creative

A four-panel SMBC comic. A young man with curly hair talks with a tall gray robot. Panel 1: The man asks, "Do you think robots can be creative?" The robot replies, "No, never." Panel 2: The robot explains, "'Creativity' is a word humans use to refer to combining several old things and then calling it new." Panel 3: The robot continues, "Robots cannot do this because it would be so boring we would rust and die." Panel 4: The man says, "I guess you don't want to read my young adult fantasy series." The robot, smug, says, "You things are so PRECIOUS!" The joke: the robot dismisses creativity as mere recombination, but reacts with condescending affection when the man mentions his derivative YA fantasy novel. Votey (bonus panel): A crudely sketched person with messy hair emits a speech bubble of pure gibberish, "Kr82gz#blllll!", as if their language has broken down into nonsense.