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"It is a comic book by an American Author, it's late 90s, or earlier 2000s. It starts with him excited to get onto a new online site through a big helmet they wore to upload themselves as an avatar onto the internet to socialize with friends. However, his cat ends up underneath one of those helmets and uploads herself. Allowing her to speak. The cat becomes anthropomorphized when she is uploaded into the digital world."