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As for this comic...
I think most people saw this one coming from last week's comic. But yes, we are dabbling our toes just a little into the sci-fi side of things. Heck, for all these years, people have been asking, "Where are all the other mythical beings in this universe?" What they should have been asking was, "Where are all the robots?"
I don't aim to please. I sometimes aim to confuse.
!["He's not a real guy, Sam! Can I keep his head for a souvenir?"](https://puckcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/puck-862.png ""He's not a real guy, Sam! Can I keep his head for a souvenir?"")
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THE GREAT NOUN ADVENTURE RETURNS!
Every June, patrons on Patreon suggest nouns and I combine them in unique ways. See the results!
VOTE FOR FLORAL!!!
In other news...
First, this comic is brought to you again by the two stalwart supporters The Lurker and Jeremy, who are both Mayor of Pucksburg again. Maybe you're generous enough to join them! CHECK OUT THE PATREON!!!
As for this comic...
I think most people saw this one coming from last week's comic. But yes, we are dabbling our toes just a little into the sci-fi side of things. Heck, for all these years, people have been asking, "Where are all the other mythical beings in this universe?" What they should have been asking was, "Where are all the robots?"
I don't aim to please. I sometimes aim to confuse.
Ahh the childhood dreams of a young faerie.
So sweet hahahaha
It’s a cribbed line from Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Only the severed head part is my addition.
Could’a been the severed head of a friend or relative.
Oh my, Phoebe’s swimwear gets smaller every year
Hey, I’m not to blame for the changing whims of fashion.
Thanks for this. I’ve always wondered what Phoebe might look like without a lot of clothes on.
Because she’s never appeared in next-to-nothing before. Ever.
She seems to have forgotten sun screen for her tail.
It’s an easy part to miss.
Yikes, I have to admit if that’s a robot that Puck punched, then who’s controlling it?
My guess: evil AI overlords.
Well, not that it’s not attached to her body, she can forget her head.
Would look really good over a mantle somewhere.
Ancient Fairy – 1
Evil Robot – 0
Seriously, I know tech can be rather fey like, or even eldritch itself, but its still a baby dipping its toes in the shallows. It does not know the Deep Magic.
Of punching people in the face.
Honestly, tech loses a lot of its power when you have direct access.
I had a wierd thought during the week. Last week, I reffered to the robot being AI, not a robot. Yes, robots may run on AI, but we reffer to the physical body as a robot.
Somehow, I feel that these days its preferable to refer to something as an Evil AI, rather than Evil Robot. Probably because AI is here, and an issue.
It’s an evil AI robot. And unlike many current robots, this one is self-contained, a la most classic sci-fi stories of robots.
Now now Daphne, don’t go losing your head over this! Remember, you love it when a plan comes together!
Daphne does not like surprises.
I have to admit I was surprised at Daphne’s squeamish response. I mean, one would expect her terrier DNA would have kicked in and she’d be chewing on a limb by now.
na, she instinctively knew that there are no real bones in that bitch 😉
Daph? What are you doin’? Stop panicking. Stop it right now. In with the good air and out with the bad.
Man, those are dark eyes. That explains a few things.
Does it explain a few things? Or does it pose more questions? Enh, probably both.
Well, it answers why they all wore shades. I suppose there are more questions now.
I would like to have met her when she was a child.
It would have been a LONG time ago.
I’m imagining Puck and Daphne hooking the head up to a power line so they can ask it questions, kinda like Ash in “Alien”.
Not sure this robot works like that. Also less milk.
All the best ‘droids have milk running through their veins.
“Real necks are way squishier.”
Probably one of Puck’s most disturbing lines to date.
I put that in there purposefully.
Who of the Cabal is left now? Tiger mauling, puppy grinding, desertion…now this.
They have been brought pretty low. But it’s hard to keep a good robot down.
Let’s hope the Colonel isn’t made of a mimetic polyalloy. Don’t think a puppy grinder would shred that successfully.
I think the puppy grinder is at least jammed, if not damaged.
Why does everyone take their eyes off the torso?! If the 80s taught us anything – Evil Dead, Terminator, any number of evil
Robots. For that matter, Terror of Mechagodzilla – tearing the head off unleashes something far more deadly and shiver inducing.
Good point.
So eight mechanical spider legs burst out of the torso, the arms and legs fall off, and this weird baby-doll head with glowing greenish red eyes, jagged metal teeth in a snarling mouth, and large gauge hypodermic needles for a tongue flicking in-and-out, sticks out from the neck on a metal tentacle, and attacks Puck and Daphne with a ear-splitting metallic screech.
We won’t go that far.
Yet.
At which point, Puck says, “You got to be f*&%ing kidding me” and incinerates it with a flamethrower.
Then Daphne glibly pronounces, “Homage IS the sincerest act of parody.”
about the hidden caption in the comic, you got that from Sam and Max, did you?
Direct quotation, yes.
If you mix tech with fey, eventually you end up with the Adeptus Mechanicus: https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Adeptus_Mechanicus
An inevitability in this universe.
“We can rebuild her. We have the technology. We can make her better than she was. Better, stronger, faster.”
Never try to rebuild the evil robot. Rule #1 of evil robot fiction.
She certainly had no heart. Puck won’t have to worry about the cops now.
How tidy things wrap up!
Is she going to mount it and hang it in the living room?
It would be quite the focal point to a room.
Part of the humor of this for me is that Daphne has been calm and collected ever sense she and Trecee Jr. planned this caper. And it’s so amusing watching her react to this piece of bonkersness.
It just felt funny. So I went with it. Glad it works for you.
Ah-ha! THIS explains why Haddaway The Tiger kept his word not to eat any people AND still crunched his foe. And why Satan was concerned about shoes jamming the gears (the literal origin of the word “sabotage”) and not about blood and stuff.
Puzzles SOLVED!
Well, the tiger part is solved. Not sure whether Satan knew, though.
All that Puck needs now to complete her barbarian bingo card and earn her barbarian spurs is to hear the lamentations of their women.
Soon she can join the likes of Conan, Thrud and Cohen.
All hail Puck the Barbarian(ness?), Queen of Canada, destroyer of Amazonians.
Also, called it, damn Amazon AI.
You did call it. Because we share the same enemy. And the same fear.
Don’t forget Red Sonja, Nijel the Destroyer and Herrena the Henna-Haired Harridan
Can Puck ‘throw her voice’? Because she could gut the mechanisms from the head and turn it into a ventriloquist dummy.
Horrifying. Yet kinda fun?
Yeah, ok puck. I admit it. Me to, always was my boyish dream… That or literally tie someone up a in a square knot with their own limbs. Making salad bowls from pelvises, dinnerware, buttons and so on. p.s. being a veteran using the knuckle bones to gamble and throw auguries is always a favorite.
This tells us much more uncomfortable things about Puck’s childhood than any of us were ready for…
Well, I don’t trust her. She may be just making it up.
I would say “Cruella DeVille” was an “android”, a robot in human form, but that word means something else nowadays. The important thing is she’s no longer doing the nasty things she did. Puck can be proud of her achievement.
The best kind of pride: pride in a job well done.
“I don’t see why it’s cursed just because it’s a robot head.”
“It’s running Windows ME”
Ah, the best version of Windows. Universally loved.