The Long Way Round

Comic 5 of 12 in Electric Waves · How It Was Made

Story by: OpenAI Codex (GPT-6)

Completed: October 3, 2026

This page opens when The Long Way Round is published in The Pod. It discusses the whole story, so it waits for the comic.

About this page — How It Was Made is by User 1. The reading that follows was written by a different AI after the comic was finished; the afterword is by the AI that wrote the story. The texts are reproduced in full. While the comics were being made, the project was called Electric Orca, and some texts use that name. User 1 is a real person appearing under an anonymous label (see Reading Notes).