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WCDT Strips 3491 to 3495 (29 May to 2 June 2017)
Timemaster:
A lot of robots here today.
Is that a Battletech Marauder in the second panel? If yes, why are people afraid of Bubbles? :-D
TM
Rincewind:
I wonder what possible-Melon is carrying? A protective cover for delicate devices? Maybe an Otter-Butt? :claireface:
BenRG:
Like tut21 said, the panels in this comic are very crowded and there are an awful lot of synthetics out on the street. I'm wondering if Northampton has some special significance to them? Is there an Ellicott-Chatham laboratory nearby? Are they all looking for The Creator's Daughter so they can get her autograph? No, I think that I know what it is: I'm thinking that the owner of the convenience store had advertised the spring sale on the web. Being connected at all times, the synthetics are always the first to know these things and they've descended on the area to get the first shot at the bargains!
I can't blame Clinton from being suspicious; she has form in this area, after all. However, I do think that it would be enormously more difficult for her to 'set up' something with Brun than it was with Emily. I'm not sure they've even met apart from one or two casual encounters.
--- Quote from: Timemaster on 29 May 2017, 22:53 ---Is that a Battletech Marauder in the second panel? If yes, why are people afraid of Bubbles? :-D
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No, that's ED-210; he's a long-time resident of the area and everyone knows that you really need to be more worried about his wife! :wink:
--- Quote from: Rincewind on 29 May 2017, 23:11 ---I wonder what possible-Melon is carrying? A protective cover for delicate devices? Maybe an Otter-Butt? :claireface:
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I'm guessing that it's an old-style portable AM/FM radio; they were 'in' for a while there about five years back.
Milayna:
For the amount of synthetics in the area...well the whole "race" isn't even that old. This isn't a social movement that's had time to stabilize - and for spawning a whole new life-form, that could take hundreds of years.
When this comic started there was only Pintsize, who was eventually joined by similarly-configured AI's, and perhaps a few specialized ones such as that Vespa. While others, including humanoid AI's, existed in background canon (we now know), they were not present on-scene.
It looks to me like Young Jeph intended Pintisize et al to be "joke characters" but as the comic grew more socially-conscious, more diverse, and leaned toward justice, the AI's grew from a joke to a serious subject (which I'm fascinated by, in fact; I love how he's been handling this). In-canon, I can easily view this change as part of the social movement happening in the background, as robots find their place from being novelties and "companions" to fully autonomous members of society.
Also the return of Brun at last! Bruuuun! <3 (She's become my favorite character).
Tremayne:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 29 May 2017, 21:47 ---
--- Quote from: SubaruStephen on 29 May 2017, 20:10 ---ED-209 making his cameo I see.
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It looks like a Zentradi command pod to me. Only you know.. much much smaller.
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Yeah, it looks like either the Zentraedi pod or one of the Battletech/Mechwarrior ones derived from it.
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