Pluto Big Comic Original #24, 2007 Act 49 Surprise Party - Page 1 - - Page 2 - Gesicht: (splash) Epsilon: Gesicht's... Hate... In that instant... of his death... - Page 3 - [Hunter Valley, Australia] Epsilon: Whom did he hate...? From Tetsuwan Atom, "The Greatest Robot on Earth" PLUTO Act 49, Surprise Party Naoki Urasawa x Osamu Tezuka Produced by Takashi Nagasaki / Supervision: Makoto Tezuka / Assistance: Tezuka Production - Page 4 - Epsilon: It's been raining for three straight days... At this rate... I'll end up... Just like Gesicht... Robot: Epsilon... You have a visitor. - Page 5 - Robot: He looks very powerful... Hogan: Rain's really coming down. Hogan, Dept. of Science, Defence Office. Epsilon: Nice to meet you. Hogan: I've come about your personal safety. Since the murder of Agent Gesicht... It's been said that you are the next target. - Page 6 - Hogan: On the other hand... You're so much stronger than me that we can hardly be compared. The rain is the problem. For you. Because of your photon energy. I will escort you to a safe house. - Page 7 - Epsilon: But... the children... Hogan: We cannot drag the children into this. Epsilon: Today is my birthday, see... Hogan: Yes? Epsilon: The children are helping prepare for the occasion. It's to be a surprise party... Of course, it's not much of a surprise, seeing as I already know about it. Hogan: Can you make it quick? - Page 8 - Hogan: I am programmed to fight using myself as a shield. But I am not confident that I can last very long. Epsilon: Thank you. I'll do as you say. Kids: Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, - Page 9 - Kids: Happy BIRTHDAY dear Epsilon, Epsilon: Oh, you kids... Kids: Happy birthday to you! Yayyyyyy!! Happy birthday, Epsilon!! Epsilon: Thank you... Thank you so much, everyone. Kids: We have presents for you, Epsilon!! - Page 10 - Epsilon: Really? Oh, I'm so excited! Kids: Here you go! That's from us. Epsilon: It's a necklace. Did you make it? Kids: Yeah!! Epsilon: Oh, I love this hat... Kids: Look at that, Epsilon... It's your favorite thing. Epsilon: That must be the sun. Kid: Now you can be happy even on rainy days like today. - Page 11 - Epsilon: You're right! I'll feel much better. Kids: Yayyy!! See, I KNEW he would love that present!! Woman: All these children are war orphans... To them, Epsilon IS the sun. Kids: Hey, Wassily... Weren't you drawing something for him? C'mon, get it out! Epsilon: Is that right, Wassily? - Page 12 - Epsilon: Let's take a look... - Page 13 - Wassily: Bora... Epsilon: This is... Bora...? Wassily: Bora... Epsilon: Huh? Kids: Wassily's saying something that isn't "Bora"!! Epsilon: Shh... - Page 14 - Wassily: "The giant made the south pole in the desert..." Epsilon: Is he singing...? Wassily: "The giant flowed rivers of fire and floated mountains of ice..." "The giant caused many rains and floods..." "The giant ate fire and ice, and drank the rain..." "He ate the whole world..." - Page 15 - Wassily: "Bora" "Bora" Kids: Wow, Wassily! What a weird song!! Heeheehee hee hee!! - Page 16 - Hogan: Let's be going. Epsilon: Just five minutes. It's nice to see you again, Arnold. Arnold: Well, if it isn't Epsilon! How are you tod... Well, seeing the weather, I imagine the answer is "not good." It's sunny all across the United States of Thracia, though. Epsilon: I need to ask you something... Arnold: Okay! There's only one thing you ever ask me. The weather report robot Arnold predicts with confidence. Your rain... Will stop early tomorrow morning. - Page 17 - Arnold: Just hang in there until then. Don't waste your photon energy, that's all. Epsilon: It's not about that. It's about three years ago... Arnold: What about it? Epsilon: I want you to look at Persia, three years ago... Do you have any records of extreme natural phenomena? Something like in this picture... Arnold: What's that a picture of? Epsilon: Like, some inexplicable shift in the earth's crust, or... Arnold: Inexplicable...? Oh, yes!! Though it's not from Persia, nor is it from three years ago. Epsilon: Huh? - Page 18 - Arnold: On the center pillar of Thracia's fantastic Meteorology Center building in New Washington... This tiny crack started. Just the slimmest hairline fracture. Not only a year after it was built! Now that was some INEXPLICABLY bad construction. Epsilon: Arnold... I wasn't asking for a bad joke. Arnold: Sorry! Persia three years ago, was it? Hmmm... I don't see anything. There's smoke in the data... - Page 19 - Arnold: But it's the particular smoke of explosives in a war zone... Some of the orphans you took in were from here, weren't they? Epsilon: Yes... Arnold: Hmm... Is there... something... under the smoke? Something huge... - Page 20 - Epsilon: What's there? Arnold: It's totally indecipherable. Hogan: Epsilon, it's time. - Page 21 - Epsilon: I'll be back in no time. Kids: Where are you going? What about the rest of our party? Epsilon: It's a very sudden job I have to do. Kids: Awwww!! Epsilon: You behave while I'm gone. - Page 22 - Wassily: Huff. Huff. Huff. - Page 23 - Wassily: Huff. Huff. Epsilon: Wassily... Wassily: Ep... silon... Epsilon: You finally... Called me by my name... Wassily: Don't... die... - Page 24 - Epsilon: Don't worry... You don't have to worry. SFX: (crack) - Act 49 End -