Sheldon: The Daily Comic Strip by Dave Kellett

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lealormyst

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DaveKellett

Last modified at:

2011-04-06 17:54:20

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Panel 1

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nonspecific (colored background)

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Spaceship (Damaged, Stolen):

With the singularity ring breached, localized space around the ship unpinches, revealing a surprisingly humble velocity across "normal" space. ...and still the ship continues onward, ever onward. The decades roll into centuries. Unchanging and dead.

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NARRATOR

Panel 2

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Space

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Spaceship (Damaged, Stolen)

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NARRATOR:

Or seemingly dead. For in that time, a diagnostic sub-routine powers up the shattered remnants of the ship's A.I. And slowly, year by year, it attempts to stitch itself back together. But its memory core is gone... and most major systems are destroyed. It is a pale shadow of its former self.

Panel 3

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Mountains

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Spaceship (Damaged, Stolen)

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	NARRATOR
1:	NARRATOR:	Still, it is not helpless: when a planet looms up in its path, the A.I. is able to spark its battered landing systems and glide, unseen, past countless satellites and orbital stations, eluding the combined technologies of man.

Panel 4

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OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)

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	Conrado Cruz
1:	NARRATOR:	Except for a single pair... of eyes.

Panel 5

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OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (Futuristic car)

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	Conrado Cruz
1:	NARRATOR:	Lonely eyes, on the desolate plains of Tabernas.

Panel 6

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Mountains

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Spaceship (Damaged, Stolen)

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	Conrado Cruz (whistling)
1:	NARRATOR:	These are the eyes of a failed man... and they will build AN EMPIRE.

Panel 7

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nonspecific (white background)

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