LICD: BEGINNINGS #823 TITLE BOX In the title box, RAYNE is in the kitchen and yells out. RAYNE FAMILY MEETING! NEXT PANEL, cut to MOM and DAD rushing to the kitchen. MOM Can he call these? DAD I’ll check the bylaws later. NEXT ROW INSIDE -KITCHEN. MOM and DAD are sitting at the kitchen table, and RAYNE addresses them. RAYNE You’re wondering why I brought you here. MOM Where’s your brother? RAYNE explains. RAYNE He wasn’t invited. RAYNE As his presence will not help my case. DAD And the case being… RAYNE gets right to it. RAYNE I would no longer like to attend school. MOM Oh. RAYNE lays out his proposition. RAYNE I would like to devote my life to becoming a Ninja. MOM Gets up, but DAD is willing to hear him out. RAYNE And then possibly joining the Yakuza. MOM I’m going to make supper. DAD Hang on, sounds like he’s really thought this through.