Comic #2700: 2012-10-07

Description

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Panel 1: A character with dark hair and wearing a strapless top is speaking. They say: "I'm sorry, robot. I'm just not enjoying this."

Panel 2: The robot responds confidently: "But I'm the most advanced pleasure-bot in history! I have over 400 tiny stimulators on my body. I have the belles lettres of a thousand poets. I occasionally use French phrases like 'belles lettres.'"

Panel 3: The character replies: "That's the problem. You're too good."

Panel 4: The robot looks slightly confused and continues: "If you'd be a little clumsy. A little fumbling. Then I could feel generous."

Panel 5: The character expresses deeper feelings: "You're the fluorescent bulb of sex. You get the job done, but where's the nuance? I want to feel kind, mean, happy, sad… vulnerable…"

Panel 6: The robot looks concerned and responds: "You'll never be enough for me. No matter how hard it is to program you to be a great lover, it'd be a million times harder to make you an endearingly bad lover. No… no, you'd never be right for me."

Panel 7: With a serious tone, the character concludes: "Because… deep down, what a human being wants is…"

Panel 8: The robot is interrupted, making a mechanical noise: "VZZZH!"

Panel 9: Another character (Hank) enters the scene: "Hank, what's the matter?"

Panel 10: Hank says: "I had the same nightmare."

Panel 11: A robot character responds: "The one where humans are as complex as they portray themselves in fiction?"

Panel 12: Hank warns: "Don't even say it!"

The comic captures a conversational exchange about intimacy, complexity, and emotional depth through humor and science fiction elements.