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Unpaid Parking
On the far edge of Saturn’s shadow, a cosmic tow station unfolds its ten gates, each opening onto a repossessed world.
SAMURAI: We should have taken the bus.
FLANNEL TIGER: Can a planet be illegally parked?
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ISSUE #004 · ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD
The Tenth Gate
A VERY BAD PLACE TO DOUBLE-PARK.
Read eight illustrated vector storyboards with scripts and dialogue. These are new draft illustrations, not the final fully painted comic pages.
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The Repo Fleet
Earth appears as a glowing blue impound tag among hundreds of captured worlds; the Archi-Collective has already filled out the forms.
ARCHI-CLERK: Lot seven remains in arrears.
SAMURAI: I'm disputing the charge.
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Service Entrance
Disguised as two overnight repair technicians, Samurai and Flannel Tiger enter a gate made from broken apartment buildings.
FLANNEL TIGER: My hard hat is a soup bowl.
SAMURAI: Union rules.
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Ten Doors, One Planet
Every door leads to a different version of Earth, and nine are traps constructed from stolen memories.
SAMURAI: Which one's ours?
VESPER: The one that still remembers music.
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Inspection Failure
A city-sized inspector detects the chainsaw and deploys a maze of shifting concrete teeth.
ARCHI-INSPECTOR: Unauthorized maintenance.
SAMURAI: I brought my own tools.
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Hydrant in Space
Flannel Tiger finds an emergency zero-gravity hose and floods Gate Nine with a giant floating water sphere.
SAMURAI: Not the hose.
FLANNEL TIGER: Definitely the hose.
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The Tenth Lock
A yellow saw cuts through the final gate's leaseplate, revealing a tow-brake fastened around Earth's equator.
VESPER: That's not a lock. It's a contract.
SAMURAI: Then we renegotiate.
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Full Throttle
The crew dives toward the tow-brake while the ten gates begin to collapse behind them.
FLANNEL TIGER: Are we insured for this?
SAMURAI: Absolutely not.