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An eight-panel landscape comic rendered in strong black ink with painted
amber, brown, rust, olive, and green CRT light. Ace remains lean and
dark-haired in a red work shirt, dark vest, jeans, and silver headphones.
Jack remains stockier, with sandy hair, mustache, square glasses, olive work
jacket, and tool belt. The setting is their crowded late-night garage.

The first panel shows only DJRC's typing hands and the back of a director's
chair labeled DJRC—WEBMASTER, avoiding any invented physical appearance. A
beige Codex terminal receives a short Ace-and-Jack idea while the characters
watch from the far side.

Codex unfolds into a large mechanical printing press that produces comic art
and organized paperwork. A completed ISSUE-006 packet visibly includes the
comic image, transcript, alt text, notes, credits, manifest, and checksums.
Ace and Jack place it in a local NITETIME FILES ARCHIVE cabinet bearing a
green PUBLIC seal.

A separate Syncthing mechanism links the local folder to files.nitetime.net.
Another distinct machine, the AUTOMATIC GOPHER PUBLISHER, reads MANIFEST.json
and displays STATUS: PUBLIC. It then builds a cozy Gopher reading room with an
index, transcript, and link back to the full Files release.

The wide final panel displays the whole workflow as a connected garage line:
IDEA to CODEX to COMPLETE RELEASE to FILES to GOPHER. The Files and Gopher
stations are labeled with their respective Nitetime hostnames. A carved
gopher holds an OPEN sign at the finished reading room, while a fresh blank
idea waits at the beginning. Ace is amazed that everything came from one
idea; Jack describes it as one complete release with two front doors.