Making Inroads

dinner roll shaped-charging station you mean

Jax

Yay Yay's Newfriend!

Kriss Pang

I'm totally shipping this. Hopefully they get tired and go to cuddle in Roko's giant, dinner roll-shaped bed.

Steve

*Absolutely Not Shipping This*

Gemma Hentsch

I would also like to see dog pics.

Patrick

Rockin' jammies. Rock-on Roko!

BobC

Does Roko ever smile when she’s not laying a burn on someone? She’s a great character, but I’m not sure I’d want to be her friend.

Matt Grayson

David's interpretation is tempting. As far as we know, that kind of distributed AI is completely unique (and widely believed to be impossible), so anything's possible.

William Cole

It's difficult to tell. the confident and aggressive Spookybot that visited CoD, the one that had a ...chat... with corpsewitch, and this one... they may not be the same personality. I suspect Yay was configured specifically to interact with Roko, because the Spookybot gestalt had observed Bubbles' support network and wanted to experience that for themselves. But Yay is now experiencing the consequences of the prior interaction, both directly and in terms of its effect on their friendship with Roko.

David Howe

Or, as Roko says, "You're a nerd!"

Clifton Royston

Confirmed, Yay acts like a bad-ass because she/they are realllly insecure. They're scared people won't like them, so they have to do the superior bad-guy act because it's OK if they can tell themselves other people are scared.

Clifton Royston

.... I really like the Yay/Roko storyline. And I love Roko's expressions in this strip.

I must admit that when I saw her hands on the buttons in frame 1 I was hoping she was taking them *off*. I am apparently a robo-perv.

I bet it's the cute jammies. Getting the right clothing for your body helps with dysmorphia A LOT

Cleo Schmitz

How is Roko’s body/chassis dysmorphis doing? She seems a little more comfortable in her synthskin.

Shane Wegner

Yay the fey Faye the bae May the stray

Evgeniy Semyonov

Yay has such glorious fey energy. I do enjoy.

Thomas Halpin

It's nice to see Roko smile sometimes. :)

Chris Warren

But that could throw a wrench in the Roko+Clinton ship, unless Yay is comfortable with polyamory. And now I am awaiting Yay, with their multiple bodies, to be the one to introduce the idea of polyamory to the Clinton armada of ships (Clinton+Elliot, Brun, Roko, and maybe Emily... at this time. I am also open to more ships in this armada)

Carin Maja Brooks

I don't know why, and I know it wouldn't make sense in their world, but I ship them. Just like I do Clinton and Elliot. Ships all the way down.

They might have thought of you as a smug, manipulative bastard.

Bagge

YES! DOG's: They're good!

Joseph Bonnar

If they don't do they have a favorite one that they always gravitate towards?

BigKumaDM

Have you forgotten how long it takes Jeph to build and finally launch a ship in this world?

awgiedawgie

I was seriously wondering if I had missed boarding for that ship already

R. Francis Smith

Any being as intelligent as Yay undoubtedly is would seek to appear harmless and relatable to the lesser beings around it. Protective camouflage.

Verteiron

I was thinking Roko was gonna get sexy with miss thing.. as it seems there is a bit of chemistry involved... weirdly.

I was about to make a joke about how Jeph was missing an opportunity for a "Dog Pictures" tier, but then I double checked and --- $5/month.

That Blair Guy

I also would like dog pictures

Dylan T

I can't quite put my finger on why, but it struck me today that Yay is looking considerably less... predatory nowadays than back in the Corpse Witch arc. I wanted to say that it's their eyes, but I looked back, and they aren't that different (they still have those reptilian vertical pupils). Maybe it's the athleisure-wear, or a byproduct of their actually acting friendly instead of cryptic and sinister.

William Cole

I hope this Canadian thanksgiving, we get all the QC dogs talking as a special comic.

Miyaa

200/10 cyoot

Nicholas Lopez

JEPH! WE NEED TO SEE YOUR POINTY BOI! LOTS!!!!!!! <- (multiple exclamation marks are a warning sign of a person who is in need of a long lie down.)

Joseph Bonnar

Friends should get first dibs on seeing doggo pics, Yay.

Madeline Hunter

I wonder, does Yay walk the dogs themself? Also, would the dogs understand that Yay's multiple bodies are all the same person?

Dean Reilly

Are we supposed to start shipping these two yet?

Matthew Desy

There a reason they at mankind's (and robotkind's) best friends

Tachpmg

Yay did say that she kept enough money to keep the lights on and the dogs fed.

Matt Grayson

moth??

jimbo

DOGGIE!

Joseph Bonnar

I think so. They’re like an old married couple in this strip.

Andrea Andrew

Onesies are far more practical for beings without digestive systems

David F

Once again, puppies fix everything.

MikeT

Panel 4: Yay sticks out their tongue. Adopting more and more human mannerisms.

Michael Boettger

Yay x roko ?

Drew Basford

Everyone wants to see dog pics.

EnterTheHero

aww yay :3

Tamara Macadam

did Roko even know that Yay had dogs?

Agnes