Day 2 of 30

Today, a classic Greek myth...and I break the five panels rule.

PANDORA

Panel 1. The wilderness. People clad in skins and furs frolic around a bonfire waving torches in the air. Their faces are full of ecstasy and joy.

CAPTION The gift of fire had freed man from darkness. It was a golden age on earth.

Panel 2. Olympus. The gods stand in a circle around a naked Pandora, the epitome of classical beauty. She's covering herself with her arms and her eyes are downcast, her face demure, almost sad.

CAPTION Enraged Jupiter decided to punish him with another gift: the gift of beauty without restraint.

Panel 3. Mercury presents Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus. Epimetheus is totally smitten with the girl. Pandora gazes into his eyes lovingly. Mercury is smiling at the terrible joke. Only Prometheus who stands off to the side looks suspicious.

CAPTION Blinded by lust Epimetheus ignored his brother's foresight and accepted Pandora, gave her free reign of his home, forbidding only one thing.

Panel 4. Close-up on the infamous box, more of an urn in this iteration. The sides are decorated with paintings of all manner of grotesque sins. The top is sealed with red wax that drips down the side like blood. Pandora's hands hover over it.

CAPTION Epimetheus possessed the jar in which Cronus had bound all the evils that plagued man: diseases of the body and sins of the soul.

Panel 5. Pandora opens the urn and a tide of hideous evil pours out of it. The look on Pandora's face is one of horror.

CAPTION In her foolish curiosity Pandora opened it and unleashed hell upon man.

Panel 6. The wilderness again. Man now fights man with weapons of iron, the forest is denuded by greed and a few unfortunates stagger around infected with plague. Everywhere fire burns out of control.

CAPTION The golden age was over. Thanks to Pandora man had learned that fire can also burn.