Brawl – a wee little dream sequence featuring Li’l Marie

• The Goal is to tell a short 6-8 page story that gives me some contrast between child anatomy and over the top superhero anatomy.  A secondary goal is to use it as a bit of a “proof of concept” for Stargazer.  So more fantastic elements which is something I’ve never really drawn before.
• My idea with this is to make it a dream sequence.  So Marie is doodling or some such and then she conks out.  Whatever she was working on becomes the framework for the dream itself.
• I also love the old crayon drawings in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and a Flash story in the final issue of DC's Secret Origins that showed Garfield Logan (Changeling) drawing (in crayon!) the post-Crisis meeting of the Golden-Age and Silver Age Flashes.  This short story, by Grant Morrison, Mike Parobeck and Romeo Tanghal is one of my all-time favourites.  I really like the idea of Li’l Marie sitting at the kitchen table, legs dangling above the floor, working on a drawing before sleep over takes her.  We linger on her crayon drawings before turning the page and cutting to a dream.
• I also like the idea of Li’l Marie getting involved in the dream.  Maybe flying in (wearing PJs!) as the Bruiser guy is smashing a building.  Classic, classic super hero type stuff.  I could even do an over head (bird’s eye) shot as she floats in.
• Since the dream is from her point of view, there’s probably no need to have the Bruiser guy have any dialogue at all (well, maybe he roars in different ways!).
• Li’l Marie tries to talk him down from smashing the building.  He clocks her good and sends her flying into a wall (“ouch!”).  She gets up, face a bit dirty and maybe a shirt sleeve ripped, and she clenches a fist.  “Right then.”  Cut to him looking stunned as the little girl charges him.
• Big roundhouse punch sends him flying into a car.  He looks dazed and then surprised as he gets lifted up by her (maybe a splash or half panel of Li’l Marie pressing this huge guy over her head).  Maybe a close up on her fingers as she gets ready to chuck him.  Then a huge follow-through as she throws him into the sky.  
• She wipes the “dust” off her hands, sits down on the ground and leans against a mail box or something, and conks out.  Maybe holding a teddy bear?
• We pull back from her and then cut back to reality, with Li’l Marie sleeping on top of her drawings, her head on top of folded arms.
• We zoom in and see that she’s smiling.
• Panel borders should be airy and not firmly drawn.  Something sketchy and dreamlike. 
  

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