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2022 Eisner Award Winner for Best Humor Publication & Nominee for Best New Series.
In the year 2056, robots have replaced human beings in the workforce. An uneasy co-existence develops between the newly intelligent robots and the ten billion humans living on Earth. Every human family is assigned a robot upon whom they are completely reliant. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the Walters, a human family whose robot, Razorball, ominously spends his free time in the garage working on machines which they’re pretty sure are designed to kill them in this sci-fi satire.
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"Robot" is Czech for "slave".
Of the two, I'd rather follow Astrobots. As much of a more blatant rip-off as that is. It's not that I won't read something cerebral, but…yes, I've seen this snarkiness before. Assume an attitude of self-loathing and cynicism towards humanity as you'd think you'd know it, from a sheltered urban 'life' and you can see where the robot perspective is going. This is Asimov's three rules of robotics…combined with "I, Robot", the Hollywood adaptation that feels like a Will Smith movie instead of Asimov.
Some of this imagery's funny – particularly the look of the robot heads and faces as much as they're anthropomorphized (there's a word for ya) and in how they compare to the humans' – but the narrative is too bitter for me. "Love thy computer, not thy neighbour" transhumanism messaging seems to be where this is going. Which is nothing new out of the US tthese days (years). Maybe they could work it out, but through this entire issue it appears that the only recourse these humans will have to consistently hostile labour is shutting them down or be shut down. Hollywood's gone over this subject a lot, over the decades, so…we'll see. Thanks nonetheless for showing something that interests YOU, Marinus.
Haunted…by a ghosting here, too.