Warbot_007: Sophia [Archive] - Nuklear Power Forums

Zack Finfrock

06-03-2009, 07:11 PM

After three weeks, we have a new update (http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/06/03/warbot_007-sophia/).

For those who care, here are the blocked Atomic Robo: The Movie screens.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/splashed_ink/RoboScreen01.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/splashed_ink/RoboScreen02.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/splashed_ink/RoboScreen03.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/splashed_ink/RoboScreen04.jpg

Arrekusu

06-03-2009, 07:15 PM

I'm pretty sure that's the best date movie ever.

kh3lgar

06-03-2009, 07:32 PM

FIRST POST!!!
Oh. :(

Babybahamut

06-03-2009, 07:33 PM

"I heard this movie's dumb anyway."

Wow, the Robo movie isn't even announced yet and it's getting bad reviews.

Kepor

06-03-2009, 07:35 PM

I like it.

So your pens and whatnot are working again, I take it?

Zack Finfrock

06-03-2009, 07:39 PM

I like it.

So your pens and whatnot are working again, I take it?

Actually, no. I'm currently borrowing one from a friend until I can afford one of my own.

Nuklear Waste

06-03-2009, 07:59 PM

Warbot crushing the popcorn in the last panel is supposed to be out of a broken heart and not rage, right? Because if it's the latter, that would really hurt the character of Warbot for me.

But other than that, I gotta say I really like these long, convoluted (yet one-shot) strips. Keep up the "good" work, guys.

Kepor

06-03-2009, 08:20 PM

Warbot crushing the popcorn in the last panel is supposed to be out of a broken heart and not rage, right?

I assumed he was trying to make a thoughtful gesture (offer her popcorn) but messed it up.

Nuklear Waste

06-03-2009, 08:44 PM

As long as he's not angry, I'm happy. I like to think of him as hopelessly optimistic and not pissed off like Brian's other webcomic butt monkey.

BigGator5

06-03-2009, 09:01 PM

"This is what happens when you put a Democrat in the White House."

Why am I not surprised that a Democrat gave ARVs rights?

Vault Of Thrones

06-03-2009, 09:02 PM

I've got to say, I think that the art really works. The black and white subtly add to Warbot's character and give it more the feeling as if it really is just a robot trying to make it in a society where he isn't really accepted. And of course I've also got the feeling that Warbot is just going to lose it and go postal on everyone.

Molotovich

06-03-2009, 09:25 PM

I analyzed warbots expression, he is pissed... and sad

Sorry to dissapoint the non believers, and besides, what did you expect? he is an EX Warmachine!

BrotherFlounder

06-03-2009, 09:34 PM

Nice one. Love the failed offer of popcorn.

In a semi-related note, it seems like your Robo is very very similar to Scott Wegener's. I did a double-take the first time I read your backup story in Vol. 2. (And here.) And a Robo movie would be awesome 'n stuff.

ETA: Just noticed. Is that a Tesladyne tie?

Eldezar

06-03-2009, 11:21 PM

She's right, the movie did look stupid.

Not quite as sad and pitiful as the others, but good. You should appease me by making another incredibly horrible scenario for Warbot in which we would judge ourselves in our enjoyment in this comic.

Shadow Bunny

06-03-2009, 11:59 PM

I love the expression on the guy's face in the third to last panel.

FenrisWolf

06-04-2009, 12:27 AM

FIRST POST!!!
Oh. :(

Don't do that.

MileHigh

06-04-2009, 12:36 AM

Called it, lawl! http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showthread.php?p=931452#post931452

Seriously though, either this is one of the best ones so far, or I'm finally getting to the point where I appreciate the subtle humor.

Mirai Gen

06-04-2009, 01:09 AM

The humor has turned much less "Oh god you guys are monsters" and much more "haha Warbot sucks" this week, which is a nice refreshing non-horrible change for the week.

It says something about Warbot that in an episode where a couple break up and three people's legs get crushed that it is more cheerful.

Invisible Queen

06-04-2009, 01:40 AM

I analyzed warbots expression, he is pissed... and sad

Sorry to dissapoint the non believers, and besides, what did you expect? he is an EX Warmachine! I'm thinking "surprised". Like he never saw it coming.

PS. What's the poster that's almost covered up in the last scene? I'm going to guess Zack Finfrock: The Movie. :O

Lorpius Prime

06-04-2009, 01:48 AM

"This is what happens when you put a Democrat in the White House."

Why am I not surprised that a Democrat gave ARVs rights?

As scary as Warbots are with rights, can you imagine what they'd be like without them?

I imagine the ARV Civil Rights campaign would look something like this:

Human Bus Driver: No Warbots allowed!

ARV: *Throws bus into city hall.*

Rejected Again

06-04-2009, 01:48 AM

Brilliant. So did you keep any of the shrapnel that was lodged in your neck?

Si Civa

06-04-2009, 03:15 AM

This one made me smile.

And finally we know that Warbot is good at pissing short people (like you!) and those with puny, stupid, ugly legs.

Yumil

06-04-2009, 03:32 AM

So next its skating with the skater girl?

Spekkio

06-04-2009, 04:06 AM

I cracked up big time on that line about "It's just hanging!"

Good one, guys.

Grognor

06-04-2009, 04:32 AM

I cracked up big time on that line about "It's just hanging!"

Good one, guys.
Unfortunately, I didn't get it. The foot is hanging from the leg? And if so, how does this crack one up?

NonCon

06-04-2009, 04:39 AM

The leg is broken to the point where part of it is just barely hanging there by skin/muscle.

george144

06-04-2009, 08:48 AM

Awww he tries so hard, or he's actually incredibly evil at heart, its always the mutes who are evil....maybe

Wulfila

06-04-2009, 03:24 PM

"This is what happens when you put a Democrat in the White House" made me burst out laughing.

Also, Warbot looking down and knowing he's going to step on the guy's foot, then going anyways and just watching the aftermath outside. This episode probably made me laugh more than any other.

Invisible Queen

06-04-2009, 05:16 PM

krogothwolf

06-04-2009, 06:10 PM

Magic_Marker

06-04-2009, 11:10 PM

Before, I was sorry for Warbot.

Now I am sorry for everybody.

And I still feel like a jerk for reading this.

I'mma gonna go watch me some of that IT Crowd, where things are silly instead of depressing.

Beep me when the next Warbot goes live so I can feel like an ass again.

Neo Heartless

06-07-2009, 12:54 AM

Are those guys the Pixelated Pupils????!!

Doc ock rokc

06-07-2009, 02:46 AM

bluestarultor

06-07-2009, 03:19 AM

Those sound like Cineplex Odium theatre's to me! But yeah, they seemed pretty rude to poor WarBot.

It's, to my knowledge, pretty basic common courtesy to not make a scene if you can't see in a theater by just scooting over a tidge if there's room. I mean, if the place is packed, and you can rearrange, you do. It's only if there's no other option that you ask the people in front of you to rearrange, and people are generally much more polite than that about it. I mean, everyone there paid for the movie, so it's understood everyone there wants to watch it.

TL;DR: Those people were jerks and had it coming. Warbot is the victim here.

Zack Finfrock

06-07-2009, 05:05 AM

Are those guys the Pixelated Pupils????!!

;)

Mirai Gen

06-07-2009, 06:05 AM

;)

Thought I recognized them!

Enkidu

06-08-2009, 11:21 AM

I loved the end of it, warbot crushes the popcorn out of either Anger/Sadness and that lady just gives him one of those " Oh boy.." faces haha.

Fifthfiend

06-08-2009, 07:41 PM

Warbot is the victim here.

This should probably be a standing assumption.

Dracorion

06-08-2009, 07:46 PM

Is there any particular reason Warbot hasn't commited suicide other than "it's funnier this way"?

Kurosen

06-08-2009, 08:06 PM

How would he?

Julford Hajime

06-08-2009, 08:08 PM

Because suicide is for [censored out of common decency]? I mean, hell, no matter how much my life sucked, suicide is far from ANY sort of answer.

[/preaching]

On topic: Warbot sucks at just about everything he does, but he's so goddamn cute while he fails. That's the only way I can explain it.

Except for the whole daughter thing. I just wanted to cry after reading about that incident.

Corel

06-08-2009, 08:15 PM

Is there any particular reason Warbot hasn't commited suicide other than "it's funnier this way"?
How would he?

Magnets.

It would either kill him or it would give him amnesia of the hilarious kind.

bluestarultor

06-08-2009, 08:24 PM

I was thinking he could melt himself down for scrap, but that's just the practical side of me speaking.

Also, he could just tacitly stop plugging himself in at night or something, depending on his power source. Nothing's really been said on whether he's nuclear-powered or battery-powered. Of course, in the event he's battery-powered, the entire thing could be reversed by someone coming and plugging him back in, and he might have gotten fired for non-attendance in the meantime, not that he seems to really have much in the line of needs past Internet access, and the possible plug-in that he'd need to recharge at in the first place.

Of course, if he's nuclear-powered, that idea goes totally out the window.

NonCon

06-08-2009, 08:26 PM

Part of me wants him to be nuclear-powered just so that he's slowly killing off all his coworkers with the radiation.

Krylo

06-08-2009, 08:27 PM

Because suicide is for [censored out of common decency]? I mean, hell, no matter how much my life sucked, suicide is far from ANY sort of answer.

It's funny that a man's life is the one thing he can truly be said to own and be sovereign over--the one thing which may never be taken from him, and yet we begrudge those who would chose to harm it or give it away so harshly.

Corel

06-08-2009, 08:29 PM

Part of me wants him to be nuclear-powered just so that he's slowly killing off all his coworkers with the radiation.

That or that one special girl who falls in love with him just so happens to get Cancer around the same time of her confessing.

...Should we take bets on what could be the most depressing thing to come out of this comic?

Dracorion

06-08-2009, 08:41 PM

How would he?

Well, if were really intent on it, he could probably get into a nuclear reactor and blow the thing. This is assuming he doesn't have the motor skills to shoot himself.

Should we take bets on what could be the most depressing thing to come out of this comic?

I'll play. Warbot is going to meet another Warbot some day and their conversation will consist entirely of looking at each other.

Warbot notices that the other Warbot is pretty successful, and finds that every other Warbot in the world is also doing well. And, y'know, more fail for Warbot.

Kurosen

06-08-2009, 09:34 PM

Magnets.

It would either kill him or it would give him amnesia of the hilarious kind.
I believe a Warbot would be properly shielded.

Fifthfiend

06-08-2009, 09:44 PM

Point of interest: They should get off their fucking asses when Warbot wants to walk by. I don't know how the theaters are designed over there in the states, but around here you have to stand up, fold your folding seat and squeeze up to it just to let humans by. In Warbot's case should be not only polite but basic self-preservation.

Come to look at it, there's also empty seats all fucking over that theater, including right next to that family who was sitting behind him.

Is there any particular reason Warbot hasn't commited suicide other than "it's funnier this way"?

Maybe they're programmed so they can't? Networked self-aware war machines which are capable of independently deciding to self-terminate probably wouldn't be worth a lot to the Pentagon.

...Consider that a lot of plain old human soldiers suffer from PTSD due to the things they have to do and they generally have some degree of remove from their actions due to the chaos of warfare and the mediation of technology and are limited in the level of harm they personally can be responsible for causing. Whereas integrated technology would allow a Warbot to be nothing less than fully aware of everything happening across the entire battlefield and its weapons are all physically a part of it, which would make a squad of Warbots being made to wipe out a hundred thousand people with rockets and rotating machine guns more or less the the psychological equivalent of a group of soldiers being ordered to individually strangle each one of them to death.

And given that on the battlefield I guess all the Warbots are meant to be networked together so as soon as one of them is overwhelmed by what he's been made to do and decides to detonate his nuclear pile, the impulse probably dominoes pretty rapidly throughout the entire squad (unit, battalion, whatever you'd call the bunch of Warbots all together).

So yeah probably some pretty hard-coded programming bars the Warbots from ever resisting or acting out based on the horrors they're forced to inflict (while doing nothing to mute their complete awareness of it, because hey, who gives a fuck what a bunch of robots think?).

bluestarultor

06-08-2009, 09:52 PM

Come to look at it, there's also empty seats all fucking over that theater, including right next to that family who was sitting behind him.

This is exactly the point I was trying to make. I need to stop using so many words. :sweatdrop XD

Zack Finfrock

06-08-2009, 11:07 PM

From the draw-a-thon earlier today. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30443891@N08/3607418847/)

Fifthfiend

06-08-2009, 11:43 PM

Since I guess I enjoy wondering how else his life might be awful, would Warbot having had all his heavy ordinance removed give him, like, robot phantom limb?

Kerensky287

06-09-2009, 02:10 AM

Since I guess I enjoy wondering how else his life might be awful, would Warbot having had all his heavy ordinance removed give him, like, robot phantom limb?

Oh, man. I hear when you get phantom limb with your penis, it feels like you have a constant, invisible erection. What the hell must it then be like with all that phantom firepower?

Neo Heartless

06-09-2009, 06:46 PM

There's o topic for it so I might as well ask here.

What's up with that couch?

Kurosen

06-09-2009, 10:31 PM

It's a piece of furniture.

Mondt

06-10-2009, 01:45 AM

It's funny that a man's life is the one thing he can truly be said to own and be sovereign over--the one thing which may never be taken from him, and yet we begrudge those who would chose to harm it or give it away so harshly.Too philosophical. Needs more tits, explosions, or robots that are prone to shitty lives.