO KILLER (ALIEN AI THOUGHT):

/\/| trobot.wrm uploading /|\|

PANEL 63

PIPER hangs above the water. Puking raw sewage.

PANEL 64

PIPER dangles from the chain sobbing.

PSYCHO KILLER:

YoU BeLONg to ME nOW.

PIPER:

ppp..please ..ppp please..please stop.

PANEL 65

PIPER’S head under the surface of the churning pool of sewage.

PANEL 66

PIPER’S torso submerged in the sewage.

PANEL 67

PIPER’S entire body submerged in the raw sewage. Only his shoes and the chain he is hanging from are visible.

PSYCHO KILLER (GRAVESTONE CAPTION):
I wonder if he feels untouchable now.

Written by Will Kilpatrick

Psycho Killer created by Will Kilpatrick

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