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[[A man yells into a megaphone.]]
Man: Your government has turned against you! Corporations control your every thought! - Open your eyes!
[[Head-on view of man with megaphone.]]
Man: Wake up, sheeple! Wake up, sheeple! - WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!
((in between two panels))
[[The man takes the megaphone away from his mouth.]]
<<RUMBLE>>
[[A half-sheep
half-man creature rises through the cracking earth, holding aloft a gnarled staff.]]
<<B-A-A-A-A-A...>>
[[Close-up on the sheep-man's eye.]]
TEN THOUSAND YEARS WE SLUMBERED... NOW WE RIIIIIIIISE baaaaaaa
[[A clearly upset woman goes up to the man with the megaphone, hands held out in front of her plaintively.]]
Woman: OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!
Man: What? But I didn't-
Out-of-frame #1: He awoke the Sheeple!
OOF #2: Heaven forgive us!
OOF #3: All is lost!
{{Title text: Your will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors.}}
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