#0 – Prologue

Is a supermarket considered an upgrade from a convenience store?  It does have “super” in the name, after all.

Transcript

Panel 1: Outside view of Zippy Mart.
Panel 2: Outside view of door with, “Employees Only,” sign.
Panel 3: A man and woman with strong resemblance to Nate, the man is rubbing up against the woman from behind and has his hand underneath her apron.
Woman: “Are you sure we should be doing this here?”
Man: “Mm-hmm.”

Panel 4: Headshot angle of the couple in the previous panel. Woman: “I mean, if something were to happen… well, what kind of future would a kid have if he was conceived in the back room of a Zippy Mart?”
Man: “Ha ha, true.”

Panel 5: Narration box top left corner, “22 years later…”
Nate standing behind cash register desk in uniform with nametag, white-haired elderly customer in front of desk.
Nate: “Hello, do you have your Food Baron MVP card today?”

Posted on October 12, 2003 at 12:00 am in Treading Ground. Follow responses to this post with the comments feed. You can leave a comment or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses

  1. Matanui3 says:

    …what does it matter where you were concieved?

  2. J says:

    It’s called irony and foreshadowing my friend. :)

  3. Wouldn’t his first name be Mart, and have the nick name of Zippy?

  4. Justin says:

    ha, that’s really clever

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