Rite Of Summoning

I WOULD PAY ALL OF THE DOLLARS

Smazzie

Roko's pictures got me thinking about robot family units. Are they all, like, perpetual 20-somethings, shuffling through roommates and romantic partners?

Jeremy Sistrunk

Socially Appropriate Greeting, next shirt.

Jason Zions

Arthur.

Stoodmuffin

Wait. What do they do? Also: MELON!

Cole Blackblood

Hi Melon

Chloë Salzenberg

Punchbot?

Summer Sudbrink

I love that she decorates with pictures of her friends. :) Also, is she one candle short of a summoning? Or do you only need them at the cardinal compass points?

Nancie

If her job is acting, then the screaming is just part of the script. So she must just really enjoy being covered in vermin, I guess? Maybe their feet tickle, and she likes that. Or maybe they're tame rats. Rats are actually super cute and friendly. Aaand now I'm worried about imaginary cartoon rats being traumatized by hearing screaming all the time.

Dean Reilly

Maybe Melon could get Roko a job where she works!

Ben Russell-Gough

More or less the same way that humans choose their jobs. They do what they want to, if they can get it.

Sarah Buisson

I really want to know how IA choose their job: Is that straight out of the nursery, or they have some sort of childhood to experiment the world before beeing responsible of their life choice?

Ben Russell-Gough

Who knows? All I'm sure of is that playing with stuff like that is intrinsically dangerous.

Brent Catherman

Is the pentagram for summoning spirits or transmutation?

Ben Russell-Gough

Yeah, I thought that Melon was an 'actress' of sorts. I'm still guessing that she's an extra in a Chamber of Horrors-style tourist attraction somewhere. That aside, once again I find myself wondering just what is going on inside that cute teal head that means she LIKES being terrified to the point of traumatic shut-down by real or hallucinatory horrors. This girl has issues and it worries me!

Thomas Boys

You no take candle!

Brad Knowles

Oh, so THAT is how the spookybots get summoned. I see -- it's all Melon's fault. ;)

Silly Melon

Ralf Paul

I heard they named a hill after melon's collie and the Gorillaz even made a song about it.

Bagge

The vermin could quit too, if they ever wanted

Jeff Hartley

We only see Melon on her free time.

Melon! Melon had a collie, it was a puppy, and she called it: "Melon's Collie CAT!"

Nicholas Lopez

What the hell *does* Melon do in her free time?

Asher Rose Fox

I appreciate these comic interlude strips so much. Melon is a treasure.

Miyaa

My theory: she works for the city as a vermin lure agent. It’s why you don’t see rats in town.

Kyle Jenkins

So like... what's the dynamic with Melon and her roommate? Does roommate have an actual job to pay rent? Does Melon actually get paid to be covered in vermin? Are they on some version of AI Free-Housing program? Melon is an enigma

Daryl Sawyer

You summon... MELON LORD!

BobC

What DOES happen when you put a Melon in a pentacle? Personally, I think she's looking to upgrade from vermin to demon.

Buck Caldwell

Panel 4 Melon may be the cutest face I've ever seen.

VC

A paycheck obviously. How else is one suppose to get paid?

VC

It’s a side comic that’s around here in the Patreon.

William Cole

Melon da best!

Grace Kieser

Melon is a treasure!

Kyle Major

I love that it's the fact itself she likes knowing not that she needs yo use it

Miyaa

If you look up “cuckoolander”there’s a picture of Melon.

Samantha Yeaman

I'm not sure what Melon is trying to summon but I think the world is probably better off not knowing.

dvsDave

I remember there was a strip that actually showed this, I just can't find it.