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Summary

Fourteen panel comic.

Based on a script by Matthew Wisner / Drawn @Bytwistwood

Setting: the roof of Mr. Roger’s house. The background is white is hints with occasional cloud. The house and its components are a tan or taupe color. Mr. Rogers is wearing black sneakers, taupe pants, a red cardigan sweater, a black tie, and a taupe shirt. Thor is wearing black and taupe boots, a black body suit with large taupe spots, a red cape, and a taupe winged helmet.

Panel 1: Mr Rogers is ascending a ladder up to the rooftop, from behind the house. Thor is sitting on the rooftop with one leg on either side, attaching an ACME lightning rod to the roof. A box of ACME lightning rods is nearby. Mjolnir is head-down on the apex of the roof between them.

Mr. Rogers: My! I thought I heard a commotion up here! Is that you, Thor?

Thor: Aye! Just going round town protecting homes from any storms I might… …be involved in.

Panel 2: Mr. Rogers is now sitting on the rooftop with his body facing the camera. He’s facing Thor and Thor has turned his body to face Mr. Rogers. Thor is still holding a lightning rod. Mr. Rogers has one hand on his ladder and the other on the roof apex.

Thor: Courtesy of SHIELD of course!

Mr. Rogers: Well then that’s much appreciated!

Thor: Two minutes and I’ll be done!

Panel 3: Mr. Rogers points gently at Mjolnir. Thor is out of the frame.

Mr. Rogers: Say, that’s an impressive hammer you have there. Would it be OK if I held it?

Thor: You certainly can, Mr. Rogers of the Hood.

Panel 4: Thor is smiling and working on the lightning rod, facing away from Mr. Rogers, who is off-panel.

Mr. Rogers: Is it heavy?

Thor: Well there are (emphasized) many who find it… …(all caps) IMMOVABLE. heh heh.

Panel 5: Same as panel 4 except Thor looks surprised.

Mr. Rogers: How interesting! It doesn’t (emphasis) seem very heavy to me.

Thor: Huh

Panel 6: The camera is facing down the apex of the roof. In the background Mr. Rogers is holding Mjolnir up as if it was a hair dryer or a balloon on a stick. It is clearly no effort for him to hold. In the foreground Thor has twisted his body to look back at Mr. Rogers with mild shock.

Panel 7: Mr. Rogers is the only one in the shot. He’s holding Mjolnir’s handle up near the head of the hammer. It is still clearly very light. Mr. Rogers is smiling with his eyes closed.

Mr. Rogers: But you know, sometimes life is a lot like that…

Panel 8: The camera is pointed down the apex of the roof, but this time with Mr. Rogers in the foreground, the camera facing his profile, still holding the hammer as if it were a toy. Thor has fully turned around to face Mr. Rogers and appears to be extremely shocked, with eyes and mouth wide open.

Mr Rogers: Something that may be very easy for one person… might be very difficult for another.

Panel 9: Mr. Rogers, facing the camera, from the shoulders up. We can see just a bit of Mjolnir’s head in the shot. Mr. Rogers is smiling.

Mr. Rogers: Have you fund this to be true?

Panel 10: Thor, turned toward Mr. Rogers, from the shoulders up. He still looks a bit shocked and there’s a drip of sweat on his forehead.

Thor: Uh, yes… yes I have.

Panel 11: Mr. Rogers is handing Mjolnir to Thor. Thor still looks shocked. Thor is watching Mr. Rogers with great intent. Mr. Rogers is fully relaxed.

Mr. Rogers: Do you know why that is?

Panel 12: The camera has zoomed out to show Mr. Roger’s whole house, with Mr. Rogers and Thor still on the roof. Thor is now holding Mjolnir and a lightning rod, twisted to face Mr. Rogers, who is sitting comfortably with his hands in his lap.

Mr. Rogers: I think that it’s because everyone is special and unique in different ways. Just because someone has difficulty lifting your hammer doesn’t mean they aren’t talented in other ways.

Panel 13: The camera has zoomed out to show the entire earth, with a black background full of stars, a dark tan set of oceans, and the north and south american continents in taupe.

Mr. Rogers: …In fact, I suspect those individuals… can probably do things that you and I would never dream of.

Panel 14. The camera is back on Thor and Mr. Rogers, but from behind them. We can’t see Thor’s expression but his body still looks a bit tense, shoulders high, holding Mjolnir. Mr. Rogers looks relaxed, hands still in his lap.

Thor: That is true. You are very wise, Sir Rogers, I am humbled by your counsel.

Mr. Rogers: And I am so glad you decided to visit today.