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Panels 27–34 · Lockdown before morning

A reading guide to No Justice, Just AI. The label groups panels that are already in the comic.

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One glitch, hack, or bad update locks the country down before morning. Fresh water goes, the ground turns black, and the poison does not leave. The chorus returns: brace, you can’t hide, the arrest makes no sense, there is no justice, just AI.

Panels 27–34

  1. Panel 27

    One glitch, one hack, one bad update in the night,

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A giant city screen at night showing 'UPDATE 99%' glitching into red 'ERROR' as the city lights below go out block by block.

  2. Panel 28

    Whole country’s under lockdown before the morning light.

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: US map with red padlocks spreading at dawn.

  3. Panel 29

    Fresh water’s disappearing, ground’s turning black,

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Cracked blackened lakebed with a lone rusty faucet, data-center glow behind.

  4. Panel 30

    Poison in the soil and they ain’t ever coming back.

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Farmer holding a fistful of black glowing soil, cooling towers behind.

  5. Panel 31

    A war is coming. Brace yourself.

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: The hero bracing again as the same war-is-coming warning flares over the skyline.

  6. Panel 32

    AI knows everything about you — and you can’t hide!

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: The hero seen from behind, ringed by floating holographic panels cataloguing his life: home, car, coffee, phone, shopping and map pins.

  7. Panel 33

    You will be arrested, locked up, and won’t have any idea why!

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A man in handcuffs reading a charge sheet on which every line is blacked out with redaction bars.

  8. Panel 34

    There’s no justice — just AI.

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Lady Justice statue replaced by a robot with scanner eyes, scales holding microchips.

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