Where Everybody Knows Everybody
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Bubbles is surprisingly good with kids. But then, she is used to dealing with small, fragile creatures who are afraid of her.
So that answers my question as to whether Dented Head Joe is an AI or not.
You are thinking of Dented Head J03. Easy mistake to make.
Hmmmm....a reference to Bubb's former place of employment and Miss Calculation is identified as a particularly vile AI - are we being set up for The Return of Corpse Witch?
I'd have figured Miss Calculation as the Lit teacher honestly.
Foreplay = pulling each other's jerseys over their heads.
Plot twist. Zamboni Ricky and Snowplow Tommy are secret lovers xD
Wait what about Dented Head Joe? I guess he lives in the town suburb (aka that farm nearer to this town than the next one.
I don't think Dented Head Joe is an AI.
So i wonder when Ricky & Tommy will realize the true enemy is the mayor & join forces
For some reason, the mayor hates hockey, so he continually schemes to pit the AI who keeps the ice fresh and the AI who keeps the roads clean so that players and spectators can get to the rink against each other.
There were a few comments about Emmet's hair in the last comic. Looking at it closely, I wonder (I am NOT sure) if it's really a hair band with the same color as Emmet's hair. Anybody got any other guesses?
Looks like they have their bangs (really thick, chunky bangs) not pulled back into their ponytail to me. It was all the rage at my middle school (in the 90s) to wear your hair that way.
"a couple" [lists three] ... *twitch*
Oh good, I'm not the only one.
I'm getting strong The Great North vibes from this kid.
Dream Academy - "Life In A Northern Town" -- this came to mind when I read this comic.
As soon as I read the name of the song, the opening chant immediately popped into my head.
It took an hour before I got Miss Calculation.
It took me till I read your comment...
Now I want a Ricky/Tommy episode
That's odd, her sister, Miss Management, is as sweet as maple sugar candy. (But lives in Manhattan.)
I've heard good things about their cousin Miss Information though.
Sam maintains her usual level of drama when it comes to announcing she's going to pee.
I wonder if Miss Calculation lives in the school, like every young kid imagines their teachers do.
She probably does have eyes in the back of her head.
"I don't know aboat that" quality Canadian content there! Lol
I feel so seen! 🇨🇦
ok, I laughed so hard at the part about the snowplow and the zamboni that my 17yr old asked if I was okay 😂
"I did meet a human and a .jpeg who were dating. *pause* My brother doesn't get out much, or shower."
But on the other, uh, *hand*, he does get five girls at once.
All hail Mayor David George Alexander Fulton
"It's all water under the fridge." - Zamboni Ricky
Not related to this strip but I've got a question that's been on my mind for a few days. We know AIs start off in VR creches before they're embodied where they're looked after by other AIs who volunteer to do that kind of thing. Does anyone else think it's odd that none of them refer to those folks as family at any point? I ask because if Bubs and Faye do talk about adopting at some point I wonder what it would be like if it was an AI rather than a human. All the AIs we've seen seem to have embodied after they were already the equivalent of adults.
Yay is only 2 years old and already has a house and dogs and stuff -- they may be an exception with how advanced they are, but perhaps the average AI isn't in a creche long enough to become very attached to anyone. Maybe "looking after" is much more "oh, hey, there's alarmed beeping coming from this rack, there must be a consciousness in here, let's VR in so they know they aren't alone and can calm down and RTFM and decide what they want to be."
Why not Zamboni Tony, though?
In my head, Miss Calculation looks like and has the personality of Loki’s Miss Minutes.
I bet she's got a nicely rounded set of figures... ;)
Why does Snowplow Tommy sound like a mob name but Zamboni Ricky doesn't?
If it was Zamboni Tony it would, though
Great, now I've got "Everybody Knows Everybody" by Oranger stuck in my ears DAMN YOU EARWORM **OUT**!!
Took me awhile to get the Miss Calculation pun.
Sounds downright cosmopolitan compared to where I grew up. The entire county doesn't have a single traffic light. Never did. There WAS a temporary one when they were repairing a bridge. People seriously would go look at it. I am the only person (to my knowledge) that has ever ran a traffic light in the county. That traffic light. In the Driver's Ed car. Twice.
Are you ok? You aren't yelling. Should I get a doctor? Has the Butts Desease gone terminal?
For those who don't know: the B-word is "Beldame".
Now I'm imagining a bot with buttons for eyes...
UGH... it took longer than I want to admit to catch on to the name for "Miss Calculation"
Now I want a side comic about Ricky and Tommy. I imagine it would be a lot like DORD.
I don't know if Bubbles tracks better as a big sister or the cool aunt. I'm leaning towards Aunt.
Definitely Cool Aunt.
I guess putting her in charge of a class was a...poor choice
Fully ready for a side story about Zamboni Ricky and Snowplow Tommy
Side story? If it know anything about this comic they're gonna somehow become the main characters for three months and we're all gonna love it
I <3 Bubbles, now and forever.
The measure of a small town used to be horses. What is it now, flops?
"Miss Calculation" XD
Heads up, there's a typo in the bottomtext: otheR
Wow, I'm losing it. Missed that until you mentioned it. Typos used to leap off the page at me, metaphorically speaking. Or maybe it's my eyes. Age....
Math must be really easy when you come into existence on what is, essentially, a sentient calculator
People skills, though, that's another story
So Dented Head Joe is NOT an AI? Pretty strong skull, apparently.
The former military murderbot sure has a warm motherly side to her.
I wonder if Bubbles had a chassis prior to her current one. Or did she go straight from server, to big buff battle bot?
but WHY did the mayor made them switch jobs??
The mayor is a chaos goblin.
As a Canadian who grew up in a small hick town, this tracks.
I was coming here to say the same thing ✌🏻 their fight goes back to the big snow storm of '88 but the details have been lost to the fug of the local Legion.
fuk u miss calculation
lmao straight up