ACE NITETIME & JACK STATIC
THE ARCHIVE THAT FOUND THEM

SUNDAY COMIC SCRIPT — 2026-08-13

PAGE DESIGN
One large landscape Sunday page, eight panels. A wide title panel spans the
top. Panels 2-4 form the middle row. Panels 5-7 form a lower row. Panel 8 is
a wide final panel. Reading order is unmistakably left-to-right, top-to-bottom.

CHARACTER KEY
Ace Nitetime: lean, dark-haired, late 30s; rolled-sleeve rust-red work shirt,
dark vest, jeans, small silver radio-headset resting around his neck. Curious,
alert, and delighted by strange technology.

Jack Static: stockier, early 40s; sandy hair, short mustache, square glasses,
olive work jacket over a cream T-shirt, jeans, practical tool belt. Dry and
observant. He carries a flashlight and a small beige keyboard.

PANEL 1 — ARRIVAL
Visual: A vast, impossible old-computer archive. Beige server racks rise like
buildings; green CRTs glow among filing cabinets, magnetic-tape reels and
bundled cables. Ace and Jack stand beneath a large NITETIME.NET sign. Doors and
aisles are labeled /MUSIC/, /COMMODORE/, and /RADIO/.
Dialogue:
ACE: This isn't the server room.
JACK: Too much room.

PANEL 2 — THE LOGIC
Visual: They approach an aisle whose huge overhead label reads /ARCHIVE/.
The aisle bends upward impossibly like a staircase through server racks.
Dialogue:
ACE: That's not a hallway?
JACK: It's /ARCHIVE/.

PANEL 3 — THE RULE
Visual: Jack stops Ace from opening a hot, rattling drawer labeled TEMP. Nearby
are a floppy labeled C64, a reel labeled RADIO 608, and a slim box marked UFO?.
Dialogue:
JACK: Don't touch TEMP.
ACE: Wasn't going to.
SFX from drawer: TIK TIK TIK

PANEL 4 — FILESYSTEM WEATHER
Visual: They cross a bridge made of giant floppy disks. A green cursor blinks
in the dark below. Directory signs point to /RECOVERED/ and /COMICS/.
Dialogue:
ACE: The archive has weather.
JACK: That's the cooling fan.

PANEL 5 — DISCOVERY
Visual: The men reach a filing-cabinet door labeled /COMICS/. Inside is another
door labeled /ACE-AND-JACK/. Ace is thrilled; Jack is suspicious.
Dialogue:
ACE: We have a directory!
JACK: We have a problem.

PANEL 6 — THEMSELVES
Visual: Open drawers contain comic pages showing earlier moments from this very
page: their arrival, the TEMP drawer, the floppy bridge. A folder tab reads
ISSUE-001.
Dialogue:
ACE: It already drew us.
JACK: Better angles than security cameras.

PANEL 7 — THE CURRENT FILE
Visual: Jack holds up a glowing file card labeled comic.png. Its thumbnail is
the complete eight-panel page, including Jack holding the card. Ace peers over
his shoulder. A CRT behind them clearly reads FILE OPEN.
Dialogue:
ACE: Is that this comic?
JACK: Don't scroll.

PANEL 8 — RECURSIVE REVEAL
Visual: Wide pullback. Ace and Jack stand inside the final panel displayed on
an enormous green CRT. In the foreground, outside that CRT, two small empty
chairs face the screen. One chair has Ace's radio headset draped over it; the
other has Jack's tool belt. A beige keyboard's ENTER key is depressed by
nothing. A tiny directory path reads /COMICS/ACE-AND-JACK/ISSUE-001/.
Dialogue inside screen:
ACE: Are we inside the archive?
JACK: Depends who's reading.
Caption: FILE SAVED.

LETTERING NOTES
Dialogue must remain concise and exactly match the wording above. Essential
environment text: NITETIME.NET, /ARCHIVE/, /COMICS/, /ACE-AND-JACK/. Secondary
labels may be omitted if they cannot be rendered cleanly. No pseudo-text.