Better living through mechanical modifications

December 7, 2004 8:48 AM

Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life Seeing the solar system with a couple of philosophical robots. Beautiful web comic.
posted by rustcellar (12 comments total)

Human readers should not feel inadequate if they do not find themselves aroused by the following scene

This is great!
posted by john-paul at 9:14 AM on December 7, 2004

'On September 11th the US was not attacked with nuclear or biological weapons; it was attacked with box-cutters.'

Incisive foreign policy critiques, a planet in a glass... These guys have everything. Still prefer Maakies though. They just get on with it and kill themselves.
posted by 9idiot0 at 9:16 AM on December 7, 2004

beautiful web comic abandoned by author in june 2004.
posted by quonsar at 9:28 AM on December 7, 2004

Thanks rustcellar. I love how the opening comic depicts them making the very thing that is going to replace them.
posted by sciurus at 9:38 AM on December 7, 2004

I was debating this as an FPP, but I figured the lack of content would get me slapped. Damn my idiot brain! rustcellar, you have better reckoning than I, and apparently at least as much taste.
posted by jenovus at 9:41 AM on December 7, 2004

this is awesome!
i'm usually a little skeptical of online comics, so few have really grabbed me. But the drawings here are great, and the stories are very charming.

It's no white ninja though. (obviously. they're nothing alike. but white ninja is awesome too. just sayin'.)
posted by paultron at 10:23 AM on December 7, 2004

Pretty awesome...

From the description, I was expecting a continuation of the adventures of Klaupaticus and Trurl, everyone's favorite pair of Constructors.
posted by kaibutsu at 10:23 AM on December 7, 2004

Too bad it's abandonware. If you're looking for something entertaining and much less intellectual, check out Questionable Content (Occasionally NSFW, but only the text.)
posted by SpecialK at 12:30 PM on December 7, 2004

This is great. Thanks.
posted by .kobayashi. at 8:05 PM on December 7, 2004

Thisis really good.

"...Klaupaticus and Trurl, everyone's favorite pair of Constructors." - kaibutsu

That would simply rock.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 8:35 PM on December 7, 2004

I do have hopes, given the recent note that he now has a connection at home, that he might get back to work on the thing. (Despite quonsar above, the latest episode was November 1.)
posted by rustcellar at 8:46 PM on December 7, 2004

And as of 12/16, we have a new comic strip. Yay!
posted by .kobayashi. at 9:47 PM on December 18, 2004