# PAGE 1

## PANEL 1

OPEN ON a CLOSE UP of a dead man’s NECK, lying on the ground. A BLOODY GASH is slashed across his throat, and his skin, chest and black silk bathrobe are soaked in blood.

A BLACK-GLOVED HAND hovers over the wound, the fingertips also blood-stained. 

@CAPTION (SHROUD)
MIKEY FORTUNATO. B-list mobster.

## PANEL 2

CLOSE ON the dead man’s HAND, also covered in blood, and now we can see that he’s lying on a carpeted floor. More blood on the bathrobe, too. 

@CAPTION (SHROUD)
He’s been expanding his business for a while, now.

@CAPTION
Ever since the city started to lose its mind...

## PANEL 3

CLOSE ON the dead man’s FACE — MIKEY FORTUNATO, small-time Italian mobster, mid-30s, slightly overweight. His eyes are closed, his mouth partly open and caked in blood.

More significantly, a BLOODY RED HANDPRINT is imprinted over his face — The mark of THE HAND ninja assassins.

@CAPTION
…Since DAREDEVIL brought the Hand to New York.

## PANEL 4

CLOSE ON MIKEY’S CHEST. His bathrobe is open just enough to see the LARGE STAB WOUND in the middle of his chest, and more blood over the body and bathrobe. 

@CAPTION
But we’re not in Hell’s Kitchen. And while FORTUNATO may be a career criminal, he’s never been convicted of anything. 

# PAGE 2

## PANEL 1

LARGE PANEL! Take up most of the page with this, it’s an almost-splash.

THE SHROUD crouches over MIKEY’s body, which we now see is lying on the floor of his expensive apartment. SHROUD didn’t kill him — he’s just investigating the body.

After all the glimpses of MIKEY that we get on the last page, make sure that SHROUD is the one we focus on, here. We especially need readers to see that SHROUD’s mask has no eye slits — he’s really completely blind.

@CAPTION
Not the first crook to turn up dead with the Hand signature. Seen two myself in as many weeks. 

@CAPTION
But sonmething’s wrong.

@TITLE
SHADOWLAND: BLOOD ON THE STREETS
PART ONE
“CRIME AND PUNISHMENT:

… And CREDITS.

## PANEL 2

SHROUD VISION view as he scans inside the corpse, checking for bullets, blade tips, any kind of foreign body. But there aren’t any. 

@CAPTION
Go over it again.

@CAPTION
Smashed window. Dead mobster. Killed four, five hours ago judging by rigor. 

@CAPTION
All wounds are edged. No bullets or foreign bodies inside him. Which leaves one question...