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As for this comic…
Some will say this goes too far. Others will say it doesn’t go far enough. Let’s split the difference and say this goes the right distance.
Okay, I never knew Puck had THAT MUCH STRENGTH within her. I mean …just woah. I’m speechless after that.
Well, even Puck seems surprised!
And if she did, the head should have . . . splashed. Heads just don’t do that.
Human bodies don’t emit wisps of smoke after decapitation either. To point out the seeming obvious, Boss Lady seems to have been a robot here for reasons presumably to be explained later.
Could be the steam rising from the wound. (Cough.)
Ehhhhh… comedic effect and artistic license. Nas believed in keeping the integrity and cleanliness of the server room spic and span so much that, well you can see the effect.
Not HUMAN heads, anyway.
Good thing Puck has Daphne to help hide the body. If they’re lucky they’ll meet Satan and he can direct them to the puppy-shredder.
What the hell?
Unexpected!
Indeed! I’m impressed.
I wonder what benefit they got from the liquified puppies.
They said the puppies would be liquefied and used for protein. But they did NOT indicate that they would be the consumers of said protein. Who might consume said protein? I dunno. Maybe the next round of puppies. Maybe the hamsters.
Good point.
… IT WAS A.I. THE WHOLE TIME!
Exactly.
That would make sense.
It’s too bad. I was looking forward to the tragedy. Kind’a. It was poetic.
I hate A.I.. Who ever decided to have them rip-off the creative arts should be shot.
I want A.I.s to vacuum my rugs and wash my windows,
not puke out dodgy pâté remakes of Van Goghs and Frank Sinatra covering Iron Maiden songs. No matter how appealing having Humphrey Bogart and Harrison Ford starring together sounds, I don’t want to see it.
You can delete this if it’s too much
It’s just right.
And thus the new evil supplants the old. Is it any shock the new evil is made out of microchips?
PREACH, Dave!!
So someone had the foresight to hide behind an android.
Interesting.
I wonder where the real cabalist is located.
You assume that the new evil isn’t the robot. Interesting.
DON’T mess with the fae.
It seems even she didn’t know her full power.
Daphne’s appropriate reaction is appropriate.
You don’t know your full power until someone threatens your kid.
Okay, that’s gotta be some Faerie-realm powers Puck just activated.
Mike Tyson couldn’t do that on his best day.
Well, maybe this opponent is … special. I would rank Puck’s maximum strength at a similar scale to Tyson in his prime.
I would rank Puck’s maximum strength at a similar scale to Captain America (Steve Rogers) in his prime.
I like that. Not supernatural, but pretty dang strong.
If she was some sort of robot it would be even -harder- to knock her head off lol.
But a clean break IS possible in that situation.
Robots can be kind of fragile.
worse: thats fae powers in combination with momma bear ‘must protect my young at all cost’ instincts. no suprise that there are no survivors!
It’s like extra bacon on top of a meat lover’s pizza!
This is certainly a new twist. So I have to wonder if she’s thinking of electric sheep with halos jumping over a fence.
Something akin to that. Do androids go to silicon heaven? Or silicon hell?
This goes the right distance
Thank you.
“FATALITY! Flawless Victory!” – My initial reaction.
What I was going for.
Fa….fatality?
Definitely a question mark. True evil isn’t that easy to kill.
Aww… and she was kinda hot still… oh well.
Rebuild her, reprogram her, and she’s yours until the inevitable short and she rips your lips off.
Not sure evil can be fully reprogrammed like that.
I share your conflicted feelings.
What’s the sound effect in the second panel? It looks like dooj
It is dooj.
MAMA MIA!!!!
When I was in Italy as a kid, you have NO idea how satisfying it was to hear Italians really say that.
Yyyeah, the Cabal wasn’t human.
Was there ever any doubt?
They seemed to represent entirely human evil at the beginning …
But that’s the thing with generative AI – it’s modelled after humans. And initially sculpted by them.
Shouldn’t there be a big fountain of blood out of that now-headless body?
Well, if she were human, yes.
Well, then, a big gushing fountain of coolant.
Pop goes the weasel!
Had to be said.
And you were just the person to say it.
Puck kicked her ascot!
So, Nas was just a dooj bag all along.
I have to say, I enjoy a nice decapitation every once in a while.
As all discerning readers do.
Yes well, you don’t spit into the wind, you don’t step on Superman’s cape, you don’t threaten Miranda, future Empress of Earth!
I appreciate the Jim Croce ref.
If the android body is just a waldo for the AI to operate through, she’s still out there on the net…
You better bet this sort of baddie can’t be bested by a punch.
Hell of a punch!
We would expect no less.
Come to think of it, what if the brain that ran that android-robot-whatever wasn’t in the head? Just because us human types have our brains there…
I feel like the brains may be contained on a server somewhere. Maybe in that same room, but likely somewhere else.
Then she’ll be back as soon as she can get another robot body.
Potentially. Yes.
So you’ve experienced a minor setback. It’s nothing to lose your head over.
Or maybe it does…
Too bad the head wasn’t riveted on. Could have gone Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots…
Missed opportunity?
Depends on your nostalgia for Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots…
That was “just” a jab. Imagine a roundhouse or uppercut…
I was tempted to draw an uppercut. I really was.
I am shocked! SHOCKED!!! Well, not that shocked.
Nor I.
Very little exceeds a good Futurama quote 🙂
It’s Always A Doombot.
Dang Doombots. Popping up everywhere.
Too far?
Not far enough?
Depends on where the head landed.
Hit the door, I think.
Well…so much for not being quick…
Jesus Christ, INDEED.
Relatively painless, at least.
It’s just a flesh wound….
“A flesh wound?! Your heads off!
Exactly. Walk it off, man.
Puck is an ancient fairy, old fairies have power, this is totally believable.
Glad you approve.
And that boys and girls why you don’t bait a mama bear with her cubs.
Just avoid bears in general, I’d say.
Invoked Trope: Actually A Doombot
(Someone beat me to the concept, I’ll admit)
Well, it’s a good trope.
Not attractive enough to be a Fembot.
Dude, I disagree. The evil robot lady is pretty hot.
Pin pulled? (See comments for #859.)
My sweet robovillainess you so gave yourself away… ain’t no granny bod that hawt. 😉
Well, I didn’t intend her to be a granny, exactly. More a 50+ type with some grey.
Suddenly, I am worried about the puppy shredder. Side note is the shredder evil or just forced to do evil things.
The puppy shredder is most certainly in a damaged state right now. And no, I think it’s not evil. It’s just an industrial meat grinder. It could be used for good, I suppose? Not sure what application that would be, though.
Hot dogs. Burgers. Other sausages.
What, it can take a sofa-bed, but not one measly robot? O.K.
It didn’t take the sofa bed. And if you know your sofa beds, you know they have metal frames.
I know, that’s why I was skeptical. I thought they upgraded that after the last one didn’t chew the sofa-bed up. I guess there are levels of upgrade. Or I just made it up. By accident of course.
WoW … so amazing … so SATISFYING.
I literally (meaning I actualy did) yelp with joy to see that Beech lose her head.
Way better than that dork simply becoming Feline Fodder (considering my mommy is the Yule Cat, that is commonplace for me).
I love PUCK.
I was aiming for satisfying. So glad I achieved the goal.
“If you can keep your head when all about you / are losing theirs and blaming it on you…”
Easier said than done.