YOU'RE TRAPPED Written and illustrated by Stanley Lieber Cover colored by Pete Toms --- page one cover --- page two /1 Close-up of ACTRON's face behind overlapping transparencies. GUI windows. CAPTION: "It turns out I'll never be a professional rapper." /2 Zoom out. Same shot. CAPTION: "I just can't compete on a professional level." CAPTION: "I've resigned myself to permanent hobbyist status." /3 Zoom out. THOMAS BRIGHT stands on the bridge of the RAGNAROK, working through a pre-flight checklist. CAPTION: "My wife said I could set aside the spare bedroom in our apartment as a work space where I can record my rhymes." /4 PIRO enters and both men strap themselves in for lift-off. The countdown begins. CAPTION: "We purchased and refinished a nice Victorian glass case where I can display my hip-hop memorabilia." /5 Ignition. CAPTION: "I subscribe to several enthusiast magazines, but I've never worked up the courage to send in a submission." --- page three 1/ Splash. The RAGNAROK lifts off. Integrated into the launch platform is a building with a sign that reads: "CORRECTIONS." CAPTION: "July 4, 1986." 2/ Bottom portion of the shot (exhaust, mostly) seen from indoors, through a window. --- page four 1/ Pull back. It's a prison galley. Guys in orange jumpsuits stop with their trays and look out the window at the exhaust given off by the launch of the RAGNAROK. 2/ Pull back further. Advertisements are visible on the prison jumpsuits. 3/ Pull back further. The prison guards are wrestling with one prisoner, trying to affix another advertisement to his jumpsuit. The prisoner is struggling. 4/ Zoom in on the struggle. GUARD #1: "You're never gonna get out of here if you don't start earning more ad revenue." PRISONER: "Fuck Nike!" 5/ Close-up on the prisoner. PRISONER: "They never put any money back into MY community!" --- page five Five panels of the RAGNAROK hurtling through space. 1/ CAPTION: "I never intended to get pinned down in a job like this." 2/ CAPTION: "Just marking time." 3/ CAPTION: "But college wasn't an option for me." 4/ CAPTION: "I had to get by the best way I knew how." 5/ CAPTION: "With my dad always away in the Service..." CAPTION: "I never got a chance to learn even the basic skills an adult needs to make his way in the world." --- page six 1/ THOMAS sits at the helm, making hand gestures like a rapper. THOMAS: "Nigga you're trapped!" 2/ Basically the same shot. THOMAS: "Can't do nothing but rap!" 3/ Close-up of THOMAS' face. He's trying to think of the next rhyme. 4/ Medium distance profile view. THOMAS continues to make hand gestures. THOMAS: "Don't own no land!" THOMAS: "Just a pink plastic craft!" 5/ THOMAS turns around to face PIRO, as if seeking the older man/his twin brother's approval. PIRO: "Stop rapping." CAPTION: "Next: ENSIGN SMURF" --- page seven misc. --- page eight back cover --- END
