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A landscape Sunday comic page in eight numbered panels, read from left to
right and top to bottom. The title, ACE NITETIME & JACK STATIC: THE ARCHIVE
THAT FOUND THEM, stretches across the first wide panel. The artwork uses
heavy ink, painted browns and ambers, deep shadows, and green CRT light.

Ace is a lean, dark-haired man in a rust-red rolled-sleeve shirt, dark vest,
jeans, and silver headphones. Jack is stockier, with sandy hair, a short
mustache, square glasses, an olive work jacket, and a tool belt. Their
clothing and silhouettes remain consistent throughout the page.

They stand inside an immense physical version of the NITETIME.NET archive.
Beige computer towers rise like buildings. Filing cabinets become doors,
server aisles become stairways, and floppy disks form a bridge over green
machinery. Warm hanging lamps mix with phosphor glow. Small details include
a Wisconsin banner, tape reels, a Commodore 64 disk, RADIO 608 material,
a UFO? box, and signs for music, radio, recovered files, and comics.

Ace is intrigued by the impossible place while Jack identifies its practical
filesystem rules and warns him away from a rattling TEMP drawer. They follow
/COMICS/ to /ACE-AND-JACK/, where ISSUE-001 contains drawings of the moments
they have just lived. Jack then holds a file named comic.png whose thumbnail
is the same comic page, creating a visual recursion.

In the final wide panel, the viewpoint pulls outside a giant green CRT. Ace
and Jack now appear inside its screen, asking whether they are in the archive
or being read. Two empty chairs face the computer. Ace's headphones hang on
one chair and Jack's tool belt hangs on the other, suggesting their physical
selves may be missing from the room. A mysterious hand presses ENTER. A path
card reads /COMICS/ACE-AND-JACK/ISSUE-001/, and a second screen announces
FILE SAVED.