Short Webcomic: Do A.I.s Dream?

[Amerist]

There's only 5 panels total, I didn't make more. I did it as an opener for a the Black Hat Magick novel series.

http://www.blackhatmagick.com/do-ais-dream/0-in-the-beginning/

I am not that great of an artist; but I figured that I could get away with something akin to "A Softer World" and put some of my skills practicing making comic strips to use (I did a single comic about crime fighting orange juice a while back and recycled my template.)

 

[Gnug215]

Interesting stuff.

I thought the artwork was very good, but then, it was pretty abstract.

So was the "story". I didn't get it.

 

[Amerist]

Sadly the whole comic set is too short to really outline what it's about to people who haven't been reading stories involving Hadaly. She's an Artificial Intelligence written and raised by Elaine Mercer (from the Black Hat Magick stories.) I named her after Hadaly from "The Future Eve" ("L'Ève future"), a novel by author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. The name is actually also Elaine's middle-name given to her by her parents, and that makes Hadaly, in a way, Elaine Junior. The Hadaly from "The Future Eve" is an artificial woman designed by a great inventor -- and Hadaly from BHM is also an artificial person.

I wanted to explore, at least a little bit, what it might be like to discover sentience. Plus, I figured it'd be a fair hook to deliver people to read "Dread Vote" and possibly the next few novels. Hadaly doesn't have that big of a role in the first one, but she'll become more prominent as I explore her character.

One of my artists, Rebecca Gunter, made me a portrait of her to go with the story. I haven't written up her character bio yet...

 

[Lallapalalable]

That was really cool. I read this a while ago and I guess I forgot to comment :facepalm:
but yeah, excellent stuff.