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Buddy Cops

🕑 Added 2018-03-08 04:54:17 +0000 UTC

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Chris Heg

A Southie AI - now that is scary.

LaPrimaNerda (Sarah Davis)

I kinda like it as a 4th wall-breaking running gag. It’s a great comedic yet subtle touch that a bunch of people will probably overlook.

tamtheotter

Or its just Jacques didnt put a lot of effort into making the squiggle uniform.

Luis Padilla López

it's sharpie used over a non newtonian fluid, it keeps reshaping itself. If that answer doesn't work then it's just good old magic

Timothy Mann

Ok, so it's Sharpie, but how does it keep moving?

David Howe

Isn't it canon they can just downcycle their cpus for that? :) Come to think of it, I remember pintsize using bad video drivers to get high...

Ben Russell-Gough

They're probably 'drinking' recreational one-use software or AC charge with a weird frequency that disrupts the function of their CPUs and gives them a mild alcohol-like buzz.

Legion

My cats sit with me all the time....

Legion

I just imagine its like futurama.

David Howe

Got to wonder now - what are they drinking, and do robots have their own bars where they drink 3-in-1 or something?

Daryl Sawyer

Get a cat, then try to have an online life. You'll get plenty of attention from your cat... or at least, your keyboard will. :p

Geo (Overand)

Spoken like someone who has never had a cat companion who cares about them.

Waffliesinyoface

hey man, don't fuckin' diss cats

Matt

sorry, but "get a cat" is the WORST advice to give someone that's lonely; cats don't give two shits about you, all they care is "is there food in the bowl?"... now, "get a dog", that, THAT would be worthy advice (and honestly, I'd expect that from you, Jeph, considering Shelby and all)

Richard

O'Malley doesn't "golf" - he "plays golf" which is impersonating all the worst antics he sees on TV. Putting divots all over the driving range, throwing clubs, screaming at his (robo) caddie, driving a golf cart while (robo)drunk. The groundskeepers hate the drama, but O'Malley always comes back at the end of a "session" to help clean up the mess and he tips them, which the humans golfers never do.

Elf Sternberg

Wait, if he's #1 Robot Dad and he's got an "open relationship with his job," ... the horror, the horror.

Unanimous D

Why am I reminded of those "hacked" anti-smoking PSAs? <a href="https://youtu.be/qbCyPBZYdWk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/qbCyPBZYdWk</a>

Ben Russell-Gough

Well they have USB ports instead of flask mouths so I'm thinking they may be either lithium-ion batteries to top up the ol' power cells after a long shift or a portable drive full of auto-deleting recreational .exe files.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

I don't Do Twitter, but I might just haveta start if stuff like that is there.

Summer Sudbrink

Those things they're drinking from must be Leyden Flasks. :D Also, have we seen Roko in a beat-cop uniform before?

SARA J DAVIS

I'm torn between the loving and fearing the idea that Bubbles ends up dating cop bot. My heart is mostly committed to the direction of the Bubbles and Faye plot. But - the idea of Bubbles and cop bot....

Peter Jensen

For those wondering if we've seen this cop before: <a href="https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/806290985282076672" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/806290985282076672</a>

Will Weaver

I would totally watch a buddy cop series starting O’Malley and Punchbot.

TwoRavens

ROKO'S A SOUTHIE! This makes me happy on so many levels.

Vince Averello

Robot Cop bar? Love it and love Roko's Irish accent when she gets angry. So perfect.

Tim Williams

Roko Basilisk of the Boston Basilisks?..ooooh

Terrible ASS-GOLF partners, if you please.

That person always makes me think: I know clouting him / her / it into next week is illegal. But WHY? :(

David Paul

If O'Malley was one day away from retiring, I suspect Roko would have killed him in panel 4.

Sam Johnson

Broad Scots works too.

Ben Russell-Gough

I suspect that she is into it on a fantasy level but not a practical level.

Dean Reilly

Jeph, please give us Punchbot and O'Malley, terrible golf partners.

Ben Russell-Gough

With this strip, Jeph is reminding us that 'buddy' doesn't mean 'friend', it's 'the asshole who is always on your case but you're not allowed to hit because they're always jolly and jokey about it'.

Are they "drinking" from USB power banks? I have so many follow on questions about intoxicating 5V power...

Stoodmuffin

... Wait. What if she IS into it? God help her

He says that she has a Boston accent but I couldn't help reading that as having an Irish accent.

gatherer818

Maybe she didn't read his profile and just swiped right because Pint-size looked like a smaller, cuddly O'Malley

Bob Hannent

Oh that reminds me, what happened to the robot tattoos?

Ben Russell-Gough

Nah, just a common chassis type.

Ben Russell-Gough

It's a bar; Faye and Bubbles are unlikely to go in there. However, I do think it is quite possible that Faye and Claire may decide to 'help' and drag Marten and Bubbles into the mess without even bothering to ask consent.

Ben Russell-Gough

No, when she's upset, she forgets to hide her accent.

Ben Russell-Gough

I think that O'Malley's moustache may be a back-projection of a randomised sine wave on his face plate. That's why it's continually changing.

Ben Russell-Gough

Yeah, here's the thing: We've seen this in Momo too; that some Synthetics actually do have developed something analogous to a sex drive. Maybe it's because they're surrounded by humans, whose culture seems sex-mad but some of them do seem to want to have that close and total intimacy with someone.

If Bubbles and Faye wander in tomorrow, and Bubbles intervenes on Roko's behalf... Ok. There's my suggestion for the next Fables reef for all the shippers out there. And I can almost guarantee that if Jeph doesn't do something similar, what he WILL do is going to be worse... After all, he feeds off our tears of suffering... :)

Brad Knowles

Wait, does that robocop look like Punchbot? Does he have a side gig?

Lucanid Landman

Pintlisk. It makes it sound like some sort of Basilisk variant.

I don’t know why, but for some reason my read O’Malley’s dialogue in the voice of Cliff from “Cheers”.

That final panel accent tho ^_^

Scott Kenney

Iron Stache?

LazyLich

It may be a sharpie mustache, but he's got the mustache spirit.

Brent Catherman

Wow this really is starting to resemble that scene from Brain Candy. I half expect O'Malley to enter the restroom only for a hundred dudes barreling out. And is it just me or did Roko slip into a New England accent? Maybe it's what's in that drink of hers.