Holy shit, BISMUTH???

Apologize to your mother, Robot. She’s RIGHT THERE, next to your god! Kat can relay the message.

Man that's scary. To Annie, ether is something that never fails to give her privacy. Especially if her familiar connection lays on another private layer of ether. And Kat has just... invented a way to interfere into this private layer while being completely invisible and soundless even for non-etheric creatures. Kinda reminds me of how Gamma watches over events in Zimmyngham, but still. Invisible Robot scares me more.

Tom, I love your comic, but my one complaint about it is that so much time passes irl that I often forget plot points that come up again later. Like, I remember Robot did that... don't really remember how or why. Guess I gotta go dig in the archives now. I don't say that to be harsh, there's not really any way around it (i.e., I'm not suggesting you add updates more often, this current rate is entirely reasonable), but I don't even know how far back to go.

Typo: misled

Yes, this is genuine sorrw. I wonder if Robot will go onto the next stage of repentence: To change his ways and his objectives.

Kat's shapes and texture are really something! As is Robot's puzzle-like form

Hmm... Robot is looking pretty bismuth-y right now. =U And there are growing technology seeds involved, and we already know time-travel is a thing. And even the Tic-Toc took root... It sounds crazy, but I'm starting to wonder if Robot is somehow the Seed Bismuth??? Or at least connected to it, somehow. Like a new seed from the plant or something. Also: a streamer friend has a "C'mon man..." sound clip (I think Axel from Kingdom Hearts??) and I'm totally reminded of that - hearing the A/N that way in my head. XDDD

'misled' you meant

s/mislead/misled/

Robot is starting to bore me. The story is already moving too slowly and his whining is starting to irritate me now. Come in Tom , pickup the slack a little.

In his defense, Kat; you should have known this would happen.

Down to Bismuth

awwww……

Okay, you feel remorse. But how are you going to move forward from that?

The first time was in chapter 12 :)

It's an apology, Kat. Accept it.

Are we finally going to find out what Robot did? 'cuz I'm still confused.

"Aw, don't apologize for rounding up all those kids and almost getting them killed for the sake of progress. I'm a mad scientist too!" "I know! And I almost destroyed your most beautiful creation--me!"

Anyone else find it curious that Robot's etheric form is bismuth? Given all the robots essentially turned into seeds.

Miserable git

'Misled', not 'mislead' (assuming that's past tense). Not saying this to be critical - just constructive feedback!

please let this resolve good for everyone - even boxbot!

I believe that should be "misled" rather than "mislead." Love the comic, by the way, and I'm sorry it took a typo for me to comment.

"I never thought about it that way ... so ... it's quits now, go!" :D

Is anyone else getting these frustrating pop up ads that cover the artwork? I’m wondering if the seed bismuth is manifesting in the distortion because robot was originally one of the serif robots that Diego made? Am I remembering that right?

Ok?

C’mon Man is so real. Because like what are u on about?

Kat’s not really into the robots being sappy

If this is happening through Kay’s computer, can Omega see it?

Tom, did you mean "mislead" or "misled" in this comic? "Misled" is past tense, which makes sense, but "mislead" would imply Robot is still doing something wrong.

IS ROBOT THE SEED OF BISMUTH???

Misled. C’mon, Tom, get the lead out.

Now really isn't the time, Robot. Don't you see we have more pressing issues on our hands?

Kat's "C'mon, man..." is honestly so telling. Robot has been building a cult around her as a deity ushering robot kind into a new era for years, and all the while all she's wanted was to help her friend. She doesnt talk to him like he's a sinner who needs to repent, she talks to him like a he's friend who's beating himself up too much. I love Kat and Robot so much

Ed: past tense is "misled"!

Did Robot perhaps mean "misled", Tom? Or is the present tense an admission of continuing deception? Do we need to find another seraph to ask it what Robot would say? ;)

I smell Robot sacrificing himself to Annie and Renard for Kat.

Clearly Robot is the seed bismuth, or at least some recreation of it. But this whole thing reminds me of the time loop of Annie falling off the bridge, and kat being the one to break that loop. Who started the loop? Was it kat, in some future or present event? Annie being a fire elemental but still being in the same "house" as Kat also has to mean something. I DESPERATELY need more info lol, I can only re-read the entirety so many times

NO KAT LET HIM ATONE

Robot finally has the guts to confront Kat with regard to his... activities. Oooohhhhhh boy. (Psst, Tom, there's a space missing in the fourth bubble, and "misled" is the spelling of the tense you want in the sixth.)

Hol up?????? Is that the Seed Bismuth????

Have been reading this comic since forever, so maybe I have forgotten plot lines or maybe I am just dense, but could someone please explain to me like I am five years old just what it was that Robot did that has had him so angsty throughout this latest story arc! Thanks.

Starting like an apology that wasn't wanted. I can actually feel the awkwardness.

He's apologizing, but he's being very vague about what he did, and no one is pressing him on the details, so it doesn't clear anything up for the reader. I wish he would give a clear explanation of what he was trying to accomplish and why.