Faye said she had some desperate job-hunting to do a while back. Maybe she'll wind up working alongside May at the convenience store.
Maybe May will become her supervisor. :-D
I'm thinking we'll see Date 2: Date Harder in regards to Clinton and Emily. I honestly want to see if 1: Clinton gets another tattoo (or improves upon the one he has) and 2: Emily gets interested in Actual Clinton.
Not Date 2: Electric Boogaloo?
This is going to end badly
She should have gone with the convenience store. This is going to end badly.Would do you prefer as a reader, Faye in another low end service job, or Faye doing welding for an underground robot fighting ring? Questionable Content could use a bit more awesome in it.
What's DMT?
She should have gone with the convenience store. This is going to end badly.Would do you prefer as a reader, Faye in another low end service job, or Faye doing welding for an underground robot fighting ring? Questionable Content could use a bit more awesome in it.
Even in-comic, doing something similar to Coffee of Doom would just lead to Faye getting into similar trouble, and it would delay the rest of her life even more. Like many characters in this comic, she needs change.
I think the reason they are illegal are different kind of rules - those that state that anthroPCs can't carry deadly weaponry or armour except if sanctioned or employed by governments or something. (For example, mercenaries or security companies that do have an official license to carry certain weapons might be able to acquire the same license for
I hope these are more like glorified Robot Wars than AI killbots.
Civilian models can carry weapons. Momo's taser can go up to 250 milliamps, a lethal level.
That's nothing compared to electromagnetic coil-driven nailguns with kilometer ballistic ranges, titanium-teflon bladed bandsaws and kilojoule-range ultraviolet-frequency lasers!
Dead is dead. you can't really get more dead.WE ARE WORKING ON THAT TECHNOLOGY!
Dead is dead. you can't really get more dead.(https://cinema1544.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the_scalpel.jpg)
Deathbots aside... did Pintsize make coffee for Faye? If he did, THAT'S SO SWEET.Ha, I hadn't noticed that! Awww! :)
Wow, Jeph is actually going for it. 8-)
I expected at least some days of talking before heīd go for the robot fighting, but here we are already. Now Iīm really curious where this will lead. How will the fighter-robots look like? Who are the people or AIīs behind this fight-club? Will Faye actually do this? Will she make money of it? Enough to make a living? And if itīs illegal, will she need a regular job as a cover-up?
Wow, Jeph is actually going for it. 8-)
I expected at least some days of talking before heīd go for the robot fighting, but here we are already. Now Iīm really curious where this will lead. How will the fighter-robots look like? Who are the people or AIīs behind this fight-club? Will Faye actually do this? Will she make money of it? Enough to make a living? And if itīs illegal, will she need a regular job as a cover-up?
It's very in character for Faye, though. I think she thought this through before she approached Pintsize - she knew she'd give it a shot it if there aren't some really big reasons not to (it's illegal, and that didn't deter her - she just asked how severe it was, because it's not worth decades in prison). There still are a few more hurdles, though - she has to get into the scene before she actually starts, get to know her clients, figure out prices, limits, etc. Maybe get vouched for by Pintsize...
And I don't know if she would need a regular job - she's basically just selling fancy metal pieces. She sold something like that before (The Espresso-Dinosaur), and nothing would stop her or the customer from declaring those things as art (which explains the prices) or fancy custom-made (very, very uncomfortable) chairs or something.
And I hope she doesn't get a regular job - Faye just isn't that good with random people. She might be able to work with customers she respects, who buy something that she loves to do, but she really isn't cut out to working retail, especially with that American the-customer's-always-right-and-if-you're-not-a-doormat-you-get-fired culture.
On to meta: I'm enjoying this storyline. It isn't heavy with unnecessary drama, it's got Faye and Pintsize who do understand each other at their really sarcastic and funny level, and it is actually a storyline with development. And the art is really, really nice.
I feel like Pintsize has acknowledged that Faye needs more help with life and social issues than Martin and is shifting his attentions.
Anyway, this must be Pintsizes wet dream: carried around by Faye clutched to her bosoms.
I hope that Faye and pintsize get May into this and she channels her rage into being a battle bot!
(almost as good as being a fighter jet?)
Anyway, this must be Pintsizes wet dream: carried around by Faye clutched to her bosoms.
His grin says it all.
Surely panel 2 is a subject for the caption competition.
(http://www.lordheath.com/web_images/oliver_hardy___pardon_us.jpg)
I'm sorry, did he say "land an ... Ollie"?
I am reasonably certain I do not want to know...
Well... If nothing else, they need a cleaner. I know that dirt isn't as much as an issue for synthetics as it is for organics but, even so, there are going to be a lot of exposed machinery in this place and I, for one, wouldn't want grime getting into my joints, servos and interface sockets!
Meanwhile... Am I the only one who thinks that Jeph based Big Red's face on Alice?
Also, a prediction: Big Red is going to be Faye's 'interface', the character she talks with to get her questions answered. She might even end up as her friend!
Finally, yes, it occurs to me that if you are going to have illegal prize fights, then illegal cyber-porn is a logical side-business. I have no doubt that, to Faye's biological eyes, it will look like an exercise in practical multi-device peer-to-peer networking.
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P.S.: Jeph's news post puzzles me. If Big Red's name is 'Bubbles', then I, for one, would insist on hearing her back-story. The thought that she might be the companion/guardian to a sweet little girl occurs to me.
Massive fighting robots to face off in battleFull article, videos at:
A Japanese developer of massive robots has accepted a challenge to battle from a U.S. rival.
Wearing American flags as capes, MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti issued their challenge to Japanese robot maker Suidobashi in a video posted to YouTube.
"We have a giant robot. You have a giant robot. You know what needs to happen," Oehrlein says in the clip.
Suidobashi has accepted that challenge.
"We can't let another country win this. Giant robots are Japanese culture," says Suidobashi CEO Kogoro Kurata in a response video.
Both of the robots, MegaBots Inc.'s Mark II and Suidobashi Heavy Industry's Kuratas, are piloted by humans from within a cockpit. The Mark II weighs 6,800 kilograms, has massive paintball guns in place of arms and requires two pilots to operate. The Kuratas, which has been in development for three years, is much lighter than its American rival, has a single pilot and carries a BB Gatling cannon capable of firing 6,000 rounds per minute .
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I can't read Faye's shirt without thinking of the Everything is Awesome song.
Everything is awfuuuuuuuul....
Bubbles: "Last month's Lover's Tournament was won by this singing dildo that just kind of wandered in off the street. He's become a... very good friend of mine."
So, is Bubbles going to wind up as Fayes new boss?
You need to watch the kids in the space under the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London, then.
square speech balloons...holy shit. I've never noticed this. Do all robots have these?
Yup.square speech balloons...holy shit. I've never noticed this. Do all robots have these?
square speech balloons...holy shit. I've never noticed this. Do all robots have these?
You know, the thing is, before I noticed the title, I'd assumed Bubbles was male... but looking again, I can't not see it. She's basically Gavia after a trip to the gym.Curious. It didn't occur to me that Bubbles' outward gender-presentation was not female. Her overall body-shape, with hips wide in proportion to her shoulders, is a pretty solid cue, even before we get into her eyelashes. She certainly looks formidable, though I'm sure Faye could improve her armour protection (http://www.tor.com/2013/05/06/boob-plate-armor-would-kill-you/).
You need to watch the kids in the space under the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London, then.It would be a bit of a long trip...
More importantly, we need to meet Bubbles.
WHO
IS
BUBBLES
More importantly, we need to meet Bubbles.
WHO
IS
BUBBLES
Uh, she's kind of hard to miss, being eight feet tall and kind of maroon-colored.
New comic.
Well, you wanted to know who Bubbles is. :-P
Anyway, this must be Pintsizes wet dream: carried around by Faye clutched to her bosoms.
His grin says it all.
Surely panel 2 is a subject for the caption competition.
I had no idea that it was possible to produce a discarding-sabot round in so small a calibre, but search-fu revealed that it is indeed so. A hyper-velocity needle ever ready to inject the depleted uranium of the people :-\ (with apologies to William Plomer (http://literaryballadarchive.com/PDF/Plomer_6_Murder_on_D.pdf)).Tungsten. Cheaper, less controversial, easier to store.
I hope Bubbles is a Ref and not a Competitor.
Anything which requires that degree of armour protection is Bad News. Collateral Damage waiting to happen.
It's odd but some of Jeph's text today really does suggest to me that Bubbles' day job may be in child care.
Bubbles! Bubbles!
My bubbles!!!
or that she walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkety sound.
or that she walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkety sound.
Or simply goes down like a Slinky:
(http://www.coolest-toys.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/slinky2.jpg)
I don't think Bubbles's chest plate is supposed to be conforming boob. It looks more like sectional articulation, like the Nolan Batsuit.
Still not a good idea, because of impact guidance, but Bubbles probably doesn't have a heart and lungs under there. In fact, I'm thinking a missile emplacement ala Striker Eureka. Changes the meaning of "Nice rack."
This section of her chassis is probably the most heavily armoured. Because I suppose this is where the most important and vulnerable part is hidden: her CPU.
It doesnīt make sense to put the CPU of a warbot in his head. It is exposed, relatve small, has to be equipped with a lot of sensors and a speaker, plus the device that mimics facial expressions. Not so much place for a heavily armored "brain" left here. The chest provides a lot of space for the CPU and can be protected even better by additional external armour. Together with the energy source of the bot.
Hah, fictional robot technology. I love it. 8-)
TJ
I still want to know where Blossom and Buttercup are
I wonder how the NRA thinks about this.
Considering one of the screens on a nintendo DS is a touchscreen, I wonder how would that work for Bubbles. I assume the stylus means it's usable by non-humans but there's the weak construction of the stylus itself.Yup, they're just a touch screen, not a capacitative (the kind that require contact with skin to work). I always have to remind myself that I need to use my fingernail instead of the pad of my finger to get it to do anything.
I had no idea that it was possible to produce a discarding-sabot round in so small a calibre, but search-fu revealed that it is indeed so. A hyper-velocity needle ever ready to inject the depleted uranium of the people :-\ (with apologies to William Plomer (http://literaryballadarchive.com/PDF/Plomer_6_Murder_on_D.pdf)).Tungsten. Cheaper, less controversial, easier to store.
25mm APFSDS using a 14.5mm long rod penetrator, designed to go into one end of an incoming armoured hypersonic missile, and out the other, transferring a significant quantity of its kinetic energy to the target as it does so, disrupting guidance, fusing, warhead and propulsion.
This is one scary piece of kit.
I don't think Bubbles's chest plate is supposed to be conforming boob. It looks more like sectional articulation, like the Nolan Batsuit.
Still not a good idea, because of impact guidance, but Bubbles probably doesn't have a heart and lungs under there. In fact, I'm thinking a missile emplacement ala Striker Eureka. Changes the meaning of "Nice rack."
In fact, I'm thinking a missile emplacement ala Striker Eureka. Changes the meaning of "Nice rack."
Man, the art is really off tonight. Especially those last two panels.
For that matter, there's no reason that Bubbles needs to have her intelligence localized in a single processor. Spread the processing units throughout the body and you have a much more robust system.
It's not even a style change thing. The line work itself in panel 4 is straight up sloppy.Man, the art is really off tonight. Especially those last two panels.
I dunno; it seems okay to me. Jeph has said on Twitter that he's trying to work out how to improve his art so we might see him experimenting with a few new styles.
Faye is regressing to her roots. I think this is the first size she has actually said "y'all" except possibly as a joke.
It's not even a style change thing. The line work itself in panel 4 is straight up sloppy.
While this probably will end badly, in the end it's good for Faye. She was completely wasted on a service job like CoD. In this, she can grow a talent that she's both actually good at and likes. Plus nobody expects a welder of murder-bots to be especially friendly.
Plus, we get to see a cast of the equivalent of robot luchadores. That can't be anything other than awesome.
It's interesting that Bubbles is a anthropoid ai who doesn't feel the need to wear clothes.
While this probably will end badly, in the end it's good for Faye. She was completely wasted on a service job like CoD. In this, she can grow a talent that she's both actually good at and likes. Plus nobody expects a welder of murder-bots to be especially friendly.
Plus, we get to see a cast of the equivalent of robot luchadores. That can't be anything other than awesome.
Faye is regressing to her roots. I think this is the first size she has actually said "y'all" except possibly as a joke.
Meh, maybe I am nitpicky. But it usually has to really jump out at me to say anything.