0447 - Not enough wire. - 2026.04.27

Comic!

Comment:

I was originally going to have Nina stripping insulation off the wire with its teeth in panel 4 (I always think that looks badass), but unlike Zoa, Nina doesn't have teeth, squishy or otherwise.

Transcript:

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0447– 2167/07/07/13:29 – sidewalk, LC in Nina’s chassis is following Otto, performing midair self-robo-surgery
LC (electronic communication): Alright, thirty-eight seconds of battery life left, doing self-robo-surgery while hovering five meters above concrete at sixty kilometers per hour, found Sami’s coils, got the connector terminals exposed, the phatex on your hands should be insulating enough…
Nina (electronic communication): Problem: we don’t have enough actual wire to make the connection.
LC (electronic communication): Hold that thought...
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[a garbage receptacle contains various pieces of technological detritus, including a robotic arm marked with an aleph]
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[the robotic arm is snatched up by a blur whooshing past it at (apparently) sixty kilometers per hour]
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[LC is using Nina’s hands to crack open the salvaged limb like a crab leg]
Nina (electronic communication): Nice snatch.
LC (electronic communication): That’s what they said.
LC (electronic communication): Y’know what else they said?
Nina (electronic communication): א read-only?
LC (electronic communication): Goddamn right.
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