Bot
Original: Bot on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (narration banner over a street scene at night): "Have you noticed how weird it is that Star Wars has sentient AI servants, but nobody invented sex robots?"
Panel 2 (two people walking together): "Yeah, weird."
Panel 3 (narration, the speaker continuing): "Like the moment there were okay chatbots in real life, people were installing them in sex dolls! Way before functional domestic robots."
Panel 4 (the companion): "Yeah."
Panel 5 (narration continuing): "But in Star Wars they're all just weird-looking robots that beep or whatever."
Panel 6 (the companion): "Super weird."
Panel 7 (caption): "LATER THAT EVENING."
Panel 8 (in bed at night, a blond man speaking, looking unsettled): "We can never show our love to the world."
Next to him, a droid resembling R2-D2 lying in the bed: "Weee wooooooooo..."
Votey:
Panel 1 (a speech bubble from off-panel, the man): "Can I stop beeping and just talk?"
Panel 2 (close on the R2-D2-style droid): "No!"
Panel 2 (two people walking together): "Yeah, weird."
Panel 3 (narration, the speaker continuing): "Like the moment there were okay chatbots in real life, people were installing them in sex dolls! Way before functional domestic robots."
Panel 4 (the companion): "Yeah."
Panel 5 (narration continuing): "But in Star Wars they're all just weird-looking robots that beep or whatever."
Panel 6 (the companion): "Super weird."
Panel 7 (caption): "LATER THAT EVENING."
Panel 8 (in bed at night, a blond man speaking, looking unsettled): "We can never show our love to the world."
Next to him, a droid resembling R2-D2 lying in the bed: "Weee wooooooooo..."
Votey:
Panel 1 (a speech bubble from off-panel, the man): "Can I stop beeping and just talk?"
Panel 2 (close on the R2-D2-style droid): "No!"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic plus a votey. As two people walk down a street at night, one says in narration: "Have you noticed how weird it is that Star Wars has sentient AI servants, but nobody invented sex robots?" The other replies, "Yeah, weird." The first continues: "Like the moment there were okay chatbots in real life, people were installing them in sex dolls! Way before functional domestic robots. But in Star Wars they're all just weird-looking robots that beep or whatever." The companion answers, "Yeah... Super weird." A caption reads "Later that evening." The final panel shows the blond man lying in bed at night looking troubled, saying "We can never show our love to the world," beside an R2-D2-style astromech droid that responds "Weee wooooooooo..." — revealing the droid is his secret robot lover. Votey: the man's voice asks, "Can I stop beeping and just talk?" A close-up of the R2-D2-like droid flatly replies, "No!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.