Warbot_008: Kristin

[Kurosen]

Since Zack's not here, I'm postin' the topic (http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/06/12/warbot_008-kristin/).

[Fenris]

You're a cruel, heartless, abomination of a half-man.

In other news, Warbot is slowly becoming one of my favorite things to read.

[Bells]

Well, it was kinda her fault this time...

Still Laughing my ass off anyways, and feeling bad about it..!

Also, i'm pretty sure the only thing worst than this would be Warbot loosing his date to another Warbot, then it goes full circle. I mean, c'mon... guy can't get a break!

[Eldezar]

This one truly brought me to tears, both laughter and sadness. I knew the moment I saw the plane she was gonna die, but I thought they would parachute together and he would crush her. I didn't even think about it barely getting off the ground.

Maybe if I read it again it'll be a happy ending. She'll survive this time, right?

EDIT: No!:(

[Kai_Svenson]

Oh god....

I mean... geez... *rubs his eyes and rereads*

You do nothing half-way.

[Fifthfiend]

What the fuck.

[Mirai Gen]

^^ This followed by, how is it all these girls are actually interested in Warbot?

[Kim]

You're racist against robots. You think just because someone is made of metal that they can't love and be loved in return? You disgust me.

[Nique]

You bastards.

[Link_991]

Brain and Zack, I hate you guys for making me hate myself for laughing at that

[Dracorion]

What the hell is wrong with you?

[Amake]

I took the Mary-Sue test (http://www.springhole.net/quizzes/marysue.htm) for Warbot and got 18 points. Weird, I'd have thought it'd be a negative number.

Obviously, I assumed that "your character looks how you wish you looked" and things of that nature. ^_^

Soo is this the first time Warbot has killed any human?

[Lost in Time]

My favorite part is that he's not allowed to be at the funeral and has to watch from the distance. So very horrible.

[Archbio]

Warbot should be put in a crate and stored somewhere safe.

[Meister]

Like Kristin?

[Grognor]

This is disgusting. Oh, I felt his pain (though I was laughing) when I saw him watching the funeral from a distance. Just the fact that you fit him on the plane off-panel is heartbreaking because Warbot's own inability to get on the plane could have saved her. You are truly a monster. If I was still depressed and reading this, I might have done the unthinkable. Honestly, I can't even fathom why you do this. I love this comic.

[entrando2]

You know when something makes you sad to get you to almost crying?
I was thinking on stopping reading Warbot... So bad I was also laughing (maybe too hard).
You are monsters. Thanks.

[Archbio]

Like Kristin?

No, not charred and dead and unfunny, no.

Just safe and not a danger to itself and others. I guess that was the idea. Yeah.

[Zack Finfrock]

Brain and Zack, I hate you guys for making me hate myself for laughing at that

Nice avatar. :gonk:

[Goofy mcCoy]

Like Kristin?

Hiyooooo (http://www.hiyoooo.com/)

[Art of Hilt]

I'm not sure if I should feel sorry for Kristin, or wonder why she consistently comes up with obviously bad activities for a big giant heavy war robot.

[Fungrus]

I may be a sick monster, but that was the funniest Warbot so far.

[Kaiaer]

Okay, so I had to join the forums to say this: What. The. Fuck.

[Regulus Tera]

You guys are going to hell one day.

[Moogleking]

You're all sick fuckers. <3

[01d55]

...
D=

:(

[Satan's Onion]

Oh god, you guys, that's a terrible thing to do to Warbot; you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves, and you're probably heading straight to Hell.

[BigGator5]

So ends the dating saga.

[Dracorion]

I figured out why Warbot can pull off amazing movement feats off panel, like getting on an airplane and holding a broomstick.

See, he actually does have pretty good motor skills, as well as super-powered Deathmachine senses so he knows we're watching him. And, because of his crippling social awkwardness, he can't do those things on panel because he knows we're there. That's why he can do them while he's off panel.

[Si Civa]

Zack and Brian, why do you play with our feelings? :(

[Meister]

Why do cats play with mice? :(

[G.I.R.]

I may be a sick monster, but that was the funniest Warbot so far.


QFT. Seriously... you guys are disturbed. But I love it. The last one was sort of meh... but this one takes the cake. I feel so horrible for laughing, but it was oh so funny. Schadenfreude? I say Hell yes!

[Zeryo]

because it's fun to play with your food?

so zack and brian are planning on devouring us are they?

[acheron]

oh my god.

[Magic_Marker]

BRIAN YOU MOTHER FUCKER!

[Corel]

I'm suprised he fit through the door. The real clincher in the strip is the tie he's wearing today.

How much does Warbot weigh?

[Amake]

How much does Warbot weigh? Too much.

Edit: I'm squeezing two one-liner posts into one! He probably was a chunky kid; all the other Warbots must have teased him.

I think one of the future strips should be Warbot having an Internet persona vastly more cool and well liked. He should post on the Nuklear Power Forums.

...Unless he is already! Dun dun DUN!

...Actually I think that's a great idea, if our authors are up to going meta.

[Si Civa]

They even joke about Warbot being fat.
And hey, it's like a wonder that Zack isn't mod yet even though he is jerk like Brian. : |

[Corel]

Too much.

He probably was a chunky kid; all the other Warbots must have teased him.

I think one of the future strips should be Warbot having an Internet persona vastly more cool and well liked. He should post on the Nuklear Power Forums.

...Unless he is already!

[Rejected Again]

Zack And Brain you two are going to a special place in hell, down the hall from the murderers, take a left and rapists, take a right at Charles Manson. Your next to Jim Jones.

[Fifthfiend]

Schadenfreude? I say Hell yes!

This comic is seriously not schadenfreude at all. It is p. much as aggressively not-schadenfreude as it is possible for a thing to be.

[G.I.R.]

Zack And Brain you two are going to a special place in hell, down the hall from the murderers, take a left and rapists, take a right at Charles Manson. Your next to Jim Jones.

"A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." :D

[Rejected Again]

"A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." :D

I see my vague Firefly reference didn't slip past you :D

[Wigmund]

Warbot's light-sensor under his eye makes it look like he's crying in the final panel.
6917

You guys are evil for creating this comic, we're all evil for reading it, the internet's evil for allowing it, and I'm especially evil for loving it.

[Link_991]

My favorite part is that he's not allowed to be at the funeral and has to watch from the distance. So very horrible.

Oh god, I didn't even see him in the last panel until you pointed him out :(

Nice avatar. :gonk:

I hoped you'd notice ;)

[Cati]

Oh my God. Oh. My. God.

<3

[Possum Knight]

This is the 1st warbot comic that made me just bust out laughing at the lastpanel. Propas!

[Spekkio]

Now, before we all go feeling too sorry for Warbot, let's remember that the very next day, he got to experience the joys of becoming a father.

[Mesden]

I was really enjoying the comic, and I tried to, but I seriously absolutely can not enjoy this particular strip. I'll keep reading in hopes some of the goofier humor comes up, or even the sad humor hits a little less hard, but man that was honestly over my sensibility meter.

[Mirai Gen]

Technically, this one is totally Kristen's fault.

[Dracorion]

I was really enjoying the comic, and I tried to, but I seriously absolutely can not enjoy this particular strip. I'll keep reading in hopes some of the goofier humor comes up, or even the sad humor hits a little less hard, but man that was honestly over my sensibility meter.

Bah. Mesden's indignation and moral superiority makes me feel bad about myself. I assume it has the same effect on others.

Somebody do something!

[Kepor]

There's nothing we can do. We're just horrible people.

[lackofsense]

Why do comics 6, 7 and 8 take place during comic 3?

[Martyr]

It's like Star Wars.

Why do comics 6, 7 and 8 take place during comic 3?

I mean, the fact that we learn about the first episodes after we learn about the later episodes.

The purpose is to create what is called a "synopsis," in which the most important and relevant information is stated first and the less relevant information - in this case, the events during Warbot's dating experiences - shown later on.


Please note that I don't want to take away from the obvious fact that Warbot is also based on Star Wars. Otherwise, it wouldn't have the caption, "based on a True Sci Fi Story."

[cwDeici]

Why do cats play with mice? :(

Lack of proper training by wild mother cats.

Same goes for Warbot, he just needs a good war, storage or society of his own... or best of all, a smaller body.

That was rather stupid but nice of Kristin. Warbot himself has displayed similar stupidity before.

Have you all considered that maybe Warbot just felt too bad to show up?

[Token]

Now, before we all go feeling too sorry for Warbot, let's remember that the very next day, he got to experience the joys of becoming a father.

Oh wow. That happens right after getting dumped twice and killing a girl. That just makes it so much worse, and I love it.

[Zack Finfrock]

Now, before we all go feeling too sorry for Warbot, let's remember that the very next day, he got to experience the joys of becoming a father.

This made me lol.

Edit: Keep in mind, Kristin wasn't the only one on the plane. :D

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

This made me lol.

Edit: Keep in mind, Kristin wasn't the only one on the plane. :D

Wow, way to plunge that dagger deeper there Mr Finrock you cold callous bastard.


:(

[Cati]

I feel the need to point out that when you first read 003, it seems like Warbot just deleted his internet dating profile because he had a few bad dates. But THEN you find out he deleted it after he went on a date and people died. Ouch.

I am thoroughly amazed at how you can take a horrible, horrible comic and make it so much worse. That takes skill. XD

[Telephalsion]

If the next one is an exploration on Warbots fathering of a daughter, I'm going to cry. Then laugh, then cry some more.

[deimon]

I love how everyone one in this comic ignores the fact that warbot is a big heavy ex-warmech

if this is a reference to people with disabilities its like having a friend with no legs and constantly asking him to go running, or play soccer, or do kickboxing or other mundane things that they obviously cant do

hmm... now that i think about about it and at the risk of it not happening because i said it I'd love to see some Idiot try to mug warbot he will have a quick one panal of fame just to have it all back fire when hes sued or goes to jail for a few days

and maybe has to witness someone else getting mugged from the prison window and can't do anything about it...

OMG... I'm starting to think like brain not even for a second did I think of this in a way that leaves warbot in a good light (crotches in corner in fetal position rocking back and forth humming a nursery rhyme out of tune)

[Amake]

This made me lol.

Edit: Keep in mind, Kristin wasn't the only one on the plane. :D I assumed she was the only one who died. Because it'd be just like Warbot to try to shield her in the crash.

[russianreversal]

She's pretty extreme if the next step up for her from rollerblading is skydiving, but then that makes her death all the less surprising. And all the more funny.

That's my favorite one so far, especially as I was trying to remember how this date ended, and then I saw the last panel and could not stop laughing.

Because it'd be just like Warbot to try to shield her in the crash. Oh god, I never considered that. XD

[Spekkio]

This made me lol.

I should not feel as happy about this as I do. I really shouldn't.

[PyrosNine]

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/funny-pictures-kitten-is-named-aw.jpg), if Nana was a giant, mute robot.

[russianreversal]

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php?page=78&lang=), if Nana was a giant, mute robot. What the fuck, Pyros? That was just, there aren't words for that... I mean damn.

[Spekkio]

Yeah, Warbot is similar to that comic in type, but not in degree. Nana exists so that Warbot can have someone to pity, I think.

[Eldezar]

Yeah, Warbot is similar to that comic in type, but not in degree. Nana exists so that Warbot can have someone to pity, I think.

I consider that a challenge to Brian and Zack to make something so much worse that Nana would have to pity Warbot.

[Grognor]

Have you all considered that maybe Warbot just felt too bad to show up?

This is what I assumed had happened.

I feel the need to point out that when you first read 003, it seems like Warbot just deleted his internet dating profile because he had a few bad dates. But THEN you find out he deleted it after he went on a date and people died. Ouch.

Wow, I hadn't thought of that.

I assumed she was the only one who died. Because it'd be just like Warbot to try to shield her in the crash.

WOW.

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php?page=78&lang=), if Nana was a giant, mute robot.

W

[Rejected Again]

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php?page=78&lang=), if Nana was a giant, mute robot.

Elfin Leid was totaly messed up, but that is...I can't....but...I'm just going to walk away now.

[Raze]

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php?page=78&lang=), if Nana was a giant, mute robot.


That.... That Comic is just Evil.

:bmage: Evil.


(And what does that say for me as a person when i was laughing at the start of it? Cant imagine anything good!)

[Kim]

I read Warbot and that comic made me feel uncomfortable. Seriously, there is a line, and arbitrary as it might be, and Nana's Everyday Life crossed that line and drew a new one just to spite the old one.

[PyrosNine]

I have made it my life's goal to hunt down that webcomic author and kill him. But I'm just fearing sometimes that Warbot may become too similar.

[Kim]

Warbot always has a punchline. Yes, the punchline is always Warbot's suffering, but there's always a punchline rather than the last panel copy+pasted three times over. Plus, it doesn't have child-rape, thus putting it leagues ahead of that other comic.

[Fiye]

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php?page=78&lang=), if Nana was a giant, mute robot.

Dear god.

Why?

[Mirai Gen]

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php?page=78&lang=), if Nana was a giant, mute robot.

I spent a good long week ignoring this link as best I could.

Looking back I really should have followed that instinct through completely.

[Fifthfiend]

Bah. Mesden's indignation and moral superiority makes me feel bad about myself. I assume it has the same effect on others.

Somebody do something!

What the fuck.

.

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php?page=78&lang=), if Nana was a giant, mute robot.



What the fuck.

.

.

[Tev]

I spent a good long week ignoring this link as best I could.

Looking back I really should have followed that instinct through completely.Eh, it's really not that bad. If you can make it through to the end Nana has a very tearful and heroic ending.

[Karilyn]

I assumed she was the only one who died. Because it'd be just like Warbot to try to shield her in the crash.
Somehow I find that suggestion only makes the comic funnier.

After much consideration, I have figured out that Warbot is much like Nana's Everyday Life (http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php?page=78&lang=), if Nana was a giant, mute robot.
That doesn't seem to bad. I've only read the beginning up to number 15, does it get worse later on?

I mean everyone's childhood was like that. Wasn't it? Right? I'm not the only one? Please tell me I'm not the only one? Please? :(

[Tev]

Somehow I find that suggestion only makes the comic funnier.


That doesn't seem to bad. I've only read the beginning up to number 15, does it get worse later on?

I mean everyone's childhood was like that. Wasn't it? Right? I'm not the only one? Please tell me I'm not the only one? Please? :(It get's worse, then a little better, then worse, then ends on a better note.

[Mirai Gen]

Eh, it's really not that bad. If you can make it through to the end Nana has a very tearful and heroic ending.

It get's worse, then a little better, then worse, then ends on a better note.

Fuck you Tev I am not falling for that shit.

[Eldezar]

I assumed she was the only one who died. Because it'd be just like Warbot to try to shield her in the crash.

I like to think of a slightly more morbid situation where, although Warbot was able to get into the plane, he was too big to turn around. Then, as the plane was going down, Kristin turned to Warbot for protection, but took Warbot's inability to turn around, as well as his silence, as Warbot not giving a damn for her.

Then, Warbot has the added guilt of knowing that Kristin not only died because of him, but that she died hating and loathing him for being a selfish prick.

[Tev]

Fuck you Tev I am not falling for that shit.Wait wait wait.....wait. Am I the only one here who came away from Nana feeling that the story was about selfless love, perseverance, kindness, sacrifice, and how none of that could be defeated by the horrors humanity could inflict?

Nana dealt with the worst humanity had to offer and was not corrupted by hate. In the end she made her peace with the world and gave all that she had left to save the life of a poor lost cat; a creature far less unfortunate than herself. Her sacrifice helped a little girl never know the pain of sadness or loss. Her place is beside the many other unsung heroes of our day who have been through terrors unimaginable so that the rest of us can live happy blissful lives.

So yeah, if admiring that makes me a horrible person then so be it. Yeah, she went through hell and I felt for her. But I was not at all disappointed with how her story ended.

[Kim]

That's what you got from it? Did we see the same ending? The way I recall it, the cat died, she buried it, and she died alone on its grave. Some flowers ended up growing where she died cuz guess what, corpses are great fertilizer. Then at the end, some little girl who's life doesn't suck sees some flowers and goes, "Hey, that's cool, I guess."

[Mesden]

So I'm assuming Warbot is some flip-of-the-coin to Atomic Robo or something. I mean on one hand, there's a comic that's 100% about how awesome being a robot is, and here we have Warbot, which is 100% about how goddamn terrible it is to be a robot!

This free webcomic is a scam!

[Tev]

That's what you got from it? Did we see the same ending? The way I recall it, the cat died, she buried it, and she died alone on its grave. Some flowers ended up growing where she died cuz guess what, corpses are great fertilizer. Then at the end, some little girl who's life doesn't suck sees some flowers and goes, "Hey, that's cool, I guess."You missed that the cat came back to life and the girl got her cat back. I also read it as that there were a bunch of wild blooming flowers in the middle of an otherwise dingy and crappy ally in the middle of shitty cold day when there should be no flowers, thus leaving a feel of surprise for the girl who would not expect to see these things where they were.

Maybe you read it differently. How I read it left me with a very good feeling about how everything turned out. Between the two of us, you're the one who's upset.

It's similar to the many ways a person can interpret Warbot. Did any of us see Warbot as a champion to the disabled until someone linked us to the site where some guy was praising Warbot for being so awesome?

[Kim]

You missed that the cat came back to life and the girl got her cat back. I also read it as that there were a bunch of wild blooming flowers in the middle of an otherwise dingy and crappy ally in the middle of shitty cold day when there should be no flowers, thus leaving a feel of surprise for the girl who would not expect to see these things where they were.

Emphasis mine.

First, cat coming back to life makes no sense and is stupid. Second, never implicitly stated. It could just be that the epilogue is taking place a long time after and a girl followed her cat there and the flowers had grown in the meantime. Would make more sense.

Second, hooray she's surprised yay flowers everything forever is good and happy.

Between the two of us, you're the one who's upset.

What? I just think it's a terrible comic that is offensive, delivers its 'jokes' poorly, and has a stupid fucking ending. I'm not so much upset as just "Why would somebody link this terrible thing?"

EDIT: Besides, I still don't see Warbot as a champion for the disabled.

[Tev]

I just think it's a terrible comic that is offensive, delivers its 'jokes' poorly, and has a stupid fucking ending. I'm not so much upset as just "Why would somebody link this terrible thing?"And that's where we differ. I'm willing to suspend disbelief, accept that a supernatural power took pity on Nana, rewarded her sacrifice by letting her finally have a victory (however small) and bring the cat back to life so that her final act could bring a small measure of joy into the world. I'm also willing to believe that same power left a botanical memorial to her there as a symbol of beauty in an otherwise dirty world.

I also feel that Nana isn't supposed to be a funny comic, at least not in any sense that's deeper than sick people getting a cheap laugh over how a person or thing can be abused. It's a comic in the sense of its format, not its content. Warbot is actually a rather nice bridger comic between funny stuff and comics like Nana. It’s not nearly dark enough to not be funny yet its material can get downright grim.

[PyrosNine]

I can only imagine that one day, Warbot will finally get a woman, take her to his house, put her on his couch, she will look up at him, and what comes next will be both violent and depressing.

What the Fuck?

I'll go sit in the corner and hang my head in shame, and should have probably put a few dozen warning labels. It was as if I was holding a pure rod of plutonium and said, "Man, isn't this thing shiny?" to unwitting children.

It will never, ever happen again, as I had thought I had blotted it all from my mind..and then recent comics get depressing, and it brings it all back!

So, I shall fix the link, and apply more warning: Don't read anything CloneManga if you ever want to smile honestly again.

Let us never speak of it again. (for my sake!)

I suppose Warbot has happiness, because no matter how hard it gets for him, at the end of the day he's still a giant robot that weighs over 500 tons.

Hmm.....wait a second, if he weighs so much, how does he get into work? Is it all on one floor?

[Kim]

I also feel that Nana isn't supposed to be a funny comic, at least not in any sense that's deeper than sick people getting a cheap laugh over how a person or thing can be abused.

But it thinks it is. Because, I mean, "OMG PEDOBEAR RAPED A LITTLE LIMBLESS GIRL WITH NO MEANS TO DEFEND HERSELF LOLOLZ!"

[Tev]

But it thinks it is. Because, I mean, "OMG PEDOBEAR RAPED A LITTLE LIMBLESS GIRL WITH NO MEANS TO DEFEND HERSELF LOLOLZ!"
Welcome to the internet? Are we really going to go around bashing every webcomic that's ever tossed one (in this case surprisingly appropriate) popular meme into the mix just 'cause? Really, I'd have thought you'd been online long enough to know better.

[MuMu]

You people are thinking too hard about a comic that just tried to be as depressing as it was possible...

[Kim]

Welcome to the internet? Are we really going to go around bashing every webcomic that's ever tossed one (in this case surprisingly appropriate) popular meme into the mix just 'cause?

When the meme is child molestation, then yes. Yes I will.

[russianreversal]

Welcome to the internet? Are we really going to go around bashing every webcomic that's ever tossed one (in this case surprisingly appropriate) popular meme into the mix just 'cause? Really, I'd have thought you'd been online long enough to know better. Just because it can doesn't mean it SHOULD. Then again, the same could be said of that ENTIRE COMIC, so how 'bout we leave it at that and as Pyros wisely suggested forget the whole thing (yeah right) and get back on the topic at hand: how does Warbot get to work? I would assume the stairs.

[Tev]

When the meme is child molestation, then yes. Yes I will.
I don't know what to tell you then. Of all the memes, that one was the one that fit the comic. In all honesty it was only a page...maybe two out of seventy eight and by the time I had gotten to the end I had already forgotten about it until you brought it up.

Anyway, I'm not going to fight you anymore over it. I felt the comic was worth defending. I've pretty much said my peace.

EDIT: I bet there is some robot worker legislation that requires all places of employment to have freight elevators in their offices now.

[Mirai Gen]

Welcome to the internet? Are we really going to go around bashing every webcomic that's ever tossed one (in this case surprisingly appropriate) popular meme into the mix just 'cause? Really, I'd have thought you'd been online long enough to know better.

Tev...I honestly have no idea how to respond to your claims that pedobear is the reason Noncon is irked about this comic.

Not like, the child molestation and dismemberment and endless freezing and infectiously burning agony before death of a naiive child.

Pedobear, the meme, is the reason Noncon is upset.

Huh.

[Bob The Mercenary]

I'm an atheist now.

This comic made me an atheist.

[Shadow Bunny]

I found that comic sickening, and this is coming from someone who thinks Bible Black has artistic merit (the game, not the anime).

[Premmy]

See that? now we got people digusting their taste in hentai. I say we close this thread and try again.

[Archbio]

I'm an atheist now.

This comic made me an atheist.

It made me a Thuggee.

[Kurosen]

I liked it better when we were talking about Warbot!

[Archbio]

But we're talking about Thug!

So you can dig it.

...that didn't work.

[Bob The Mercenary]

I liked it better when Warbot didn't act as a stimulus to the sale of razor blades.

[Premmy]

you must have never liked it then.

[Amake]

I liked it better when we were talking about Warbot! Well you're partial. :p

I like Nana, it's full of humanity and whatnot. Nana herself is such a heroic character, and her suffering affects us, it means something. It's not like Tomoyo42's Room by the same guy that's just straight up raping babies and putting them in blenders and beating random people to death with the parts for no reason. That's what I call black humor.

[Fenris]

I liked it better when we were talking about Warbot!

I liked it better before you became such a sellout!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fifthfiend]

I liked Weezer better before Matt Sharp left the band.

[Archbio]

I liked the universe better before the Big Bang.

[Fifthfiend]

I liked Spider-Man better before he sold his marriage to the devil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fiye]

I liked 8-bit theater before everyone got lost in Red Mage's A-hole!

[Geminex]

I liked this thread better before I acc- COMBOBREAKER!

[Molotovich]

Nice one. I was liking this thread before the combo breaker!

[Pip Boy]

I hope you know they're dedicating a whole new wing of hell to those related to the making of this webcomic.

Nice one. I was liking this thread before the combo breaker!

Stop it.

[Grognor]

Is everything Brian says the subject of at least two more thread pages of imitating him? Seriously, when he made the small joke "Achievement Unlocked: Perplexed a German" people talked about it for the rest of the thread.

I'd love to talk more about Warbot, but I've already given my thoughts toward the newest strip, so my post will go toward Nana's Everyday Life instead.

I will summarize my experience of it in two words: I empathized. I can tell you that without the attitude "Never give up. Ever. No matter how bleak, black, crapsack and horrid the world goddamn seems, keep trying to fix it for yourself and then for everyone," there wouldn't be any poor people left. I'm talking the really poor, you know, the seventy-five per cent of the world living under $200 a year, or those with no money at all, like I was for too long. The character type "Nana" is the most common human being on earth, but you never hear about them because they're depressing. No one tells the story of the man who was born into poverty, lived until 21, and then died of hunger because people only want to hear about the man who was born into poverty and then became a football player and lived happily ever after. What kind of perspective does your life even have if you skip the downtrodden, the majority of the earth, because it doesn't suit your taste? We need characters like Nana.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

[Dracorion]

"Never give up. Ever. No matter how bleak, black, crapsack and horrid the world goddamn seems, keep trying to fix it for yourself and then for everyone,"

See what I bolded? It's what Nana didn't try to do. She never once tried to change her situation. It was always someone else that picked her up from the street and changed her situation for her.

EDIT: And y'know what? I'm going to spare humanity of the rest of my opinion on Nana.

[Amake]

But what can she fix without any extremities or any courage to speak? Nana is literally powerless. The only thing she can make better is herself, which we see every second of her life. Every day that she manages to hold on to her idealism and innocence is a heroic accomplishment.

[Archbio]

Is everything Brian says the subject of at least two more thread pages of imitating him?

Imitating? Rather 'playing off of.'

The only thing she can make better is herself, which we see every second of her life. Every day that she manages to hold on to her idealism and innocence is a heroic accomplishment.

That's more 'keeping it the same' than 'making better.'

[Amake]

But what more could she do?
(I've already said that.)

Edit after reading more of the thread:
What Grognor said (if I correctly deciphered his multiple negations) is that Nana represents the 75% of Earth's population who can't change their situation even though they fight their hardest. It doesn't matter one jot what she tries to do, because she's powerless to change her situation by herself. To quote Spider Jerusalem, "You're not supposed to say that in America, are you? The land of can-do, the American dream of grab all you can and screw the other guy."

Nana reminds us that not everyone can win at life. I imagine a lot of people don't want to know that. But I think it's all the more important just for that reason.

Edit re. the below:
Just because she has the ability to form words you think that she could speak up if she really wanted to? I think the comic makes it pretty clear that no, she can't do that.

[Lost in Time]

She could have spoke up, like she wanted to those few times but felt it was innapropriate and out of character. Maybe she would have stayed with those foster parents.

[Karilyn]

She could have spoke up, like she wanted to those few times but felt it was innapropriate and out of character. Maybe she would have stayed with those foster parents.
In case you didn't notice...

Her foster parents were murdered by the scientist "father" who had created Nana. Go to the scene after her father picks her up, and you see the foster parents talking under a light post.

*Click*
The foster parents look at the sound.
*BANG*

So yeah, he shot them.

That's what you got from it? Did we see the same ending? The way I recall it, the cat died, she buried it, and she died alone on its grave.
Look at the next to the last comic

She didn't die alone.

"Nana did her best to the end... right?" she says and rolls over on her back. "Still... I kinda wanted to see mama and papa again, just one more time would be nice" and then you see shadows near the edge of the panel. She closes her eyes as the shadows come into view, clearly the shadows of her dead adoptive parents.

I took that to imply that after she died, she was going on to live in the after life with her parents who actually loved her.

So yeah, I see it as a happy ending.

[BitVyper]

So I just finished reading "Nana's Everyday Life." Suddenly Warbot's situation doesn't seem so depressing.

Huh, I didn't realise it was being discussed here.

It's what Nana didn't try to do.

There's not too much an armless legless child who is almost universally shunned an ignored can do. And Nana didn't even comprehend that life COULD be better until after Marcello and his maid adopted her. She kept trying to get back to them after that, including sneaking out of an incinerator and dragging herself into the city to find them.

I mean, when friggin WARBOT can get around in society better than you, you're pretty screwed.

[Lost in Time]

In case you didn't notice...

Her foster parents were murdered by the scientist "father" who had created Nana. Go to the scene after her father picks her up, and you see the foster parents talking under a light post.

*Click*
The foster parents look at the sound.
*BANG*

So yeah, he shot them.


Actually, I was talking about before they even found her real father. If she communicated some things, maybe they wouldn't have tried to go searching for him.

[Karilyn]

Actually, I was talking about before they even found her real father. If she communicated some things, maybe they wouldn't have tried to go searching for him.
Ahh. At that point she was in the state of having convinced herself that her real father loved her.

Even in real life, it's amazing just how far your parents will have to go before you condemn them forever. And at that point, her base-most belief that her father must love her had not yet been broken.

[Dasherion]

I'm kind of wondering how things can get worse from here for warbot.
I guess you can't really run out of depressing things, but it'll get harder and harder to do something original and suprising.

So far we had a few comics about his inability to do stuff: handling equipment (fax, phone), climbing, direct communication, standing up after falling down.
He has created new life that died shortly after, he has mutilated people unintentionally and now he was the direct reason that people actually died.

How can it get worse? You could broaden the scale by burning down an orphanage, but that makes it a lot less personal and depressing, you need to get familiar with the victims to feel pain. Still I think death has to be the way to go, now that we got there.

Perhaps warbot going on a mountain climb or space exploration and being the reason for a life support failure. Personally I would LOVE to see warbot failing at CPR.

People dying because of his inabilities could also be easily be accomplished by letting warbot stand on guard by dangerous situations.

[Nuklear Waste]

Remember how people were saying there is going to be a new wing of hell dedicated to Zack and Brian? And remember how Brian once said he hopes the afterlife isn't as boring The Underworld? Yeah.

Although I have forgiven Brian for all his evil brought upon Warbot thus far because I agree with what he said about Ghostbusters 2 on Twitter.

Also, I really should have seen horrible stuff like this coming:
I think Warbot accidentally making someone else suffer would also make his existence that much more miserable.
Way ahead of you on that one.

[Magus]

Pretty sure the comic is going to end with Warbot on a tour of a nuclear power facility, possibly one where old warheads are stored, and his stepping on a power cable sets off a chain of events where all organic life on Earth is incinerated and an EMP destroys all fellow electronic life besides Warbot (who is sheltered inside of the facility and avoids shut-down), and then Warbot emerges from the wreckage to view the charred remains of the once vibrant planet with only the implication that he, an immortal machine, will have to spend the rest of eternity completely and utterly alone on a cold rock in the middle of space.

Also I think this was the first Warbot that made me laugh out loud amidst the groaning and pain that it, like most Warbot comics, caused.

[Nuklear Waste]

Pretty sure the comic is going to end with Warbot on a tour of a nuclear power facility, possibly one where old warheads are stored, and his stepping on a power cable sets off a chain of events where all organic life on Earth is incinerated and an EMP destroys all fellow electronic life besides Warbot (who is sheltered inside of the facility and avoids shut-down), and then Warbot emerges from the wreckage to view the charred remains of the once vibrant planet with only the implication that he, an immortal machine, will have to spend the rest of eternity completely and utterly alone on a cold rock in the middle of space.
Considering Warbot's miserable life is told in a non-chronological order, something like this can be done, be regarded as canon, and not mark the end of the comic.

[Magus]

I think it would render everything else anticlimactic, though. Like, "Yeah Warbot just caused ALL THOSE ACTUALLY INNOCENT PEOPLE TO BE MURDERED BY THE MAFIA" (or whatever the plot would be this week), "but at least he didn't destroy all of mankind."

[Grognor]

It would be a great way to destroy all hope of this having a happy ending. I mean, hope is a pleasant feeling, and we can't have that in Warbot, can we?

[Dasherion]

I like that idea, to know already that it's going to end bad.
But doesn't it make the comic all that more depressing if the author can keep that glimmer of hope alive that something, anything is going to be alright, so we keep on reading, although we know in our hearts it ain't true.

I still have hope for Warbot. Does that make me a masochist?

[Kim]

No, that makes you naive.

[BigGator5]

You know what I fear? I fear we will get the building of Warbot's daughter in full detail in the next comic.

[Kurosen]

Nope!