Now, I want a show of hands – and be honest – did you see this coming? When I scripted the ensuing comics, I referred to the character as Headless Robot Slick, something I never get tired of typing.
Comments Off on 03/12/2007
I like having guest-stars in this comic. R2-D2 is one I haven’t used until now (although C-3PO did appear along with Tom Servo, Vincent from the Black Hole, and 46 from Legostar Galactica in an early storyline). I like how it doesn’t occur to Shellshock until the end that the droid isn’t really supposed to be there. Robot Slick’s line about mindless philosophers is a quote from C-3PO at the beginning of Star Wars.
And I always figured R2-D2 was a smug little (albeit extremely well-put-together) little droid.
Comments Off on 03/09/2007
There’s an old saying on Omicron Perseii 8: “You can take the robot out of the moron, but you can’t take the moron out of the robot.” Or something.
Sometimes it’s a challenge for me to figure out who really is the dumbest character. You’d think it’s Slick, but Stretch has a pretty strong idiot aspect too.
Comments Off on 03/08/2007
Star Trek popularized the notion of the alternate universe, where things are almost the same, but yet different. Remember the episode where Evil Spock had a goatee? It was memorable enough that there is even a band named after it: Spock’s Beard (good progressive rock if you like that sort of thing).
Comments Off on 03/07/2007
There’s actually a personal story behind the line “I am not a robot duplicate of Slick.”
Several months ago, my daughter was at day care and a lady from the Butterfly Pavilion came by to show the kids some bugs, and she also brought a tarantula (named Rosie if you can believe that). When I picked up my daughter, she was very excited and told me she got to hold Rosie. When I got the full story, I absolutely forbade her to tell her mother (who hates spiders with a passion). She promised she wouldn’t tell. When we got home, the very first thing she did was to walk up to her mother and say “I didn’t hold anything today.”
Same basic idea as this comic strip.
Comments Off on 03/06/2007