Chapter 4 – Page 057
You just had to get her started on JD Rockefeller, didn’t you?
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Panel 1:
E-D squats in front of Nancy to level with her. Nancy glares.
E-D: So level with me here, what’m I doing that’s so evil, huh?
E-D: Clearing out poor people to make way for a mega-project, putting hard-working schlubs out of a job with automation.
E-D: Nothing that hasn’t already been done way bigger by, I dunno, Standard Oil or somebody, but I don’t see ya taking a bat ta JD Rockefeller.
Panel 2:
Nancy squints at E-D’s attempts at moral relativism.
NANCY: Firstly, he’s dead.
NANCY: Secondly, my predecessor once attempted to do just that given Rockefeller’s very well-documented position in the upper echelons of the Malign Forces of Randomness.
NANCY: But thirdly...since you’re asking why I’m not going after people like him right now...he got to that position by being evil the old-fashioned relativistic way. Money, lackeys, corruption, hard graft.
Panel 3:
E-D laughs and laughs.
NANCY: He didn’t cheat the laws of physics like you’re doing.
E-D: Ha! That’s what’s gotcha mad?! That I took a shortcut?!
E-D: That’s like locking up Al Capone for tax evasion! So I skipped some steps, big whoop!
Panel 4:
E-D shows off his golem army.
E-D: And look what I’m giving back!
E-D: The big boys have poured billions...trillions...inta mind-reading the average consumer and figuring out what to sell them before they even know!
E-D: And here I am, going straight to the source! Right now these bad boys are downloading the souls of everyone in London! Absorbing them! Becoming them!
E-D: After all, when ya get right down to it, what is a soul besides someone’s search history?
Panel 5:
Si stops struggling as she figures out E-D’s angle.
SI: Their lifelines! You’re reading people’s lifelines!
SI: So that’s how yer gonna deliver knick-knacks on the go! Someone fancies a frappuccino, the golem knows it before they even push the button!
NANCY: And that’s why it had to be golems. Regular robots wouldn’t do the trick.
NANCY: You needed the word made flesh.
Panel 6:
E-D looks very proud of his own genius.
E-D: That, and the best AI companies out there are in Israel!
NANCY: Y’telling me you didn’t even program these yourself?!
E-D: You try programming in hebrew.
E-D: Gotta say that lil’ request confused the heck outta them.
E-D squats in front of Nancy to level with her. Nancy glares.
E-D: So level with me here, what’m I doing that’s so evil, huh?
E-D: Clearing out poor people to make way for a mega-project, putting hard-working schlubs out of a job with automation.
E-D: Nothing that hasn’t already been done way bigger by, I dunno, Standard Oil or somebody, but I don’t see ya taking a bat ta JD Rockefeller.
Panel 2:
Nancy squints at E-D’s attempts at moral relativism.
NANCY: Firstly, he’s dead.
NANCY: Secondly, my predecessor once attempted to do just that given Rockefeller’s very well-documented position in the upper echelons of the Malign Forces of Randomness.
NANCY: But thirdly...since you’re asking why I’m not going after people like him right now...he got to that position by being evil the old-fashioned relativistic way. Money, lackeys, corruption, hard graft.
Panel 3:
E-D laughs and laughs.
NANCY: He didn’t cheat the laws of physics like you’re doing.
E-D: Ha! That’s what’s gotcha mad?! That I took a shortcut?!
E-D: That’s like locking up Al Capone for tax evasion! So I skipped some steps, big whoop!
Panel 4:
E-D shows off his golem army.
E-D: And look what I’m giving back!
E-D: The big boys have poured billions...trillions...inta mind-reading the average consumer and figuring out what to sell them before they even know!
E-D: And here I am, going straight to the source! Right now these bad boys are downloading the souls of everyone in London! Absorbing them! Becoming them!
E-D: After all, when ya get right down to it, what is a soul besides someone’s search history?
Panel 5:
Si stops struggling as she figures out E-D’s angle.
SI: Their lifelines! You’re reading people’s lifelines!
SI: So that’s how yer gonna deliver knick-knacks on the go! Someone fancies a frappuccino, the golem knows it before they even push the button!
NANCY: And that’s why it had to be golems. Regular robots wouldn’t do the trick.
NANCY: You needed the word made flesh.
Panel 6:
E-D looks very proud of his own genius.
E-D: That, and the best AI companies out there are in Israel!
NANCY: Y’telling me you didn’t even program these yourself?!
E-D: You try programming in hebrew.
E-D: Gotta say that lil’ request confused the heck outta them.