In 1994, Reality, Inc. nearly saw light, after all 32 pages had been drawn creator William Hood trashed the project citing poor artwork and a bad storyline.

Moving forward to 2002, where again, Reality, Inc. nearly saw the light of day, production advanced further than before. All the pages were done, better than half were inked and colored, and promotional posters had been made. And it died as well. There was no funding for the project and by the time it could be done, the story lacked...something.

Now, creator William Hood and Dream In Color Entertainment bring you

...

After several false starts, and numerous storyline and character changes, a story has been settled on and the characters have finally found a voice of their own. A voice that demanded to be heard.

So join Jeremiah Hawke, Andrew Barber, his wife Dawn, and Hawke's daughter Catherine as they attempt to rid a small town of a fatal drug invading every crevasse of their homes.

The press has dubbed the drug Fanta- C, a drug that releases all inhibitions and produces very strong hallucinations. The drug also burns out the user within 48 hours, the ultimate high followed by a lethal crash.

Reality, Inc. is presented in strictly pencils and grayscale with no ink and no color, outside of the covers and is suggested for mature readers. Every issue will be annually and a minimum of 42 pages.

Following is a partial preview of the script for Reality, Inc. number 1.

Reality Inc.

Issue 1

PAGE 1

Panel 1

Splash page, interior, strip club, close up on stripper poledancing with money being waved all around. The stripper has dark long hair.

Caption 1

I know this is going to upset a few people.

Caption 2

But the girl onstage is hot

Caption 3

Even on a slow night, every eye in here is on her.

Caption 4

She doesn't even know I'm here.

Caption 5

I guess I'll have to wait my turn.

PAGE 2

Panel 1

Interior Stripper crawling toward crowd.

Caption 1

It doesn't take long for her to see me, I think it's an ESP thing.

Caption 2

She always spots me in a crowd.

Panel 2

Interior, Hawke in a relaxed pose, feet up on table, in corner on couch, dressed in leather vest, long sleeve shirt rolled up to just below the elbows, and a cowboy hat, holding a drink and smoking a cigarette.

Caption 1

I don't know why I keep coming to see her.

Caption 2

Guilt, maybe.

Caption 3

Maybe I feel responsible for some of the things in my past.

Panel 3

Close up of strippers eyes.

Caption 1 -Maybe it's the eyes. The accusing look in her eyes.

PAGE 3

Panel 1

Interior, view from back of stripper, Hawke still in relaxed pose.

Stripper - “What do you want, Jeremiah?”

Hawke - “You know I hate it when you call me that.”

Stripper - “It IS your name.”

Hawke- “Sure, but, call me Hawke or even...”

Panel 2

Interior, profile of stripper from nose up.

Stripper - “WHAT do you want?”

Panel 3

Interior, Hawke leaning forward, viewed from hip level of stripper.

Hawke - “Sit, please.”

Stripper - “Make this quick.”

Panel 4

Interior, now viewing over Hawkes shoulder, stripper seated at table with him.

Stripper - “you were going to tell me what you want.”

Hawke - “Information”

Stripper - “I don't do that anymore.”

Hawke - “Not asking, giving.”

PAGE 4

Panel 1

Interior, at table, closer in on stripper.

Stripper - “Your joking.”

Hawke - “Do I joke?”

Stripper - “No, no you don't.”

Panel 2

Same table, view on Hawke

Hawke - “Ever hear of a drug called Fanta – C?”

Stripper - “ Sure, that's the one that puts people over the top, they believe their wildest

fantasies, releases their inhibitions.”

Panel 3

Side profile of Hawke.

Hawke - “Then they burn out and die, all within 48 hours, I think your boss is a key player.”

Panel 4

Stripper leaning in.

Stripper - “So, you think Mark is involved?”

Hawke - “Everything points to him, and here.”

PAGE 5

Panel 1

Interior, same table, Hawke rising from table, and stripper still sitting.

Stripper - “That's ridiculous.”

Hawke - “Maybe, but we've both dealt with stranger things.”

Panel 2

Hawke rising and facing reader, stripper still seated in background.

Stripper - “I can't accuse him of being a drug dealer, I mean sure he's slime, but in a sexual way. Drugs aren't his thing.

Hawke - “I'm not asking, I'm telling. The office is this way, right?”

Stripper - “Yeah, but...”

Panel 3

Long panel, full shot of Hawke, now in full leathers and hat, walking toward reader.

Hawke - “Thanks. You may want to start getting people out of here.”

Caption 1

Every indication is this guy is a dealer.

Caption 2

Dealers I can deal with, but this Fanta – C stuff kills people.

Caption 3

Naturally, I had to leave my weapons outside, so this isn't going to be as easy as I thought.

Panel 4

Interior, over Hawke's shoulder we see 2 large men, bouncers by appearance, standing on either side of the office door.

Caption 1

Bulges aren't unusual in a joint like this, but these are higher than I'd expect, tells me these guys are armed.

Caption 2

Good, that solves my weapons problem.

Panel 5

Interior, Hawke at office door, the bouncers are denying entrance to the office.

Bouncer 1 - “This is not a public room.”

Bouncer 2 - “Yeah, buddy keep walkin'”

Hawke - “I need to see your boss.”

PAGE 6

Panel 1

Interior, same, Hawke still negotiating with the bouncers.

Bouncer 1 - “Sorry, Mr. Castillo is in a meeting right now.”

Bouncer 2 -”Yeah, buddy, keep walkin'”

Hawke - “Right, meeting, I'm sorry...”

Panel 2 and 3

Interior, outside of office, Hawke has take the offensive, taking out the bouncers in a quiet, lethal fashion. Removing the guns from the holsters of both.

Hawke - “...but I'm not askin', I'm tellin'”

Bouncer 1 – (taking a thrust to the nose) “Whuff”

Bouncer 2 – (taking a kick to the crotch) “Stop hiuuuffff”

Hawke – (kneeling over the bouncers, removing their guns) “Thanks for the hardware, boys.”

Panel 4

Interior club, Hawke at office door, facing reader, knocking at office door behind him.

Castillo – (from behind door) “dammit, you morons, I'm busy in here.”

Panel 5

Interior office, over Hawke's shoulder, Mark Castillo is on a couch straddled by a nude blonde woman, obviously Hawke has interrupted the couple.

Hawke - “Busy, eh? I'll say, tell me you haven't tapped the hot young thing with the dark hair yet.”

Castillo - “ What the hell!!??”

Blonde - “Baby?”

Panel 6

Interior, closer on Hawke, blonde and Castillo trying to get themselves untangled.

Hawke - “She's going to want to leave.”

PAGE 7

Panel 1

Interior, Hawke in office doorway, blonde going by him leaving office, covering herself in loose clothes.

Blonde - “oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.”

Panel 2

close on Hawke's face, slight grin as Blonde runs past.

Hawke - “now, let's talk, shall we.”

Panel 3

Long panel, Hawke standing over Castillo still seated on the couch, Hawke is pointing a gun at Castillo.

Hawke - “Fanta – C.”

Castillo - “What? A fantasy room, I can do that.”

Hawke - “The drug. Your involved. Talk to me.”

Panel 4

Interior office, close on Castillo's face.

Castillo- “ I...I don't know what your talking about.”

Panel 5

Hawke clocking Castillo w/gun handle.

Hawke - “Your a dealer, I want to know who your supplier is.”

Castillo - “Can't do that man, they'd kill me.”

Panel 6

Perspective shot of Hawke, the reader is looking up the barrel of his gun, slightly angled down.

Hawke - “You know my answer to that.”

Panel 7

Black panel with BLAM! sfx.

PAGE 8

Panel 1

Long panel, Hawke looking to left of panel from right, close on Hawke, sfx AAAIIIIEEEEE! on panel causing reaction.

Hawke - “What the hell?”

Castillo - “That's on the floor!”

Panel 2

Castillo jumping from the couch, leaping for the office door.

Castillo - “My club, someone is trashing my club!”

Hawke - “Wait a minute!”

Panel 3

Castillo throws office door open and is shot in the head from outside the office.

Hawke - “Holy crap!”

Panel 4

Full shot, taking up remainder of page, shot of strip club overrun by elderly people, elders running amok with guns, on canes and walkers, dancing on stage, fighting, general chaos.

The dark haired stripper is in the middle of the mess, trying to maintain some level of reality, several club employees lie dead or injured on the floor.

Hawke - “What in the world...Cat I told you to get out of here!”

Cat (dark haired stripper) - “I tried, but all hell broke loose!”

PAGE 9

Panel 1

Interior strip club, melee has erupted, Hawke heads towards Cat to try to get out of the line of fire.

Hawke - “Come on. Let's get out of here.”

Cat - “But...”

Hawke - “It doesn't matter, this is obviously Fanta – C, they're dead anyway!”

Panel 2

Interior, Hawke and Cat moving towards door, elder man steps in front of them with a shotgun aimed at them.

Elder - “We're shutting this den of sin down for good!”

Panel 3

Interior, Hawke disarms the elderly man easily.

Hawke - “Yeah, you do that.”

Cat - “Jeremiah, careful, they're old.”

Panel 4

Interior, Hawke and Cat heading out the door to the outside.

Hawke - “ Poor fools.”

Panel 5

Exterior, strip club, Hawke and Cat ducking a chair that has been thrown out the window.

Hawke - “So, believe me now?”

Cat - “This is insane! It doesn't make any sense!”

Hawke - “Yeah, welcome to my world.”

Panel 6

Cat - “Shut up! Just shut up! What have you gotten me into!?”

Hawke - “Me!?? If you recall it was your boss that was the dealer!”

Cat- “I was perfectly fine until you had to come in and screw things up!”

Hawke - “Cat, this stuff has to get off the street.”

PAGE 10

Panel 1

Exterior, Hawke and Cat walking down the street, Hawke is on the cell phone.

Hawke - “Yeah, it's me, I found him.” “No, he was a bit dead when I left him.”

“I know, but it wasn't my fault.” “Look, I'm going to need help on this.”

“ The usual place is fine, say thirty minutes.”

Cat - “He's crazy!” “This whole thing is nuts” “How in the hell!”

Panel 2

Exterior, Hawke closing cell and turning to Cat.

Hawke - “Ok, that's taken care of, I need to get going.”

Cat - “I'm coming with you.”

Hawke - “No.”

Cat - “What?”

Panel 3

Exterior, streetside.

Hawke - “No. I said no.”

Cat - “Where do you get off telling me no?!?”

Hawke - “Simple, too dangerous and your too emotional.”

Panel 4

Exterior, streetside

Cat - “Emotional!? I am hardly emotional.”

Hawke - “This is kind of proving my point.”

Cat - “Screw you! Go. I hope you swallow a shotgun shell.”

Panel 5

Cat storming off, down sidewalk.

Hawke - “ Catherine, listen...”

Panel 6

Exterior, sidewalk

Cat - “got nothing to say to you.”

Hawke - “Cat, we do this we do it my way, period, no negotiating, no questions.”

Cat - “that's the way it always is with you isn't it?”

“your way or the highway.”

Panel 7

Exterior, close up of Hawke.

Hawke - “that's hardly fair.”

Panel 8

Longer shot, Cat is now in Hawkes face

Cat - “You want to talk fair!? How in the hell is it fair that you left?”

“As soon as we weren't doing it your way, you hit the highway!”

Hawke - “Cathy...”

Cat - “DO NOT call me Cathy! I'll work with you and I'll even try to care, but you have long since lost the right to call me Cathy, daddy!”

Panel 9

Close on Hawkes face, looking contemplative.

Panel 10

Same shot as panel 9.

Hawke - “Right, let's go.”

PAGE 11

Panel 1

Exterior, restaurant Cat and Hawke approaching.

Cat- “Why are we here, again?”

Hawke - “ I was pointed in your boss's direction by an old friend of mine, we meet here when I'm in town.”

Cat- “So, he knows things, he's going to help us?”

Hawke - “Yeah, he'll be a big help.”

Panel 2

Long panel, Hawke's boots and Cat's tennis shoes are all that appears on panel, obviously walking into the diner.

SFX – Ding, Ding

Panel 3

Long Panel, a pair of male eyes looking sideways at reader.

Male- “I'll be damned.”

Panel 4

Larger panel, taking up rest of page, man dressed in white t- shirt, camoflage pants, tennis shoes, blonde hair and reversed ball cap, stands and greets Hawke and Cat.

Hawke - “Thanks for meeting us, Drew.”

Male (Drew) - “Hey, no problem, but you didn't tell me you were bringing a friend.”

Hawke - “Drew, this is my...this is Catherine.”

Drew - “Nice to meet you, Catherine.”

Cat - “You, too.”

Page 12

Panel 1

Interior diner, the three sitting down.

Drew - “Catherine? Wait, Hawke didn't you have a...oh my god, no way is this little Cathy.”

Cat - “Little Cathy?”

Hawke -”Drew, I'd rather not discuss my personal life right now.”

Panel 2

same scene

Cat - “What “Little Cathy”?

Drew - “Right, (wow) OK, so we tanked on the Castillo lead, but we may still be able to nail this down.”

Hawke - “I knew you'd have something else up your sleeve.”

Panel 3

Long shot, Drew is removing something from a leg pocket on his pants.

Drew - “ I never put all my eggs in one basket”

Panel 4

Closer in shot, Drew laying a piece of paper on the table.

Drew - “This is where I think the main artery is. Everything is pointing to right here.”

Cat - “So we stop that artery and we kill the rest.”

Hawke - “Right, but how big is this thing.”

Panel 5

Interior diner

Drew - “Big, Hawke, even back in the day I don't think we took on anything like this.”

Hawke - “What's the name? Who are we going after?”

Drew - “Michael Kingston.”

Cat - “SENATOR Michael Kingston?”

Panel 6

Interior Diner

Hawke - “The senator, Drew, you need to be absolutely sure about this.”

Drew - “I wish I was making a mistake with this one, but I'm right.”

Hawke - “ Why? Why would a senator drug everyone like this?”

Cat - “I say we go ask him.”

Panel 7

The trio at the register, paying and ready to leave.

Drew - “That's the idea.”

PAGE 13

Panel 1

Interior Drew's garage, different archery equipment is scattered throughout.

Cat - “ Bow and Arrows? We're waging a war with a bow and arrow set?”

Hawke - “ Cat, cool it, that bow and arrow set saved my life more than once when we were working together.”

Cat - “sure, but...”

Panel 2

Interior Drew's garage, Drew emerges from a side door, carrying a duffel bag, and begins to head out.

Drew - “Got everything we need, let's go.”

Panel 3

A map, full panel.

Caption 1 – So, if we go this route it'll take us under the house.

Caption 2 – Drew, if we go this way, we approach directly from the front.

Caption 3 – Cutting across 3^rd and Gray we could block any escape from the front of the house.

Panel 4

Pulling back we see a park, with Hawke, Cat and Drew (Deerhunter) sitting on and around a picnic table. The map is on the table.

Drew - “Looks like we've got most of the target blocked, we're going to have to split up and coordinate our moves with each other.”

Hawke - “Can't Dawn help with the coordination?”

Drew - “You know how she feels about this sort of thing.”

Hawke - “Call her.”

Panel 5

Drew walking back from the Jeep to the table.

Drew - “...and we're going to need the portable GPS units as well, thanks, see you soon.”

Panel 6

Deerhunter closing his phone and talking to Cat and Hawke.

Drew - “We're good, she'll be here and ready to set up within the hour.”

Hawke - “Good, then we'll go in after sundown. Cat this could be dangerous, we really don't know what we're facing...”

Cat - “That's why I'm going with you.”

Drew - “Hawke, this one is a real firecracker.”

PAGE 14

Panel 1

Profile shot, woman with shorter red hair, looking at a downward angle.

Dawn (Network) – “Ok, I've got your positions, move in when your ready.”

Panel 2

Pull back to show Dawn (Network) sitting on the picnic table from prior page, she is on the table, feet on the bench and laptop on her lap. Dressed in workout pants and an oversized sweatshirt, hanging off shoulder, she has a small “bluetooth” mic in her ear.

Dawn - “Network to Deerhunter, underground route looks clear, move at will.”

Caption – Copy, just like old times, eh love?

Dawn - “Not now.”

Panel 3

continuing prior panel

Dawn - “Cat you have a clear run across Grey St. stay out of sight.”

Panel 4

Cat ducking down behind a car.

Cat - “Roger that, lord knows I'm not gonna be the one that gets busted here.”

Panel 5

Hawke ducking and approaching the front of the house.

Caption – Hawke, I'm picking up two different alarm frequencies from the house, attempting to disable now.

Hawke - “Here I thought I'd just go knock on the door.”

Panel 6

Closer on Hawke, profile shot.

Caption – Alarms are disabled, hold for position and go ahead

Hawke - “Understood, awaiting go ahead.”

PAGE 15

Panel 1

Duplicate Panel 1 of page 14

Network (Dawn) - “Hawke, Units C and D are in position and awaiting go ahead.”

Panel 2

Close up of Hawke

Hawke - “Ready.”

Panel 3

Closer on Dawns face and shoulders.

Dawn - “Go ahead confirmed, proceed on target.”

Panel 4

Hawke busting in door.

Hawke- “Senator! You have a visitor!”

Panel 5

Cat crashing through window.

Panel 6

Deerhunter, entering hallway.

PAGE 16

Panel 1

Hawke with hand on ear, speaking into earpiece.

Hawke- “Are we clear?”

Panel 2

Deerhunter, dropping a still drawn bow and arrow.

Deerhunter - “Clear.”

Panel 3

Cat standing in doorway of home, between rooms.

Cat “Clear.”

Panel 4

Hawke profile

Caption 1 - “ Anyone check the basement?”

Panel 5

Hawke, running through hallway.

Hawke - “SHIT! Rookie mistake.”

Panel 6

Deerhunter, running through kitchen area.

Deerhunter - “Damn, we're rusty.”

Panel 7

Cat standing in doorway of basement, door open, Deerhunter and Hawke approaching from side.

Cat - “Oh, my holy...”

PAGE 17

Panel 1 – long panel stretching length of page, Hawke, Deerhunter and Cat all looking amazed and scared.

Panel 2 – Hawke, looking uncomfortably dumbfounded.

Hawke - “Never expected this.”

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