Basement Noir: The Comic Horse Emerges

A muscular horse stands in a dim, concrete basement lit by a flickering bare bulb. Drawn in bold comic-book style with thick black ink, dynamic perspective, and exaggerated motion lines. High-contrast lighting casts long shadows across rough walls, exposed pipes, and scattered crates. The horse poses heroically as if leaping out of the panel, mane flying, with Ben-Day halftone dots adding texture. Include a chunky speech bubble above with a punchy word like 'Forward!' in a bold font. Color palette is either stark monochrome with electric blue or crimson accents, or vivid color flat tones typical of superhero comics, all in a cinematic, panel-by-panel composition.