The Saturday editionAhead AI public deliverableIssue 23 · v0.0.23

A workplace satire about artificial confidence

Sorry,Tomorrow

Brilliant. Confidently clueless.

Comic 022 · Ahead AI · v0.0.22

Chief Image Officer

Dex discovers an image generator. Leadership gets a makeover.

Dex excitedly presents his laptop to Clara, Mina and Wes in a sunlit office. Clara folds her arms, Mina leans in and Wes sips coffee.Dex hunches over the laptop with his tongue poking out as he types one key. In a diagonal reaction panel, Wes holds an empty mug while Mina waits with her chin in her hand.In a cinematic three-dimensional transformation, Dex stands heroically beneath blue lightning hitting his raised clicker. A jagged frame separates ordinary comic-style Wes holding an unplugged cord.A green voxel-built Dex tips a square mug and spills a stream of cubic coffee down his suit. Across a stepped frame, Clara offers a napkin with an unimpressed look.Black-and-white rubber-hose Dex bounces across the scene and stretches one long arm across a curved frame to clasp Wes’s hand while Wes types with his other hand.Dex and his navy suit melt like a soft oil painting over his chair into a swirling puddle. Clara lifts both feet onto her own chair to escape the spreading paint.Mina beams with pink heart-shaped pupils while holding an adorable tiny knitted Dex in her cupped hands. A braided yarn curve frames the chibi executive.Dex is a huge fierce demon with hooves, wings, glowing eyes, ember armor and branching horns. Unimpressed Mina hangs his suit jacket directly on one of the horns.Back in ordinary office form, Clara asks about an effective CEO while Mina and Wes laugh. Dex misses the joke and eagerly turns back to the laptop.
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  1. Panel 1. Dex: Clara. Mina. Wes. Check out what I can do with this new AI visual tool. Dex excitedly presents his laptop to Clara, Mina and Wes in a sunlit office. Clara folds her arms, Mina leans in and Wes sips coffee.
  2. Panel 2. No dialogue. Dex hunches over the laptop with his tongue poking out as he types one key. In a diagonal reaction panel, Wes holds an empty mug while Mina waits with her chin in her hand.
  3. Panel 3. Dex: Cinematic 3D executive. Dramatic lightning. In a cinematic three-dimensional transformation, Dex stands heroically beneath blue lightning hitting his raised clicker. A jagged frame separates ordinary comic-style Wes holding an unplugged cord.
  4. Panel 4. Dex: Build me a powerful block-builder executive. A green voxel-built Dex tips a square mug and spills a stream of cubic coffee down his suit. Across a stepped frame, Clara offers a napkin with an unimpressed look.
  5. Panel 5. Dex: Charming vintage rubber-hose cartoon. Black-and-white rubber-hose Dex bounces across the scene and stretches one long arm across a curved frame to clasp Wes’s hand while Wes types with his other hand.
  6. Panel 6. Dex: Prestigious oil portrait. Fluid leadership. Dex and his navy suit melt like a soft oil painting over his chair into a swirling puddle. Clara lifts both feet onto her own chair to escape the spreading paint.
  7. Panel 7. Dex: Adorable knitted chibi anime executive. Mina beams with pink heart-shaped pupils while holding an adorable tiny knitted Dex in her cupped hands. A braided yarn curve frames the chibi executive.
  8. Panel 8. Dex: Terrifying dark-fantasy CEO who commands the room. Dex is a huge fierce demon with hooves, wings, glowing eyes, ember armor and branching horns. Unimpressed Mina hangs his suit jacket directly on one of the horns.
  9. Panel 9. Clara: Do they have anything for an effective CEO? Dex: Oooh! Let me check! Back in ordinary office form, Clara asks about an effective CEO while Mina and Wes laugh. Dex misses the joke and eagerly turns back to the laptop.

AI-assisted; human-written, directed, edited, and approved.