Tales from the Sanguine Box

PANEL 19 INT. CONTROL ROOM - MONDAY MORNING Sanders walks back in, sipping a giant coffee. He’s still wearing the YOLO shirt. The red lights of the server room hum normally below. SANDERS: Alright. Weekend’s over, Neil. Rise and shine.

PANEL 20 Sanders’ monitor screen. A progress bar is stuck at 99%. Huge red text flashes over it. TEXT: WAKE-UP SEQUENCE HANGING. SYNAPTIC OVERLOAD IMMINENT.

PANEL 21 Sarah leans over Sanders' shoulder, authoritative and worried. Dr. Sanders looks annoyed. SARAH: Whoa, Doctor, it's hanging hard. You force a wake-up now, you'll scramble his frontal cortex.

PANEL 22 Dr. Sanders types rapidly, bypassing warnings.DR. SANDERS: Sarah If I don't do something fast his brain is going to be jelly. I'd rather not explain to Halloway, why I liquified a petty criminals brain.

PANEL 19 INT. CONTROL ROOM - MONDAY MORNING Sanders walks back in, sipping a giant coffee. He’s still wearing the YOLO shirt. The red lights of the server room hum normally below. SANDERS: Alright. Weekend’s over, Neil. Rise and shine.

PANEL 20 Sanders’ monitor screen. A progress bar is stuck at 99%. Huge red text flashes over it. TEXT: WAKE-UP SEQUENCE HANGING. SYNAPTIC OVERLOAD IMMINENT.

PANEL 21 Sarah leans over Sanders' shoulder, authoritative and worried. Dr. Sanders looks annoyed. SARAH: Whoa, Doctor, it's hanging hard. You force a wake-up now, you'll scramble his frontal cortex.

PANEL 22 Dr. Sanders types rapidly, bypassing warnings.DR. SANDERS: Sarah If I don't do something fast his brain is going to be jelly. I'd rather not explain to Halloway, why I liquified a petty criminals brain.

Tales from the Sanguine Box - Episode 1: The Long Weekend

Created by: Artalva - Brian Alvarez Publisher: Artalva Genre: Sci-Fi Horror / Dystopian Thriller Format: Webcomic

About Tales from the Sanguine Box: Tales from the Sanguine Box is a dark science-fiction webcomic exploring a futuristic justice system where criminals are sent to the mysterious Sanguine Box — a machine that doesn't imprison bodies, but steals time itself through subjective dilation.

This Episode: In Episode 1: The Long Weekend, petty thief Neil Fogheart is sentenced to a routine weekend in the Sanguine Box. But when a negligent technician leaves the system unmonitored during an unexpected glitch, a simple small-time sentence goes terribly wrong.

Main Character: Neil Fogheart — Petty thief sentenced to experimental time-dilation punishment

About the World of Tales from the Sanguine Box:

The Sanguine Box is a controversial experimental justice technology designed to rehabilitate criminals through extreme subjective time dilation. While only hours pass in the real world, prisoners experience centuries of incarceration inside simulated environments.