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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Incident Escalation

Published Tuesday, 18 August 2026 · By Security.io

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch asks whether an incident was escalated while Rusty literally carries the INCIDENT folder up the stairs and announces that it is one level higher.

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Rusty mistakes incident escalation for physically moving the incident report upstairs.

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Glitch: Did you escalate the incident?
  2. Panel 2 — Rusty: Already underway.
  3. Panel 3 — Rusty: It is one level higher.
  4. Panel 4 — Glitch: Did leadership see it?
  5. Panel 4 — Rusty: Not unless they use the stairs.