How “Adventures into the Unknown #02” begins
Every balloon from the first pages, as it is read aloud:
Adventures into the unknown!
Out of the terror-shadowed past come monstrous figures of evil… With death in their every move! Puppets… Deadly marionettes… Fiendish creatures without souls… Moved by an undying hatred which struck through the centuries!
Our story has its beginning in sixteenth century france…
We play before the queen, my little puppets! Take care that you amuse her!
It's turgot… The puppet master! Methinks her majesty made a mistake in coming to this village! Five men and two women… Stabbed to death! Others… Strangled! Murder is rife here!
An hour later…
Look… Turgot's putting on his show for the queen! I, too, have a great talent with puppets… It's interested him greatly!
It makes me shudder, jeanne! He calls the horrible little figures… The strangler… The courtier… The hangman… And the witch!
Still later… At the home of the puppet master…
I'm worried, m'sieu turgot! My brother's begun to suspect i'm coming here… He doesn't know it's to help you with the puppets!
Pierre's a hot-headed lad… And a foolish one! Come in, jeanne!
Your brother will never find us in paris, child! When you're my wife--
Your wife? But i… I don't love you! You're twice my age!
Don't touch me… You beast!
I've spent months… Teaching you all i know about puppets! If this is how you repay me…
… i'll have my revenge!… Kill her, strangler! Kill her, i say! She hates me! Can't you see i can never hope to win her?
That puppet… It's alive! Alive! Ohhh!
Help! Pierre… Ahhhh!
Kill her! Draw the noose tight! She thinks i'm old… And ugly!
My sister's voice! She screamed my name! If i'm too late… Turgot will answer to me with his life!
Help!