A Castlori comic · Opening-page preview
Lori Builds Castlori
One small website. One doomed notebook.
Lori arrives with a question. Mask notices the notebook. Before the opening page is over, a supposedly small website has become a much bigger proposition.
This playful comic follows Lori and Mask into the idea of building Castlori. Start with Chapter 001: The Rabbit Hole; the opening chapter contains eight comic pages.
Continue beyond the preview in the Castlori reader.
Read Chapter 001 on Castlori
Opening-page transcript
Read the page from top to bottom, then left to right within the final panel.
- Panel 1
Caption: Day One · September 11 · 10:16 AM.
Lori: “Can Codex rebuild Janitor AI?”
- Panel 2
Mask: “That was one question. Why did you bring an entire notebook?”
- Panel 3
Lori: “Just in case it turns into a small website.”
Mask: “That notebook is doomed.”
A setup, a reaction, and a payoff
The first panel gives the pair a question and a shared desk. In the second, the notebook becomes the focus of Mask’s reaction. The final panel lets the object carry the joke: its pages stretch across the desk while Lori still calls the project small.
If you are planning a comic scene, try describing what changes in each panel before writing more dialogue. Here the expanding notebook makes the escalation visible. Your own scene could use a changing expression, a moving object, or a new piece of information instead.
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