2026-04-15 DB-031
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Strip Commentary

Reading It

Grim tells Rollo 'they know what you feel.' Rollo asks how. Grim explains: 'You told them. Every survey.' Rollo's defense -- 'I lied on those' -- makes it worse, not better. Whether his answers were honest or fabricated, the data was collected and the profile was built. You've filled out a wellness check with fake answers and then watched the system respond to your real patterns anyway.

Deeper Read

Lying on the survey doesn't protect you. The system reads the pattern of your lies as fluently as it reads the truth.