Down on the farm

© 2016 Danny Nolan

A 4 page  comic

A tale of what insurance can really do for you.

NOTES: It is a few years in the past nothing too advanced in fashion, but the field of bionic enhancements may have gone up a few notches.

There is no dialogue in this comic.

PAGE ONE

Panel 1

POV  looking from the passenger side (U.S RHS) at two men driving along a country road. Both men are in their late 20s and have flannel shirts on.

We only see the car from the door handles up.
It is a Ford Mondeo or similar in style

Panel 2

Passing a sign reading:  Palmersville: A Productive Town. POP: 751

Panel 3

A man in overalls and two large steam powered mechanical legs is tilling a field  by pulling a large plow by himself.

Panel 4

The two men in the car look at each other. The driver with a look of amazement, the passenger with a look of “told you so” smugness on his.

Panel 5

Change of scene. Jed your typical Mid West farmer in overalls and baseball cap being served papers by a man in a suit at the front door of his house.

Panel 6

Jed at the kitchen table sitting opposite his wife, He has his head in his hands. The default notice lies on the table in front of them.

PAGE TWO

Panel 1

Jed standing over the bench saw, he is sweating and holding out his arm. There is no doubt to his intentions.

Panel 2

Jed in hospital lying in bed with his wife sitting beside him. His arm is heavily bandaged. Another man in a suit this time he is giving Jed a cheque.

Panel 3

POV over Jed’s shoulder. He is at the kitchen table reading a newspaper. In it is an advert for mechanized prosthetics. “Be A New Man” The advert is similar to those silly ads by Charles Atlas where the boy gets sand kicked in his face by the beach bully in front of his girlfriend.

Panel 4

Jed is now,in a corn field cutting corn with scythe like attachment. The harvest is all but completed.

PAGE THREE

Panel 1

Jed is in his shed talking to a neighbour who is holding up a default notice. Jed is leaning on his large mechanical arm. There are attachments in the background that custom fit his arm like a shovel, cutting saw and pitch fork.

Panel 2 (insert in Panel 1)

Jed has he arm around his neighbor as if  telling him the secret. The neighbor has a surprised look on his face.

Panel 3

The man is now at his own farm and his son is standing over him with an axe.

Panel 4

Jed waving his massive arm to his neighbour from across the yard . His neighbour is holding up a tractors front end with his new prosthetic arm while his son changes the tyre.

Panel 5

Back to the two men in the car. The passenger is pointing towards something.

PAGE FOUR

Panel 1

Back to the  two guys in the car who are now driving down Palmersville main street. It is busy little strip with husbands wives and children and everyone seems to be shopping or catching up. IT is noticeable that just about every adult male has some sort of mechanical prosthetic attached, some have two. We can see the cars and other moving machines. They all have cylinders like hot water services attached with hoses running along the bottom half of the carriages. Some have relief valves sticking up high near the driver’s side. The attachments to the cars are only a hint that fossil fuels may be less relied on in this day and age and/or give it a steampunk feel.

Panel 2

Driver looks satisfied as they pull up outside store with a TO LET .sign in the window. Coincidently there is a Doctors Surgery  next door.

Jed is waiting out side.

Panel 3

Both men are outside the car meeting Jed at the curb. On the side of the car is a large sign:

Johnston and Marr Hydraulic and Mechanical Services.

Experts in Cleaning & Maintenance.

Specializing in Insurance Claims.

FIN

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