Comic Transcript: Chapter 1, Page 5
Overview & Visual Setting
A five-panel watercolor comic set in Lady Penelope Peacock’s budget office. While rapidly rejecting paperwork, Lady Penelope discovers an anonymous tip accusing a professor of misappropriating funds, sending her into a rage.
Panel 1
Visual Description: Lady Penelope Peacock sits at her desk, aggressively flinging envelope after envelope into the air while an assistant dumps a tall box of mail onto her desk.
Lady Penelope Peacock:
“More funds for … DENIED! Need reimbursement for .. DENIED! Misappropriated funds …”
Sound Effect:
WHAT?!
Panel 2
Visual Description: A close-up of Lady Penelope opening and reading a handwritten letter with an intense, focused expression.
Caption Box (Letter Text):
Dear Lady Penelope: If you want to know which professor is misappropriating funds from the budget, visit the Dog & Frog tonight at 10.
Panel 3
Visual Description: A wide shot of the office as Lady Penelope slams both hands onto her wooden desk in fury, sending her chair rolling back and papers flying through the air. An assistant runs out the door in the background.
Spoken Text (Jagged Caption Box):
HOW DARE THEY!!!
Panel 4
Visual Description: Close-up of Lady Penelope looking utterly furious, her brow furrowed and eyes sharp behind her glasses.
Lady Penelope Peacock:
“Those — those resource-robbing RACKETEERS! Abuse MY budgetary wherewithal, will they? Well, we’ll see about THAT!”
Panel 5
Visual Description: Lady Penelope puts on black gloves as she exits through the office doorway, labeled BUDGET OFFICE. In the background, one assistant sweeps up the scattered paper mess while another stands near the shelving.
Lady Penelope Peacock:
“Stamp those forms and have them filed before I get to the office tomorrow. Put on a pot of tea when you get here, Earl Gray, extra strong, and sharpen all my pens.”
Lady Penelope Peacock (Continued):
“I have a THIEF to skewer!”