Come With Me If You Want To Live

The exploration of the integration of the AI and Fully Bio worlds in this comic is masterful.

Creepy Cat Lady

The world of QC just got waaaay more dystopian.

Jonathan Wallace

It's really great of you to subvert the "character wanders through the background unobtrusively" thing with Roko being right out there in the foreground. This strip just gets cleverer and cleverer.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

I'm still holding out for the menage a quatre.

Mark

I like that Roko is in front of Clinton's speech bubble in panel 4.

EmDotWilder

Roko, don't forget the HUMAN ABS!

Dean Reilly

Here's why I think Jeph will pair Elliot with Roko: It has been established that, firstly, they live in the same apartment block and, secondly, they have Melon as a common manic pixie gynoid friend. It should be relatively easy for Elliott to help Roko carry her bread supplies home one day and for them to start draw closer as friends. What comes next (possibly as a rebound to them seeing Brun kissing Clinton 'to see what it is like') would be relatively organic in terms of narrative flow, if a bit romcom cliche.

Ben Russell-Gough

Looks like Jeph is lining up the next ship to torture and tease us with. Saying that.... Roko really needs to hook up with someone.

Gerry

I probably post this too often but I think it's true: Roko really needs a hug!

Ben Russell-Gough

Photobomb! Looks like Roko wants more screen time

Andrew

I also wonder if she's crushing on Elliott and/or Clinton and is doing the 'worship them from afar' thing. It seems in-character for her to have self-esteem problems like that.

Ben Russell-Gough

I've long thought that the solution to bigotry is early and in-depth social contact. It's hard to 'other' people whom you know well and you meet every day. You might still hate them on a personal level because they're complete and utter asses but you won't see them as 'others'. So, anyone else think that, tomorrow, Roko is going to be cornered by Brun by the door who is going to want to now where she's going with all that bread?

Ben Russell-Gough

God, Clinton is getting more anime by the second.

Diptych

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Cave

The Secret Bakery must have good products for Roko to keep returning. She suspects that Rene suspects what she's into. I would think that would be all the motivation she needs to find a more oblivious baker.

Brent Catherman

I like Clinton. He ha a cool attitude to his career prospect.

Bagge

I feel like there are some "Robo No no's," or "RoNo's" that are in Clinton's discussion of this current situation

Stoodmuffin

I'm sure he MEANS well, but I've made the face she's making. That's a face of "People are talking about an issue that disproportionately affects me more than them, and they way they are discussing it does me an anxiety" face.

Stoodmuffin

I think there's some implications in this strip that may say otherwise. That his reaction makes total sense here.

Stoodmuffin

I feel like Clinton should be more excited that Faye and Bubbles got into human/AI relations.

Cleo Schmitz

When they canceled Bunheads we deserved to die.

Eric Burns-White

Frame 2 and 4. Purple AI buying bread. That is Roko.

* checks every frame of this comic, confused * Wait, Roko's in this one? Where?

Brian English

but...which sitcoms? srsly because we're going to have to remember not to cancel them. also: it's BUNHEADS isn't it WE ARE DOOMED.

skinnybdink

Jeph, you teasing bastard.

Miyaa

Of course she's blushing, she's got bread

ysth

"and our bread"

Minzoku Bokumetsu

Her mind is definitely too far into kink-land for her to be listening to it.

Bruce Steinberg

Maybe I should bake some bread tonight.

lilibat

think she's just embarressed to be buying bread

Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns

And Roko’s like “I’d like to show him MY processing substrate...” as she glances at Clinton.

Will Weaver

I feel uncomfortable with this. Like, some accidental/oblivious racism is happening here or something...

Mister Cletus

Eliot has a crush on Eliot?

Carl Fink

I think my head is gonna explode. (I should NOT have eaten that cannon cracker. (TL,DR)) I see four characters in play. Brun. Offscreen. Terminally cute, terminally unaware. Crush status? Unknown. Clinton. Crush on Brun, crush on Eliot, subject of some of Roko's fantasies. Eliot. Breadmaker extraordinaire. Crush on Clinton, Crush on Brun. Roko. Crush on Clinton. Bread and abs fetish. I have no idea what will happen next. Best guess? Roko pays for her purchase and goes home alone. Brun goes home alone. Clinton goes home alone. Eliot goes home alone. Yeah yeah yeah, that's NOT the way in the comics, but in real life? That's the best guess.

I wonder how she feels about this convo

Kyle Major

Clinko?

Stevie C-K

I just want to what kinda of bread she has.

Nicholas Lopez

... Are we looking at a Roko x Clinton situation?..... What's their ship name?

Alcaria Swain

If only AIs actually came into the world as free, self-aware, individuals. The ones we see in the world today are purpose-built, completely obedient, and exist as a sort of hive mind. We are unprepared for AIs because most ordinary people don't know anything about them. Kind of like immigrants. Humans are mostly just scared of other humans, why will it be any different with humanoid AI? They will be stranger than we can imagine. I'm waiting for the Second Renaissance myself.

darklion

I love blushing Roko. She is adorable.

Cacorias85

Oh gosh, it took me 2 passes to figure out why she was embarrassed. I should probably get some sleep.

Kenneth Carlile

I am slightly in love of this odd little secondary storyline about her bread fetish xD

The world is just not prepared for a dust-up with AIs.

Peter McDevitt