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1	[[quoteright:297:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npwil_cover_vol1.png]]
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3	A philosophical road comic about two unemployed robots, Chris and Ben, on an improvised interplanetary voyage of self discovery. It was created by Kit Roebuck and ran from 2003 to 2011.
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5	Find it [[http://www.bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil.html here.]]
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7	The author went on to do ''Webcomic/{{Opplopolis}}''.
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9	!!This webcomic contains examples of:
10	%% AfterTheEnd
11	* TheAloner: Chris spends 25 years drifting helplessly in space.
12	* BigFatFuture: Just before the end.
13	* CalvinBall: They never explain what exactly [[http://www.bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil/28.html Tooey is doing,]] nor how it involves pitching, fumbling, yardage, and a hockey stick.
14	* HiddenDepths: Ben has a secret poetry journal.
15	%% HumanitysWake
16	%% ImprovisedMicrogravityManeuvering
17	%% InfiniteCanvas
18	* PlutoIsExpendable: The comic started before Pluto's demotion. While it's later acknowledged that [[{{Retcon}} there are only eight planets]], Chris insists on going anyway.
19	* RidiculousFutureInflation: On Uranus, where a single lozenge costs "one ∞ dollars".
20	* RobotWar: The robots of Mars are in a constant state of conflict; even individual buildings can be divided between warring factions.
21	* {{Sexbot}}: Humanity died out when they started preferring these to actual human beings.
22	* TimeSkip: From the beginning to the end of Chris's time drifting in space. In the print edition, this marks the transition to volume two.
23	* WebcomicTime:
24	-->'''Ben''': I feel like I've been on that floor for five months.

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