Reasonably Clever has this contest that I participated in, and I decided to integrate the development of the contest entry into the story. The inclusion of The Stig was entirely accidental, but I’d just seen an episode of Top Gear[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Poor Slick. He seems so sad (and a little ticked off) in this strip, which is, by the way, my 400th since starting this webcomic. Eighty weeks. That’s a lot of punchlines, lemme tellya. Do me a favor and go[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Tickle you until you pee” is a real threat I make to my children. Fortunately for all involved, I’ve never let things go that far.
Everyone reacts to new stresses in different ways. Science Guy takes them as challenges. Slick panics. Sandstorm avoids them. And the head of robotic Slick just laaaaaaaughs…
There is real comic gold to be mined from this situation, and I’m digging deep.
Leave it to Science Guy to find a potentially fatal accident “amazingly interesting.”
I just couldn’t resist having this happen. I like Skull-Face Slick. Will he get his face back again? Probably. Will it be permanent? Probably not.
Accidents will happen.
Ok, I’ll admit it. This one made me laugh when I wrote it. And the reason I wrote it is that my dog sneezed all over me. Eww.
You really have to watch what you say sometimes. Once somebody gets it in their mind that you might be an evil space robot, it’s a lot harder to convince them you’re not.