The Group Chat
The dialogue and captions from the five story pages of Stubb & Støre Saves the World. This is fictional political satire; the exchanges below are part of the comic.
Open the illustrated comic ↗Page 1 — A Perfectly Normal Day
Panel 1
Alex: International cooperation is essential to a peaceful world.
Jonas: And dialogue remains our most important tool.
Panel 2
Alex: JONAS! I HAVE AN IDEA!
Jonas: That's usually how these things start.
Panel 3
Alex: A group chat! Every world leader! All talking together!
Jonas: Alex. We have the United Nations.
Panel 4
Alex: Does the United Nations have stickers?
Jonas: ...Not officially.
Page 2 — The Headquarters
Panel 1
Somewhere near the Norwegian-Finnish border. At a secret headquarters they built together years ago.
Alex: I missed our headquarters!
Jonas: We were just here on Sunday.
Panel 2
The elevator.
Alex: I left the sauna on for us!
Jonas: Since Sunday?
Alex: It's called being prepared.
Panel 3
The command centre.
Alex: Coffee first.
Jonas: Then world peace!
DING!
Panel 4
The big idea.
Alex: Imagine, Jonas. The entire world. One conversation.
Jonas: That's going to be a very long conversation.
Alex: Not if I moderate!
Page 3 — World Peace
Panel 1
The creation. WORLD PEACE ❤️
Alexander added Jonas, Mette, Ulf, Petteri, Emmanuel, Volodymyr and Donald.
Alexander: Hello, everyone! Welcome to WORLD PEACE! ❤️
Panel 2
International cooperation.
Mette: Is this official?
Ulf: Who approved this?
Jonas: For the record, Norway has approved nothing.
Panel 3
Progress!
Petteri: Alex, why am I hearing about this now?
Emmanuel: Interesting idea.
Alex: LOOK, JONAS! THEY’RE TALKING!
Panel 4
A diplomatic breakthrough.
Alex: We're actually making progress!
Jonas: My family group chat has been talking for years. We still haven't agreed on Christmas.
Alex: We're missing someone...
Jonas: I don't like how you said that.
Page 4 — Vladimir Joins
Panel 1
Inclusivity.
Jonas: Alex. Who are you adding?
Alex: We're not leaving anybody out!
Panel 2
The arrival.
Alexander added Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir: Hello.
Mette left the group. Ulf left the group. Emmanuel left the group.
Panel 3
A sudden departure.
Petteri left the group. Volodymyr left the group. Donald left the group. 3 members remaining.
Alex: Well. That escalated quickly.
Jonas: It de-escalated. There's practically nobody here.
Panel 4
World peace.
Alex: Well, it IS called World Peace.
Jonas: And now the world has left.
Page 5 — The Intervention
Panel 1
A difficult question.
Alex: Jonas... do you think Vladimir understands why everyone's upset?
Jonas: I suspect it's been mentioned.
Panel 2
A brilliant solution.
Alex: But has anyone actually sat him down?
Jonas: There have been diplomatic meetings.
Alex: Not meetings, Jonas. An intervention!
Panel 3
The planning committee.
Jonas: Alex. He's the president of Russia.
Alex: Then we'll need good biscuits!
Jonas: And an agenda. And a neutral venue.
Alex: JONAS! YOU’RE HELPING!
Jonas: I'm identifying problems.
Panel 4
The invitation.
Alexander: Vladimir, we think an intervention might help. We'd like to talk.
Jonas: Alex, did you just send that?
Alex: Of course!
Panel 5
The final message. PING!
Vladimir: What is this intervention thing?
TO BE CONTINUED... ISSUE #002 — THE INTERVENTION.