Walkers

Frame 1, introduces Orion and his situation as well as the main plot point (the weapon blueprint)

Frame 2, he breaks into the "great library" walker and steals some information to help him understand the blueprint

Frame 3, he finds a new walker and develops an idea to have his own walker

Frame 4, finds a mining walker

Frame 5, finds the walker factory only for it to be blown up in front of him. In the mayhem he finds a piece of the weapon and sets out on a new journey, to complete the bomb in order to join a walker.

Frame 6, finds an ancient walker with one of the components and a map to an undiscovered strange walker and the final component.

Frame 7, Orion goes to the walker first and finds it destroyed, he vows to get revenge on the infected that ruined his life and dreams and heads out to get the last component.

Frame 8, Orion finds the final component, but it's in the heart of the wildblight and he decides to sacrifice himself to set off the bomb and kills the wildblight saving humanity. 

Frame 1: comic section- we start our journey with a scene of death and destruction of an event called "city fall"(cities destroyed by the wildblight(the name of the mutation that invaded earth via a roaming asteroid that contained a strain of the virus)). Ever since humanity has moved into the walkers (moving cities) and "felled" (people who survived a city fall) have been viewed as less than human to city dwellers and are incapable of joining new cities, damned to roam the earth alone on foot. As Orion wakes from his nightmare, he packs his bags and sets out to roam the barren earth for any type of supplies useful to their survival. While looting a pre-historic ruin of times past (current day civilization) they discover a set of designs for a type of weapon? Orion isn't really sure since they can't read or write and decides to just take the sheets with him as he travels in hopes of finding answers and survival. 

Frame 2: The library of the gods- As Orion travels the world he discovers the library of the gods, a library so vast its rumored to contain even pre-historic texts. As a felled he can't enter, but over the years he's learned to break into walkers and through this skill he learns that the blueprint is for a weapon capable of destroying the virus once and for all! 

Frame 3: Unexpected Encounter- as Orion wanders, he stumbles across ______, a brand-new walker that extrudes luxury and wealth. It's covered in protective barriers, advanced defenses, and even skyscrapers adoring its interior. Upon viewing this modern walker, a thought occurs to Orion, where are walkers created? He is aware that Walkers obtain citizens upon first production by picking up the Felled and creating a new generation, but he's unsure of where they're created. Perhaps if he finds this factory of walkers, he can become the first to join a walker, a sign of divine intervention for the felled and would promote him to an emperor-like status within the walker. With that goal in mind, he sets out to find the factory. 

Frame 4: Collection Walker- As Orion searches for the factory, he discovers a collection walker. These walkers don't contain any human personnel and operate with the sole purpose of collecting resources needed to create more walkers. With its giant drill and massive rock crushing legs, it destroys the surrounding area for the sake of walker creation. 

Frame 5: Hopes Dashed- Orion has been traveling for years now through every terrain and season. He's also managed to amass some minor fame for surviving as long as he has as a felled. It's common for felled to die very quickly, but Orion has a special talent in avoiding the wildblight and has managed to survive enough for multiple walkers to find him twice earning him some isolated recognition. Walkers can't communicate with each other as the Wildblight can read radio waves, so all communication is limited and often only oral tales are capable of traveling between walkers, but somehow Orion has become a sort of folk tale and gained recognition. Orion knows he's close to the factory because he's been seeing more and more collection walkers recently which seem to be converging on one location. Orion travels to find the factory when suddenly a flare garners his attention. Flares are rare in this wasteland and also very dangerous because just as humans can detect them as signs of help, the wildblight sees them as a beacon for free food. As such flares have become synonymous with imminent defeat and a signal of a last hoorah. In a world where life is dependent on hiding yourself and always moving, the flare symbolizes a life of struggle and refusal to conform and die quietly. Orion identifies a safe cliff to view the flare from and is shocked by what he finds. It's the factory and it's under attack! Orion is unable to do anything against the wildblight in a head on conflict and decides to simply watch from a distance. The doors are breached and an eerie silence swallows the valley. Suddenly BOOM! A huge explosion goes off and throws Orion off his feet. As he regains composure, he realizes that the crew decided to shoot the flare to attract the wildblight and then self-destruct the factory. A noble death. Then suddenly a burning object flies past Orion. It's a small metal contraption and Orion instantly recognizes it. He pulls out the blueprint from all those years ago and identifies it as the first part of the weapon. Knowing that he won't get another chance to find a factory, Orion decides to peruse the other parts of the weapon in hopes of using it as a bargaining tool to join a walker.

Frame 6: Ancient Walker- as Orion travels he discovers an abandoned, run down, stone walker. He's confused because walkers have been created using metal since before history was written and he's never seen a stone version before. Furthermore, this stricken walker has art on it and practically no advanced defenses. Orion, confused by this strange walker, decides to explore. Inside he finds ancient books, statues of men with no clothes on, and a suspiciously advanced looking laboratory. He decides to visit the lab only to find the second piece of the weapon! He's so close to his goal of joining a walker and finds a map inside the lab with 2 areas marked. He knows these locations! They're far, but he can reach them if he spends a few years and at this point, he'd walk for eternity just to live in a walker for 1 day. One of the marks looks like a walker, but its shape is weird. It has a pointed bottom with no discernable purpose and has 6 very long legs. He's never seen a walker like it, which is saying a lot because he's seen every walker through his journey as a felled. The other icon is of a bowl looking thing until he realizes that it's the final part of the weapon! At this point he paid it no mind, there's a walker that he's never seen before and is apparently waiting for him? Who cares about the bomb, if he can get his hands on that walker he'd be a walker captain! And so, he sets out for the walker icon on his map, oblivious to the turn of fate his tale will take. 

Frame 7: Dreams of weapons- Orion sets out once again on a decade long journey. Following the map he eventually finds the walker, his walker! However, once he arrives, he finds it in tatters. It's been demolished and gutted for what seems like eons. It's covered in rust and decay and the legs are broken and bent. He's distraught and angry, why can't the world just accept him! Why was he destined to be a wandered instead of blessed to be born into a walker?! He's been moving for decades, always on the run and constantly hiding from the wildblight. He's alone, tired, and angry at the world. In a fit of rage, he smashes the walker he thought would be his and causes a small avalanche of scrap metal, nothing serious, just a final f-u from the world. As he sits under the scrap he thinks about his life. The pain, the destruction, the death and wails. He's sick of it. He's had it with walkers and this stupid wildblight. In that moment he makes a vow, he will destroy the wildblight, whatever the cost. For taking his parents, his community, his walker, and damning him to decades of endless torment, he will have his revenge.

Frame 8: the savior- Orion has changed. Where once lived a boy, scared of the world and living in fear, how resides a man willing to die for his revenge. The map! He looks and finds that the mark he put his whole life on barely even mattered anymore, all that mattered was that little component location. He sets off into the unknown. This area is known for being especially dangerous and walkers are programmed to not go within 3,000 miles of it, however Orion is undeterred. He sets off into certain death with a purpose and doesn't look back. Time passes. He doesn't know how much. Orion stopped counting the years that he's been walking for a long time and his age is catching up to him. However he pushes forward, living to die a meaningful death. At last, he arrives at the marked location and to his surprise he finds a walker. It's long destroyed and resembles the ancient stone one he found all those years ago, but he sees it right in front of him. Suddenly a wave of fear flows over him. As he looks at the walker from a far, he innately feels it. His hairs stand on end, his body shakes in fear, and his breath becomes ragged. As he looks into the walker through a pair of binoculars he sees it, a mesh of biocomponents combined into a tower of dread and suffering. He can almost feel it in his bones, that's the wildbliight. Nobody knows the source of the wildblight or how it arrived on earth as that history has long been lost, but Orion is positive in his fear and sets out for his last journey. As he approaches, he sees a strange structure atop the glass dome, almost like a shrine. As good of a place as any he decides to start his search there for the final component. However what he fails to realize is that the city below is filled with the wildbligth and the whole walker might as well be its body. Immediately as he starts climbing, he hears it, a disturbing and primal scream. He knows as he hears it that it's the wildblight and picks up the pace. As he climbs the glass dome the infected arrive and scamper after him up the glass. He reaches the structure in time and locks himself in. He's surrounded and knows his end is near. If only he could have found that last part he could have destroyed the wildbligth for good! As he curses himself, he sees it. In the center of the room lies a statue of a woman he can't identify, but immediately understands her identity. She wears a lab coat and holds a box like it's the only thing that matters in the whole universe. As he approaches the statue he is berated with a wave of hatred! He feels rage and pain and sadness all washing over him with almost a physical impact. He pushes against it as he walks toward the statue and as he reaches it everything stops. The world goes silent and it's as if nothing exists but him and the statue. He reaches out to the box and a new emotion hits him. It's strange to Orion. As a felled his whole life he's never felt any emotion besides hatred and pain. He's lived his whole life with the sole purpose of survival, he's acknowledged that he is alone and after his failure with his walkers, he feels as though he's lost everything. But this warmth arises. It grows and grows, it's uncontrollable! And then he understands. This is hope. Hope of all those that have suffered, all those who have died, all whose lives have been destroyed by the wildbligth have all put their hope in him. He opens the box and finds the missing piece. BAM! The wildblight broke in! He quickly grabs the piece and looks for an exit but can't find one. All he sees in a hole in the wall that has no floor below it. As he's backed into that corner he looks down and finds the wildblight right below him. He's been trying to combine the last piece, but it won't go in! The mutants are closing in and he's out of time! He jumps! As he's falling and desperately trying, but failing to put the pieces together. For a moment he accepts death. He tried his whole life to survive and was filled with despair when his life flashed before his eyes. A life of pain and struggle ending like this? NO! He resolves himself and tries one more time. Click! It snaps together. His whole life Orion has felt like he's been missing something. Family, love, joy, happiness? He's never been able to identify it until this very moment. As he's falling in his final moments, he smiles. He feels purpose inside him. He arms the weapon, holds it in one hand, and with the other, a signal he doesn't truly understand. He pulls out his middle finger and hits the trigger.