Here's a sample of Skeleton Crew. I co-wrote the script with Dave Seidman-Joria, created the cover, and did pencils, ink, and color for the comic pages. Below I will attach the script in it's first form.
Since the story was set at the famous Delphi Oracle, I wanted to show the comic characters as Greek Gods. Bonejack, the resident jerk is Ares, picking a fight with the clever Maria cast as Athena. Zomboy as Hermes, the messenger, is trying to help but making things worse. Darling toddler Peekaboo is the adorable Eros. Weston and Shelly (who are a couple) are dressed as husband and wife Hades and Persephone. While the spoiled rich girl, Amonanda (dressed as Aphrodite), is trying to cause tension by flirting with Weston.
Amonanda is a mummy whose BA flies around while she sleeps in her sarcophagus.
Ingo was a new character this issue. We needed Amonanda to have someone to talk to when she wasn't at the Skeleton Crew's house.
Amonanda's costume was based on a runway look for Fall 2017. Maria, who is more old-fashioned and cutesy is wearing a floppy peasant blouse and boot-cut jeans.
Zomboy's illustrations were drawn with my left hand.
Weston (panel 3 and 4) is a vampire who is allergic to light, so he carries a permanent Penumbra around him at all times.
SCRIPT:
[AMON-ANDA WALKING DOWN A PENTHOUSE PLAZA (SEE TRUMP TOWER). PASSING BY AIDES.]
INGO: I HAVE THE UPDATE ON YOUR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO. YOU’VE MADE –
AMONANDA: FINE.
AIDE: MARC AND MICHAEL ARE HERE FOR YOUR FITTING.
AMONANDA: CANCEL. TELL THEM TO COME BACK THURSDAY.
AIDE: KIM AND KHLOE ON THE LINE. THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE WEARING TO THE RED CARPET EVENT.
AMONANDA: TELL THEM IT’S NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS, AND I’LL HAVE THE ONLY ONE.
INGO: OH, YOUR PASSPORT CAME IN THE MAIL.
AMONANDA: *GASP* GIVE IT HERE!
AMONANDA: INGO, GET THE PORSCHE READY.
MARIA AND DUNSTAN GOING OVER NOTES. SHE’S HOLDING UP A BOTTLE OF ENSURE WITH A DRINKING STRAW.
[AMONANDA BURSTS IN THROUGH THE DOOR.]
AMONANDA: OKAY, THE PARTY IS OVER.
DUNSTAN: (WHEEZES) YEAH, LOOK AT ME HAVING A PARTY OVER HERE.
AMONANDA: YOU PROMISED ME THAT YOU KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT THE AXIS MUNDI AND ITS LOCATION. THAT WAS OVER A WEEK AGO AND WE HAVE DONE NOTHING! I’M TIRED OF VISITING THIS ROACH MOTEL TO FIND YOU GROOVY GHOULIES JUST SITTING THERE WATCHING CARTOONS! YOU NEED TO GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND GO FIND THE AXIS MUNDI SO WE CAN ALL RETURN TO OUR NORMAL AIR-BREATHING SELVES!
MARIA: WELL, WE WERE JUST ABOUT TO HAVE A MEETING ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW.
ZOMBOY: [SETTING UP WHITEBOARD] DIDN’T YOU GET THE MEMO?
AMONANDA: WHAT MEMO? I DON’T LIVE HERE, TURKEY!
ZOMBOY: I PUT IT ON THE FRIDGE. I FIGURED EVERYONE WOULD SEE IT THERE.
AMONANDA: I DON’T EAT FOOD! MY STOMACH IS IN A JAR IN A MUSEUM!
ZOMBOY: OH.
MARIA: SO… SINCE YOU’RE HERE, *SIGH* YOU CAN TAKE A SEAT, AND JOIN US…
AMONANDA: OH… WELL… FINE! I’LL JUST DO THAT.
BJ BRINGS IN THE TELEVISION SET.
MARIA: BONEJACK! YOU BROUGHT THE TV UP FOR DUNSTAN? THAT’S SO NICE OF YOU, LIKE… UNPRECEDENTED!
BJ: DUNSTAN? NO, I’M BRINGING THIS UP HERE FOR ME. IF I GOT LISTEN TO YOU FOR 20 MINUTES I’M GOING TO NEED SOME DISTRACTION.
MARIA: SO, I MADE A BASIC RUN-DOWN…
ZOMBOY: *AHEM*
MARIA: AND ZOMBOY’S GOING TO MAKE PICTURES.
ZOMBOY: I GOT FIVE COLORS OF MARKERS!!
MARIA: SO, I’VE SPENT THE LAST FEW WEEKS DECIPHERING MY DAD’S NOTES, AND I THINK I’VE FINALLY FIGURED THEM OUT. I DON’T HAVE MANY NOTES FROM BEFORE YOU NEWER GUYS CAME ON BOARD [POINTS TO Z & W]. IT SEEMS LIKE MY DAD AND HIS OLD COLLEGE BUDDIES JUST WENT AROUND THE WORLD, BLINDLY RUSHING AT EVERY CREEPY THING THEY COULD FIND. NO OFFENSE.
DUNSTAN: NO, THAT’S PRETTY ACCURATE.
MARIA: HOWEVER, AROUND ’96 HE STARTED RESEARCHING ONE SPECIFIC THING; THE AXIS MUNDI. DID HE EVER MENTION IT?
OTHERS: NO, NOT REALLY.
MARIA: ACCORDING TO THE GREEK MYTH, THE TROJAN PRINCESS CASSANDRA RECEIVED A VISION OF TWO BIRDS TRAVELLING FROM OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE EARTH. THE GODS PLACED A STONE WHERE THE TWO BIRDS MET TO MARK THE GATEWAY BETWEEN WORLDS. THIS IS THE AXIS MUNDI, OR THE OMPHALOS- LITERALLY, THE “WORLD NAVEL.”
ZOMBOY: IF WE’RE LOOKING FOR THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD, DO WE KNOW IF IT’S AN INNIE OR AN OUTIE?
[SILENCE]
SHELLY: IF THERE’S A STONE, I GUESS IT’S AN OUTIE…
ZOMBOY: YOU SEE IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE…
MARIA: (UH-HUH.) SEE, DAD-
BONEJACK: ZOMBOY, BIRDS DON’T HAVE TEETH.
ZOMBOY: [PAUSES] CREATIVE LICENSE. HANG ON, I’LL FIX IT.
SHELLY: THAT’S ONE CREEPY BIRD.
ZOMBOY: I THINK I MADE IT WORSE.
WESTON: IS THAT A BIRD OR A CHUPACABRA BARFING SNAKES?
BONEJACK: WELL, THAT’S GOING TO HAUNT MY DREAMS.
SHELLY: ONE OF THE BIRDS HAS TEETH, AND THE OTHER DOESN’T. I DON’T MIND IT BEING WRONG AS LONG AS YOU’RE CONSISTENT.
MARIA: CAN WE FORGET ABOUT THE STINKING SNAKE-BIRD? ZOMBOY, CAN WE JUST ERASE IT AND KEEP GOING? IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT.
ZOMBOY: *SIGH*
MARIA: DAD THOUGHT THAT THE AXIS MUNDI WAS THE NEXUS POINT BETWEEN PLANES OF EXISTENCE. THE MORTAL AND THE DIVINE. IN OTHER WORDS, A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. DAD THEORIZED IT MIGHT HOLD THE SECRET TO RESTORING THE HALF-DEAD BACK TO LIFE.
BONEJACK: HOW DO KNOW THIS ISN’T JUST ANOTHER FAIRYTALE? THE GREEKS ALSO WROTE ABOUT TREE PEOPLE, MAN-COWS, AND CHICKS TURNING INTO SPIDERS.
MARIA: WELL, PARTIALLY BECAUSE DAD FOUND SIMILAR MYTHS FROM OTHER CULTURES ABOUT A GATEWAY BETWEEN WORLDS. NOW, THE ANCIENT GREEKS ASSUMED THE AXIS WAS AT DELPHI, BUT OF COURSE THEY DIDN’T REALLY KNOW HOW BIG THE WORLD ACTUALLY WAS.
DUNSTAN: THEY ASSUMED IT WAS IN GREECE BECAUSE THEY WERE GREEK.
PEEKABOO: DUSSTAN! I ME DONE WIF NAP!
AMON: THAT REALLY ISN’T HARD EVIDENCE. WHERE’S THE PROOF THAT THE AXIS MUNDI EXISTS?
MARIA: THAT’S WHERE MY DAD’S RESEARCH GETS… INTERESTING. DAD HAD BEEN STUDYING THE BRAIN WAVE ACTIVITY OF UNDEAD MAMMALS, AND HE FOUND THEY ALL SHARE THE SAME THETA WAVE OSCILLATIONS.
WESTON: THETA-WAVE OSCILLATIONS? SOUNDS LIKE SOME NEW AGE JUNK… OR A BAND NAME.
BJ: PROG BAND?
WESTON: DEFINITELY PROG.
MARIA: WELL, THE UNDEAD ARE SUBCONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF THEIR LOCATION AT ALL TIMES. JUST LIKE HOW HOMING PIGEONS CAN SENSE MAGNETIC WAVES TO POINT THEMSELVES NORTH, THE UNDEAD KNOW WHERE THEY ARE IN RELATION TO AN UNKNOWN FIXED POINT. THEY HAVE SOME SORT OF… DEATH COMPASS.
WESTON: DEATH COMPASS? I KNOW THAT’S A BAND.
BONEJACK : THEY HAD A GOOD SINGLE, BUT THE B-SIDE SUCKED.
WESTON: NAH, MAN. YOU GOTTA SEE THEM LIVE.
MARIA: MY DAD THOUGHT THAT FIXED POINT, MIGHT BE THE AXIS MUNDI.
AMON-ANDA: HOLD ON. IF WE ALL HAVE THIS DEATH COMPASS, WHY HAVEN’T WE BEEN DRAWN TO THE AXIS BY NOW?
MARIA: LIKE I SAID, IT’S SUBCONSCIOUS. YOU KNOW IT, BUT YOU DON’T KNOW THAT YOU KNOW WHERE IT IS. LOOK, I DON’T QUITE GET ALL OF THE SCIENCE—IF IT EVEN IS SCIENCE—BUT DAD SEEMED CONFIDENT YOU GUYS WOULD SIMPLY KNOW IT WHEN YOU FOUND IT.
WESTON: MAYBE WE COULD BUILD OURSELVES A “DEATH COMPASS?”
DUNSTAN: WE GOT SOMETHING BETTER.
ZOMBOY: ANNNNNND CUTER! (BOOPS PEEK ON THE NOSE)
PEEK-A-BOO: IS IT A BUNNY?
DUNSTAN: PEEK-A-BOO IS THE BEST MEDIUM I’VE EVER SEEN. SHE WAS BORN WITH AN INNATE TALENT. IF THERE’S A BLOODY GREAT GATEWAY THAT LEADS BEYOND THE VEIL, SHE’LL SPOT IT.
MARIA: SO, WHO’S DOING THIS?
WESTON: DOING WHAT, EXACTLY?
AMONANDA: GOING OUT THERE AND ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR THIS, OF COURSE!
SHELLY: WE’RE GOING OUT?...LIKE, “OUT” OUT?
MARIA: WELL, SURE. AMONANDA’S AGREED TO FINANCE EVERYTHING.
ZOMBOY: I’M IN!
MARIA: I KNOW YOU’RE IN. YOU’RE DRAWING YOURSELF ON AN AIRPLANE RIGHT NOW.
[PICTURE OF AIRPLANE, ZOMBOY IS WAVING OUT THE WINDOW]
