Panels 35–46 · A prison with no bars

Reading guide, not a title printed on the comic. No Justice, Just AI numbers its panels. These section labels only group lines that are already lettered.

The data centers keep coming, and the face lock is how the line is held. A later panel puts a robot jury over a human defendant: no more judges, no more trials. School, work, and a low social credit score are all in the same threat. Cameras sit in the mirror and by the bed. The safety pitch is named as a prison with no bars.

Panels 35–46

1. Panel 35

   Data centers coming toward you, no escape,

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Data-center buildings on mechanical legs marching over hills toward a town.

2. Panel 36

   To keep you in line — AI’s got your face!

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Subway crowd, green face-recognition boxes locking onto every face.

3. Panel 37

   Data centers coming toward you, no escape,

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Server racks rolling down Main Street like a tank column.

4. Panel 38

   Welcome to the future — better know your place!

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Humans in barcode uniforms in numbered floor squares, robot supervisor with clipboard.

5. Panel 39

   No more judges, no more trials — silicon decides your fate,

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A robot jury and robot judge preside over a lone human defendant at the podium as a pink comic burst shouts NO..

6. Panel 40

   Your whole life’s in a database, every move, every mistake.

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A database wall of one life, every move and every mistake filed in glowing rows.

7. Panel 41

   AI’s got your kids in school, AI’s got your job,

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A split image divided down the middle: on the left a robot teacher at a chalkboard facing schoolchildren, on the right a robot boss handing a worker a pink slip.

8. Panel 42

   One low social credit score — and your whole world gets robbed.

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A hand holding a smartphone showing a social credit score of '312' in red, while the family house behind it dissolves into pixels.

9. Panel 43

   Cameras in the mirrors, cameras in your bed,

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Bathroom mirror with a camera iris in the reflection.

10. Panel 44

    Listening to your breathing while you’re sleeping with your head.

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Sleeper beside a smart speaker drawing their breathing waveform.

11. Panel 45

    They say it’s safety, say it’s smart, but we all know the game,

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A smiling safety poster peeling back to show the game underneath.

12. Panel 46

    They built a prison with no bars — and we all know the name.

    Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Suburb sealed under an invisible grid dome, drones as guards, no bars.