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  • Panel — The Client Who Lied: Frank at his desk, Ivy’s silhouette in the doorway
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    Episode 01

    The Client Who Lied

    “A noir graphic-novel issue where the client in the doorway was never who she said”

    Direction note

    Directed: the client held in silhouette — the lie visible before it is spoken.

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  • Panel — A Name in the Margins: Frank reads his own notebook, the Magpie on the fire escape behind
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    Episode 02

    A Name in the Margins

    “A noir graphic-novel issue where the detective finds a familiar name in the margins of his own notebook”

    Direction note

    Directed: the notebook reads both ways — the Magpie on the fire escape behind.

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  • Panel — The Magpie’s Price: the Magpie and Frank face off on the fire escape, Ivy below
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    Episode 03

    The Magpie's Price

    “A noir graphic-novel issue where the vigilante finally names a price on the fire escape”

    Direction note

    Directed: the standoff staged vertically — fire escape, then street below.

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  • The rain-slicked alley set with venetian-blind light bars
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    The World

    The alley

    “A noir graphic-novel World: a rain-slicked alley in venetian-blind light”

    Direction note

    The World, empty: hard ink, hard light, one plum neon accent.

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  • Splash-page poster — the Magpie mid-leap, Frank and Ivy behind
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    Season poster

    Splash page

    “A season of Low Ink — a noir graphic novel of one deal too many”

    Direction note

    Splash page: the Magpie mid-leap, Frank and Ivy in the frame.

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  • The fire-escape alley: Ivy, Frank and the Magpie in hard noir light with one plum neon accent
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    The World, populated

    The Cast, in place

    “A noir graphic novel where I’m a detective who made one deal too many”

    Direction note

    Same World with the Cast standing in it — the faces stay locked from the pilot on.

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