Infrastructure Components
gotta HAND it to 'em
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It's very a very metal arm, and also non-magnetic. We can tell because Reeves Gabrels is intimately connected to a tin machine.
No arm is as metal as Sedna’s in the final pages of Alice Grove.
Clinton is gonna be all "WANT THAT!" when he hears about it. (or is he??)
Oh god.
nice arm. very metal.
God help him if he ever needs to get an eyelash out of his eye.
She.
Jeph do they use the extreme tides for power?
Coal fired boiler, ironically.
I choose to believe that the Jepfverse Reeves Gabrels is the same former Tin Machine guitarist as ours, somehow.
Oyyyyyy. The punishment has begun.
So, does Cubetown have a spousal hire program?
I can't wait for the third act when Chekov's Dumpster will become an important part of the story.
Reeves appears to have the same dermal color pallet as Roko. Are their chassis from the same manufacturer? Ae they related? Does he like bread?
Is Reeves a man? I think they have a very androgynous appearance. Maybe they’re a woman, trans or non-binary. The next comic confirms Reeves is a woman.
I'm trying to work out if Cubetown Infrastructure Component 19A is where he works or who he is.
Yes.
I’d say more fiddler crab than hermit
Do you suppose that Jeph meant 'fiddler crab'? Hermit crabs aren't renowned for being asymmetric.
On the other hand, imagine if your wife was in that arm instead.... (oblique video game reference)
I see someone is a golf fan.
Or a fan of ice tea blended drinks.
Martin ala Doofenshmirtz "Curse you, Boaty the Boat!"
Boaty better not get embodied 2 years from now
I guess this is what Reeves Gabrels does when he's not touring with The Cure.
Wasn't there a Rick and Morty about an arm that had a mind of its own
I love the banter between Marten and Boaty
This is the beginning of the intense rivalry between Marten and Boaty.
did a report on hagfish in highschool, images still haunt me to this day
I was today years old when I learned that hagfish weren't something Arkane made up for Dishonored.
do not google "hagfish" do not google it
Nonsense. Little cutie pie booger eels. Just don’t let one kiss you.
Later, Martin and Boaty would bond and become fishing buddies. Neither suspects the other is plotting their demise. Also, Armold Palmer is an S tier name pun and you should honored for years for it. *doffs cap*
This is a fun concept :) Also, at the risk of being That Guy, Moray has a rounded speech bubble in the last panel, rather than a square speech bubble sorryforpointingitoutjusttryingtobehelpful
I hadn't even noticed
Then they need a better screening process.
That's a funny way of saying they need a worser screening process.
Talk to the hand, otherwise it won't know what you're doing.
Ol Boaty is my new waifu.
For a second I thought "wait, am I reading this comic while listening to Reeves Gabrels?" But it was in fact early 90s Robert Fripp.
lmao, this is wonderful.
I desperately hope Pintsize makes it here eventually.
It's my impression that they're just one of those couples and are getting along smashingly.
This is gonna be the coolest place on the whole world.
Okay, Armold Palmer is an amazing name and I'm completely sold.
I was thinking Venarm
I was thinking maybe the arm's name was Waldo.
Reeves reminds me of a character from Gorden R. Dickson's "Dorsai" books, who had one arm that was perfectly-normal sized -- for someone 6" taller and about 70lbs heavier.
Reeves Gabrels. Tim Machine, Tim Machine....
Glad I wasn't the only one who caught that.
OH NO MARTEN'S GHOST
True story, my teen has the hardest time saying “Arnold Palmer.” This will break their brain.
OMG the struggle is real. My mouth just can’t get those sounds to come out in the right order. And I rediscover how awkward it is every summer.
Okay, Faye and Bubbles come for a visit and Bubbles and Gabrel arm wrestle.
That's probably a better idea than Bubbles and Armold arm wrestling. I mean, that attachment point's probably not up for that kind of stress.
Rejection: when you're jerking off and your hand goes to sleep
Here we see that Jeremy made the right decision in only getting non-sentient additional limbs.
This is hands-down the worst idea.
But best for entertainment.
Is that guy named after a guitar man? The name sounds familiar.
So, this is the AI version of marriage, then?
It's a hypothesized model of AI marriage undergoing testing :)
And the dumpster in the background with the bagged trash suggests a healthy population of organic staff.
Or perhaps the unsuccessful organic staff in weighted bags for Boaty to dump in mid-channel.
Ok, if Claire and Marten don't move here we REALLY need a spinoff comic of Cubetown. Everyone we have met has been lovely and I want to see more.
1. The whole cast is eventually moving here, don't worry. Even Pintsize will get amnesty after they've heard he's reformed. A little, anyway. 2. Everyone we'll meet on the rest of this trip will be lovely as well, I'm sure. I mean, they're Canadian, how could they not be?
Lol...classic Boaty...
And the groans, er, puns, keep on rolling. :)
...OK, we're all thinking it now- Do AI's jack off?
Well Pintsize certainly does, and he's not even anatomically typical.
Ever had one of those days where one arm keeps trying to strangle you?
I see they've got the right to bare arms in Cubetown...
They also have the right to robotic bear arms, but that's not the way Reeves decided to go. Edit: Dang it, that worked so much better in my mind where homonyms are distinctly separate even if they're also homophones. Did that tweak help?
I can see them now on a bad day..."Stop poking yourself!"
That's got to make jerking off awkward...
Your arm just cackling at you
And suddenly Claire is either glad Clinton’s robot hand doesn’t talk or wishes Clinton’s robot hand does talk.
Why not both?
how's the cube town golf course
Once again hiding the best part in the caption
This is why your symbiote shouldn't have a personality.
It works out okay for the Trill
Armold better know how to play guitar if he’s going to be attached to someone who shares a name with David Bowie’s second most awesome guitarist.
Reeves USED to play guitar, but lost his arm in a tragic golfing incident. Now he's stuck with Armold, and he's not happy about it at all, because Armold's hand is too big to finger the strings.
Hi Armold Palmer! Armold Palmer hello! ~<3
Armold is my favorite.
The arm had to change their name from Arm-y Handmer
not Armand Handmer?
I was thinking for a microsecond that it was "Jeeves" and Cubetown had a proper AI butler straight out of a Merchant-Ivory movie. Oh well. A guy can dream.
Like an RPG cursed sword that won't stop talking to you.
In D&D 3 and 3.5 Psions could have a psicrystal that because of their perception bonus would not shut up at all.
That is…a brutal thing to say by way of farewell and salutation, Boaty.
I figure since the saying is "puking his guts out", Boaty means the hagfish now have access to his guts. It's still a bit creepy though. But fits his brand, so there you go