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A few anxious thoughts that have finally been put to digital paper (many more stay bumping around in my brain)

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A comic, page 1. My friend has a young child, reads the panel. A little boy runs across the grass, playing with a dandelion puffball. Will he grow up thinking AI images, writing, music are good? That they reflect reality? The boy, a little grown up, watches generic oversaturated AI cartoons on the TV. The dead-eyed AI child melts off the screen. Will he feel nostalgic for them? Generate instead of learning to create? A button being clicked, neglected art supplies pushed to the side.

Page 2. Will he grow up believing there's only one way to be a man? A neat lineup of muscles, cars, women, angry outbursts, money, wealth in tiny boxes. Then three heads with demon horns portraying tearful sadness, joy, fear, all connected by an LGBT flag.
Will he grow up to think heat deaths are okay? That snow is as distant as penguins? The boy is lying comfortably in a fetal position in the middle of a massive serpent's coil. The snake has money for scales, and inside it are natural disasters: drought and forest fires, algal blooms with dead fish and trees flowering in the middle of autumn, snowless winters and buses swimming through flooded streets.

Page 3, final. Will he grow up thinking that the way the world is right now is completely fine? The boy looks across a fiery landscape, seeing only shades of pink. Will his imagination be limited to the status quo? I hope not.
The last panel is dark and hard to make out. A small house is tucked away in the corner of the image with a moon and stars above it. A russian missile taking up most of the panel points directly at it. The last text is broken in half by the missile: "if he even grows up at all".

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