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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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
Julia, my food frakking deputy, and I spent last Christmas in New York. Well, technically it was Boxing Day in New York City, and Christmas in Connecticut, but I feel it was a reasonably iconic way to spend the holiday nonetheless. We had a very interesting walking tour of Midtown Manhattan from an actual native,
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
There I was at the Fiesta Mexican food market, standing at the meat counter and I thought, “There’s really nothing keeping me from buying a pound of pig skin.” The pig skin was cut into perfect pink squares. There was some dimpling, apparently from someone having hit it with a tenderizing hammer at some point.
The last time I was in the Twin Cities, my grandparents took me out to eat at the Country Kitchen. If there is any all-you-can eat buffet that stands head and shoulders above the others, it would be Country Kitchen. I feel that the selections don’t have the sad fried-intensiveness of the buffets below the
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