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NOSE BLEED Chapter 3

By June 12, 2023

A 24-panel black-and-white comic by Derick Jones titled "Nose Bleed" In the first panel a police building is shown with reporters standing on the outside. The next panel to the right, shows the detectives in their office, the female detective on the left says, "Reporters are already starting to gather outside. Christ its only been a day..." The male detective responds, "Goddamn vultures." The second left hand panel shows the two detectives and a man on a computer in the office. The female detective asks, "Hey Einstein you find anything?" The man on the computer responds, "Yeah a 15 second reel front row seats." The next right panel is split in two showing a TikTok of a man grasping his bulging head as others around look in fear. The second half of the split panel shows the moment the man's head bursts with fear striking the viewers. The following left panel shows the detective and computer user, the detective sips his coffee and utters, "But the footage is too scrambled to grab any faces from it." The other man responds, "True but whoever uploaded this was stupid or kind enough to tag everyone in it." In the next right panel the two detectives walk through the precinct, the female detective says, "Wonderful well let's bring em in and shake am down." The following panel spans the width of the page and shows the two detectives interrogating a man. The male detective on the right starts, "Normally we'd read you Miranda rights but you're not under arrest." The female cop follows, "We know you were with Brett yesterday and we just want to know what happened to him." The next row of panels is split into three across the page for four rows. In the left panel the man being interrogated responds, "Regge started it." The middle panel shows a man in a backwards cap and cutoff shirt saying, "Fool got clocked the second he stepped to Brett." The right panel shows the detectives, with the male asking, "Why did Regge come at Brett?" The second row left panel shows the same man questioning himself saying, "Shit I guess he was jealous his little chick was hanging with the big dawgs." The middle panel shows a man blowing smoke on a woman "Pfew!" in a creek bed in the forest. The man being interrogated continues, "I aint want her near us cause she gives me the creeps." "I think Brett liked her tho. He smoked her out." The second row right panel shows the female detective sternly questioning, "Why does she give you the creeps?" The third row left panel shows three men sitting in a circle hands knees in a TikTok video, the man responds to the detective, "The three of em be on TikTok doing gay ass magic tricks look like witchcraft to me." The third row middle panel shows the female detective with her hands clasped in front of her face saying, "And you think they used witchcraft on Brett to make him explode?" The third row right panel shows the detectives and the man being interrogated, he responds, "Yep." The fourth row left panel begins with the male detective responding to the man, "Ok, well hate to break it to you boys but magic and witchcraft aint real." In the middle panel a man with short hair and an angered face gets up to leave and responds to the detective, "Psh you say so." The final right panel of the block shows the case file with a polaroid of Brett's exploded head. The two boys being interrogated meet outside. The panel spans the width of the page. The boy with short hair begins to sit next to the man with the cap outside the station. The short haired boy says, "I don't get it man. They got them on video popping Brett's head like a grape and got the nerve to look at us like we're stupid?" The man in the cap responds, "Cops are fucking useless man." The following panel is half the width of the page, the short haired boy continues as the capped man listens, "But maybe it's a good thing bro. Leaves Reggie and Tilda wide open." In the right half panel the man in the cap is shown saying, "While the pigs are busy playing grab ass, we can nab those fuckers and give em hell for what they did to Brett. The final panel spans the page and shows the silhouette of the two men, the capped on the left and short hair on the right. They fist bump and say "For Brett."

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