This comic would have been topical if I had actually produced it within a couple of years of Ingmar Bergman’s passing.
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Here we are, episode five, the final installment of the Pizza Robots saga (unless there’s a huge outpouring of people caring, which I don’t anticipate), where we discover the whole point of the previous episodes, and sketch out the outline of a future narrative that will never be. Is this sexist? You tell me.
This is pretty much a narratively interstitial episode where the Pizza Robots comment on the only thing in their universe. I had in my mind that the pizza cruiser was an ordinary pizza delivery vehicle, but super-large. But looking at it now, it looks more like the delivery car is about actual size, and the
After two episodes of tedious world-building we finally get some of that robot on food-mutant violence that we’ve been waiting for. Now that we have a better view of the pizza robots themselves, we can see the outlines of the characters they will probably never become. You can differentiate them by the differing robot-antenna design
So remember how the Circle and Almost Circle comics took a dumb premise and ran with it? That’s kinda what’s going on here. That’s why there’s not only were-fries, but were-curly-fries too. A couple of points about this that bear mentioning. You will notice that the landscape is identical to that from Circle and Almost
I’m not sure why I originally thought this would be a good idea. Perhaps I had some inclination that this would be a great idea for a syndicated cartoon for teens, because if there’s two things that teens like, it’s pizza and robots, so putting the two of them together ought to be an awesome
Because I like you, I’m not going to make you sit through a different post for every one of these comics. For some reason, I went down to the photocopy shop, and ran off a bunch of actual sheets of paper and inked in different dialogue for each template. Even at the time it would
And so, by inserting Circle into the myths of Sisyphus,Tantalus, and Ixion, I have completely used up any shred of humor that one could possibly glean from the concept of ‘circle.’ Now, stay tuned for more Circle and Almost Circle comics that are so devoid of humor that they’re essentially anti-humor. It’s eleven variations on
I’m not certain if Circle is venturing into the underworld in an Orpheistic quest to find peace for his suffocated love, or if it’s just an extension of my classical obsessions at the time. There wasn’t enough space in the CAC panels to do actual plot exposition. Plus I was working to deconstruct that whole
Here we come back to Heraclitus, since I was pretty obsessed with that at the time. Is the last line a pun on “Hiroshima Mon Amour?” I guess not. I think in my mind, at the time of drawing this, it made sense.