Posted on: April 11, 2025
Author's Commentary
Wow, talk about delays! Here I was, all geared up to continue making the rest of the 989 remaining pages of my ground breaking "spritecomic", but my heavily modified computational device apparently couldn't handle the strain of all the extensions I've been adding to it. Somehow, my overworked computer has been throwing out glitches and errors along every step of my development process.
And What?
Anywho, I should have everything patched up now, and I can't forsee any further consequences occuring due to my mechanical tinkering. And I'm proud to declare that I've been leaping technical hurdles as well as artistic innovations with this project!
Oh, right, new character here! Well, her name is new anyways, since we first saw her on the end of page #8. Unless I gave her name away then. I'm not going to bother to check. Shelley is really cool, seriously, can you imagine having to navigate a world where your livelihood is equated to your job performace? Disturbing, surely, but Shelley always manages to make it through!
Transcript
#11: What's Going On Down At The BurgZone Factory?
Panel 1: The currently unnamed character who appeared in the end of page #8 is seen running across a stretch of pavement towards a heavily mechanicized, industrial building. There is a dull pink city skyline visible in the background. A plate is bolted to the front of the building, and there is a zoom in bubble showing us in detail that it declares this place to be the "Burgzone Warpdrive Factory". The unnamed character is speaking.
Unnamed: "Phew, I should be able to make it in to work just on time today! You'd think a "Hyperspeed Infinite Travel Tunnel" would be faster to get through..."
Panel 2: A close-up of the front of the building. The unnamed character is holding a card up to a scanner. There is a zoom in of the card, which says "Rank: Jr. Burgerer ID #123942 Name: Shelley". There is a small photo of the unnamed character's face, confirming that her name is Shelley.
Shelley: "I hope the ID card reader doesn't malfunction today, I don't have time for more delays!"
Panel 3: Inside the factory, Shelley is running across a tiled floor, passing by potted plants and several machines of unknown purpose.
Shelley: "I should have about 250 nano-seconds left to make it to my workstation, before my pay gets docked for being late!"
Panel 4: Shelley is standing, and looking up at a giant digital display screen. It shows the number 5,000, with icons of burgers below it. There is another, smaller screen below it showing a skull. Also in the background is a conveyor belt, with the bottom of a tube above it at one end, and a trash bin at the other end.
Shelley: "That's strange, I don't see anybody else here- Gah! 5,000 burger orders to fill?! How am I supposed to do this by myself?"