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Virago Comic Book II
Box at corner of page reads ”7:00 am, Monday”. Frame: Typical white family sitting down to breakfast. On the table are donuts, sugar cereal, and coffee. The wife is fat, sitting at a table and reading the Weekly World News. The headlines read “Woman Wrestler Fights Men for Money!”. The husband is walking out the door saying “’Bye hon”, but the woman reading the paper ignores him. Cut to Helen in her kitchen wearing a white terry bathrobe. She’s wild haired and bleary eyed, leaning against the counter as she mixes a protein shake.
8:45 am
The guy, dressed in a business suit is at a Starbucks getting coffee with a fellow office worker. Box (blue) reads: “Did you see that article in the paper about that woman who wrestles men for money?” Friend “No, I missed that one. Was she hot?” Cut to Helen doing a photo shoot wearing a super-hero out fit wrestling another woman similarly garbed. The photographer is saying, ‘Okay now look really mean! Grab her hair! GOOD!” A few frames of Helen and other wrestler in various positions. In the top of all of these frames in a purple box it reads ‘FLASH’ to indicate camera shots. In blue boxes at bottom of frames (to indicate the conversation of the office guys) it reads “Well, not exactly hot. Intimidating is more like it I guess. Kinda hot I guess. But anyway, the thing is, this chick supposedly makes like major cash wrestling men for money”…(FLASH!)…”HA! Wrestling men? C’mon, gimme a break. No guy is gonna shell out to just wrestle some chick. A blow-job? Okay, I can see that, but seriously, you know that more’s going on than just wrestling if she’s getting paid for it”…(FLASH!)…”No seriously. It’s like a fetish or something….Oh shit! It’s almost nine. I’ll see you there.” ‘Ya, later.’
11:15 am
Close up of Helen’s face, she’s wearing a gi and getting slammed to the mat ‘OOF!’ Pan out to Helen’s upper body as she sits up on the mat. She’s snarling ‘Grrrrr.’ Pan out to show Academy. Many students of all levels are training. She’s the only woman. She grabs her opponent’s leg and he falls back. She yells “HAHA!” opponent is saying ‘ulp!’ as he falls. Cut to guys at water cooler, conversation in blue box. “The thing about that wrestler girl…well, the thing is, she says she hardly ever looses in these wrestling sessions she does. With men. Do you think that’s really possible?”. Cut to Helen passing guard on her male opponent. The teacher is watching and yelling ‘God damn it Helen, get your fucking ass down! Hips! Hips! Hips! Now PASS!!!’ Next frame Helen takes side control, but is struggling with it. She’s dripping sweat and her hair is a mess. Blue box at bottom reads ‘I can’t believe how gullible you are! There is no WAY that a woman could win against a man in any kind of real physical competition. I don’t care who the woman is. It’s just not biologically possible.’ Next frame shows Helen submitting opponent with sternum crusher hold. The guy is tapping saying ‘Okay!Okay!’, his face a mask of agony while Helen’s reveals intense concentration. Blue box: “I know one thing. If a woman ever did win any kind of fight with me, wrestling or whatever, I would kill myself. No joke. What kind of man could loose to a woman? Seriously.” Cut to Helen and opponent smiling and laughing as they hug. Helen says: “Dude you are fucking tough! I think I’m going to go throw up now…”, Opponent says “Okay go throw up, I’ll be waiting for you when you get back. I want to go a couple more rounds.” Cut to Helen’s back walking to bathroom (background), close up of opponents muscular chest and smiling handsome face watching Helen’s butt as she walks away. Blue box: “How could you look yourself in the face?”
1:20 PM
Nice restaurant. Patio. Blue box “Did you get that ‘accounts payable’ report finished last week? ” “I just finished it today. When we get back I’ll let you take a look. I’ve got to check some stuff out with Tabitha and see if scans.” “No hurry.…So you think that female wrestling stuff is all fake?” Cut to Helen in Virago studio. She’s in a bikini covered in sweat but smiling while mounted on top of her opponent who is arching his back, his teeth gritted and pushing on her knees with his hands trying to struggle free. Next frame. Helen has client in mounted triangle. She has a huge grin on her face and her eyes are sparkling. The client is saying ‘oomph!’. Helen says ‘So do you submit? Oh I’m sorry I can’t understand you. You appear to have your own arm lodged in your mouth. I would really do something about that if I were you…Why’re you choking yourself huh?’ Huh, my big strong man?” Next frame: Helen still has the hold on but the client’s face is a shade of pale blue, he’s still fighting though and the veins are popping out on his arms and forehead. His teeth are clenched in a desperate snarl. Helen: ‘Speak up honey, I can’t hear you!’. Next frame of clients hand frantically tapping Helen’s leg. Cut back to restaurant. Waitress is at the table writing up the bill. Guy 1 is checking out her ass while Guy 2 is dialing something on his cell phone and talking to Guy 1. “I’m just betting that those guys that she wrestles are all totally submissive. Little wanna be faggots who wear ladies underwear, you know what I mean? Perverts…”. Next frame, close up of Guy 1 looking out the window. Blue box (Guy 2 on phone) “Sorry honey, I have to get that report finished. Yeah. Yeah. Look I’m really sorry. I’ll make it up to you.” Next frame: The waitress, dressed in a wrestler costume has grabbed Guy 1 by the collar and has hauled him close to her face. Her bicep bulges. She says ‘Well?’. Guy 1 stutters ‘ex-excuse me?’ Blue box: ‘I promise.’ Next frame: Waitress in normal clothes is standing at the table. The angle of the frame is looking up at her from a seated position. She says, “Do you want to take that home in a doggie bag?”. Cut to Helen and client squaring off. Client says ‘I’m gonna win this fall. I can feel it. I wasn’t really trying before, but I’m warmed up now.’ Next frame: Helen in wrestler stance with a smirk on her face. “Give it your best shot pal.” Next frame: Extreme close up of Helen’s smile, (purple box) ‘I can take it’.
3:00PM
Frame: Guy 1 typing at his computer terminal under florescent lights.
Frame: Helen (from the back) at school, her arms flung open. A little girl coming out of class has her arms up in the air and is yelling ‘MOMMY!’. Helen is yelling ‘BABY!’.
7:12PM
Frame: Guy 1 sitting at a bar. Unseen bartender is saying. “Another one for the road Ned?”
Frame: Helen in an aerobics class. An unseen teacher is saying “Eight more! C’mon you can do it! 8-7-6…”
10PM
Frame: Guy 1 in pajamas reading new paper in bed. Wife, in a flannel nightie, is sitting at her makeup table, which is cluttered with girlie accoutrements, applying cream to her face. Her hair is in curlers Frame: View over his shoulder shows that Guy 1 is reading the wrestling article again. Pink box: ‘It’s sad when you think about it.’ Frame: Close up of Helen’s black and white photo in newspaper. Blue box ‘What’s sad?’ Frame: Close up of woman’s hand dipping into wrinkle cream. Pink box “That poor wrestler girl. She’s just trying so hard to be a man.” Frame Tooth whitening gel. Frame: Hair bleach. Frame: Stack of glamour magazines. On the covers the articles are bold ‘How to make your man an animal in bed!’, ‘Loose ten pounds in ten days!’, ‘Glamorous Caribbean Vacations!’. Pink box ‘She’s obviously living in some kind of a fantasy world.’
Full page: Close up of wife’s face. Drawn, lined, tired, a little overweight. She’s looking at herself in the mirror. There are tears in her eyes. She says: ‘baby….?’
Frame: The side of the bed. Guy 1 is dropping the paper to the floor. “Honey? Honey come over here. What is it?”
Half page: Wife is on top of covers resting her head on her husbands pudgy, pajama-ed, chest. She says: “Ned, do you.think …I’m….do you still think I’m pretty?”
Frame: Angle looking down. Ned has his arms wrapped protectively around his wife. Only the corner of the newspaper is seen resting against the side of the bed. “Patricia, to me you will always be as beautiful as the day I first met you.”
Frame: Frame is split diagonally. On one side Wife is resting her head on Guy 1’s chest while he holds her. The view starts at Guy’s neck so that we can’t see his face. On the other side of the frame Helen, in bed, is resting her head on some anonymous chiseled, hairy, manly chest. She is in the same position as Wifey. Pink dialogue box straddles both sides of the frame: ‘Really?’ (Both women are saying it at the same time).
Frame: Newspaper with Helen’s picture is lying forgotten on the floor of the darkened bedroom. Blue box: “I promise.”
Box at corner of page reads ”7:00 am, Monday”. Frame: Typical white family sitting down to breakfast. On the table are donuts, sugar cereal, and coffee. The wife is fat, sitting at a table and reading the Weekly World News. The headlines read “Woman Wrestler Fights Men for Money!”. The husband is walking out the door saying “’Bye hon”, but the woman reading the paper ignores him. Cut to Helen in her kitchen wearing a white terry bathrobe. She’s wild haired and bleary eyed, leaning against the counter as she mixes a protein shake.
8:45 am
The guy, dressed in a business suit is at a Starbucks getting coffee with a fellow office worker. Box (blue) reads: “Did you see that article in the paper about that woman who wrestles men for money?” Friend “No, I missed that one. Was she hot?” Cut to Helen doing a photo shoot wearing a super-hero out fit wrestling another woman similarly garbed. The photographer is saying, ‘Okay now look really mean! Grab her hair! GOOD!” A few frames of Helen and other wrestler in various positions. In the top of all of these frames in a purple box it reads ‘FLASH’ to indicate camera shots. In blue boxes at bottom of frames (to indicate the conversation of the office guys) it reads “Well, not exactly hot. Intimidating is more like it I guess. Kinda hot I guess. But anyway, the thing is, this chick supposedly makes like major cash wrestling men for money”…(FLASH!)…”HA! Wrestling men? C’mon, gimme a break. No guy is gonna shell out to just wrestle some chick. A blow-job? Okay, I can see that, but seriously, you know that more’s going on than just wrestling if she’s getting paid for it”…(FLASH!)…”No seriously. It’s like a fetish or something….Oh shit! It’s almost nine. I’ll see you there.” ‘Ya, later.’
11:15 am
Close up of Helen’s face, she’s wearing a gi and getting slammed to the mat ‘OOF!’ Pan out to Helen’s upper body as she sits up on the mat. She’s snarling ‘Grrrrr.’ Pan out to show Academy. Many students of all levels are training. She’s the only woman. She grabs her opponent’s leg and he falls back. She yells “HAHA!” opponent is saying ‘ulp!’ as he falls. Cut to guys at water cooler, conversation in blue box. “The thing about that wrestler girl…well, the thing is, she says she hardly ever looses in these wrestling sessions she does. With men. Do you think that’s really possible?”. Cut to Helen passing guard on her male opponent. The teacher is watching and yelling ‘God damn it Helen, get your fucking ass down! Hips! Hips! Hips! Now PASS!!!’ Next frame Helen takes side control, but is struggling with it. She’s dripping sweat and her hair is a mess. Blue box at bottom reads ‘I can’t believe how gullible you are! There is no WAY that a woman could win against a man in any kind of real physical competition. I don’t care who the woman is. It’s just not biologically possible.’ Next frame shows Helen submitting opponent with sternum crusher hold. The guy is tapping saying ‘Okay!Okay!’, his face a mask of agony while Helen’s reveals intense concentration. Blue box: “I know one thing. If a woman ever did win any kind of fight with me, wrestling or whatever, I would kill myself. No joke. What kind of man could loose to a woman? Seriously.” Cut to Helen and opponent smiling and laughing as they hug. Helen says: “Dude you are fucking tough! I think I’m going to go throw up now…”, Opponent says “Okay go throw up, I’ll be waiting for you when you get back. I want to go a couple more rounds.” Cut to Helen’s back walking to bathroom (background), close up of opponents muscular chest and smiling handsome face watching Helen’s butt as she walks away. Blue box: “How could you look yourself in the face?”
1:20 PM
Nice restaurant. Patio. Blue box “Did you get that ‘accounts payable’ report finished last week? ” “I just finished it today. When we get back I’ll let you take a look. I’ve got to check some stuff out with Tabitha and see if scans.” “No hurry.…So you think that female wrestling stuff is all fake?” Cut to Helen in Virago studio. She’s in a bikini covered in sweat but smiling while mounted on top of her opponent who is arching his back, his teeth gritted and pushing on her knees with his hands trying to struggle free. Next frame. Helen has client in mounted triangle. She has a huge grin on her face and her eyes are sparkling. The client is saying ‘oomph!’. Helen says ‘So do you submit? Oh I’m sorry I can’t understand you. You appear to have your own arm lodged in your mouth. I would really do something about that if I were you…Why’re you choking yourself huh?’ Huh, my big strong man?” Next frame: Helen still has the hold on but the client’s face is a shade of pale blue, he’s still fighting though and the veins are popping out on his arms and forehead. His teeth are clenched in a desperate snarl. Helen: ‘Speak up honey, I can’t hear you!’. Next frame of clients hand frantically tapping Helen’s leg. Cut back to restaurant. Waitress is at the table writing up the bill. Guy 1 is checking out her ass while Guy 2 is dialing something on his cell phone and talking to Guy 1. “I’m just betting that those guys that she wrestles are all totally submissive. Little wanna be faggots who wear ladies underwear, you know what I mean? Perverts…”. Next frame, close up of Guy 1 looking out the window. Blue box (Guy 2 on phone) “Sorry honey, I have to get that report finished. Yeah. Yeah. Look I’m really sorry. I’ll make it up to you.” Next frame: The waitress, dressed in a wrestler costume has grabbed Guy 1 by the collar and has hauled him close to her face. Her bicep bulges. She says ‘Well?’. Guy 1 stutters ‘ex-excuse me?’ Blue box: ‘I promise.’ Next frame: Waitress in normal clothes is standing at the table. The angle of the frame is looking up at her from a seated position. She says, “Do you want to take that home in a doggie bag?”. Cut to Helen and client squaring off. Client says ‘I’m gonna win this fall. I can feel it. I wasn’t really trying before, but I’m warmed up now.’ Next frame: Helen in wrestler stance with a smirk on her face. “Give it your best shot pal.” Next frame: Extreme close up of Helen’s smile, (purple box) ‘I can take it’.
3:00PM
Frame: Guy 1 typing at his computer terminal under florescent lights.
Frame: Helen (from the back) at school, her arms flung open. A little girl coming out of class has her arms up in the air and is yelling ‘MOMMY!’. Helen is yelling ‘BABY!’.
7:12PM
Frame: Guy 1 sitting at a bar. Unseen bartender is saying. “Another one for the road Ned?”
Frame: Helen in an aerobics class. An unseen teacher is saying “Eight more! C’mon you can do it! 8-7-6…”
10PM
Frame: Guy 1 in pajamas reading new paper in bed. Wife, in a flannel nightie, is sitting at her makeup table, which is cluttered with girlie accoutrements, applying cream to her face. Her hair is in curlers Frame: View over his shoulder shows that Guy 1 is reading the wrestling article again. Pink box: ‘It’s sad when you think about it.’ Frame: Close up of Helen’s black and white photo in newspaper. Blue box ‘What’s sad?’ Frame: Close up of woman’s hand dipping into wrinkle cream. Pink box “That poor wrestler girl. She’s just trying so hard to be a man.” Frame Tooth whitening gel. Frame: Hair bleach. Frame: Stack of glamour magazines. On the covers the articles are bold ‘How to make your man an animal in bed!’, ‘Loose ten pounds in ten days!’, ‘Glamorous Caribbean Vacations!’. Pink box ‘She’s obviously living in some kind of a fantasy world.’
Full page: Close up of wife’s face. Drawn, lined, tired, a little overweight. She’s looking at herself in the mirror. There are tears in her eyes. She says: ‘baby….?’
Frame: The side of the bed. Guy 1 is dropping the paper to the floor. “Honey? Honey come over here. What is it?”
Half page: Wife is on top of covers resting her head on her husbands pudgy, pajama-ed, chest. She says: “Ned, do you.think …I’m….do you still think I’m pretty?”
Frame: Angle looking down. Ned has his arms wrapped protectively around his wife. Only the corner of the newspaper is seen resting against the side of the bed. “Patricia, to me you will always be as beautiful as the day I first met you.”
Frame: Frame is split diagonally. On one side Wife is resting her head on Guy 1’s chest while he holds her. The view starts at Guy’s neck so that we can’t see his face. On the other side of the frame Helen, in bed, is resting her head on some anonymous chiseled, hairy, manly chest. She is in the same position as Wifey. Pink dialogue box straddles both sides of the frame: ‘Really?’ (Both women are saying it at the same time).
Frame: Newspaper with Helen’s picture is lying forgotten on the floor of the darkened bedroom. Blue box: “I promise.”
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