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Baby Steps

🕑 Added 2018-06-20 02:31:30 +0000 UTC

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I love how May is just like :| through all of this ^^

Rook Hallan

"Jones" is both singular and plural.

Richard

She just randomly showed up from a tunnel more likely...

Derrik Pates

C'mon Jeph, it's "Anthonies Joneses". Don't you know anything? ;)

Captain Button

Everyone must start producing mouthbirds as troops in the war with the Flying Roombas Of Doom.

Nancie

I'm suddenly getting flashbacks to a very strange fandom wank involving someone who claimed that a pigeon was their literal son. I wish I could remember details.

David Howe

Well, you WERE, but now you have mentioned it...

Captain Button

Nah, more the ending of Bladerunner.

BobC

Am I the only one thinking there must be an "Aliens" sub-plot coming where birds start exploding out of all QC AI characters?

"Pigeons aside"

Summer Sudbrink

I hope Melon has some good shampoo.

Ben Russell-Gough

Just because Melon is okay the way she is doesn't mean that the authorities are okay with the way she is. AIs who don't fit into 'neurormative' may be obliged to attend some sort of therapy, hence the presence of the depressed, the marginal and the disaffected.

Daryl Sawyer

This is probably the equivalent of Robot Church: some go seeking salvation, while others just show up for the free bread and wine. :p (I was going to say "for the communal aspects", but thought what I went with was funnier.)

Matt Grayson

Why is Melon in group therapy? She's a gainfully employed happy individual. Fallout from the Butt in Orbit incident?

There are some things that Pintsize isn't ready to discuss yet. But he shows signs of growth here, and Jeph? That in and of itself is the most TERRIFYING thing I've ever read in this comic.

Bagge

I'm in!

But Roko would be in there as well, as well as Eliot, and... Oh god Eliot bakes bread. I think my mind just exploded.

Ben Russell-Gough

I'm wondering if he's going to end up going on a date with Melon!

Ben Russell-Gough

Yes, she's learned that she's unimaginably envious of Melon's effortless joy in life and her seemingly-unbreakable innocence. The question is, what will this breakthrough mean for her? Just to go on the record, I want a 'The Good, The Bad and The Profoundly Weird' friendship between Momo, May and Melon.

Ben Russell-Gough

I'm pretty sure it's going to turn out that they have the same base class of chassis although Melon, not being an ex-felon, has a better-maintained one and may have a few optional mods that May doesn't. Maybe that's why May seemingly doesn't like her?

Ben Russell-Gough

I think that she's going to flip out at Melon who, of course, will not get it. As with Winslow, she'll feel guilty after talking about it to Momo and will try to find some way to apologise without damaging her own pride. The resulting 'Ballad of May and Melon' will probably be a significant character development arc.

Ben Russell-Gough

Here's a prediction: Anthony is going to end up as Melon's pet and she's not going to go anywhere without it. This is going to require that she do the near-impossible and learn to house-train a feral pigeon. Meanwhile, I'm starting to worry about May. Based on her expression in panel 4, she's about to flip out at poor, inoffensive Melon!

...But the kid is not my son.

MikeT

He's just a pigeon that Melon says "HE IS THE ONE!"

Brent Catherman

May looks irritated. While I think she's a better foil for Momo I think Melon could do the job if she leaves on a self discovery journey.

Bagge

This is a very productive session for May

Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns

I really want a Pintsize arc. (Also I want a crossover with Dumbing of Age where he and Carla hang out)

Captain Button

Betrayin's all part of AnthroPCing'. It's in the blood Anthony, and it's not in your blood or you'd have betrayed me long ago!

Philip D Jones

I assume you are referring to the plural of “Jones,” which is “Joneses.” As in “keeping up with the ...” The possessive is a problem. Is it “Jones’” or “Jones’s” I think that will never be settled. BTW we are quite elderly and not that hard to keep up with.

awgiedawgie

You're assuming that based on something that <i>Melon</i> said?

Chuck Dee

You got there before I did. :)

Miyaa

I think we’re missing the most important thing: Pintsize’s surname is Jones.

Pintsize totally would take the form of random animals to rape people so... yeah, maybe he is Zeus. Robo Zeus

So you are saying that Pintsize is saying "THAT'S not my son!" instead of "That's not MY son!"

Kyle Major

I just got the feel that pintsize does have a son he hides from people

Captain Button

He was just after the cake mix.

Danya Michael

Pigeon Jones is not my lover/she's just a chick that said that I am the one/but the bird is not my son.

Craig P Steffen

As I recall, the stories of Zeus are that his children spring from his body fully-formed. Athena, I think, for example, from his forehead. This would have interesting implications for Pintsize.

Celine Chamberlin

Winslow's still off with Hanners as she travels the globe. I think it's the same group, but I could be wrong.

Celine Chamberlin

Coming soon to a comic near you: Anthony Jones, P.I. (Pigeon Investigator). Follow our dashing hero as he braves death to investigate what really goes on inside AI's mouths. Do they have teeth? Can they swallow? And, most importantly, just how many pigeons can the average AI chassis mouth hold? Find out the answers to all this and more.

Alex Mullenix

Thank you for the correct pluralization, Jeph.

When you put them side by side Melon and May really do look like they could be sisters.

Populuxe

I'm going to guess that Winslow is leading a different group. Maybe that's where ANDROID 06 and Gary are. And that mohawk robot. I like him. I bet he's got Blixa Bargeld playing in his head all the time.