Positively Boschian

Windows XP desktop background for the win

Dustin

That's what you think *now*. But I think after another 40 updates of this arc, you'll be singing a different tune. ;) Filed under "you're one of those heathens that don't have your Christmas decorations up despite the fact it's after *August*!" (For the record, I don't actually have any Christmas decorations, so I'd be one of those, too.)

Some Ed

Considering how much of a fan she is of fresh bread, and soda bread in particular, I'd say "no." Also, gotta remember the second worst date of her life. After that, even if she had some vague interest in toast, just, nope.

Some Ed

I haven't seen a single electric sheep yet...

Dan Wilbur

Yes, several have.

Joseph Bonnar

Looks like a Porygon. Which is fitting.

VGreenGoblinV

Is that Pintsize being eaten by a bird on the far right?

Daryl Sawyer

This is intensely trippy and I love it. I am so glad you're portraying this continued struggle of Roko's identity. It's really fascinating and it feels very realistic. I mean, as realistic as robot AI emotions can be.

Erin Moriarty

OldBody has a message from beyond the grave. NewBody has a message from beyond the *rave*. And that message is oonts oonts oonts oonts.

Wait... the ghost of the new body comes with a message from beyond the... beyond the what? The bed? The server? The concept of haing a new body? There is a lot to unpack here.

Bagge

There's something about the way Roko's hair falls as she's leaning that I really love and I can't explain why? It's so dang pretty

Fart Captor

Yeah, I really thought that would have happened by now.

Bagge

So Pintsize’s head is in the bird’s mouth while simultaneously rising in the background like the sun. Does this mean anything that bird swallows becomes gigantic and emerges over the horizon line?

The fucking shame-toaster, omg

TubaGinger

The second panel has a steganography encoded OS2 screen in the background.

Matt Grayson

I love that the background for panel 4 is a color-swapped Windows XP background

Jonathan V

That's a re-coloured Windows XP default Desktop wallpaper in Panel 4 :-D

James Dore

Now I really want a "Visions of Robo-Hell" full-sized poster.

Evgeniy Semyonov

I'm surprised OldBody didn't go Full Boston in panel 2.

Is AI operating system based on Windows XP? The background of that last panel would seem to suggest that is so.

James D

...can't believe it took me so long to register the toaster chasing the terrified loaf of bread. I take it Roko doesn't like her bread to be crispy?

Mahlernut

Either eating Pintsize, or spitting him out. Has Roko ever witnessed a pigeon coming out of Pintsize's mouth?

awgiedawgie

Don't we all feel like that sometimes?

Bagge

I’m never going to eat frozen strawberries and drink pickle juice before bed ever again.

Miyaa

For some reason, the wavy arms make me absolutely cracking up. Also...is a bird eating Pintsize in the third panel?

Mahlernut

Isn't that last location an old Windows wallpaper?

Al Hunt

Didn’t Pintsize end up with birds inside him? I seem to remember an angry Faye being involved. Darn it Jeph, you have too many comics and no easy way to search them.

Tim

cool nightmare before christmas parody.

Professor Harmless

My only problem with this storyline is that it's not published in Christmas time

Bagge

Are we talking Hieronymus Bosch or Robert Bosch here? Either works in the context!

Richard Laxton

Jeph, I'm impressed by the fashion progression. Past Roko = spaghetti straps, present Roko = sleeveless, and future Roko = short sleeves. Add in that they’re all in black, white, and gray. Also, love the eyes!!! And the ponytails! I love that both past and future Roko have ponytails (albeit with different levels of definition), but present Roko does not. Maybe they’re more casual because they’re comfortable with themselves, whereas (as just evidenced) she is not? But since it’s all taking place in her subconscious, perhaps she’s telling herself she will adjust to the new body eventually?

Erin Hartshorn

We got nerd-sniped

"My ghosts are worse planners than I am. There's something so very wrong yet so right about that."

z

"Will Tiny Pintsize live?" "If these lucid dreams remain unaltered, he's gonna be tuna fish cans before you know it."

Sleepy John

All her bodies talk like May.

Sleepy John

Is that the Brave Little Toaster's stoner cousin?

TwoRavens

This is looking more and more like some wacky farmer-in-the-field skit. "AI-AI-O!"

BobC

For a while there, when it was all about people's relationships, I was thinking "QC has gotten much less weird". I am not thinking that any more.

Spike

They did go on one date.

Shawn K. Younkin

I love how even sub-conscience Roko has a limit for someone's shit.

Shawn K. Younkin

Oh are we doing Charles Dickens? Does that make Melon=Jacob Marley and Yay the Ghost of Christmas Future?

Dylan T

See the bird eating pint-size?

Matt Grayson

Just here for the Windows XP background, carry on

Magic Chopstick Games

Is Jeph nerd-sniping with the Windows XP background? Did I just get nerd-sniped?

Tim Eldred

OMG rolling green hills. Nostalgia bomb.

Forgettable

That last background is beautiful for those who get the reference.

NekoIncardine

I absolutely love the giant Half-Pint supervising as a toaster chases a loaf of bread.

Dennis Watson

Um... The sun is Pintsize's dating profile pic. Roko has some hidden issues.

the "beyond the grave windows xp", well spotted

SpookyPenguin

Somewhere Brian Eno's ear is twitching and he doesn't know why.;

SpookyPenguin

....is that the Windows XP background in the last panel?! 🤣

Jon

Roko, you need to cut back on the robo-pizza before bed!

Grace Kieser

Now let her sniff some Assam....

Matt Grayson

Yeah, Bosch was all about toasters and smiling whales with small hats...

Abhayakara

Not worse. Just weirder.

Michael Boettger

It got worse 😑

gatherer818

Roko, can we trade lives? Mines bland and boring.

Joel Bateman