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Pizza Robots #5

M. Bey — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:26:46 +0000

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.

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Pizza Robots #4

M. Bey — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:20:42 +0000

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 pizza robots are just the size of normal pizzas.

Also, did you catch the bit with the beam? That’s a pun.

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Pizza Robots #3

M. Bey — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:13:39 +0000

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 as well as the differing pizza toppings. Supreme of course has all the available toppings. That’s what makes him a leader. Meanwhile, Meat Lover has a lot of meat toppings and is ostensibly female, which you can tell because of the eyelashes. I think I had planned an unrealized subplot about her coming out as a cross-dressing robot. Then, Peppy, the pepperoni pizza, is the undisciplined clown of the operation.

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Pizza Robots #2

M. Bey — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:58:45 +0000

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 Circle. It’s just a randomly tilting horizon line with some skulls and a cow to let you know that it’s post apocalyptic.

Also, looking at it now, the dialogue balloon differentiation between the “robot voice” jagged line and the “communicator voice” jagged balloon box seems pretty inane.

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Pizza Robots #1

M. Bey — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:57:47 +0000

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 start for some comic characters, right?

The comics are formatted to fit the pages of Space Squid, but I don’t think that any of these actually made it into an issue, and you know how low the standards of Space Squid are. So that’s got to tell you something.

Also, you can tell this takes place in a post-apocalyptic landscape because of the skulls and the talking french fries. Sorry, I think those are were-fries, but that’s world building for another comic strip.

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