Sep 09
SteveAsat Comments: You know what robots need? Buttcheeks. You know what they don’t need? Backpacks. I like to imagine that the dragon thing flits around by gently flapping his headwings and he just lets the big ones dangle as he glides majestically overhead.
Published 1981
September 9th, 2011 at 9:32 am
…and never accept fruit off strange dragons.
September 9th, 2011 at 9:48 am
Thinks: “Rrragh, how come I always get stuck with the weirdos at these parties?”
Also, wouldn’t the last immortal be the first immortal? The only immortal, basically.
September 9th, 2011 at 10:36 am
That backpack was obviously where the apple that the girl is offering the nice dragon was stored. How else is a robot going to carry anything around?
September 9th, 2011 at 10:45 am
But it’s not all bad — the creepiness of the dragon getting so uncomfortably close to the child is drowned out by the migraine you get from the title font…
September 9th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
DRAGON: Cynthia, tell Ro-butt-nik that I’m still not talking to him.
ROBOT: But I’m gesturing persuasively!
September 9th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Having watched Beastmaster a gazillion times in reruns I would not be standing where the robot and little girl are.
September 9th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
I hear you, man…
*Slurp!*
[Skeleton rattles to the ground]
September 10th, 2011 at 10:05 am
The dragon’s head winglets must give it extra stability when flying, which may counteract the poor vision it must have due to those cataracts.
September 11th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Surprise! Those aren’t wings on his body. That’s the outer folds of his cloaca!
September 11th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Seems it’s a sequel to a Young Adults book by Issac Asimov’s widow Janet, a therapist and authoress in her own right. Click for a short review of “The Second Experiment”, the original.
September 13th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
It looks like a bizarre world where The Tin Man, Snow White, and Barney hang out.
July 29th, 2012 at 5:33 am
Robot and Girl have made their best play-doh sculpture yet.
March 25th, 2015 at 8:40 pm
That doesn’t look like MacLeod at all. Where’s the Salamanca? They could at leasthave a llittle Queen playing. When you open the cover. Like those greeting cards? Eh, I was always rooting for the Kurgan anyway.
March 25th, 2015 at 9:48 pm
Beyond the future we imagine…
On the other side of the future we know…
…is your luggage. And fongool to you too, Alitalia!