Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction
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The Socio-Ontological Function of a Nice Cup of Tea
At the World Headquarters of Advanced Theories (WHAT!), tea breaks, tangential chats, and structurally inefficient biscuits are the lifeblood of innovation. But when a cosmic exchange student accidentally flags 93.4 per cent of the facility's daily activities as 'Narrative Waste,' it summons The Narrator—a ruthless agent from the Department of Narrative Cohesion sent to edit their reality into an optimal, dramatically efficient storyline.
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The Viction Particle
The researchers at the World Headquarters of Advanced Theories (WHAT!) are accustomed to anomalies, but when Victorian Vic's homesickness turns a prize-winning rose garden blue and Steampunk Vic's sudden eureka moment choreographs a flying cutlery symphony, the team makes a terrifying discovery. The three variant Vics are no longer just scientists; they are 'Victions'—living, load-bearing components of local physics whose fluctuating emotions directly rewrite reality.
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Geoff, Schrödy and the Conceptual Wardrobe
At the World Headquarters of Advanced Theories (WHAT!), routine research takes a bizarre turn when theoretical constructs—from hypothetical peasants to mathematical equations and interdimensional pineapples—suddenly achieve consciousness and demand workplace rights.
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The Crumb Constant
Professor Vic Titious and the researchers at the World Headquarters of Advanced Theories (WHAT!) are accustomed to the impossible. However, when three chocolate Hobnobs vanish from the staff room tin, they inadvertently discover the mechanism for interdimensional travel: quantum resonance catalysed by proper tea breaks.
