Freefall

Oh, right. Duh.

As is, I imagine that the suits are more to protect things in the clean room from possible static buildup in Ishiguro and Florence rather than protect them from anything in the clean room.

Ishiguro goes into the abyss!◊ Meanwhile, Florence and Dvorak run for cover.

I only just registered that the can-sized object Florence has been carrying around is supposed to be an entire server, according to Dvorak. (Though I guess this one really only needs to be able to broadcast the codes required for Clippy's boot-up.)

Gray skies are gonna clear up / Put on a happy face / Wipe off the clouds and cheer up / Put on a happy face...◊

Aww.

Am I being paranoid when I started wondering whether this was meant to indicate Clippy and Ishiguro had a huge two-man con going on, and this was all part of the plan?

(Okay, I admit even I think that's implausible. But my mind jumped there on its own.)

No, Clippy is just happy to see his proper owner again. I imagine that working under Kornada was unpleasant, even for an eager-to-please robot.

Judging from the panel drawing, it almost looks like an afterlife scene. So I could see Clippy being like, "I'm in heaven now, meeting my maker."

"I'm in Silicon Heaven, where all the batteries go when they die."

Well you're right about that◊, but only because Kornada told him Ishiguro was dead, the jackass

Oh wow, Kornada. Just. Fucking. WOOOOW.

Yep, he's officially a shoe-in for "Jackass of the Year"

Hmm now I wonder how will he go about untangling the knots of orders in Clippy's psyche.

"Please list last five direct orders you have coming from Kornada" and then cancel them out one by one, repeat batch by batch?

Also maybe Kornada told him that out of control robots were reason for Ishiguro's "death", adding more weight to the plan to remove them

edited 14th Sep '16 3:14:04 AM by Adannor

Huh. I don't know if I've ever "called it" that accurately before.

Cute scene though. Looks like Clippy wasn't as thrilled with his employment as we were.

edited 14th Sep '16 4:24:23 AM by NateWinchester

yikes

I hope Ishiguro doesn't have too hard a time explaining to Clippy that Kornada lied :/

I mean, technically, this could just be Clippy assuming that he's already dead, and making the conclusion that Ishiguro is dead too because the only way they could meet is the afterlife.

That said, yeah, the most likely scenario is that Kornada lied about Ishiguro's continued existence. Wow, that's a Jerkass move.

That was my first impression, actually, but it looks like Clippy didn't "realize" he was "also dead" for a few seconds after seeing Ishiguro, so he had probably been "informed" of this before waking up in "heaven".

Well, I could still see how this could play out mentally for Clippy if it is all a big misunderstanding. That said, that would involve giving Kornada the benefit of the doubt, and I doubt any reader is up for giving him that at this point.

Ah, Clippy's robot eschatology◊...

It makes me feel so terribly sorry for him. Reintegration is going to be difficult.

Kornada has driven him kind of nuts.

So Clippy needs to turn his mouth upside-down by hand, but he can wink?

Well his hand is raised in that panel so maybe he turned "winking" on right before that. (like the switch for it is behind his head)

Well, Clippy's eyes are just a mini-monitor, really - it's not hard to display a "wink" image.

Robots don't tend to have any mouth-mimicking structures at all. So it seems that the magnet mouth may be post-factory addition, likely by Ishiguro himself, humanizing his assistant.