"Think Chris Van Allsburg’s 'Jumanji' gone darker, crossed with Fritz Lang’s 'Metropolis.'"

"The characters, unnamed, are drawn from that strange eternal medieval world of fantasy: knights, wizards, a king; peasants with faces like Leonardo grotesques, wearing kerchiefs or hoods. There are forty-three sentences in total, and one exclamation point. The magic of condensation that is characteristic of cartoons is also here, in a story with a quick, fairy-tale beginning: 'Long ago, the forest was dark and deep.'..."From "Life After 'Calvin and Hobbes'/Bill Watterson’s return to print, after nearly three decades, comes in the form of a fable called 'The Mysteries,' which shares with his famous comic strip a sense of enchantment" (The New Yorker).

You can buy "The Mysteries" at Amazon — and if you use that link, I'll receive a commission. Keep in mind that Watterson is only the writer. The illustrations are by John Kascht. And the writing is minimal. 43 sentences. Sample page:

"Thinking it might be fun to try to see how the language model performs as a Socratic conversation partner, I attempted a rough version of Plato’s Crito...."

"... in which ChatGPT plays the titular role. As you will see, ChatGPT isn’t the subtlest actor; there were some stumbling blocks in setting up the dialogue and keeping the language model in character."

Writes philosophy professor Justin Weinberg (at Daily Nous). 

Here's an excerpt from the middle of the exchange that shows you how ChatGPT keeps repeating phrases that make it clear it has no opinion and is not actually the character to whom the human has assigned an opinion:

"There's a probably tedious book of Dick and Jane grown up, after the divorce."

Wrote rhhardin in the comments to "Have you ever seen a sentence written on the 50th grade level?"

I said "It's called 'The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes.'"

I wouldn't have gotten the reference myself, so let me share this:

The "Calvin and Hobbes" artist Bill Watterson draws a movie poster.

Watterson describes his thinking:

Given the movie's title and the fact that there are few things funnier than human nudity, the idea popped into my head largely intact. The film is a big valentine to comics, so I tried to do something really cartoon-y.

I thought it was an intentional reference to the famous R. Crumb first-issue-of-"Zap" cover.