Positively Boschian
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Windows XP desktop background for the win
I haven't seen a single electric sheep yet...
Is that Pintsize being eaten by a bird on the far right?
Looks like a Porygon. Which is fitting.
This is intensely trippy and I love it. I am so glad you're portraying this continued struggle of Roko's identity. It's really fascinating and it feels very realistic. I mean, as realistic as robot AI emotions can be.
Wait... the ghost of the new body comes with a message from beyond the... beyond the what? The bed? The server? The concept of haing a new body? There is a lot to unpack here.
OldBody has a message from beyond the grave. NewBody has a message from beyond the *rave*. And that message is oonts oonts oonts oonts.
There's something about the way Roko's hair falls as she's leaning that I really love and I can't explain why? It's so dang pretty
So Pintsize’s head is in the bird’s mouth while simultaneously rising in the background like the sun. Does this mean anything that bird swallows becomes gigantic and emerges over the horizon line?
The fucking shame-toaster, omg
The second panel has a steganography encoded OS2 screen in the background.
I love that the background for panel 4 is a color-swapped Windows XP background
That's a re-coloured Windows XP default Desktop wallpaper in Panel 4 :-D
Now I really want a "Visions of Robo-Hell" full-sized poster.
I'm surprised OldBody didn't go Full Boston in panel 2.
Yeah, I really thought that would have happened by now.
Is AI operating system based on Windows XP? The background of that last panel would seem to suggest that is so.
...can't believe it took me so long to register the toaster chasing the terrified loaf of bread. I take it Roko doesn't like her bread to be crispy?
Considering how much of a fan she is of fresh bread, and soda bread in particular, I'd say "no." Also, gotta remember the second worst date of her life. After that, even if she had some vague interest in toast, just, nope.
I’m never going to eat frozen strawberries and drink pickle juice before bed ever again.
For some reason, the wavy arms make me absolutely cracking up. Also...is a bird eating Pintsize in the third panel?
Either eating Pintsize, or spitting him out. Has Roko ever witnessed a pigeon coming out of Pintsize's mouth?
Isn't that last location an old Windows wallpaper?
cool nightmare before christmas parody.
My only problem with this storyline is that it's not published in Christmas time
That's what you think *now*. But I think after another 40 updates of this arc, you'll be singing a different tune. ;) Filed under "you're one of those heathens that don't have your Christmas decorations up despite the fact it's after *August*!" (For the record, I don't actually have any Christmas decorations, so I'd be one of those, too.)
Are we talking Hieronymus Bosch or Robert Bosch here? Either works in the context!
"My ghosts are worse planners than I am. There's something so very wrong yet so right about that."
All her bodies talk like May.
Don't we all feel like that sometimes?
Is that the Brave Little Toaster's stoner cousin?
This is looking more and more like some wacky farmer-in-the-field skit. "AI-AI-O!"
For a while there, when it was all about people's relationships, I was thinking "QC has gotten much less weird". I am not thinking that any more.
I love how even sub-conscience Roko has a limit for someone's shit.
Oh are we doing Charles Dickens? Does that make Melon=Jacob Marley and Yay the Ghost of Christmas Future?
"Will Tiny Pintsize live?" "If these lucid dreams remain unaltered, he's gonna be tuna fish cans before you know it."
See the bird eating pint-size?
Didn’t Pintsize end up with birds inside him? I seem to remember an angry Faye being involved. Darn it Jeph, you have too many comics and no easy way to search them.
Just here for the Windows XP background, carry on
Is Jeph nerd-sniping with the Windows XP background? Did I just get nerd-sniped?
We got nerd-sniped
OMG rolling green hills. Nostalgia bomb.
That last background is beautiful for those who get the reference.
I absolutely love the giant Half-Pint supervising as a toaster chases a loaf of bread.
Um... The sun is Pintsize's dating profile pic. Roko has some hidden issues.
They did go on one date.
Somewhere Brian Eno's ear is twitching and he doesn't know why.;
....is that the Windows XP background in the last panel?! 🤣
the "beyond the grave windows xp", well spotted
Roko, you need to cut back on the robo-pizza before bed!
Now let her sniff some Assam....
Yeah, Bosch was all about toasters and smiling whales with small hats...
It got worse 😑
Not worse. Just weirder.
Roko, can we trade lives? Mines bland and boring.