It started with a simple question at the dinner table.
“Wesam, will computers have souls?”
I set down my fork, thinking about the AI art flooding my social feeds. About ChatGPT writing stories. About algorithms trying to capture human experience.
Here’s what I told her:
Picture a chess computer, methodically calculating every move. Checkmate is better than material gain. Material gain is better than positional advantage. These are objective truths it can understand.
But stories? Stories live in the spaces between mathematical certainty. In the oozy, messy realm of human emotion where there are no “correct” moves.
If you fed an AI hundreds of stories and had it analyze them for “optimal” narrative choices, it would probably conclude:
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“A child in danger creates maximum stakes – we must always threaten children!”
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“Love triangles generate peak conflict – every story needs 3 lovers!”
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“Heroes must face death at exactly the 75% mark!”
But you can’t min/max storytelling. You can’t reduce human experience to an algorithm.
Want proof? We’ve just completed something that no AI could create – a story that breaks “conventional wisdom” yet cuts straight to the heart.
It’s called “The Lesser Evil,” and it follows a noble youth named Koja whose world shatters in ways no computer could calculate.
→ Watch Koja’s story unfold here
This ain’t no vanilla hero’s journey. There are no neat formulas or predictable beats. Just raw human choices that would make an AI’s circuits fry.
In 13 wordless pages, you’ll witness:
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A mother’s impossible choice
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A paradise corrupted
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A transformation that defies algorithmic prediction
Why am I sharing this with you? Because you understand that real stories – human stories – aren’t about following formulas. They’re about feeling our way through the darkness.
→ Experience what AI can never replicate
Until next time,
Wes
P.S. The Lesser Evil is done. Now I’m getting it ready to send to the printers!
P.P.S. Each limited edition copy includes an exclusive ~12-page prose story revealing Koja’s life before the mask. Set in Constantinople’s golden halls, it follows a privileged boy’s first brush with darkness as he uncovers a secret that will shatter his world. This bonus chapter bridges directly into the comic’s shattering opening scene…
