DOOMSDAY
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[Full-page spread]
A dark neon city skyline. Giant holographic ads flicker: "SUBSCRIBE OR DIE." "CONTENT IS BLOOD." "WELCOME TO DOOMSDAY."
Digital rain falls, each droplet a line of streaming code.
Narration (Kai):
"The internet used to be a place for fun… now it's a battlefield."
Page 2
Panel 1: A grimy apartment. Two monitors glow in the dark. A livestream overlay shows Kai "ZERO" Hayashi, hoodie up, knuckles taped, face half-lit by the screen.
Chat:
[HOLLOWBOI69]: Bro, that dude came for your head!
[SN1P3RQUEEN]: Fight was fake, no way you dropped him like that.
Panel 2:
Kai replays a clip of himself knocking out a street boxer mid-livestream. 2.7M views.
Kai (thinking):
"One clip. One mistake. And now everyone knows my name."
Page 3
Panel 1:
A knock on the door.
Kai: "I didn't order food."
Panel 2:
A drone hovers outside the window — projecting a message in red holograms:
"YOU HAVE BEEN INVITED TO DOOMSDAY."
Panel 3:
Kai narrows his eyes.
Kai: "What the hell is Doomsday?"
Page 4
Panel 1:
Cut to a colossal underground arena — circular cage surrounded by LED walls streaming live comments.
Crowd chants: "STREAM! STREAM! STREAM!"
Panel 2:
A commentator in a chrome mask yells into a mic:
Commentator: "Welcome back to DOOMSDAY — where the content never dies, and neither do the ads!"
Panel 3:
Two fighters clash midair. Sparks, neon trails. One screams his channel name before being KO'd.
Panel 4:
Blood splashes across the lens — the chat goes insane.
[SPONSORBOT]: This brutality brought to you by RAID OF HONOR™
Page 5
Panel 1:
Kai enters a tunnel, surrounded by flickering holograms of influencers and fighters.
Each projection displays their follower count and Augment stats.
Panel 2:
A woman leans against the wall — tall, elegant, black lipstick, shades reflecting the neon.
Raven Vex: "You're the viral nobody everyone's talking about."
Kai: "Didn't know nobodies got invitations."
Raven: "They don't. You're an accident… and accidents don't last long here."
Page 6
Panel 1:
Arena lights blaze. Kai steps into the ring — the crowd's comments scroll across the walls in real time.
Panel 2:
His opponent: a massive bodybuilder streamer known as "GymGodTV."
Screaming fans spam:
[💪💪💪 GYMGOD GOATED 💪💪💪]
Panel 3:
A mechanical voice announces:
"FIGHT STARTS IN 3… 2… 1…"
Page 7
Panel 1:
GymGod charges, roaring: "Time to get those views, baby!"
His Augment activates — digital muscle fibers expand, glowing with hashtags.
Panel 2:
Kai sidesteps, counter-punches — impact freezes mid-frame with glitch effects.
Panel 3:
Kai's fist lands. The word "BUFFERING…" flashes across the screen.
GymGod staggers, confused.
Kai (smirking):
"Guess your stream lagged."
Text overlay:
Augment Activated: OFFLINE MODE.
Page 8
Panel 1:
Kai's movements become unreadable — he blinks in and out of visibility.
The audience's metrics vanish from the HUD.
Panel 2:
Comment section goes wild —
[ERROR 404: VIEWER DATA LOST]
[Who IS this guy?!]
Panel 3:
Kai delivers a brutal uppercut. GymGod crashes into the LED wall — the screen explodes in glitching pixels.
Panel 4:
Silence. Then —
Announcer: "AND THE NEW VIRAL CHALLENGER… ZERO!!!"
Page 9
Panel 1:
Raven Vex watches from the stands, expression unreadable.
Raven: "Offline Mode…? Interesting."
Panel 2:
Mr. Viral's hologram flickers to life behind her — featureless face, shifting like static.
Mr. Viral: "Every upload begins with blood."
Panel 3:
Close-up on his smile.
Mr. Viral:
"Welcome to DOOMSDAY, Kai Hayashi."
[TO BE CONTINUED…]