#omnibot

[thefugitivesaint]

'Omnibot 2000', ''Omni'', #12, Dec. 1985

We use to be a proper country that understood the craft of good Japanese merchandise. Sure, there was also a wave of xenophobic and racist reactionary politics aimed at the Japanese (see 'Gung-Ho' from 1986 for a mild example of this kind of "cultural anxiety"). When is America NOT racist? I mean, have you MET America? It's a pretty confused country. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to digress here, I just wanted to show you a 25'' toy robot that you could once own. It was also relatively useless if the remote for it broke (or got lost). It ran on two AA batteries. It probably didn't run that long. But robots right? We once lived with the promise of robots in our homes. Now the taste of that promise is bitter on our tongue, the memory of that promise sour. We live in the echo of its lie. We live under the dictatorship of the algorithm.

[vintage-tigre]

[vintage-robots]

Date night! (Kid lurking behind couch.)

[iansullivancant]

I drew this for some reason. Tomy Omnibot 5402 with a cigarette

[aardwolfpack]

The latest in robotic technology.

[siryl]

A futuristic robot by Kyle-KR.

[byruit]

Tiny Omnibot 😍

Still, I want Emiglio first

[omnibotsalon]

Fin de la première séance de projet

On est super chaud pour la suite

[sbuggbot]

When you're trying to show your support but your weird modded friend causes problems on purposes as a hobby.

It's a day late, but I made my own entry for Make a Terrible Comic day even though it didn't actually wind up terrible IMO. Enjoy this peek into something that I daydream about but haven't actually turned into anything postable.

[fuzzyghost]

[wouldyourfavepaychildsupport]

Would the Omnibot 2000 pay child support?

[conventionalwisdomcomic]

[byruit]

I need this robot NOW

A most excellent review.

[aardwolfpack]

Eighties relics by Kyle-KR.