Issue 7, Page 1
Transcript
1: In a dusty desert town sits a saloon. The signs on it and its neighboring buildings are in a non-English avian script. Francis Costgrove, a skinny, bespectacled sparrow in a three piece suit approaches the saloon. Townsfolk call into each other in untranslated, musical avian speech.
Caption: Clearwater, Nevada. Avian Territory. 1852.
2: A drink, an amber beer is poured from a pitcher into a glass, the doors to the saloon are pushed open by Francis.
3: The drink is pulled away by steady, tan-scaled avian hands, we see Costgrove standing nervously in the door.
4: We see part of the bar interior: welcoming yellow walls, with simple round tables. The nervous man approaches a man alone at a table with his clawed feet up on the table. The roadrunner sheriff, Ikal Tinalto, wears a wide brimmed sombrero and a striped poncho.
Francis: Um, terribly sorry to um… interrupt. Are you Sheriff Ikal Tinalto?
5: Ikal’s hard eyes peek out from under his hat.
Ikal: Who’s askin’?
Drunken schlub schmuck on the railing…
Bird words:
Aw
come
back
hey
And the wild west arc! There’s really not too many people speaking Avian here, despite it being mostly birds, and Dranorter is right again of course! I didn’t realize someone already did this. 😆
Though this does seem to be the place when punctuation was mostly removed from the Avian language.