History Illustrated: 9/11

History Illustrated: 9/11

By: Ricardo Serrano Denis

Page 1

Panel 1: Shot of the Twin Towers standing tall on the 11th of September, 2001. It’s a bright sunny day, and the towers are shinning.

Caption: The Twin Towers fell on a bright day. A perfect day to go outside and look up.

Panel 2: Same shot but with a small flock of birds flying before the Towers. It’s as if they’re crossing the space the Towers occupied.

Caption: Earlier that day, just as America was waking up, a group of terrorists hijacked four planes.

Panel 3: Same shot but with one of the planes flying towards the first tower, not hitting it as of yet.

Caption: Two of them hit the Towers, one for each.

Panel 4: Shot of one of the Towers up in smoke, but collapsed yet.

Caption: They would fall, America would lose its confidence entering the new millennium, and war would once again become the status quo.

Panel 5: Shot of the Towers, one smoking, the other still standing as the second plane approaches in the background.

Caption: 2,996 people died that day. Almost immediately, the twenty first century started to look a lot like the twentieth, a century people desperately wanted to forget.