Freefall

Yeah, all you have to do is say "Sam Starfall," and people will look around anxiously while groping for their wallets and watches.

Worse than he can imagine◊

This reminds me of the robots in the shower scene

Interesting that we were allowed to view as much of their butts as we wanted.

It's from them somehow getting strings accepted. That doesn't leave out anything at all from upwards or level backwards angle.

Good to know where your monkey wrench is◊.

Yep, because he'll need to use him soon enough to deal with Blunt.

Who ironically is the real Spanner in the Works to his plans.

edited 9th Feb '16 12:13:13 AM by tricksterson

That leads me to the question - is Sam the monkey wrench, or is he (due to his nature) just able to pinpoint the monkey wrench quicker than anyone else? Is Sam basically the spanner that messes with the Spanner in the Works? Or would that be the spanner that gets the other spanner out of the works and oh my I've gone cross-eyed.

He's both. He could screw it up and he could save it. Now it's Max's job to throw the squidspanner into the right gearwork.

The joys of combining waveforms◊...

And Dvorak goes and puts his tread in it◊, again.

Not necessarily. First, it's voluntary, and it hardly seems like every robot on Jean would go along in this situation. Second, Sam's case is really flimsy.

On top of all that, a clever robot could totally Rules Lawyer the situation. What would be a great way to help out Sam? Why, making sure he's never arrested. How could you do that? Prevent him from committing a crime.

New strip.◊

Sam has an idea, which is never a sign of good things to follow. (Except by pure happenstance, as a result of unintended consequences.)

Well that happened with far less fuss than I expected...◊

I'm not sure whether it'll be funnier for Sam's idea to actually require more robot-hours than he has available, or if it's actually really easy and he just has no sense of scale.

(The probability of him coincidentally earning just about as many hours as he needs is pretty low, unless he had been planning this in advance for a while. Which he probably wasn't.)

If I were to guess at Sam, he's integrating the robots' assistance into a plan he had for a while, and one that was going to take a long time without robot assistance. Whether the robot assistance is going to be enough to complete it remains to be seen, of course, but I think he's probably just going with an Indy Ploy resulting from having more resources than he previously imagined.

As for today's strip, good step, but this has me wondering even more what Blunt is currently doing.

I think he's going to ask for something like engraving his face into the landscape. On a continent scale.

His mask face or his actual face? Because we all know which one is more hilarious.

I'm glad there wasn't a Donald Trump equivalent among the humans...◊

Somewhat curious as to what the voting requirements are. Ordinarily, in most countries with voting, you do have to be an adult... but Jean did have that issue with driver's licenses, and it wouldn't be the most absurd question to wonder if they only remembered to close some of the loopholes involved in cold sleep regarding actual versus developmental ages.

Given the size of the human population, I'm not sure that age demographics are really all that germane. Does it matter if someone who's physically 20 but mentally 10 votes?

Admittedly, they're probably not. But among other things, I'm curious as to whether that 72% is total population or voting population, and as to whether there's a difference between the two.

Rocks are not free, citizen.◊