PAGE ONE: 

* Panel A: a white man with short black hair and a muscular build stands on a city sidewalk at night. A narration box is in the top left corner. 

          Narration Box: My name is John Schmidt. I am an average man, but not an average Joe, because my name is John.

* Panel B: John starts to walk home, away from a building in the background that reads “AVERAGE JOE INC.” A narration box in the top left explains.

          Narration Box: I just got off work. Its name frustrates me.

          John: My name is John, not Joe.

* Panel C: John sees a man wearing a beanie and a winter coat struggling to take a purse from an old lady. He is pulling comically hard. There is a dog in the purse, a poodle, yipping at the man. 

* Panel D: John’s determined eyes fill the panel. He looks as if he is about to pounce.

* Panel E: Same perspective as Panel C, but the man is running away with the purse/dog combo on arm, the woman shaking her fist in protest. A narration box is in the top left corner.

          Narration Box: I’m glad the woman wasn’t able to steal that dog from that man. That could’ve ended poorly. 

PAGE TWO: 

* Panel A: A child’s drawing of the woman, angry and evil, stealing the dog, and shooting John’s parents while laughing. ARTIST’S RENDITION OF WHAT COULD’VE HAPPENED appears in red letters in the bottom center of the panel. 

* Panel B: dutch angle of John’s apartment with things thrown around, him not visible but a light on in a room we can’t see. A narration box is in the top left corner. 

          Narration Box: I’ve made a decision. 

* Panel C: John is huddled over something, but we can only make out some black cloth on either side of the table he is working on. 

          Narration Box: Criminals are a stupidstitious and cowardly lot. 

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* Panel D: a dutch angle of the Man symbol on the costume.

          Narration Box: But there’s one thing they haven’t thought about.

* Panel E: we see Man’s determined eyes, with his mask now on.

          Man: I’m stupider. 

PAGE THREE:

* Panel A: Man is perched on a building, looking down at some men smoking cigarettes. The men are about twenty feet from the nearest building. In Corrupt City, the legal distance is twenty-five. 

* Panel B: Man swoops down, scaring the men. 

* Panel C: Man points at one of the men who were smoking. 

          Man: You can’t smoke this close to that building, man. Are you stupid?

* Panel D: the men throw their cigarettes at Man, but he cartwheels out of the way. 

* Panel E: Man points at the men again.

          Man: You have done a bad thing. I will beat you up now.

PAGE FOUR: 

* Panel A: The men look in shock and surprise, each one of their faces outlined by the street lamps overhead.

* Panel B: the same shot, but they are all laughing so hard they are crying. One of the men taunts Man.

          Rando: And what are you supposed to be, freak?

* Panel C: Motion lines show all of the men get punched in the face very quickly.

* Panel D: Wide shot, all but the man who asked the question and Man are knocked out. The man is genuinely frightened now, trying to crawl away while on his back, looking up at Man. Only the lower parts of Man’s costume are visible as he towers over the man.

* Panel E: Man, in a crouching position, angling to punch the man, punch wound up. Reader is in the perspective of the man who is getting beaten up.

          Man: I’m stupid.