{
  "title": "The Archive That Found Them",
  "display_title": "ACE NITETIME & JACK STATIC: THE ARCHIVE THAT FOUND THEM",
  "series": "Ace Nitetime & Jack Static",
  "issue": "ISSUE-001",
  "type": "sunday-comic",
  "date": "2026-08-13",
  "status": "public",
  "image": {
    "file": "comic.png",
    "format": "PNG",
    "width": 1536,
    "height": 1024,
    "panels": 8
  },
  "files": [
    "comic.png",
    "README.txt",
    "ABOUT-THIS-COMIC.txt",
    "TRANSCRIPT.txt",
    "ALT-TEXT.txt",
    "FILELIST.txt",
    "CREDITS.txt",
    "STORY-NOTES.txt",
    "comic-script.txt",
    "TECHNICAL-NOTES.txt",
    "MANIFEST.json",
    "SHA256SUMS.txt"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "ace-nitetime",
    "jack-static",
    "nitetime.net",
    "archive",
    "old-internet",
    "ftp",
    "retro-computing",
    "recursive-fiction",
    "sunday-comic"
  ],
  "description": "Ace and Jack explore a physical NITETIME.NET filesystem and discover that the archive already contains them—and the comic being read.",
  "nitetime": {
    "files": true,
    "gopher_candidate": true,
    "mud_candidate": true
  }
}