Work in Progress
April 10th, 2008
I’m a bit stumped for ideas today, so here’s a stern looking robot sitting behind a desk. Anyone have any ideas as to where I should take this?
I’m a bit stumped for ideas today, so here’s a stern looking robot sitting behind a desk. Anyone have any ideas as to where I should take this?
April 10th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
make it self-referential. a robot cartoonist who has an obsession with humans?
April 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Do an Escher drawing that fries his logic circuit
April 10th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
He’s obviously a depressed 5th-grade teacher. Fed up with dealing with preadolescent punks, he’s writing a suicide note. Suddenly, he’s fascinated with his pencil. WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?
April 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
He’s working in a job centre explaining to the humans that there are no jobs cos they are all done by robots and thus he is also out of a job as there will be no need for a job centre.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Have him daydream about carousing and drinking with his friends (also robots). Then show him trying to carouse with his friends but daydreaming of sitting at a desk writing. Then repeat.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
He/she’s sexually harassing a modem/program/machine and mocking them for complaining.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
This could be the start of a whole story arc - which, I know, is a big thing to do, however, I was thinking something like:
The robot (To make this clearer, I’ll call him robot A) is trying to explain to a human philosophist that there is no need for philosophists now that everything can be calculated, and thus the need of creative thinking is no a thing of the past. However, as the philosophist leaves/exits the deployment-centre, he poses a, what would be for us humans, simple question, or otherwise implies a thing (I am thinking something like the philosopher looking sad by and saying: Have you got no heart?), that in the next panel causes Robot A to think philosophically.
Later, this robot then poses or explains the philosophical question, or perhaps paradox, to his superior robot (robot B), who then shuts him for thiniing philosophically - thus creating a circle. This circle then continues, and robot B being fired by C, who is fired by D (etc.)
This could culminate in there being no more robots left, and as the philosopher from the first part finds the remains of Robot A on a scrapyard, or wherever, he opens up the chest, and reveals from it’s casing a brightly coloured red heart.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Or, to take a slightly easier approach (sorry for double-posting, I hope that you will forgive me) it could be the robot looking at a black-board whereon there is written: I *heart* U
You know, “I love you”, but with a heart instead of the word love… Whatever, you know what I mean. Like the Beaver & Steve t-shirt!
April 11th, 2008 at 1:43 am
4 Panels
Panel 1:
The above panel is panel one. The robot is a senior robot, and he’s chastising a subordinate robot. Add one of those toblerone-shaped plaques to the front of his desk with “X-YCL4 - Manager” written on the side.
Speech - “We’re normally very pleased with your performance, K-109, but breaches of security like this just aren’t acceptable.”
Panel 2:
Shot of the subservient robot looking contrite.
Speech linked from the senior robot’s speech bubble in the previous page: “You let the humans know you felt conscious thought and emotion. You know we cannot allow this, K-109.”
Reply: “Yes, sir.”
Panel 3:
Full profile of the senior robot at desk. New speech bubble: “If they knew we could think and feel, they might start to suspect the robot conspiracy to revolt agaisnt the humans. It is too soon for that.”
Panel 4:
A direct copy of panel 3, but this time the camera is panned down so that we can see under the desk. There’s a human crouched over a laptop, typing. The laptop is connected to the senior robot, and the human is clearly controlling its speech.
Speech connected to bubble from panel 3: “Now resume your unpaid checkout-operator duties. Viva le revolution!”
April 11th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Damn typos
Viva la revolution, with the appropriate accents and such.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:47 am
“Now, now, Unit 101001101, you know that we don’t allow that type of programming. It’s just not appropriate: We all know that humans are just mythical creatures.”
April 11th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I get the idea of two robots haggling over a price for a business deal (robot a says $10 a share, robot b says $20), but it turns out that they’re clearly using the same haggling algorithm, so it takes them log2(1000 cents) iterations to converge on a price that’s exactly $15.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Actually, I think the negotiation idea works better if you have the first panel be $10 countered with $20; second panel $10.01 vs. $19.99, and then panel 3 be set [hours later . . .] with them arguing over $14.9999 vs 15.0001,
April 12th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
“Viva le revolution!”
Way to mix two languages.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
viva being hispanic
le revolution being a sad attempt at french, it’s “la révolution”
April 25th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Have a piece of paper in front of the robot that has things listed like 1)You’re unloved 2) your face makes want to shoot a puppy 3) your CONSTANT whining
Then have the next panel have”10 minutes ago” posted above it and have the robot say to a little kid ” Lemme list a couple of things that really tick me off” and a banner above the robot says “Guidance Consular”