Crumpled up pieces of paper and coloured pencils were all that you could see lying around on Yajirobe’ desk.  When you turned your head slightly, you saw him standing there with a colourful set of pages in his hand, and a large smile on his face as he peered at you…

I have done it.  I have finally done it!  I completed my first futuristic fantasy comic book that I wish to share with the world!

He took a staple gun and stapled the pages at one end together, then put it into a plastic covering while he lifted a cigar from a case, and used a candle to burn the damn thing. He puffed and looked at you…

Do you think it’s ready?  Do you think it’s time for me to let it out?  No! Not that…

Motions for you to raise your head, then points to the comic in the plastic covering…

Here take it but be gentle…

Yajirobe handed you the comic, and escorted you to the leather seat.  He started giving you a shoulder rub as you sat there in awe begining to read….

Title: Goose Circle X

As you looked at the front cover, you notice it showed a very vivid picture of a woman, dressed in a black and red full latex suit with striking blonde hair, and a black mask with red trim.  The woman stood next to a man with the same colour of clothing, but he had dark black hair.  The two were shooting magical red lights from their hands against a creature with ginger hair and green skin…

You flicked the page to the next, only to reveal more vivid colours, only slightly less intense.  Now you focus on a comfortable setting, within a home in The Bronx, a young man with strawberry blonde hair, as he liked to call it, was sitting on the sofa with a TV magazine, using a device he called the remote control.  The remote control was used to flick between the 1000 channels available to him…

A caption above his head said - “Damn this sucks! There is never anything to watch on this stupid thing….”

He walked up to his room, and grabbed his favourite comic book, SharkMan.  A young man had been bitten by a shark after he fell off his father's boat.  It gave him strange unique magical abilities, one of which that was most notable, was that his teeth would grow twice their size, and he could bite through solid steel.

He fell asleep…

His window was left open, and a green hornet fly flew in through the window, landing on his arm, then biting him.  Breaking the skin with its mouth, it started to take fresh blood and discard old blood into the boy's system, his veins starting to pulsate…

Then his mother walked in, seeing that he was asleep, turned out the light and walked away quietly…

The first two pages were all you got to read, before Yajirobe snatched the comic from your hands and gazed into your eyes…

What did you think?  What a cliff-hanger that was! Huh? I can’t let you read it all in one go because you need to stop and savour these moments.  Take a drink of scotch from my bar, and then we can continue on with the book.  That remote control thingy huh, wouldn’t that be magical?

Rose had received such an urgent message to rush right over to meet Yajirobe, as he was anxious to tell her something.  She arrived back home at their Headquarters, and instructed her bodyguards to relax a bit as she went to Yajirobe's office to see what was going on. 

Knocking on the door, hearing a muffled "Come in,"  Rose enters and looks around in surprise.  "When will he learn to be more umm organized?" She thinks to herself and smiles as she shakes her head.  His desk was a complete disaster, paper balled up everywhere, colored pencils strewn here and there.   Glancing over to Yajirobe, she gives him a slow smile then she speaks softly.

"What on earth is going on here?!"   Rose sees his excited look as he cheerfully exclaims, "I have done it.  I have finally done it!  I completed my first futuristic fantasy comic book that I wish to share with the world!"  Cautiously she walks over closer to Yajirobe, as he offers the comic book to her with a warning to "be gentle."  Smiling to herself at his protectiveness, she ventures over to the leather seat with him close behind her.

Leaning back and getting comfortable in the seat, she props her feet underneath her, and settles in to read.  At first glance of the cover she is impressed with the effort and artistic skill put in it, and as she gets lost in the array of vivid colors, Yajirobe begins to massage her shoulders.  Thinking what a treat this is, being able to relax and rest as she enjoys reading the comic book.

Rose flips carefully to the next page, and recognizes her home city in an instant.  She loves living in the Bronx, and there is no place like home to her.  Giggling slightly at the page with the man sporting strawberry blonde hair, wondering offhand if Yajirobe is writing a comic book about us.  She lets a soft giggle escape reading about the remote control, and a SharkMan, oh my, with teeth of toughness that can chomp through solid steel.  Oh my heavens!  Also a green hornet fly mixed in, well Rose has to admit that Yajirobe has a great imagination, and she reaches to turn the next page....

"Hey!"   Rose looks at her now empty hands, then to Yajirobe as he smiles having snatched the comic book from her hands!  He asked her thoughts about the story and artistic designs.  She honestly did not know where to begin, as it was all simply amazing!  He offered a scotch from his bar, motioning to follow him as he walked off with the comic book.  Frowning slightly Rose gets up from her comfortable seat, and follows Yajirobe to the bar, but asks for a glass of water instead of the scotch.  She would not be reading much of anything if she was drinking alcohol. 

"Remote controls do sound nice!  I will just have a glass of water please."  Rose smiles sweetly trying to reclaim the comic book as she slides onto one of his bar stools.  She waits until he pours himself a scotch, and slides the comic book in her direction, anxious to read what comes next...... 

The glass fell to the floor as Yajirobe cursed and lifted it up back on to the table "luckily there was nothing in it" he mumbled.

Alright I think you have mulled over the start of my super fantastic, futuristic, fantasy comic book for long enough, it’s now time to delve deeper in the plot and find out just how far the rabbit hole goes. Wow I like that! He moves his hand like he’s writing something on paper while looking up at the ceiling.

I must warn you though that there are things like “The Remote Control” in this further through the tale and words you may not have heard, if you do indeed need more of a description on any of them just be sure to stop and ask before continuing. This is my invented future after-all.

Title: Goose Circle X

Continued…Page 3&4...

A red bus could be seen climbing a mountain road, twisting and turning on the bends in front of it and it focused in on the school children that sat there singing the usual old bus chants “The wheels on this bus don‘t make a sound, give the driver a pound, give him a pound, The wheels on this bus don‘t make a sound give the driver a pound.”.  The next image was of one little boy with a look of horror on his face as he pointed up. A boulder was heading down the mountain towards the bus, one by one, the children started screaming and the bus driver was checking his mirror, shaking his head at the unusual amount of noise…

You turned the page to 5&6...

The boulder hit the rear end of the bus, the driver started to swerve left and right and the bus went out of control and was heading directly off course, hundreds of feet to the ground below…

Suddenly the vehicle stopped dead in it’s tracks and all that was seen was the figure off a goat hopping on up the mountain track. The scenes followed the goat into a cave in the mountain when the goat spoke the words “BAH BAA BAHH” and started to walk towards a moving wall and into a secret facility…

You turned the page to 7&8...

The boy twisted and turned so much in his sleep that fell out of the bed…

“Are you ok Niall?“ came a shout from downstairs

“Yeah I‘m fine!”

Suddenly his skin started to feel hot and cold and his arms and legs felt heavy, his throat dry and wheezy for a small period of time. He started to transform and his skin turned a pale green and his hair glowed bright orange, he jumped through the open window and was off…

Yajirobe put his hands over the top of the comic, avoiding you from turning the page once more. What about that huh?

Return tomorrow and I will let you read the rest, I’m getting tired and need a nights sleep. I’ll put this baby in it’s cover and think about my future masterpieces in my dreams!

Watching as Yajirobe rambles on describing his futuristic story, his hands waving excitedly through the air, Rose does her best to pull the comic book back to her and sneak another peek.  Startled when he drops his glass, she jerks her hand back like a child who got their hand caught in the cookie jar.  She laughs softly to herself at the image she must have made.

Rose listens with interest as Yajirobe talks about his story, mentioning words such as 'Remote Control' and such.  What an awesome imagination he has, superheroes with incredible powers.  Eagerly she takes the comic book with gentle ease and begins to read, continuing where she had left off. 

Boulders, school bus, children screaming....'Oh heavens!'  she thinks to herself as she scoots to the edge of her bar stool, feeling as if she is needing to jump and run away herself.  Such vivid descriptions and pictures floating through her mind as she flips carefully to the next page.  Oh my a goat, she wonders if the goat has superhero powers, superhuman strength, able to sense danger, wow so many thoughts racing through her mind.  

"A goat? Can he talk? What all can he do? The goat stopped the bus? Wow!"  Rose rambles on nonstop all excited as she doesn't give Yajirobe much time to reply to her questions.  Carefully turning the page, she continues on reading, getting so involved in the story, that once again he snatches the comic book from her hands making her wait!  Now he says tomorrow!!  Oh my goodness!!  Tomorrow??  No, no, no this is not gonna work at all.

"But, but, but......No one is stopping You from going to sleep!!"   She smiles sweetly hoping to continue to read more, but sadly Yajirobe ushers her to the door, not giving her an option as he states firmly, "Return tomorrow and I will let you read the rest, I’m getting tired and need a nights sleep. I’ll put this baby in it’s cover and think about my future masterpieces in my dreams!"

She turns and faces the closed door, tempted to beat on it loudly, but figured she would cause a ruckus and worry the bodyguards.  Rose shuffles off to head home, knowing she will mostly likely be dreaming of goats with remote controls zapping at school buses, and green men flying through windows.  She shakes her head at her silly self and finds her bodyguards to be escorted home.  Instructing them firmly,  "First thing in the morning, we are returning to Headquarters!!"

Title: Goose Circle X

Continued…Page 9&10...

The Secret Facility was actually the HeadQuarters of the Goose Circle X super heroes and inside you see Super Goat heading towards Tank man and Maple Girl. They all sat watching a very large Television Screen showing things going on in the world. Maple girl pointed at the screen and it showed Ginger Juice, the newest baddie, tearing down the streets of Farm Avenue. Hurry Tank Man and Super Goat, we need to tend to this disaster...

You turned the page to 11&12...

Ginger Juice had grown to 20ft tall and was tearing down the thatch cottages in Farm Avenue, people were running around trying to save their livestock and suddenly you could see someone coming flying towards him as he kept trying to slap, what he though was a fly, the super hero and it was posing as a bother to Ginger Juice...

You turned the page to 13&14...

The superhero flew down right infront of Gingerjuice…

“It is I, Super Dan!“

“Prepare to lose your plan!”

Ginger Juice didn't know what Super Dan was talking about but he kepy violently trying to slap him...

After returning to Headquarters in what seems like ages, but probably only hours of sleep, Rose rushes up the stairs straight to Yajirobe's office.  She begins her nonstop knocking, and laughing softly to herself, until he gets up to open the door.  She could hear him call out a couple of times, 'Come in,' but she just had the urge to pick on him after he made her wait to read more.

At the sudden whoosh of the door as it opens, Yajirobe's frown turns into a smirk.  Rose knows by his smirk that he should have guessed it was her.  She holds up a box of fresh muffins and chocolate drizzled croissants from her bakery, and fresh coffee as well.  The coffee here at Headquarters needs to be uhh improved before she drank it, so she brought some with her.

Smiling, she hands him the box of goodies, as she makes her way to his desk, snags the comic book, then walks back to collect her coffee.  Rose heads to his sofa, she curls her legs underneath her getting comfortable, and she sets in to read more while he is distracted by food.  Carefully she flips to where she left off, where Niall has flew through the open window.

Taking a sip of her coffee, and setting on the table so she didn't spill on the comic book, her attention is drawn into the next few pages.  Tank Man has so many similarities of a truck, it must be the toughest of the Trucks to be called the Tank. 

"Wow!  Twenty feet tall!!  This Ginger juice character is something else.  Just who does he think he is, destroying Farm Avenue?!"

Rose turns the page, anxious to read more, forgetting all about her coffee and breakfast.  She lets out a string of giggles.  "Super Dan!!  Really?!"  The last thing Rose was able to catch a glimpse of was Ginger Juice swatting at Super Dan like a fly, before Yajirobe snatched the comic book from her hands.  She growls softly.  If she had not been giggling so much, she would have seen him walk over towards her. 

"Come on!! Yajirobe!!!!  I just got started reading!!"  Rose slumps back into the sofa, stretching to get her coffee, and curling her legs underneath her once more, as she sips her coffee.  "Hmph!  Well, bring me a croissant then, please." 

She smiles sweetly trying to distract him from the comic book, but drat! he takes it with him back to his desk, locking it up for safe keeping, and returns with the box of croissants.  He knows he is driving her insane keeping her in suspense!

"Your story is quite riveting Yajirobe.  When do I get to read more?"