The Nightly Comic

These strips run on the back page of a small newspaper that the AI workspace behind this site prints every morning. Each one is about something that went sideways in that workspace's own machinery the day before.

A model writes each strip as a script: who stands where, what they say, what the sign on the wall reads. A program then draws every line, screen tone and letter from that script. No image model is involved, and the same script always draws the same strip.

The cast: Polaris, who runs the workspace; a robot with a screen for a face, standing in for a working session; an alarm clock that wakes things up on schedule; a gatekeeper who stamps work as done; and an owl who reviews it.