Rite Of Summoning

I WOULD PAY ALL OF THE DOLLARS

Roko's pictures got me thinking about robot family units. Are they all, like, perpetual 20-somethings, shuffling through roommates and romantic partners?

Smazzie

Socially Appropriate Greeting, next shirt.

Jeremy Sistrunk

Arthur.

Jason Zions

Wait. What do they do? Also: MELON!

Stoodmuffin

Hi Melon

Cole Blackblood

Punchbot?

Chloë Salzenberg

I love that she decorates with pictures of her friends. :) Also, is she one candle short of a summoning? Or do you only need them at the cardinal compass points?

Summer Sudbrink

If her job is acting, then the screaming is just part of the script. So she must just really enjoy being covered in vermin, I guess? Maybe their feet tickle, and she likes that. Or maybe they're tame rats. Rats are actually super cute and friendly. Aaand now I'm worried about imaginary cartoon rats being traumatized by hearing screaming all the time.

Nancie

Maybe Melon could get Roko a job where she works!

Dean Reilly

More or less the same way that humans choose their jobs. They do what they want to, if they can get it.

Ben Russell-Gough

I really want to know how IA choose their job: Is that straight out of the nursery, or they have some sort of childhood to experiment the world before beeing responsible of their life choice?

Sarah Buisson

Who knows? All I'm sure of is that playing with stuff like that is intrinsically dangerous.

Ben Russell-Gough

Is the pentagram for summoning spirits or transmutation?

Brent Catherman

Yeah, I thought that Melon was an 'actress' of sorts. I'm still guessing that she's an extra in a Chamber of Horrors-style tourist attraction somewhere. That aside, once again I find myself wondering just what is going on inside that cute teal head that means she LIKES being terrified to the point of traumatic shut-down by real or hallucinatory horrors. This girl has issues and it worries me!

Ben Russell-Gough

You no take candle!

Thomas Boys

Oh, so THAT is how the spookybots get summoned. I see -- it's all Melon's fault. ;)

Brad Knowles

Silly Melon

I heard they named a hill after melon's collie and the Gorillaz even made a song about it.

Ralf Paul

The vermin could quit too, if they ever wanted

Bagge

We only see Melon on her free time.

Jeff Hartley

Melon! Melon had a collie, it was a puppy, and she called it: "Melon's Collie CAT!"

What the hell *does* Melon do in her free time?

Nicholas Lopez

I appreciate these comic interlude strips so much. Melon is a treasure.

Asher Rose Fox

My theory: she works for the city as a vermin lure agent. It’s why you don’t see rats in town.

Miyaa

So like... what's the dynamic with Melon and her roommate? Does roommate have an actual job to pay rent? Does Melon actually get paid to be covered in vermin? Are they on some version of AI Free-Housing program? Melon is an enigma

Kyle Jenkins

You summon... MELON LORD!

Daryl Sawyer

What DOES happen when you put a Melon in a pentacle? Personally, I think she's looking to upgrade from vermin to demon.

BobC

Panel 4 Melon may be the cutest face I've ever seen.

Buck Caldwell

A paycheck obviously. How else is one suppose to get paid?

VC

It’s a side comic that’s around here in the Patreon.

VC

Melon da best!

William Cole

Melon is a treasure!

Grace Kieser

I love that it's the fact itself she likes knowing not that she needs yo use it

Kyle Major

If you look up “cuckoolander”there’s a picture of Melon.

Miyaa

I'm not sure what Melon is trying to summon but I think the world is probably better off not knowing.

Samantha Yeaman

I remember there was a strip that actually showed this, I just can't find it.

dvsDave