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lol, this entire comic was a setup for that pun, wasn't it. :p
Does it make me a bad person that I want her to decide to go back to a maid outfit? Prolly. Don't care.
For some reason I really want these two to go to a Punk or Metal concert together. Even though it would probably end with May's head and various other appendages coming off, I think they'd enjoy it.
May is truly a monster and belongs in prison for that pun...and so do half you, looking over the comments.
So you think we should all be sent to the puniteniary?
Fucking hell people, it's a comic. Relax, enjoy, and stop beating up on the artist because he doesn't keep exactly to your personal pet peeves.
The text of your comment is inconsistent with the existence of your comment.
I really don’t feel like the May arc is working right now, and I’d like to see it developed a bit more. At the moment, it feels like it’s clashing badly with the existing established themes. Personal responsibility has been a big deal throughout this story. Think about the Faye alcoholism arc—Faye starts to slide into her addiction, gets fired, and as a result, ends up having to work a crappy job. Or more recently, Sam’s arc with the power tools. She uses them irresponsibly, and as a result, she isn’t allowed to use them for a while. In both cases, the characters are shown needing to own up to their mistakes and start trying to fix them. Here’s the problem. Let’s think about plausible consequences. Faye drinking on the job, what’s the worst that could happen? Maybe she burns herself or she mouths off too harshly at a customer and they don’t come back. That’s not good, but it’s comparatively trivial. Sam messing around actually could have been much more serious—she could have been badly hurt and she’s lucky she just lost a nail. May tried to steal $750 million to buy a fighter jet on the black market. Let’s think through that. First of all, she stole a massive amount of money from somewhere. Second, she was going to pay that money to buy a black market fighter jet, meaning that the money was likely going to fund groups doing illegal activity and almost certainly involved in violence and more. Third, if she’d actually gotten the fighter jet body, she could have caused a massive international incident by flying an unauthorized jet around, possibly gotten people killed if she crashed it or if they shot her down. And so far as has been shown, she did it because she wanted to, and without mitigating circumstances like addiction (in Faye’s case) or youth (in Sam’s case). So far, she’s been shown regretting being caught and regretting the results, but she hasn’t shown any real remorse or regret for what she did. Nor has she really been shown working to become a better person who wouldn’t do that sort of thing. As a result, a lot of her arc is falling flat for me because it comes off as “I don’t like the results of what I did so the consequences themselves are wrong.” I think this could work—for example, it could show that the prison system often makes people angry and maybe fearful of being caught, but often doesn’t address or even worsens the behaviors that got them into this mess in the first place. It could also do more to show that the consequences are applied even to people who committed a crime out of desperation or need. It could also work if it shows her trying to really address the behaviors that caused her to commit the crime, and still having trouble making headway because of the mark on her record. But at the moment, I just don’t think her character arc is doing a great job of supporting the social commentary.
I'd say it doesn't need to. We don't need to reform the justice system because convicts are actually nice people - we need to reform the justice system because it's the right thing to do.
Hmm... is this commentary on ex-con 'housing'? ;-)
It's commentary on everything really - the difficulty in finding employment if you have a record, the difficulty in accessing healthcare, insurance and other necessities and, most of all, the fact that it becomes a 'Mark of Cain', impacting on the rest of your life no matter how long ago it was and how totally reformed you are now.
Roko suddenly starts the local chapter of the Pun Police
Combine that with 'Constable of Common Sense' and I think that she'll unite the sensible end of the community behind her!
It suddenly occurs to me that Roko knows the details of May's case. Why should she know this unless she was briefed on her, likely at the time of her release? I'm starting to think that May got higher up the criminal threat ladder than she realised!
Maybe when they raided the garage she did a full check?
SHIP SIGHTED AHEAD, CAPTAIN!
Just so you know, Roko, this is why May's friends only tolerate her in short bursts (with the exception of Dale, who I think has an 'older brother' sense of responsibility towards her).
I’m really loving the dynamic developing between May and Roko in the recent comics!
Don't listen to them, May. Im proud of that joke
That joke was incendiary!
I know some HUMANS who should go to Robot Jail for their puns.
There’s an entire field of ordnance jokes for her to make.
...i liked that joke. CAMB
CAMB sounds like a type of ordnance that May would add to her payload. "Hey, load me up with some AMRAAMs, CBU55, and add a couple of CAMB too!"
That one really wasn't that bad, but it seems a tad contrived. Perhaps May's humor algorithm determined that if she pretended to want a chassis with bigger breasts Roko would question this choice after her previously stated preference and walk into the joke.
I don't think she's pretending. See also her time as an AR hologram, and her first meeting with Marigold.
May wanted to be a fighter jet?!? How could I have forgotten that?
If I was an AI, that would pretty much be the ultimate existence. (Although to be honest, I’m more of a B-52.)
You know what I'm just gonna go ahead and ship ALL the robots not already in relationships with all of the other ones (except Pintsize). I just wanna throw Roko, May, Momo, Winslow, Spookybot, Melon, and Gary into one big sexy polycule and see what happens
Pretty sure that's how Spookypants came about in the first place.
Yep, May's a boob gal.
Jeph should go to AI jail for that pun!
Also, Yay! May is making new friends!
Cue "bomb rack" May fanart in 3...2...1...
Heh, that's fair.
Robot jail isn't severe enough punishment for that joke.
I feel like Pintsize would try to help with that. She wakes up to find two grenades taped to her chest.
Where in the building up a shipping Do breast jokes & puns come into play?
The handling's where they get you.
Ah, finally: I've been punning all day today, and now one comes my way! Yay!
Panel 4 wins the internet.
most painful QC pun of 2018, right there
The year isn't over.
Can't she just, I don't know, grow them? If Bubbles can change her hairstyle at will, why is this different?
Bubbles is in a multi million dollar military chassis, and still requires a specialized chemical solution under near laboratory conditions to slowly grow her hair overnight. May is in the cheapest used-and-disposed-of chassis Robot Jail could find. A single inch of Bubbles's hair probably costs more than May's entire body
Roko should look into becoming a public defender.
That or working for an advocacy group, like the ACLU or the AI equivalent of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Bwhahahahahahah!!!