Meet the Characters
Mac Pollo's Rap Journey
Hip-hop underdog story
Mac Pollo
The Chicken Rapper
A Brooklyn bodega chicken who escaped the rotisserie, found a mic, and discovered he could spit bars. Now trying to make it in the rap game while dodging his past (and hungry customers).
"Cluckin' up the charts!"
DJ Nutz
The Squirrel DJ
A Brooklyn park squirrel who broke into Mac's studio looking for food, discovered a talent for scratching vinyl. Loyal sidekick, hype man, and voice of reason. Hoards beats like acorns.
"THAT'S NUTS!" (sparingly)
Disruption Station
Tech startup satire
Parker Peacock
Visionary CEO
A flashy peacock who displays elaborate pitch decks like tail feathers. Ex-Goldman Sachs, watches every Sam Altman interview, believes he's destined to "change the world through AI." Constant pivots, biohacking obsessive.
"This is going to be MASSIVE!"
Bradley Badger
Skeptical CTO
A gruff badger who codes in the trenches. Ex-Google engineer "reorged" 4 times. Actually builds the product while Parker pitches. Skeptical, caffeinated, regrets joining but has too much equity to leave.
"That's not how it works..."
Solidarity House
Champagne socialist satire
Astrid Alpaca
Trust Fund Theorist
An elegant alpaca from wealthy Connecticut family. PhD in Critical Theory at The New School (parents pay). Lives in rent-controlled Bushwick apartment via family connection. Always reading Gramsci, organizing, calling out.
"Actually, as Gramsci said..."
Moxie Magpie
DJ / Cultural Curator
A sleek magpie who collects trends like shiny objects. Brooklyn-raised (parents were 80s Williamsburg gentrifiers). DJs at "radical spaces," curates art shows, runs Substack with 47 subscribers on "decolonizing dance music."
"I was into that before it was colonized."
Bentham & Marshall
San Francisco surveillance satire
Marshall
The Kid
A 7-year-old San Francisco rich kid who books Waymos to roam the city and reads how feeds, ads, and cameras wrap up the grown-ups' minds. Sharp, unbothered, narrating the surveillance state from a booster seat.
"The bigs are buffering."
Bentham
The Owl
A maybe-sentient AI owl-contraption Marshall's Dad built: a glowing clockwork familiar to Marshall, just a discarded smart-home gadget to everyone else. Sees everything.
"By proceeding, you agree to be seen."
Comic Archive
Daily doses of modern satire