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I'm working on taking a bunch of short film scripts I wrote last year, and converting them into comic scripts. After that, I'll start trying to draw the comics. At that point, I'll try and put up a page or so at as regular an interval as I can maintain.

Here's a sample:
SETTING: Modern times. A forest.

1. EXTERIOR. Two men with shovels slung over their shoulders stomp noisily through the brush. The first man, LEROY, stops next to a large pine, then turns to survey the scenery around them.

LEROY: This is the tree. Ten steps due north, and that’s where it is.
MORTY: Where what is?
LEROY: The grave.
MORTY: Grave? You didn’t say nothing about no grave.
LEROY: I did to! I said ‘we gonna go dig up some ol’ bones.’
MORTY: Yeah well, I thought you meant fossils or something.
LEROY: Fossils? Fossils?! I’ll fossil you! Fossils…

2. EXTERIOR. LEROY unslings his shovel and jams the point into the earth. MORTY, holding his shovel across his shoulders, wrinkles his nose.

MORTY: The hell's that smell?
LEROY: Onions or something. Garlic.
MORTY: It is garlic. Lookit that!

MORTY points at LEROY'S feet. LEROY stares down at the garlic plants around his shoes.

LEROY: It's just in this one spot.
MORTY: And what's that over there?

MORTY points to another part of the ground.

LEROY: Looks like old concrete.
MORTY: It is old concrete. There used to be a house here.
LEROY: Weird.

LEROY starts to dig again.

MORTY: What are you doing?
LEROY: Digging up this grave.
MORTY: Leroy. You are about to dig up a grave that was dug in the middle of a house and then planted over with garlic. Doesn't that sound suspicious to you?
LEROY: Dude. Are you going to help me or not?
MORTY: (after a moment, and a drink from a bottle) Yeah, alright.

MORTY pulls some of the garlic out of the ground and breaks off a few bulbs, then rubs them on his neck.

LEROY: What are you doing now?
MORTY: Just... being careful. You want some?
LEROY: Are you going to do any digging at all?

SCENE 3. EXTERIOR. The forest.

The moon is high over the dark trees. MORTY and LEROY stand waist deep in a hole, with heaps of dirt all around. LEROY's shovel hits something hollow.

LEROY: Sounds like wood.
MORTY: Yeah.
LEROY: Help me clear it away.

They disappear into the hole. Away through the trees, a gaunt, pale man stands leaning on a cane in the shadows beneath a tree, watching them. His hair is black and short. He wears a close-fitting light yellow jacket, a white shirt, and yellow slacks. Not exactly the pinnacle of style, this fellow:


MORTY stands up, wipes his brow with the back of one hand, stares down into the hole they've dug.

MORTY: Do you believe in vampires, Leroy?

LEROY stands up as well.

LEROY: What the hell are you talking about, Mort?
MORTY: Well, my grampa, he grew up around here. Used to tell us kids these crazy stories.
LEROY: Yeah, crazy is right.
MORTY: Yeah, well... just listen. Before you pry up that lid. He told me a story one time that his pop told him, from when he was a boy. This happened around 1898 or so, back when this town was just getting started up, and loggers were coming in from all over to work.

SCENE 4. Flashback, 1898. Western town in the woods, with some storefronts and a lot of tents, horses hitched to rails and corralled in pens, logs piled high next to train tracks, waiting for the next train to come in.

As MORTY narrates his story, we see scenes of the town and the people, doing what MORTY describes.
MORTY: Back then there weren't a lot of houses around - things were just getting started, and there were a lot of camps set up in the woods all around the settlement by the river. But one day word comes that a wealthy fellow from back East wants a house in town. A lawyer shows up with cash and plans, and people set to work building this house for him. Everyone is talking about what this guy's going to be like. He shows up one night on the train, and ten men unloaded stuff from the train all night. The next day, people wanted to meet the guy, but he didn't come out of his house. Not until that evening, anyway, after the sun went down. Folks thought maybe he'd spent the day unpacking, but he kept up the schedule even weeks later, when he should have been all unpacked. Rumors started going around about the guy, and different people started showing up at the barbershop, complaining that they didn't feel so good.

SCENE 5 - back to the present for a moment.

LEROY: Why the barbershop?
MORTY: The barber used to do all the bandaging and bone-setting in a little town like this one. That's why barber-poles are red and white.
LEROY: They are?
MORTY: Yeah, you know, like a candy cane.
LEROY: Huh. So how does that make the barber a doctor?
MORTY: Well the red and white are supposed to symbolize blood and bandages.
LEROY: Weird.
MORTY: You gonna let me finish my story?
LEROY: Yeah alright. We got time.

SCENE 6 - 1898 again, with MORTY narrating.

MORTY: Alright. Well, this fella kept his odd schedule, and people around town got sick, so everyone started getting superstitious about the guy. Sure, he had folks over for dinner and such, and he had a nice house and all, and he was really nice to everyone, but they all talked about him when he wasn't around. A few months after he got into town, he and one of the local ladies fell in love with each other. Her family was pretty opposed to it, except her dad, who was in some pretty hefty debt. Well, they end up getting married, in an evening ceremony. That night, after a few drinks, some of the girl's family decide they want to pay the new couple a visit. Maybe they thought they was going to see some you know what. Only, what they saw when they looked in the window was-

SCENE 7 - the present, in the woods.

LEROY: What was that?
MORTY: What?
LEROY: That sound.
MORTY: Owl?
LEROY: Not the owl. Sounded like... scratching.

MORTY and LEROY look down.

SCENE 8

The man in the funny suit, standing beneath the trees, is suddenly alert. He leans forward to hear the conversation between MORTY and LEROY.

LEROY: Lean down there and listen.
MORTY: (whispering, now) Okay.

MORTY leans down to listen to the coffin. LEROY suddenly jumps.

LEROY: BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!
MORTY: AAAAAAH!
LEROY: HAHAHAHAHAHA! You shoulda- you shoulda - you shoulda seen the look on yer- HAHAHA HAHA yer FACE!
MORTY: YOU... ROTTEN...
LEROY: I'm sorry man, i just had to - you were gettin' so serious!
MORTY: It's a serious story!
LEROY: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what happened? What'd they see?

SCENE 9 - 1898 again.

MORTY (narrating): They saw the guy bent over his new bride. At first they thought he was doing some passionate necking, but when he lifted his head, there was blood everywhere. He was sucking her blood.
LEROY: So he was a vampire.
MORTY: Yeah.
LEROY: Well, why didn't you just say that at the start?
MORTY: I'm telling a story.
LEROY: Yeah, it goes like this: My grandpa was crazy and thought there were vampires. The end.
MORTY: Will you shut the hell up? (waits) Alright then. They were going to burst in right then, but one of the fellas stopped the rest, and said he knew what to do. They watched the house to see if anyone left, and when dawn came, they snuck inside. They searched the house, and in the basement, they found two big boxes. They pried them open, and found the man and his bride, cold as corpses, lying inside on piles of dirt. They didn't have stakes or anything, and anyway nobody knew if those'd work or not. So they nailed the guy into his box, and nailed the girl into hers, and took her box out. Seems they wanted to give her a real Christian burial. When they left the house, they set it on fire. No one saw the guy again, so they figured he was burned up in the fire. The girl got buried somewhere outside of the town. Grandpa didn't know where.
LEROY: Well maybe this is her grave, huh?
MORTY: That's what I'm afraid of.
LEROY: Maybe we should open it up. See what's inside.

SCENE 10. The present. A half-moon slips from behind high clouds, illuminating the moutainside in silvery light. LEROY and MORTY pry open the lid and look inside.

LEROY: Gol... dang...
MORTY: Let's get outta here, Leroy. Let's go.
LEROY: Yeah... I think... I think yer right...

The two men scramble up out of the hole. LEROY reaches the top first. Without looking back, he immediately breaks into a run. A hand, skinny and bone-white, grasps MORTY'S ankle. He screams and is dragged back down into the hole. LEROY panics, sweat pouring down his face. He sprints as fast as he can, chest heaving, breath gasping.

SCENE 11.