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Post by Max on Jun 29, 2011 7:00:36 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 29, 2011 7:06:33 GMT
There's something deeply unsettling about Robox's smile.
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Post by Max on Jun 29, 2011 7:09:16 GMT
There's something deeply unsettling about Robox's smile.  ;D |
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Post by joephlommin on Jun 29, 2011 7:10:50 GMT
I feel disturbed. Who knew he could say anything other than "Helloooooooooooo" and "awwwwwww"?
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Post by Xan on Jun 29, 2011 7:11:52 GMT
Oh god WHYYYYY
I'm honestly feeling bad about Boxbot, I'm fond of this character.
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Post by fronzel on Jun 29, 2011 7:25:22 GMT
"Do you want this robo-religious revelation?"
"Sure, I'll have it."
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Post by Eversist on Jun 29, 2011 7:52:06 GMT
Poor boxbot! I am now sad for the little thing.
Even though he is ter... I can't even say it. ;-;
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Post by Alexandragon on Jun 29, 2011 7:57:51 GMT
Little sad page... Awwwwwww
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Post by rafk on Jun 29, 2011 8:42:58 GMT
I feel disturbed. Who knew he could say anything other than "Helloooooooooooo" and "awwwwwww"? I knooooooooooooo Tom has actually made me feel bad for Boxbot. How terrible! |
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Aura
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Post by Aura on Jun 29, 2011 8:52:34 GMT
Robox is creepy. ._.
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Post by scaramousche on Jun 29, 2011 8:56:04 GMT
Robox here reminds me vaguely of Tom's Formspring.
Now we know Robox is a Mary Sue! JEEZ TOM CUT IT OUT HJKGHGJKAHGJK
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eldras
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Post by eldras on Jun 29, 2011 13:05:00 GMT
Being Boxbot is suffering.
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Post by atteSmythe on Jun 29, 2011 13:17:54 GMT
Terrible!
But also pretty awesome.
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Post by darlos9d on Jun 29, 2011 14:56:17 GMT
Okay, the robots are no longer funny. At all.
... yes I'm aware that might be the point.
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Post by crater on Jun 29, 2011 15:05:54 GMT
LAUGHIN ON LINE!!!!!!!!
Boxbot lives on a placid island of ignorance in the black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that he should voyage far
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Post by damilo on Jun 29, 2011 16:50:47 GMT
Okay, the robots are no longer funny. At all. ... yes I'm aware that might be the point. Wrong. That was hilarious. I wouldn't mind seeing a buddy cop television show where Boxbot and Robox fight crime. Boxbot's somewhat regular-sized vocabulary rubs me the wrong way, though. |
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Post by canus on Jun 29, 2011 16:57:08 GMT
I think this is comic relief after a very serious chapter. I love it.
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spheney
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Post by spheney on Jun 29, 2011 17:25:18 GMT
I laughed for a good minute after reading this page.
The last line of pictures is now my background B)
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Post by DeMuypr on Jun 29, 2011 17:28:52 GMT
I don't think that strip is funny. Or I just don't like long pauses...
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Post by SpitefulFox on Jun 29, 2011 17:58:05 GMT
Watch as Boxbot becomes important as the only robot who isn't part of the Kat Kult.
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Post by Goatmon on Jun 29, 2011 21:56:44 GMT
Teehee.
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Post by rainofsteel on Jun 30, 2011 0:00:43 GMT
I was trying to think of something cute or clever to say, but all I can think of is: "Give me more Gunnerkrigg Court!"  |
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Post by nero on Jun 30, 2011 1:17:54 GMT
I do enjoy this type of dark humor but I didn't expect it today. The bottom strip made me think of Jhonen Vasquez's comics.
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notacat
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Post by notacat on Jun 30, 2011 8:53:28 GMT
On the strength of this, can anybody tell me why we are supposed to think Boxbot is so terrible and Robox is lovely? I am deeply suspicious that it is simply because Tom has said so, and that this is a massively-long-range side-arc relating to prejudice and pride.
I will not be at all surprised if Boxbot turns out to be some kind of heroic figure, and Robox—just like how he shows up here—is basically a grinning git.
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Post by foresterr on Jun 30, 2011 9:59:39 GMT
No reason. But it's not just "Tom said so", everybody in-world thinks the same. Without any good reason as well, that's what makes this funny, at least for me.
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Post by todd on Jun 30, 2011 11:27:05 GMT
On the strength of this, can anybody tell me why we are supposed to think Boxbot is so terrible and Robox is lovely? I am deeply suspicious that it is simply because Tom has said so, and that this is a massively-long-range side-arc relating to prejudice and pride. I will not be at all surprised if Boxbot turns out to be some kind of heroic figure, and Robox—just like how he shows up here—is basically a grinning git. Neither one have even done anything important in the story as yet - but then again, a lot of the most popular elements of "Gunnerkrigg Court" (such as the spacemonauts or the pop culture references) have had little effect on the main story. |
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Post by Interactive System Error on Jun 30, 2011 13:53:32 GMT
Of course, we don't know that Robox doesn't go on to explain everything fully to Boxbot. And then maybe get help.
Or maybe none of that happens. Part of good storytelling is choosing what to reveal and what to leave unknown. From what's shown here, Robox seems pretty unhelpful. We've seen the human attitude toward Boxbot, and inferred that the robots feel the same way about him, but we don't really know.
It seems certain that we'll be surprised by the robots, though. They seem at once so much like us but so very different. Nor are they really like robots we know from elsewhere. That's Tom's genius: to surprise us with the familiar.
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Post by atteSmythe on Jun 30, 2011 16:31:15 GMT
Y'know, Boxbot's really more of a 'box with arms bot' - Kat should give his arms to Robox so that Boxbot can finally live up to his name.
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Post by ryos on Jun 30, 2011 20:47:30 GMT
I'm surprised at the polarization here. I laughed hard at this page.
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Post by Ulysses on Jul 1, 2011 7:43:57 GMT
Boxbot is terrible, he deserves to be stuck.
Stupid Boxbot.
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