Splash · 1 panel
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Layout — Splash
[art pending]
The opening chord of the homecoming show. A full-page splash. Jesse mid-strum, head back, eyes closed. The green guitar at full bloom — pickups blazing brighter than they have all book. Dev behind him, in motion, sticks blurred. The two amplifiers on either side of the stage roaring. The Christmas lights overhead, the salvage yard around them, the city beyond. And the crowd — thousands of upturned faces, all of them, for the first time in their lives, hearing it. The musical-staff motif in the margin: the staff is infinite — notes pouring off both ends of the panel, breaking the panel borders, bleeding off the page. In the deep background — visible across the city, far behind the salvage yard — the DeciCorp Spire. One window on the 188th floor goes dark for a full second. Allred — biggest splash in the book yet. Bigger than the smash. Bigger than the warehouse. The reason we hired Mike. Pull every register at once.
- SFXK — RRRRRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRR(massive, page-spanning, layered)