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Title: Melees Melees
Series: Chronicle
Writer: P E Leody
SYNOPIS:
PAGE 1
This is a story about a badger (Meles Meles) though it is written and illustrated to deceive the reader into thinking it is about a girl named Brenda. Central to the story and the page divisions is a 'Tree' running up the side of the page with it's branches running horizontally dividing frames. It also appears being planted and as a stump.
1
A circular insert of the Meles embryo growing in a womb. Deception note- embryos generally look alike
Caption: I STARTED MY LIFE IN A WARM, DARK PLACE
2
Brenda's Grand Daughter is laying daffodils on a tree stump, it is the end of the 'Tree' that is planted in the next frame. This frame bookends the story with the final frame on page 5
Caption: IT ENDED IN A COLD HOLE BUT LIVES ON AS A MEMORY IN A KIND HEART
3
The woodsman is planting the 'Tree'
Caption: I VAGUELY REMEMBER THE WOODSMAN PLANTING THE TREE THAT I WAS TO GROW UP WITH
4
Young Meles suckling on a nipple. Deception note- mammalian youngsters/nipples look alike
Caption: WE SPENT MANY CAREFREE SUMMERS UNDER IT'S BRANCHES AND COUNTLESS AUTUMNS ROLLING IN IT'S LEAVES
5
Three shadows look upon the woodman burning charcoal. Deception note- family profiles look alike
Caption: MY GRANDFATHER REGALED ME CONSTANTLY WITH HISTORY AND TOLD ME TREES WERE ONE OF THE CERTAINTIES OF LIFE AND WOULD OUTLIVE US ALL
PAGE 2
In the shots Brenda is to the left of Meles to deceptively offer the idea she is giving the narrative
1
Clumps flowers in a meadow herald spring, Brenda is on a home made swing attached to a horizontal 'Tree' branch that is dividing the frame
Caption: IT WAS THERE AMONGST THE DAFFODILS AND SNOWDROPS ONE EARLY SPRING I FIRST MET MY FRIEND
2
Brenda offers food to Meles
Caption: AN ODD LOOKING BLACK AND WHITE ANIMAL WITH PROFUSE FUR. I KNEW IT WAS A SHE AS WE SEEMED TO SHARE A SPECIAL BOND
3
Meles looking like she has retrieved a stick offers it at Brenda's feet
Caption: WE LIVED DETACHED FROM THE REAL WORLD. WE PLAYED POINTLESS GAMES, LAUGHED AT SILLY NOISES AND PASSED DREAMY TIMES DOING NOTHING IN PARTICULAR
4
Brenda lying on the floor snuggling up to Meles
Caption: WE BECAME CLOSE OVER THE YEARS, THROUGH SCHOOL HOLIDAYS AND LONG SUMMER EVENINGS OFTEN FALLING ASLEEP IN EACH OTHER ARMS
PAGE 3
1
Meles leads a posse from the wood with a hare and a deer (left to right) they are meant to look like a fierce attacking posse but are actually running scared from the occupants of frame 2
Caption: THEN A MYSTERIOUS FORCE OF EVIL POSSESSED THE NATION. A POWERFUL ENEMY OF MANY FORCES EMERGED TO STRIKE FEAR INTO OUR LIVES
2
A very scary dog struggles at a leash dragging it's owner across the page (right to left) looking like it is defending it's human owner it is in fact attacking the animals in frame 1
Caption: WE WERE FORCED TO TEAM UP WITH OTHERS MERELY TO CONFRONT IT
3
A boarded up sett entrance but looking like a barricaded door that is preventing entrance but is fact preventing Meles leaving. Meles tunnels looking like she is breaking into the home but is in fact escaping from it
Caption: A WAR OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN DESCENDED UPON US LIKE THE ONES GRANDFATHER HAD DESCRIBED. OUR HOMES WERE DECLARED UNSAFE AND THE ENEMY INVADED
4
A JCB driving over a the filled in sett that looks like it is leveling off a house demolition.
Caption: OUR EXISTENCE WAS THREATENED, OUR HOME LEVELED AND THE SURVIVORS FLED. THAT WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW MY PARENTS OR MY FRIEND
PAGE 4
To indicate a change of circumstances the tree is now on the right of the frame, dividing the page horizontally with it's branches
1
A tranquil vegetable path grows where the sett used to be with a tranquil tumbling stream
Caption: AS GRANDPARENT I RETURNED MANY YEARS LATER WITH MY FAMILY, TO SHOW THEM THEIR ROOTS. IN MY HEART HOPING TO HEAR MY FRIEND'S STRANGE CALLS.
2
Smoke has filled the scene. All that can be seen is the profile of Meles' mad eyes which can not be distinguished form human
Caption: INSTEAD THERE WAS A STRANGE ATMOSPHERE, A TRAP. I FOUND MYSELF RECOUNTING MY GRANDFATHER'S TALES OF FEAR
3
A human in a gas mask rising through the smoke looking scary
Caption: THE WAR WAS FAR FROM OVER AND HAD ESCALATED TO ETHIC CLEANSING. WE DIDN'T STAND A CHANCE AS WE WERE OVERCOME BY SOME NOXIOUS FUMES
4
A posse of humans visible as only a set of low slung guns pushing forwards through the smoke
Caption: MY ANGER WAS BURSTING, MY FAMILY WAS UNDER THREAT, I IGNORED THE RULES THAT WE LIVED BY AND STARTED TO FIGHT BACK WITH ANY MEANS AT MY DISPOSAL
PAGE 5
The tree has been cut down, it is a stump is in the bottom right of the page. The page is now horizontally divided a metal mesh.
1
A quarantine centre with wooden huts and a trough for eating, it resembles a human interment camp. The frame is covered in a mesh
Caption: I SURVIVED ONLY TO BE INTERNED IN A CAMP, POORLY BUILT WOODEN HUTS THROUGH WHICH THE WINDOW HOWLED. UNCLEAN BEDDING WITH NO KIND OF WARMTH. WE HAD TO EAT ROTTING SWILL OUT OF A TROUGH LIKE ANIMALS.
2
Three unmarked graves of Meles' family
Caption: MY ANGER KEPT ME ALIVE BUT MY GREATER LOVE FOR MY FAMILY PROVED TO NO AVAIL.
3
A debate in parliament
Caption: EVENTUALLY I BECAME A CELEBRATED FIGUREHEAD FOR CAMPAIGNERS AND MY CASE WAS HEARD IN PARLIAMENT. WITH THEIR HELP I WON A REPRIEVE FROM CRIMES I WAS NOT GUILTY OF. ON THE DAWN OF VICTORY THE PLEASURE BLEW MY REMAINING LIFE FORCE OUT
4
By the wood with the tree stump is an old Brenda in a wheelchair painting with a Meles brush. Her daughter her spitting image (as seen in page 1 frame 2) is laying daffodils
Caption: I'M STILL ALIVE IN THE WARM HEART OF MY FRIEND. SHE ENDLESS PAINTS SCENES OF OUR GOOD TIMES AND REUNITED I HELP IN ANYWAY I CAN.
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