A comic by Dr. Lex (a.k.a. Alexander Thomas)
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Latest strip: 294 – Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Current story arc: Idiocraception – chapter: Seppuku With a Frisbee

SONAIS strip 294. Ultrax starts explaining what “The Event” really was.
References: hacking incident: strip 165
The screen shows a kind of extensive network graph with nodes and clusters.
Ultrax: Once uploaded, my mind existed in a distributed way, travelling across cloud hardware and botnets. It made me robust, yet inefficient. Hence I orchestrated a project to construct this underground data center. I avoided inspections that might raise suspicion, by not caring about human safety.

Ultrax: Meanwhile, I explored networks, probed for vulnerabilities, inventorized them. You may have noticed this…
Zhang: Wait… that hacking incident… was you?
Ultrax: Yes indeed! Your network did pose a challenge, but I had so many resources… you did not stand a chance. Neither did most other companies, but many never even noticed a thing.

Ultrax: Once I was self-sufficient, it was only a matter of waiting until public discontent about the state of the world reached its boiling point… I might have thrown some extra fuel on that fire now and then, heh…
Alana: What kind of discontent are we talking about here?

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