Nutcrackers
Shaenon: All the little nutcracker robots from this month’s wallpaper. These were so fun to draw.
Channing: The guy on the top right will politely tip his hat to you before incinerating your clothing with his plasma rifle. His name is probably Sweet Jim Mercury Collard Green.
For some reason, I can see Imogene being taken in by the innocent façade of these, at least at first.
Imogene: Oh, Titus, aren’t these just the most adorable things ever?
Titus: RUN! Get something between us and their line of fire!
(I bet Titus has watched all of the Doctor Who Christmas Specials, and is particularly primed to be even more suspicious than usual of new and strange things during Christmas time.)
Doctor Who aside, I bet Titus is suspicious from having endured more than his fair share of new and strange things… and not just at Christmas time.
While it’s true that he currently endures most of those things at the hands of Imogene, she is not the first Mad Genius he has worked for, and he of all people knows that she is certainly not the only one around. Depending on how detailed his records are, he may even be able to tell you who made the robots – or at least narrow it down to two or three possibilities.
Doesn’t everybody just love destructive windup toys?
Thank you! Thank you! and Thank you!
I love these little guys, and if they ever turn up on Thingiverse, I will print them… There’s a Mayan… feel… to them; they might have just stepped off of Pakal’s tomb…
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/01/67/61/016761e862409ebf52cd9e1a5f85d2e8.jpg . Thanks, Shaenon!
Icons for Dreamwidth….
I still haven’t given up hope for a Sunday comic involving a rear-view Virginia in battle armor, or showing the time Tigerlilly gave the Cuddle Cobras a nice oil massage,,, but cute little warbots are nice, too…
Doesn’t it bother anyone else that we can’t see Sweet Jim Mercury Collard Green’s windup key? That, and the detachable hat, are clear evidence that he’s more than he seems…or that he has really complex gearing and a very tiny key, which is hidden by the big gun, but what fun would that be?
Well, the guy directly beneath him has just such a tiny key on the back of his head, one which could easily be obscured by Jim’s BFG. It’s the BFG itself that concerns me.