(English translation of the graphic novel: "stormy" by Michael Jordan)

TOPOGRAPHIES OF THE BEYOND

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Title: stormy, a so called impulse sketch. Elvis Road. Careful, Bricks!
In the beginning Mr. No was standing inside the pool and just did not know how to clean it.
The domestic was fetching something out of the pool.
The janitor was fetching something out of the pool.
Next door Mrs. Stempel Szempelic was mixing a Mojito.
The air smells of freshly-cut wood.
Only a few steps away a new scene for an independent short-movie is being shot.
The director does not feel too well, because he has had too many Bureks the night before.
A human being is watching the scene, while smelling a milk shake in a fast food restaurant.
A woman is riding a bioengineered rabbit.
She has taken LSD and thinks a plane has landed right next to her.
An actor is rehearsing a scene in which he is supposed to pull a glibberwaxmask off his face.
The B-movie will be called Dr. Wax.
According to the director, in the next scene the A-Devil is standing in front of a ventilation shaft and that’s it.
Flashback:
The director who calls himself Spike M. is entering the location in his car at 8 a.m. There’s a hooker standing behind the shop.
The actor G. Löffler has spent the night on the rooftop of the opposite house because he had no H-Baht to pay for the inner-city train.
”Yesterday Löffler saw you”, the hooker tells Spike M.
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2. ELVIS = GOD
Page 20
1. The jellyfish laser beams hit the fleeing soldier and beamed trough his body.
2. Bricks tried to escape the laserjellyfish, but the beams had reached his head already.
Page 22
1. This is scene W:
The guru Wesley Weathers, together with his devout sisters, is worshiping the matutinalthanksgiving.
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1. ELVIS=GOD is desperately trying to speak to the Matutinalthanksgivingsister.
… to reach the Matutinalthanksgivingsister on the phone.
He did not notice that his phone was not plugged in but he spok
Nevertheless ELVIS=GOD had a nice conversation.
ELVIS=GOD told the story of Little Red Riding Hood… and imagined … and imagined he himself was the Wolf. Wolt
Page 24
1. The Matutinalthanksgivingsister wants to buy herself a led apron in order to protect her foetus. From environmental toxins, jellyfish laser beams and mechanical jellyfish-knives.
2. The Matutinalthanksgivingsister left the house and was horrified.
Two Jellyfishmen stood in front of the house and threatened her and her foetus.
The Matutinalthanksgivingsister Jutta desperately tried to reach Wolf Wolt via telepathy.
3. At the same time:
In the morning a young director stopped his car in front of a shop that looked like Kermit the frog.
Spike M. wants to shoot his best movie today.
For a special effect he has made a wax mask.
His movie is named Mr. Wax Part 3 (Even though there is no Part 1 and 2 yet).
Spike M. thinks of yesterday night, when Jaqueline was giving a home organ concert just for the two of them.
He considered himself to be her fan. Her biggest fan.
In order to spend those concert evenings with Jaqueline he would even superclean the pool.
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1. Gosh, nurse! Everything is so much brighter now.
2. Ok Mr. Baader, lift up the flowerpot and put it onto the table.
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Se President pardons you.
What?
fiering and – lawn embankment. The murder cases are solved.
Move to 12 O’clock. You are released
27
1. Instead of this, Spike M. had a milkshake in the shop.
When Spike M. left the shop he was being observed by a laserjellyfish.
THE DIRECTOR WHO CALLS HIMSELF SPIKE M. IS ENTERING THE LOCATION IN HIS CAR AT 8 A.M. THERE’S A HOOKER STANDING BEHIND THE SHOP.
IT IS FUNNY MOMENTS OR IT’S FUNNY MOMENTS OR ITS FUNNY MOMENTS
2. At the same time:
In the morning a young director stopped his car in front of a shop that looked like Kermit the frog.
Spike M. wants to shoot his best movie today.
For a special effect he has made a wax mask.
His movie is named Mr. Wax Part 3 (Even though there is no Part 1 and 2 yet).
OK, AND NOW LET’S TRY THE SPECIAL EFFECT WITH THE FACE MASK.
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1. Spike M. thinks of yesterday night, when Jaqueline was giving a home organ concert just for the two of them.
He considered himself to be her fan. Her biggest fan.
In order to spend those concert evenings with Jaqueline he would even superclean the pool.
2. Fan. NO SHADOWS.
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1. EVERYTHING WAS BRIGHT AND ALL QUIET. THE UFO LANDED ON THE PARKING LOT OF THE ALDI MARKET.
2. When Spike M. left the shop he was being observed by a laserjellyfish.
Page 31
1. The Matutinalthanksgivingsister Jutta was heading for the shop.
2. In the beginning Mr. No was standing inside the pool and just did not know how to clean it.
Like a dead fish being fed to the rabbits by his fish butcher.
ELVIS=GOD the bearded called out into the nothingness
3. His wife is riding a bioengineered rabbit. She has taken LSD and thinks that a plane has landed right next to her.
While a she-rocker was galloping on a cartoon dog. The jellyfish laser beams hit the fleeing soldier and beamed trough his body. The cartoon dog was grabbed by a mechanical nippers-knife in order to be burned in front of witnesses.
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1. A wolf was sitting on deck 1 and greedily stared at one of the monitors.
2. Inside the spaceship it was all strange. There were also marsupials.
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1. ELVIS=GOD is desperately trying to speak to the Matutinalthanksgivingsister.
… to reach the Matutinalthanksgivingsister on the phone.
He did not notice that his phone was not plugged in but he spoke.
Nevertheless ELVIS=GOD had a nice conversation.
ELVIS=GOD told the story of Little Red Riding Hood… and imagined … and imagined he himself would be the Wolf. Wolt
2. Elvis Presley died on August 16th, 1977, while, according to a toxological report, his body was busy digesting 11 different kinds of drugs.
[Stormy says good-by]

(Translation by Michi Posch Copyright by tonto, Graz Austria 2005-2006, All Rights reserved)