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Similar to previous, but the bag has EXPLODED in X-O’s
hands.

SFX

THOOM

Panel 4
X-O is getting up from the rubble.

X-O CAPTION
...“some sort of explosive powers,” she
says. How are we doing, Rand?

RAND CAPTION
The damage to the armor is minimal. Self
repair routines are already running...

Panel 5
Master Blaster is in the VAULT, stuffing money into a bag.
X-O is behind him, twenty feet away. The floor between
them is strewn with empty safety deposit boxes, et cetera.

MASTER BLASTER
Buddy, you shoulda stayed down. You don’t
want no more of this.

X-O
I dunno, Irving...

Page 18
Panel 1
Close on X-O, waist up, supporting his right wristwatch
his left hand as he blasts a powerful force beam from his
right fist.

X-O
...Maybe just a littlemore.

SFX

ZZZZRAK

Panel 2
Master Blaster ducks beneath the incoming blast.

SFX

ZZZZRAK

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MASTER BLASTER
You don’t getit yet, do you? Anything I
touchis a time bomb.

Panel 3
Wide again. Big panel. Several pieces of the junk on the
floor between X-O and Master Blaster is EXPLODING. Several
more are showing the signature glow.

MASTER BLASTER
And time’s up whenever I say!

SFX
CHOOM WHOOM CHOOM THOOOM

Page 19
Panel 1
Big panel. X-O has his hands up, trying to fend off the
multiple explosions that surround him, throwing light on
his armor from several sides at once.

SFX
THOOM CHOOM WHOOM CHOOM THOOOM

RAND CAPTION
Multiple explosions from all directions.

X-O CAPTION
I’m soglad I brought you along.

Panel 2
X-O is still fending off explosions. He’s on his knees.

SFX
CHOOM WHOOM CHOOM THOOOM

X-O CAPTION
Maybe we can predict what’s going to blow
next. Can we at leastdetect the energy
signature?

Panel 3
Closer on X-O. Explosions continue.

RAND CAPTION
Yes. The energy signature is all around
us.

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X-O CAPTION
If we get out of this, I’m trading you in
for a sidekick.

Panel 4
Master Blaster has stepped inside, and is delivering an
uppercut to X-O’s head. The point of impact EXPLODES.

MASTER BLASTER
Did I mention that getting punched by me
is like taking a stick of Dynamite to the
face?

SFX
KA-THOOM
Panel 5
X-O smashes into the vault wall.

SFX

WHUDD

X-O
Okay. I’ve had just about enoughof this.

Page 20
Panel 1
X-O, on his feet, is sinking his fingers into the three-
foot-thick VAULT DOOR.

SFX

SKRINNCH

Panel 2
X-O RIPS the Vault Door off of its hinges.

SFX

REE-UNK

Panel 3
Silent panel. X-O FLIES, Door first, at a cowering Master
Blaster.

Panel 4
And SMASHES into him.