Here is the first work on the three briefs from Jeremy's Oct 9 email. Everything below is a first draft, made so you can react to a real look and feel before we commit to the full run.
The weekly roundup, hosted by a Judge and a Counsel. Same Bones style stick figures, a banner, and a short dramatization for each story. This draft has the opener, with the banner reading Super !ntelligence, and the Kirkland story. The template is built to be re-run each Friday.
Kirkland passes $10 billion...then draws the curtain on the rankingsThe junior associate and the $10M questionQuality over quantity, says the firm with the most quantity
Done: opener, Kirkland segment (story 1 of 4).
Next: Pirro watchdog, cartel attorney sentence, Dave Grohl. Jeremy, the cartel attorney link was listed twice. We assumed the Grohl story was the fourth.
Brief 2 · Six-episode melodrama
The Top 5
The law school rankings told as a romantic melodrama. Each top school is a mascot character, and each episode covers one year of rank changes. This teaser covers the latest move, from Above the Law's own 2026 Top 50: Chicago rises to No. 1, Duke slips to No. 2, and Yale climbs.
No. 1 Chicago PhoenixNo. 2 Duke Blue DevilNo. 3 Virginia CavalierNo. 4 Penn QuakerNo. 5 Yale, Handsome Dan
The mascots are our own illustrations, not official school art. Before anything publishes, your legal reviewer should check them. Harvard is not in the 2026 Top 5, so it appears only if a past year puts it there.
Done: five mascot characters, teaser for the 2025 to 2026 change.
Next: series outline for all six episodes (2020-21 through 2025-26), each ending on a cliffhanger.
Brief 3 · Animated short
How Not to Get Hired
A guide for summer associates, drawn as composite characters so no real associate is depicted. The first cut, built from the four stories in the brief. The frames below are the scenes.
The toddler impressionThe horse carriageThe firm that wasn't full of attorneysThe summer outing
Done: first animated cut, four scenes.
Next: full script and more scenes.
What happens now
We go from here on your notes
Started: opener, Kirkland segment, rankings teaser, animated How Not to Get Hired cut.
This week: Jeremy's tweaks for B2B law, then the remaining three roundup stories.
Friday, October 30: first full Super!Intelligence Week.
