dogbad

VIEW EPISODES 01 and 02 AS A SLIDESHOW!

1. The dasht- we call it the desert. High in a remote mountainous region, known to us crackers only as an enormous blank area on our maps, a lone figure slowly makes his way across the horizon.
2. From out of the purple mountains’ majesty comes the Snake Shaman. Nobody knows the Shaman’s real name. He won’t tell. Only the snakes know his name, and they know the Snake Shaman better than anybody.
3. When the Snake Shaman beckons the snakes follow. These noble reptiles have vowed to follow the Snake Shaman wherever he leads them.
4. When the Shaman goes to town, the snakes all follow.
5. The Old Wizard enters the town of Dogbad, with his scaly entourage. The townies are not amused. The rodents worry.
6. Nonetheless, there are two townies who are very easily amused: Loafing in the shade on the front porch of the Dogbad Saloon, it’s handsome (if a bit slovenly) outlaw Kit McKlaw, and his sidekick Suicide Cat.
7. Kit McKlaw asks his pal Suicide if he’s ever seen this stranger.
8. Suicide Cat blinks in the mid-day glare. His eyes are unsteady, but he’s sure he’s never seen this strange-looking character before.
9. McKlaw is a friendly fellow. He hails the old man with the stick and the stone tablet under his arm. Recalling that sticks and stones can’t hurt him, (or something like that), Kit inquires as to the Shaman’s business.
Suicide Cat eyes the stranger suspiciously.
10. The Shaman wheels and pronounces something in an unfamiliar tongue- his bescaled entourage move as one. They project a menacingly choreographed glare toward the uncomprehending feline cowpokes.
11. McKlaw tries to understand; he thinks the Shaman is asking directions. Suicide tries to bluff his way with an air of don’t care.
12. He points down the street to a local gambling establishment, “The Golden Derivative”.
13.  McKlaw continues  trying to help; Suicide is snotty.
14.The old Wizard loses patience with such seeming impertinence.
15. The Shaman is an important guy, not to be trifled with. He is nobody’s sweetheart and he tells them so.
16. Poor Kit McKlaw is taken aback by the old man’s outburst. With no idea what this geezer was on about, he is unsure what to think.
Neither does Suicide know what to think, but he doesn’t care.
There is nothing he can do about it, so he decides to forget it. Within minutes both cats are snoring.

Meanwhile, downtown, the vice-president has gone mad.