Two Million People in the Square

4 panels divided into 1 panel in the top row, 2 panels in the middle row, and 1 panel in the bottom row. 

Panel 1
(A white panel with black text. A black triangle with white text over it covers the top left corner.)
[Captions (on black triangle): Free giveaway: Mubarak and NDP supporters]
[Narration: You think that if you set unmarked cars on us to run us down . . . you’ll win us over? You think that if you set thugs armed with swords and Molotov cocktails on us . . . you’ll win us over?

We’re the ones whose hearts grew strong when the thugs threw bricks at us. We’re the ones who overturned the riot police trucks.

They’re the ones who overturned the truth and said that decent people were traitors and the toady was a patriot.

One thing only will win us over: for the President to step down and a transitional government to negotiate, at a minimum: 

That the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, and Information be ours. The Interior to have a civilian to head and reorganize it so as to serve the people and their security, not the President’s. Justice the same so as to draw up the articles of the constitution dealing with the formation of parties and the presidency. 

The Justice Ministry also to bring to trial those responsible for all excesses committed against the 25 January Revolution. 

$40 billion fund to be taken from Mubarak’s wealth to compensate for the excesses of his reign.

Abolition of the law restricting right of assembly before protesters leave the square.]

Panel 2
(A shadowy figure of Hosni Mubarak sits in profile in a carved chair, one arm propped on the arm rest. In front of him, smoke rises from a fire. Behind him, a large black bird sits in a tree. A white stick of Amir glue inside a black rectangle covers the top left corner frame. In the bottom right corner, a three-dimensional rectangular block extends from the panel.)
[Captions (in white text on black rectangle): Amir Glue]
[Narration (on rectangular block): Two million people in the square couldn’t get him off the chair.]
Mubarak: Let go of me!
Crowd (out of frame): We won't leave. He must leave.
Black bird: I love you, boss.

Panel 3
(Closer view of Hosni Mubarak, who sits in profile in the carved chair, wearing a suit. Shuttered windows are visible in the background.)
Crowd (from behind window shutters): We won’t leave. He must leave. 

Panel 4
(A white panel with black text, with a black circle enclosing some text and a black section covered in white text.)
[Narration (left side of panel): What the Mubarak regime means
“I’ll put my head on the block if anyone touches a demonstrator” = swords and machetes used against the demonstrators.

“We guarantee the freedom of all those taking part in the sit-in” = protesters thrown into police trucks on their way home.”]
[Narration (on black section): “No arrests” = arrest of two from Al-Badil newspaper and nine from the Khalid Ali law office that obtained a ruling that the minimum wage should be LE1200 (and just to make it worse, there were two members of Amnesty International with them to see for themselves).]
[Narration (in black circle): Make up your own mind:]
[Narration (below circled text): The people say: Step down now!
America says: Step down now!
Germany says: Step down now!
Israel says: Don’t you dare step down!]

1 panel fills the page.
(Sketch of a man wearing a baseball cap and a black vest. His left eye is obscured by shadows. Text on the panel is in red and black.)
Man: (in red) A man’s a man 
And a coward’s a coward.
We’re men
And we’re off to the square. 
(In black) We’ve been afraid (in red) all our lives. (In black) The first time I felt I was a human being was when I went to the square because the street was ours. It didn’t belong any longer to the thugs who’ve been scaring us. (In red) They don’t scare us any more. I’m going again, (in black) so I can hold my head high.
[Narration: Transitional government for one year to try the corrupt, change the constitution, and modify electoral systems, led by El Baradei and a committee of honest national forces, such as: Goudat El Malt (who outed Ahmed Izz), Ahmed Hishmet from the Muslim Brotherhood, counsellors Zakariyya and Nuha El Zeini from the protesting judges and Alaa Seif El Islam, a young electronic media activist. 

No existing parties, so that all honest people who were afraid of the terrorism of the Mubarak regime can come forward and form new parties on a sound basis.]

1 panel fills the page.
(A drawing of a woman in a tight superhero outfit is pasted onto the top left corner. A circle with a uniformed man leaning over a hooded face is pasted beside the woman. A black line covered in white text runs along the top of the frame, and black text covers the right side of the panel.)
[Narration (on black line): What we want]
[Narration (below black line): 1 - An end to the era of harassment
An end to police harassment. 
An end to harassment by thugs of people who want to live in safety.
An end to the harassment of girls walking in the streets. The streets belong to us all and we ought to be able to walk in them safely. 

2 - An end to the era of thuggery
A new police force like those in other countries, whose only job will be to apply the law evenhandedly. 
An end to the era of thugs protecting lawbreakers.

3 - Distribution of 80 million pounds from the fortune of Ahmed Ezz

4 - We choose our own president
Any one of us has the right to nominate himself for the presidency and to confront the other candidates in open debate. If he wins, he’ll be president for four years. If we like him, we’ll elect him for four more years only and if we don’t we’ll throw him out and bring in his rival, freely and without thuggery. 

Then our country will be like Europe and America.]
Hooded man: You bastard!