Comic Transcript: Chapter 1, Page 9
Overview & Visual Setting
A five-panel watercolor comic illustrating the climax of the pub brawl. Lady Penelope Peacock and Professor Genevieve’s fight is violently interrupted when the inspectors’ guards step in, knocking both women unconscious and taking them into custody.
Panel 1
Visual Description: Lady Penelope Peacock lunges forward over the upended table while swinging her cane. Professor Genevieve scrambles away just ahead, holding the camera away to keep it safe. Behind them, Captain Duco and his uniformed guards close in.
Panel 2
Visual Description: Professor Genevieve falls backward in horror as a blue-uniformed guard smashes a heavy wooden nightstick down onto the camera, crushing it.
Sound Effect:
CRUNCH!
Panel 3
Visual Description: Close-up as Lady Penelope Peacock grabs Professor Genevieve in a tight headlock from behind, both looking furious as a guard’s nightstick descends from above toward them.
Sound Effects:
AAA
ACK!
Panel 4
Visual Description: Close-up of the impact. The guards strike both women on the head simultaneously with black truncheons. Glasses fly off their faces as both grimace in pain.
Sound Effects:
THWOCK!
CLOP!
Panel 5
Visual Description: Split panel view. On the upper left, Captain Duco stands with a satisfied, stern expression in his feathered hat. On the bottom right, Lady Penelope Peacock and Professor Genevieve slump together against a wall, dazed and unconscious with cartoon stars floating around their heads.
Captain Duco:
“Excellent! We have our faculty liaisons. Clap them in irons and haul them off to the Conference Room. It’s time to get this accreditation inspection underway!”