Peter Trotter: Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Pony

PAGE 1

PANEL 1: Establishing shot of Manehatten by night, a quiet neighborhood with a little jewelery store.

PANEL 2: Store interior. All is dark save for a tiny stream of light coming from the slightly ajar backroom door.

PANEL 3: Inside the backroom, the DIAMOND DOGS are grouped around a safe, working by candle light. FIDO and ROVER, holding the candle, leer with anticipation as SPOT presses an ear to the door and works the tumbler. Maybe sticks a tongue out.

PANEL  4: A chilling voice booms from nowhere. Fido and Rover hug each other in terror, squishing poor Spot in the middle and almost choking him.

SFX:

I AM THE TERROR

SFX:

THAT FLAPS IN THE NIGHT!

PANEL 5: Rover holds the candle up to get a better look at their uninvited guest, the light casting a bat like shadow on the wall. Spot pokes his head out and joins his comrades in surprised "wat" squinting.

SFX:

I AM THE GAS

SFX:

THAT YOU DARE NOT PASS!

SFX:

I

SFX:

AM...

PAGE 2

PANEL 1: Dominates most of the page. SPIDER-PONY hangs upside down...dressed in a familiar looking cape and cowl. The title of our story is printed, Eisner style, on the somehow upright bat silhouette he is casting.

SPIDEY:

Bat-Pony.

Title:

THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-PONY

IN:

KNIGHTMARE NIGHT

PANEL 2: Smaller panel, maybe contained in the silhouette as well. Spidey lounges on top of a street light in "IDGF" pose. The Dogs are hung underneath in a web sack. A desperate Rover leans out to grip the lapels of a Cop Pony.

ROVER:

He just keeps saying that.

ROVER:

Mercy! Jail! Now! PLEASE!!!

PAGE 3

PANEL 1: Some party. Spidey swishes his cape around himself dramatically in front of a crowd of confused guests. In the background GEM rolls her eyes while MJ cracks up.

SPIDEY:

I'm Batpony.

PANEL 2: The Manehattan city scape. Spidey webswings on his way to somewhere, bat cape billowing in the wind.

SPIDEY:

I'm Batpony.

PANEL 3: A construction site. Spidey swings his cape like a matador with a charging bull, except in this case the bull is the electrolyzed supervillain SPELLECTRO, whose face falls as he realises his charge is going to send him tumbling into a pit of quick drying cement.

SPIDEY:

I'm Batpony.

PANEL 4: Spidey pokes his head through pony FLATTOP'S window, startling the guy out of his chair.

SPIDEY:

I'm Batpony.

PAGE 4

PANEL 1: The TARDIS sits in an alleyway, DOCTOR WHOOVES shutting the lid on a trash can with a limp tentacle poking out. He looks bemused as Spidey hangs upside down in front of him.

SPIDEY:

I'm Batpony.

DOCTOR:

Which one?

PANEL 2: Spiey poses dramatically on top of a statue resembling GOLIATH.

SPIDEY:

I'm--

PANEL 3: Same shot. He's startled out of it by:

OFF PANEL:

Spider.

PANEL 4: BLACK CALF lounges on a chimney behind Spidey, smirking. He sweeps up to her. She idly strokes a black cat that's decided to join them.

BLACK CALF:

What are you doing?

SPIDEY:

I'm Batpony.

BLACK CALF:

That right?

PANEL 5: Something startles the cat and it takes off. Both ponies look up as a bat like shadow is cast over them like all the way back on page 1.

PAGE 5

PANEL 1: BATPONY stands on the opposite rooftop, looking down at the scene. She does not look happy. There's a lightning flash, even.

PANEL  2: Spidey and Calf stare up. Spidey's eyes are huge while Calf bites her lower lip. Uh oh.

SPIDEY:

I'm dead.

PANEL 3: Same shot. Spidey gives one last hurrah and facetiously leans over to Calf for a conspiratorially whisper.She stares at him as if to ask if he's for real. A Batarang soars towards our hero's head.

SPIDEY:

And also Batpony.

PANEL 4: Spidey gallops for his life, trailing stars from a bump on the noggin and pursued by a Batarang hurling Batpony. Their chase takes them past a gaint rooftop billboard which reads: UNTIL NEXT TIME, FOLKS!