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WCDT Strips 3421-3425 (20th to 24th February 2017)
Skewbrow:
If Jeremy has a sack full of cash, wouldn't buying a new chassis be simpler and more efficient? Not doubting that Bubbles and Faye can manage it (and have a lot of fun while upgrading Jeremy), but ...
mikmaxs:
Including the title and postscript, this comic has three lampshades around the fact that it's an enormously helpful coincidence that he happens to have all the resources needed to do what the story needs to happen. I'm all in favor of an inside joke here or there, but this is reaching critical mass.
A small perverse otter:
Perhaps Jeremy is planning to become like a spider. Spiders have walking legs, pedipalps (modified legs which serve as antennae), and breathing legs, yielding a total of at least 16 legs. Think about how much more mobile he would become if he added that many specialized legs. And then he could even further, and add the eight or so eyes that jumping spiders have!
He does have a bag full of money, after all...
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 20 Feb 2017, 10:20 ---If Jeremy has a sack full of cash, wouldn't buying a new chassis be simpler and more efficient? Not doubting that Bubbles and Faye can manage it (and have a lot of fun while upgrading Jeremy), but ...
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Maybe so much fun that Bubbles decides that doing robot repair in an honest business isn't such a bad thing after all.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 20 Feb 2017, 10:20 ---If Jeremy has a sack full of cash, wouldn't buying a new chassis be simpler and more efficient? Not doubting that Bubbles and Faye can manage it (and have a lot of fun while upgrading Jeremy), but ...
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But it wouldn't be as visually comedic and potentially funny to write as a body made up of random and mismatched bits bolted together in a random order to satisfy the random whims of a self-aware robot assembly arm with a dodgy conception of aesthetics. Come on, I can't be the only bloke who used to prize apart his ancient Star Wars action figures (you know, the 4" vinyl cast ones with only fixed-plane articulation of the neck, hips and shoulders that couldn't seriously be called 'poseable') and put the bits back together in a mismatched way. Don't tell me you didn't slap Princess Leia's head on top of a Storm Trooper's torso with an arm or a leg each from a random other toy! I hope that you enjoy having one Wookie and one Isthorian arm, Your Worshipfulness!
Anyway, I digress. The point that I'm making is that, by the end of this week, Jeremy is going to look like one of those, just with a lot more and alarmingly specialised limbs to the point where Professor von Frankenstein will certainly be around to collect Bubbles' dues for the Most Ancient and Worshipful Society of Body Horror Sculptors.
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