I stand by my statement. Based on the size of the box, one would expect a much larger thing to be inside it. So regardless of the actual level of danger that guy poses, his size alone is still anticlimactic.
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A Scottish wind up toy? Well….that is kinda Monty Python-ish. If they chase each other around the stadium,I’m be hearing the Benny Hill theme in the background.
I would seriously pay money to hear a competent piper play that! Probably end up paying my small bit of remaining sanity too, but it would be so worth it…
(A) I can’t see her giving one of her bots a Scottish accent, and (B) the soundtrack would definitely not be Yakety Sax. We might hear it as Yakety Sax, but it would have to have a funk vibe.
(Hmm … is it going to turn out there are actually hundreds of these things? Swarming over Nick, trying to headbutt him and shouting random battlecries?)
I have discovered that I am somehow incapable of reading that last line in anything but Scrooge McDuck’s voice. Not just ANY Scottish voice, but specifically that one.
Well, that’s……. anticlimactic.
Judging a bit too quickly, remember the size of the vampire-gotchi… size is not how danger is measured!
I stand by my statement. Based on the size of the box, one would expect a much larger thing to be inside it. So regardless of the actual level of danger that guy poses, his size alone is still anticlimactic.
Is the box itself Monstro?
I considered that, but then I would have expected the crate to slam shut immediately.
Hoots?
Little Scottish windup robot
Hoots mon, at that.
(Again, I wish there was a preview thing so I could tell what the web site would delete.) It should have a link to https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hoots%20mon
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Of course. The clues were all there. The question mark on the side of the box.
It’s going to be a Super Mario Bros. battle.
Panel 3 is just a lovely composition.
I want that little guy to be an actual wind-up toy for a stretch goal on the next book kickstarter.
A Scottish wind up toy? Well….that is kinda Monty Python-ish. If they chase each other around the stadium,I’m be hearing the Benny Hill theme in the background.
“Yakkity Sax”
Could be worse… “Yakkity Bagpipes”…
OMG their lungs would get sucked inside out….
Great, now I’m going to be thinking about yakkity bagpipes for the rest of the week.
heh, heh, heh!
I would seriously pay money to hear a competent piper play that! Probably end up paying my small bit of remaining sanity too, but it would be so worth it…
This one comes with its very own 1958 soundtrack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeu72y0f4Kc
If Monstro’s a windup, is he one of Ms. Tigerlily Jones’s windups?
Probably from the time she couldn’t make big bots
(A) I can’t see her giving one of her bots a Scottish accent, and (B) the soundtrack would definitely not be Yakety Sax. We might hear it as Yakety Sax, but it would have to have a funk vibe.
She’s had any number of her robots who left her to be square, so who can say whether one left her to be Scottish?
It’s a… video game contest.
Against a robot who is, of course, superhumanly gifted at video games.
That’s what I’m betting on, at least.
if Monstro wins, how are they uploading his clockwork mechanisms to a digital world?
Do not look directly into the mad science.
With a wire up the nose, obviously.
Consciousness transfer always requires a wire up the nose, it’s very important. We learned this from Narbonic.
Is he a little Scottish wind up fish? Monstro MacGuffin?
‘Scotsman on the make’….everybody beware. The accent tells you that
he’s dangerous. Lock your wallets.
“Well, a Scotsman clad in kilt left a bar one evening fair…”
and one could tell by the way he walked he’d had more than his share…
He fumbled ’round until he could no longer keep his feet…
A drunken Scotsman… so, basically just a regular Scotsman.
“Och, lad, I don’t know where ya been, but I see ya won first prize.”
A wind-up key, a CRT TV, and rabbit ears. Yeah, this is cutting-edge stuff , all right.
HAH! I so anti-called it!
Say, where are Monstro’s curling iron and space heater?
Och, Mon! Curling’s a Scottish sport. (Maybe ye need a wee space heater to smooth the ice?)
Hope it’s not going to be tennis. Scots are notorious about competing in Wimbledon . . .
Comedy Scottish accent fae the win, ye ken!
(Hmm … is it going to turn out there are actually hundreds of these things? Swarming over Nick, trying to headbutt him and shouting random battlecries?)
The Wee Free Bots?
Agh, ye stole me reply! The Kelda ent here so it’s too late to hide yer ship!
My thoughts exactly. Dr. Lee is going to have to do emergency repairs on Nick’s kneecaps before this is done.
The teeny tiny CRT TV is probably the part.
Perhaps this is the actual Loch Ness Monster.
Now, is this, as some have suggested, a “killer rabbit?” Or have the authors been just trolling us with a, shall we say, red herring?
I have discovered that I am somehow incapable of reading that last line in anything but Scrooge McDuck’s voice. Not just ANY Scottish voice, but specifically that one.