#charcoalrabbit

I was against doing this for a long time. Releasing my would-be comic in script form before I finished it. I’ve had a bit of a rough time with this comic to say the least. FireAlpaca stopped working, my laptop got repaired, and I moved houses. That series of unfortunate events have led me to shelve the comic for the time being until I can get back into the right headspace. There’s also that thing where ID Age Verification invaded the internet, it still is with Minecraft and Discord as of 1-27-2026, that played a factor. (This ID panic made me pull my Patreon offline because I was afraid of it impacting it and preventing any chance of me making money there. I didn’t want myself or my could-be supporters to be cheated out of money. It also made me feel like my social media posting career was being forcefully shut down.)

There was a breach of IDs on Discord so you’d think they’d pull back and understand this age verification thing wouldn’t work. But noooo, they’re gonna do it anyway. I’m so glad I deleted my Discord account when I did. I don’t think you’re bad for having a Discord account, I just feel better about myself knowing I’m not there to experience the storm to come.

BrendanDoesArt has been releasing his scripts for his multi-page comics on his Deviantart page. They’ve been met with good reception. I even read some of his work before he published them, and gave some suggestions too. I like to say that I’m a creative consultant of the script. (Like those movie script readers who leave script notes and suggestions when proofreading.)

Thinkgreen, PizzaWolf, and M. (one of my high school friends I talk to sometimes) I’d send them my scripts to read. I want to credit M. in particular because if not for him, I’d never have one of the characters get a more prominent role than originally written. Even though my script changed dramatically since then, I’d still like to thank them anyway for reading a version of my script.

My questions to you are, would you want to read more after this? What would you change? Could this work as a comic? Do I have the writing skills for such a journey? Would you buy a copy if it was made into a comic?

I wrote this pilot coming off of my older brother and his baby kids living with me for a year and a half. My fear of my life being uprooted and irreversibly messed up. Going through a time where so much was changing so soon, I just didn’t know how to handle the situation but I’m okay now. If my older brother is reading this, I love you, I hope you’re doing well, and thanks for living with me.

This pilot originally started as a multi-part origin story going over Charcoal and Clawson’s birth and to their high school years. I changed it to this which was originally written to be the last part of the saga because trying to establish everything in one go would be boring and wouldn’t sell books. So the origins of their genetic modifications are acknowledged but not the main focus. Some of the parts of this origin saga were repurposed into future episodes that stand on their own. The only time we see the baby versions of Charcoal and Clawson is in a flashback to put into perspective how long they’ve been friends with their childhood friends in later episodes.

Visually, I’m imagining Akira, Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout, and Blade Runner for future scenes. The present, 1960s Marvel Comics, manga, Looney Tunes, Disney, public domain stuff, and Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Humans are to be drawn realistically (Like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Akira) with the animals being done cartoony.

I could say so much more, but we’ll be here forever. Please enjoy this script.

Set it to mature because of the blood being sucked out of the Burrowvues and that scene where Charcoal gets crushed by the tank. (Even if there’s major gore visible.) Also Clawson strapped to the table with the needles and cables play a factor into this, better safe than sorry.

The comic isn’t happening right now, at least not in the way I originally wrote it.

Looking at this now, the comic being shelved feels like a blessing in disguise since I’ve ended up rewriting the script with a good chunk sliced off. From 52 to 38 pages.

An asterisk (*) with a number next to it connected to a commentary piece I have to say about a scene or scenes. Saving them for the end to not get in the way of the story at hand. Recommended you read them after the script so you can avoid spoilers.

-Charles. T

Page 01

[Play Bikini Bottom - Jelly Fields from Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge by Matt Simmonds from the PS1]

Panel 1: An establishing shot of Charcoal’s house at 6:00 am.

NARRATION: 2022

Panel 2: An alarm clock goes off. It’s a Mickey Mouse alarm clock. It has Mickey as he appeared in Steamboat Willie on it. *01

SFX: Ring Ring Ring!

Panel 3: Charcoal sits down in the dining room.

Panel 4: In the kitchen, Kashbear is in front of a waffle iron running.

Panel 5: Waffles are placed on a plate.

Panel 6: Kashbear stretches himself to bring the waffles to Charcoal. *02

KASHBEAR: Good morning, Charcoal.

CHARCOAL: Good morning, Kashbear.

Panel 7: Charcoal takes a look at his breakfast and his mouth is watering.

[Fade Music to Silence]

Page 02

Panel 1: Charcoal’s chest opens up to reveal a large mouth that protrudes tentacle-like tongues to pick up the plate and dump it into his large mouth. Looks like a flerken from Marvel Comics and Gluttony from the Shazam movie.

[Play Suspense Strike]

SFX: RRRAGH!!!

Panel 2: Charcoal pats his closed belly happily and lets out a burp.

CHARCOAL: Urrrp! Excuse me.

[Resume Bikini Bottom - Jelly Fields from Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge by Matt Simmonds from the PS1]

Panel 3: Charcoal walks out the door.

Panel 4: Charcoal is at a bus stop waiting for his school bus. He also shows the camera his phone with a picture of his dad and grandpa on it. *03

CHARCOAL: Hi, I’m Charcoal Arber Rabbit. Not to be confused with my dad or grandpa. My family has a thing with naming their first son, Charcoal. Honoring the legacy of an ancestor? I’ll likely never know.

Page 03

Panel 1: Charcoal happily walking down a high school hallway with a gray rabbit girl dressed in orange. (More on her in another episode.) *04

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): I’m just your nice genetically modified rabbit living the best life ever. I’m doing well in school, and I have good friends.

Panel 2: Kashbear in the form of a monstrous spider-bear scaring Coyoyo away from Charcoal. *05

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): Some of which are demons. These demons live to scare mortals, give them fears and take their fears. But they’re good sports to me and anyone who’s nice.

Panel 3: Charcoal showing a picture on his phone of his brother Clawson.

CHARCOAL: This is my twin brother Clawson. Yes, he’s a cat. My dad has a few cat genes in the family. Mom and Dad divorced and each took one of us when we were 5.

Panel 4: Charcoal shows a picture of himself with his mom.

CHARCOAL: I got my mom…

Panel 5: Clawson is at the front door brought home by a cop and Coal is pissed with him. The cop has a golden ring like a headband around his head with his uniform and hat made of blue energy. He’s holding a spray paint can. Clawson has a smug toothy smile on his face, basically playing the innocent card.

TANGENT: Changed from a shot of Charcoal with a notebook so I could better paint a picture of Clawson as a mean but lovable kid with a history of delinquency.

CHARCOAL: …and he got my dad. I also moved out of my hometown with mom, he’s still there.

CHARCOAL: I’d love to tell you more, like that time me, Clawson, and some friends caught a leprechaun. But that’s off-topic here.

Page 04

Panel 1: Charcoal at a park with his friends.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): I believe you’re here to read a story and learn a few life lessons from it. My life was pretty much perfect in every way. I go to school, hang out with friends,

Panel 2: Charcoal in blue and purple armor with a golden ring around his head like a headband. He also has blue wings made of pure energy on his back.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): and I’m also a superhero. I’m called a Blue Angel. I protect people from danger and bring people to safety.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): But this isn’t a superhero origin story, anyone can do that. My brother’s a Blue Diablo with horns, keep this in mind. I wouldn’t write this if this wasn’t relevant.

Panel 3: Charcoal shows a drawing of a biblically-accurate angel that leads the Blue Angels and Diablos. *06

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): I’m part of a special holy police force led by a biblically-accurate angel. Equal parts cool and creepy.

Panel 4: Charcoal drawing pictures.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): I also draw because I have a dream of becoming a comic artist.

Panel 5: Charcoal eating stuff.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): I eat stuff.

Panel 6: Charcoal in bed.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): Finally I go to bed, rinse and repeat.

Panel 7: An establishing shot of Charcoal’s house.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): But one day, it all changed. This is where the story really begins. This comic is about family and its importance, you know like Despicable Me, Star Wars, The Lion King, and Game of Thrones. *07

[Fade Bikini Bottom - Jelly Fields from Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge by Matt Simmonds from the PS1]

Page 05

[Play Sneaky Snitch by Kevin Macleod]

Panel 1: Blairy’s cell phone is ringing.

CAPTION: October 14, 2022

Panel 2: Blairy talks to the phone.

BLAIRY: Hello?

BLAIRY: Ooh, hello Kris.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): Kris is my older half-brother. The truth is that most of my siblings are half-siblings. Clawson’s the only brother who’s 100% related to me despite being a cat.

Panel 3: Blairy reacting to the bad news.

BLAIRY: Yes… yes… okay, I’ll let them know.

Panel 4: Charcoal and his younger siblings Benedict and Lois are sitting on a couch with Blairy speaking to them about the phone call.

BLAIRY: I’ve received a call from Kris and something unfortunate happened.

Page 06

Panel 1: Charcoal and Blairy discuss the situation.

BLAIRY: Kris and Heidi moved out of their apartment back up North.

CHARCOAL: Were they evicted?

BLAIRY: No, they’re unable to make enough money to sustain themselves.

CHARCOAL: Where are they gonna go to live now?

Panel 2: Charcoal and Blairy still discussing.

BLAIRY: They’re gonna move here.

CHARCOAL: You mean like move into an apartment in our town and probably visit periodically?

BLAIRY: No, they’re gonna move into this house with us.

Panel 3: Charcoal is visibly shaken.

[Play Glass Shattering Sound Effect]

[Play Requiem Mass in D Minor, K. 626: III. Lacrimosa by Mozart]

BLAIRY: You’ll have to move into Ben’s bedroom and sleep with him again for them.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): Mom saying that this was “unfortunate” news was an understatement to me.

Panel 4: Flashback to Charcoal covering his ears while Ben and Lois are fighting. *08

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): In Arizona before this, I was glad to have my own bedroom. I didn’t want to deal with the noise and drama they caused. Clawson doesn’t live with me but I envy him for that.

Panel 5: Flashback to Charcoal covering his ear while with Kris. His nephew and niece are crying.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): I like my nephew and niece. But I hate the sounds of babies crying. That’s enough to convince me I don’t want kids of my own. At least not yet.

Panel 6: Charcoal sleeping in a bedroom at his dad’s place with Clawson. They’re both happy.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): The only siblings I didn’t mind sharing rooms with were Kris (Before kids) and Clawson. Clawson makes bad choices but he’s good when I’m there. Kris was never annoying like my younger siblings.

Page 07

Panel 1: Charcoal is looking very sad. He’s trying to hold back the tears. Blairy is sympathizing with Charcoal.

BLAIRY: It’s a big change, I know it’s so sudden and that it'll throw you off. If I could make it so you had your own place, I would. But we have to make sacrifices to help others sometimes, even family.

Panel 2: Charcoal is in his bedroom crying his eyes out with his face on his bed. Needless to say, he isn’t taking the news very well.

CHARCOAL (MUFFLED): WAHHHH HA HA HA!

Panel 3: Charcoal receives a phone call from his brother Clawson.

Panel 4: Clawson facetimes him. Clawson is at a house party. A splitscreen show, people are having fun and living it up in the background of Clawson’s shot. Charcoal’s eyes are raining with tears and snot is coming out of his nose.

CHARCOAL: Hello Clawson.

CLAWSON: Charlie, I’m so sorry about Kris coming over and you losing your bedroom.

CHARCOAL: I don’t know what to do. My way of life is basically over! There’s no room for myself anymore.

Panel 5:

CLAWSON: Is there anything I can say or do to make you feel better?

CHARCOAL: I wish! I moved out of Eneldaopolis, FOR THIS! Waa ha ha ha ha!

Page 08

Panel 1: Clawson ends the phone call. Right at a point where the party is getting busted.

POLICE: EVERYONE ON THE GROUND!

CLAWSON: Sorry to cut the moment short, but I have to go. See ya. Call back when you feel better.

Panel 2: Kashbear, Boulder, Mr. Maney, and Wayland are comforting him. Kashbear in particular isn’t as sympathetic because he thinks Charcoal is overreacting and being a weenie.

KASHBEAR: Char, I understand things are hard right now. But you’ve been crying for 3 hours. There’s only so much we can feel sorry for.

Panel 3: Charcoal gets an idea. He’s desperate to make it so they don’t have to move in.

CHARCOAL: Is it possible to use your guys’ magic stuff to make it so that Kris won’t move in with us?

KASHBEAR: ABSOLUTELY NOT!

CHARCOAL: Why?!

Panel 4: Kashbear explains why he and the demons can’t just flip a switch and give Charcoal what he wants. *09

KASHBEAR: It’s too intensive to get him a job and have them stay in Eneldaopolis, even for us. Tens of people would need to be mind controlled. The contracting that needs to be done in Hell.

Panel 5: Kashbear continues.

KASHBEAR: Small stuff, fine. Big stuff, an issue. Satan will want your soul for that to happen. Kris coming could be a good learning experience for you, take time to be a good uncle.

Panel 6: Charcoal cries harder in his pillow. Wayland and Boulder try to say stuff to get Charcoal out of the dumps to seemingly no avail.

CHARCOAL: (Muffled Sobbing)

WAYLAND: The world doesn’t revolve around you, Soldier. Your family having a home is a more pressing matter.

BOULDER: It’s not a drought, things’ll fill up if you let it fill up.

Page 09

Panel 1: Kashbear suggests leaving Charcoal alone to stew in his frustration.

KASHBEAR: Let’s go, I’m sure Charcoal will calm down and drop the act, eventually. He always does.

WAYLAND: Like that time someone ruined his milkshake. He called them an eggsucker and cried for 30 minutes.

Panel 2: Charcoal sees his Fear Demons leave.

Panel 3: Charcoal gets mad and decides to take matters into his own hands.

CHARCOAL: If no one’s gonna back me up, I’ll just get my own place. I’m almost an adult, then I’ll have my place that nobody can take away from me.

[End Requiem Mass in D Minor, K. 626: III. Lacrimosa by Mozart.]

Panel 4: Charcoal reads the rulebook of being a Blue Angel.

CHARCOAL (THINKING): I want my own space, but I can’t legally leave home without an adult and I’m not allowed to live in Hell as I’m not dead, living in Hell with my friends is out.

Panel 5: Charcoal sneaks into his Fear Demon’s domain to Wayland’s Time-Traveling Tank. He’s looking at his power ring.

Panel 6: Charcoal inside of the tank. The power ring is showing a hologram screen. An idea clicks in Charcoal’s head.

CHARCOAL (THINKING): My power ring’s an old version, when I teleport to different realms, it’ll take days or until I get back to where I was on Earth for the tracker on it to sync again.

Page 10

Panel 1: The tank flies into a portal.

CHARCOAL (THINKING): Needless to say, I have a loophole. I can just portal to and from my new house to make them basically one place technically. My own space, technically at home, and nobody’s the wiser.

Panel 2: Charcoal decides where to go on his flight. Charcoal doesn’t see the time travel screen in the machine reading 100 years into the future. I want that particular detail visible to show that Charcoal didn’t 100% think it out.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): On paper, this sounded like a great idea. My own space, my brother and his kids get a room, everyone wins. I didn’t see it as illegal or bad, just bending the rules.

Panel 3: The tank comes out of a portal and ends up in a colorful land.

Panel 4: Charcoal steps out of the tank and inhales

Panel 5: Charcoal exhales. He’s taking the time to take a deep breath to calm down.

Panel 6: Charcoal uses a spellbook to ask where he is, he’s a bit happy now. *10

CHARCOAL: Magic book, where am I?

MAGIC BOOK: Sus Su Gnoma, Dragon Realm.

CHARCOAL: The Canada of fantasy realms, a great place to build a home and there’s no taxes out here.

Panel 7: Charcoal is standing on the right of the frame with the tank the furthest to the right.

Charcoal is holding the spellbook.

CHARCOAL: Generate a house for me.

Panel 8: A house appears on the left side of the frame.

MAGIC BOOK: House generated.

CHARCOAL: Thank you.

Panel 9: Charcoal makes a portal appear.

CHARCOAL: Open portal to Burnsburg house.

CHARCOAL: Now to get my things to make this house my own.

Page 11

The Comic Pages moving forward are now Horizontal rather than vertical.

Panel 1: Charcoal steps through the portal.

Panel 2: Charcoal enters a dilapidated house’s dusty and ruined bedroom that seems to have been abandoned for decades. He’s confused.

[Play The Droid by Jerry Goldsmith from Alien 1979]

CHARCOAL: What the hell? I said, Burnsburg house. Not an abandoned one.

MAGIC BOOK: This is the Burnsburg house.

Panel 3: Charcoal goes into the hallway and looks around.

CHARCOAL: This looks like my house.

Panel 4: Charcoal is startled by a crunch sound beneath him.

Panel 5: Charcoal’s holding a smashed portrait of his family. He’s looking concerned now.

Panel 6: Zoom out to reveal the interior of the dining room.

CHARCOAL: Yep, this is definitely my house.

Panel 7: A shot of the door with banging sounds coming from it.

SFX: BANG! BANG! BANG!

Panel 8: Charcoal runs into a closet.

SFX: SMASH! CRRRRRK!

Panel 9: Charcoal uses his spellbook to cast a spell.

CHARCOAL (WHISPERING): Ytilibisivni dnoces 06!

Page 12

Panel 1: Charcoal is just a faded outline to the reader. He pushes the closet door down.

SFX: CRASH!

VOICE 01: What was that?

VOICE 02: It’s in the hallway, let’s go check it.

Panel 2: Charcoal makes it to the inside of his bedroom before they come and we only see their legs as they run past the bedroom door.

Panel 3: Charcoal flees out the bedroom still invisible.

Panel 4: Charcoal makes it out of his now abandoned house running out the door.

Panel 5: He makes it to a car to hide behind.

Panel 6: The invisibility wears off.

Panel 7: Peeks out from behind to really observe the environment.

Page 13

Panel 1: The car is futuristic, the suburb is largely abandoned and in the background there’s tall, futuristic buildings like from Akira, Blade Runner, and Cyberpunk. Some advertisements are seen on holographic billboards.

Wolfstein Industries

Generic Genetics

General Magics

Hakurei Hair Injections

Slush-N Urani-yum

Top Pop Stardrive Soda

Dreamscape Cloud Gaming Service, You’re Games Are My Games (Commentary on my fears of not owning your games and cloud computing.)

Panel 2: Charcoal asks the spellbook about where he is. He’s really disturbed now.

CHARCOAL: Where am I and what day is it?

MAGIC BOOK: You’re in Neo Burnsburg, Arizona, on October 14, 2122. Burnsburg was destroyed in the A-Norm Eugenics War of 2047-52. Neo Burnsburg is under the control of the Slush-N Top Pop Plus Corporation.

Panel 3: Charcoal has a face of shock and all color drains from his face.

CHARCOAL: 100 years into the future?! How have I gone that long?!

Panel 4: Charcoal has an idea.

CHARCOAL: The tank, I must’ve teleported into the future without checking! I just gotta get back into it and go home, then everything will be okay.

Panel 5: A dart lands on Charcoal’s chest.

CHARCOAL: What-

Page 14

Panel 1: Charcoal lands on the ground unconscious.

[Fade Current Background Music]

Panel 2: POV as Charcoal opens his eyes in a bedroom. It looks like all the ways are glass screens like the cubicles from the Black Mirror episode 15 Million Merits. Like Apple made the iBedroom.

Panel 3: Charcoal looks over to see a young cat who resembles Clawson. But it isn't Clawson.

CHARCOAL: Who are you? Where am I?

Panel 4: The cat approaches Charcoal.

CAT 1: You’re at Burrowvue Bloodworks.

CHARCOAL: Burrowvue? My mom’s family?

CAT 1: So it’s true, you’re great uncle Charcoal?

CHARCOAL: Uhh… yes? Have we met?

Panel 5: The cat hugs Charcoal.

CAT 1: Great uncle Charcoal! I never thought I’d get to meet you. I read so much about you. The ogre diablo, the museum prison, and the Ring of Nortazion!

CHARCOAL: How do you know about me?

Panel 6: Cat 1 shows Charcoal a notebook with Charcoal’s name on it. Charcoal’s flattered but a bit stressed.

CAT 1: I snagged this from your great grandma’s house when we were clearing out.

CHARCOAL: I’m really flattered but listen I gotta get back to Sus Su Gnoma right now and fix this-

Page 15

Panel 1: A rabbit in a medical uniform opens the door interrupting them.

MALE RABBIT NURSE: Are you well enough for dinner?

CHARCOAL: I presume I’ve been out for a while, so yes. By the way, I was hit by a dart, did anyone here kidnap-

Panel 2: Charcoal is carried by the nurse to a seat in the dining room with multiple chairs on the sides of the table with one lone chair on the other side of the table with Charcoal’s chair on one lone side too. The seats are filled with multiple unnamed cats related to Clawson.

Panel 3: A wife of Clawson announces Clawson’s arrival.

CLAWSON’S WIFE: Tonight’s a special night for Clawson Burrowvue, this family, and especially the one who reappeared.

Panel 4: The doors open up to reveal a silhouette of a tall, skinny cat.

[Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on organ begins playing.]

Panel 5: A shot of an aged Clawson’s head. He looks 58.5 years old. In actuality, he’s 117 years old. He looks on with a look of anger, resentment, and disgust at seeing his twin again. The fact that he was still young-looking made him all the more angrier. Look something like Bruce Wayne from Batman Beyond.

CLAWSON: Welcome back, Charcoal.

CHARCOAL: Clawson? You look… ol- okay. Did you use makeup?

CLAWSON: Remember speech therapy?

Page 16

Panel 1: Charcoal and Clawson are sneaking out of their speech therapy office. When they were 4 years old.

CHARCOAL: Clawson, we’ll get caught.

CLAWSON: Relax, we’ll only be out for a second.

Panel 2: They go down a hallway to a science lab.

Panel 3: They cautiously sneak down a hallway.

Panel 4: The 2 of them are shocked when they hear some cheering from another room.

Panel 5: They hide behind a plant as scientists celebrate their success with a serum.

Panel 6: They sneak inside of the lab.

Panel 7: Clawson notices a chair.

Panel 8: Clawson pressures Charcoal to play with the desk chair.

Panel 9: Charcoal is sitting on the chair while Clawson pushes it around the lab.

Page 17

Panel 1: They run into a shelf.

Panel 2: A bottle of the serum spills out. The bottle reads “Gener-2105 Final Result.” There’s a clipboard containing info about the Generation Gene. It says stuff about mutations, longer life, and better health. *11

Panel 3: Clawson puts on a pair of golden horns on his head.

CLAWSON: That Generation Gene came in pretty handy for me to live to see this day.

CHARCOAL: Listen, this timeline here was a freak accident. If you let me leave, I’ll clean this whole mess up.

CLAWSON: Like hell you will!

Panel 4: Clawson zapped Charcoal with his Blue Diablo powers.

Panel 5: Charcoal is bound in a straight jacket made of blue pure energy.

CHARCOAL: Hey, listen listen listen! Stop! I only wanted to go to Sus Su Gnoma to build a place of my own. I just wanted my own room from my family, not this!

[Toccata and Fugue in D minor fades.]

[The music I want to play at this point is The Funeral of Queen Mary. This song gives me the best feeling for this moment, something poignant and serious, a tragedy.]

Panel 6: Clawson begins his angry tirade about the aftereffects of his absence. He gives a dominant vibe like Miguel O’Hara/Spider-Man 2099. All the while he takes out a small knife from inside his jacket with his right hand.

CLAWSON: 100 years, you have no idea how much trouble you caused me in 100 years!

Page 18

Panel 1: A flashback to Clawson in 2022 looking at his Blue Diablo tracking device which shows Charcoal just gone.

CLAWSON: I knew something was wrong when you were missing for 3 days.

Panel 2: A flashback to back then with Charcoal’s face on a missing person’s poster.

CLAWSON: Your disappearance left quite a shakeup in our family. Mom, Dad, and the whole family were worried sick.

Panel 3: A search party looking for Charcoal.

CLAWSON: Our family was so committed to looking for you.

Panel 4: A cemetery burial plot full of Charcoal family members.

CLAWSON: Mom lost her job, Dad lost his job, and the family went bankrupt and most died in poverty and homelessness.

Panel 5: Clawson in tears being escorted to the Burrowvue Estate. Then called Burrowvue Soups and Brews. The place is a large factory with a slew of buildings connected to it. The Burrowvue family (Blairy’s family), including grandma and grandpa on Blairy’s side are there. They aren’t too happy to see Clawson.

CLAWSON: I was sent to the only “family” I had left, the Burrowvues. Mom didn’t want me there, but some custody stuff got me there.

Panel 6: Clawson’s strapped to an operating table with tubes and cables hooked up to him. His grandparents look on with evil smiles.

CLAWSON: I already don’t like visiting them, but now that I’m their’s, they keep using me for their products! Endless putting needles in and taking them out.

Panel 7: In the present, Clawson’s basically having a mental breakdown.

CLAWSON (CRYING): What have I ever done to deserve this pain from them?!

Panel 8: A flashback to Clawson dropping a little firework bomb into a soup vat. The Burrowvue Vat Rupture of 2013.

CHARCOAL (NARRATION): To be fair, this was because Auntie Regina Burrowvue spanked Clawson with a ruler. Somehow nobody arrested her for child abuse as of 2023.

Page 19

Panel 1: Clawson is in a state of terror rocking back and forth wearing his golden horns. Tears streamed down his face. (Mentally, he’s like Ted in Slug form in Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

CLAWSON: I waited and waited and waited for you. I hoped when you came back things would get better, you could free me. But they never got better!

Panel 2: Clawson’s bedroom door had a red growing pentagram. He can’t escape. Writing is all over the walls. “I’m trapped” “Agony” “Pain” “I WANT OUT! BUT THERE’S NO WAY OUT!”

CLAWSON: 20 years! I was their little toy to play with when they needed to test and make stuff. I couldn’t leave or have a life of my own. I couldn’t see my friends anymore.

Panel 3: Clawson’s standing in front of two gravestones of his grandparents.

CLAWSON: Since then, my grandparents died and I wanted to take the company. Because after years of torture and experimentation, I wanted something more than the company…

Panel 4: A shot of Clawson holding a picture frame of his dead family with Charcoal’s head circled in red.

CLAWSON: …revenge!

Panel 5: Clawson overlooking a machine where various rabbits are being drained of their blood. They’re in agony and look like they’re dying of blood loss. They’re various Burrowvue family members. One of whom is Auntie Regina. A sign on the walls says, Burrowvue Bloodworks.

CLAWSON: I dedicated the past 80 years to running the Burrowvue business with one goal, finding the one who caused my misery and getting even with the family who made me miserable.

Panel 6: Clawson in the present pointing to Charcoal off camera. *12

CLAWSON: YOU!!! If you never left, none of this would’ve happened! I hate my family because of you! I hate my mom’s side for agonizing me! I hate dad’s side for dying looking for you.

[The song that plays at this point fades out.]

Charcoal Rabbit Tales 2024-10-27