Zombie-Related Mother’s Day Pun for 2024
This page will make a lot more sense when taken in context of this voting incentive. Continuity happening in these bonus comics!
Anyway: here’s to all the Moms out there, including all the ones who DIDN’T cobble their offspring together through the forbidden arts! And speaking of cobbling things together, I’m still nowhere NEAR done with page 1319 yet. Monday’s gonna be veeeeery busy…
Dr Jarre should have just directly asked about how Tabitha did it so well. I mean, actually caring for the children and ensuring that they were raised properly while ensuring that they’re healthy likely encompasses 90% of what Tabitha did, with the initial 10% outside of that being covered by that book, but still.
Per the above linked incentive, though, Tabitha doesn’t like her and doesn’t trust her, so no way she’d give her zombie kid making help. Given that Dr J is a typical Mad Scientist, Tabitha’s concerns are probably valid, she’s more likely to use the zombies she creates for typical Madsciency stuff than for parenting adorableness. She probably did ask, many times, and was strongly turned down by Tabitha, so she had to go to the book.
(The creepy stalkerish “research” board pictured pretty much confirms Tabitha’s valid concerns….)
Yeah, Tabitha doesn’t trust Dr. Jarre with a child’s well-being, so she refuses to do anything to help her get one.
Dr J’s robotling sidekicks are probably going to get jealous or depressed that she’s trying to replace them with biologicals 🙁
I actually meant to show a couple of them scurrying around holding stuff for her, but it just would have made things too cluttered.
Incidentally, I’ve actually been making a conscious effort make the little butler-bots look less “personable” than the likes of Bridget & Alphonse, so this ideally wouldn’t be an issue.
The more they look unpersonable, the more I’m going to imagine they have a secret life where they’re all emotionally devoted to their boss/parent/whatever Dr J, and they have to act all unemotional around her because that’s what Dr J insisted “robots are supposed to be like”. (Most of the robots we’ve seen seem to be pretty emotional, even if that emotion is usually murderousness…)
Fair enough
@ Blitz: You should probably do the opposite, and try to make them look more personable. That is to say, make “manufacturing her own children” one of Dr Jarre’s Mad-Scientist Emphasis, and her robots are a failure due to their inability to develop any sort of independence.
That way you could have someone like Trigger or Avatar comment on them having a creepy facsimile of independence in some ways, while obviously needing orders in others. With the images being two of them playing with Dr Jarre, while one sits outside of the room effectively clonked-out of the world while standing, and a fourth obeying orders from Blip.
That’d definitely work, though ironically, I don’t have enough faith in my artistic abilities to pull of the sort of uncanny valley that would require.