Theoretically: The Vic Titious Hypothesis

Theoretically, it is a comic-book-style retelling of my novellas about Vic Titious and his colleagues from WHAT! — the World Headquarters of Advanced Theories — and its affiliated institutions, the School for Highly Improbable Theories (acronym pending) and the Faculty of Unproven Concepts and Knowledge (acronym pending).

Each chapter is a condensed visual adaptation, relying on image panels and short captions to keep things moving. It is part serial, part experiment, and a new way to follow the story.

The Team

Meet the Cast and Institutions

WHAT! — World Headquarters of Advanced Theories

WHAT! (the exclamation mark being non-negotiable in all official correspondence, as per Institutional Nomenclature Protocol 13B) operates on the principle that if one is to pursue the impossible, one ought to do so with conviction and adequate punctuation. Founded on equal parts ambition and audacity, WHAT! exists to ask the questions other institutes quietly misplace. It specialises in ideas that are not yet sensible, not yet funded, and not yet widely regretted.

**Vic Titious**
**Role:** Director of Wild Ideas and Unsubstantiated Hypotheses
**Says:** ‘If it sounds daft, it’s probably correct.’
**Also:** ‘People think I’m joking. I’m not. That’s the alarming bit.’ ‘Yes, it’s outrageous. That’s why it might work.’ ‘The universe is under no obligation to be sensible, and neither am I.’

**Dr Una Likely**
**Role:** Chief Probability Analyst and Statistical Denier
**Says:** ‘Possible, yes. Likely, no.’
**Also:** ‘People say I’m negative. I’m numerical. They also think I enjoy saying no. I enjoy saying ‘not likely.’

School for Highly Improbable Theories (acronym pending)

**Dr Connie Jecture**
**Role:** Senior Theoretical Synthesiser and Hypothesis Wrangler
**Says:** ‘Give me the mess. I’ll make it make sense.’
**Also:** ‘They think I write theories. I translate them into something you can hold without gloves.’

**Dr Sue Rely**
**Role:** Lead Chemist of Theoretically Possible Substances
**Says:** ‘That will explode. Let’s do it properly.’
**Also:** ‘They hear “theoretically possible” and forget to ask about “safe”.’

**Dr Nona Sence**
**Role:** Specialist in Biological Oddities and Evolutionary What-Ifs
**Says:** ‘Nature’s done worse, honestly.’
**Also:** ‘It’s S-E-N-C-E. They want S-E-N-S-E, but then I’d be Nona Sense, and that would be nonsense.’

Faculty of Unproven Concepts and Knowledge (acronym pending)

**Dr Polly Graph**
**Role:** Head of Speculative Physics and Engineering
**Says:** ‘Show me the numbers. I’ll make it work.’
**Also:** ‘People think I just draw graphs. I build arguments that happen to have axes.’

**Dr Ida Noh**
**Role:** Cosmic Thinker and Interdimensional Hypothesis Expert
**Says:** ‘Reality is optional, on a good day.’
**Also:** ‘They assume space is empty. It’s full of inconvenient possibilities.’

Professor Fay Bull
Role: Historian of Imaginary Science and Fanciful Philosophy
**Says:** ‘History is just gossip with footnotes.’
**Also:** ‘People think history is dates. It’s people insisting they were right.’

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