Uniquely innocuous
This character reminds me of something, but I can’t think what. Given that during the creation of this story, no one was laying claim to the Transformers comics license, this is your sole source of changing robot comics and it’s at least 50% as good as anything Bob Budiansky wrote. Lucky to get it!
Eek! It’s a naked robot!
The Visible Robot even – you can see his insides!
It’s Slim Goodbotty!
Double naked! Gawsp.
And there are body parts all over the floor, too!
He kinda gives me the vibe of Holly from Red Dwarf, but more on the ball.
Gareth made some alterations to his hoodie.
Those truly are ‘DANGER’ hands, what with a Bzzzrt on tap
“Do not look directly into finger.”
Like “too freaky for the Church of England” is even possible
They rejected my application.
Maybe you weren’t freaky ENOUGH!
I walked in to the interview just like my avatar: totally Winnie the Poohing it. What more could I have done?
Behind closed doors is one thing, but on the streets the CofE draws the line at *chocolate* digestives.
“If it’s teal, it’s real!”
I can’t tell if I’m impressed with his welding skills, or surprised such a high tech being is using such analog methods.
It’s poetic though.
Seeing as the torch is coming from a finger, one could call this digital welding. I know, I know, it’s a bit of a stretch. Digital welding is traditionally when you weld fingers together, after all. XD
My wife tells me teal is my power color. I just shake my head at the entire concept.
Teal is not.. a power color. I like it, though! Cyan on the other hand…
What about mauve? Or puce? Or mauvy-puce?
Back in the late 80s or early 90s (that era blurs together), I was once interviewed on a local cable access channel wearing a teal tie and teal socks with an otherwise gray suit. Let me tell you, that tie and those socks really jumped out in that not-so-great-resolution-quality of the video. In my mind, that makes teal a power color! 😉
If “gray (and black and white) with teal accents” is good enough for Hatsune Miku, the flagship Vocaloid…
Miku’s hair, they say, is Turquoise. It’s at least an expensive color…
I recently had to say goodbye to my 2003 Hyundai Accent hatchback and I miss it every day. The Accent is a wonderful car and I support Billie’s enthusiasm.
I note that Billie has a utilitarian Amstrad phone rather than a flashy and overpriced Zambian.
And it’s overripe banana brownish-yellow, which is a color that just screams out “discount brand” to me.
Back in “Clotted Crime”, she was using a slate-grey Zambian — though a two-lens one, not like Rupert’s eight-eyed beast. I’m guessing Zambian force-obsoleted it, and this is what her new Satanic salary stretches to.
Loving the old school welding for Gareth to redesign himself; none of this flashy “scan and instant change” new fangled stuff.
And if we are talking High Church C of E….is anything too freaky for them?
I don’t like to point out the obvious, but Tom would be…
Machines making machines. Isn’t that something we’re suppose to worry about?
Man makes machines
To man the machines
That make the machines
That make the machines
Make a machine
To make a machine
And man and machine
Will make a machine
To break the machines
That make the machines…
typo in the description: leat -> least
leat -> teal
Finally Penrose figured out the truth about Billie! I wonder if he will decide to keep “the car” or he will pass it to her.
Gareth probably gets a say in that.
On the other hand, it’s implied that he destroyed a Hyundai Accent to create his disguise…
I thought he was just making alterations to his own carapace?
Good question. I thought so at first, but being truly indistinguishable from a car probably means scrapping that car for parts…
Right. I wonder if Gareth would prefer the complicated life in the rectory, with a Reverend that fight seacreatures or a more mundane life in the church of Satan, without seacreature.
You can tell that, for all her loving kindness, Billie belongs to Satan from the fact that she apparently uses the laugh-cry emoji on her phone
Once you go teal, you never repeal.
Once you go teat, you never repeat. Huh, that does not sound like a no-brainer.
Being the insufferable pedant that I am, I just HAD to check, and it looks like the 2007 Hyundai Accent was never offered in teal, or even any color close to teal. Not that this really matters to the story. It’s possible to get any car custom-painted any color you want. Plus, Gareth is not a real Hyundai anyway, he’s just disguised as one. You can’t blame him for wanting to look nice.
It’s a moot point, because he says he chose the colour himself. Wasted research, PI, wasted research.
In the 1993 federal election, the New Democratic Party of Canada adopted teal as its colour and were reduced from 44 seats to 9, losing party status in its worst electoral showing since its founding. I was the leader’s speechwriter.
As much as I may like the colour aesthetically, I still have a trauma-inflected response to it.
So that was the teal breaker for you?
He’ll be here all week!
I wasn’t done with the mic.
It was the teal breaker for a lot of people, I guess. Oddly, that would have been the exact time my dad had his teal car (mentioned in below comment), and we were in Canada. Coincidence????
Interesting! In the context of Canadian federal politics, I always associated teal with the Canadian Alliance of the early 2000s (an association that likewise somewhat spoils an otherwise lovely colour for me).
Oh my god I was just reminded that my dad had a teal car like that in the 90s. I think I learned to drive in it.
Now you know why.