1336: Transformers

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Transformers

Title text: A helicopter bursts from a chrysalis and alights on a rock, rotors still damp.

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Transcript

[One autobot in the foreground, one in the background.]

Autobot: Transform!

[Autobots running.]

[Autobots climbing trees.]

[Autobots encasing themselves in caterpillar-style cocoons.]

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Discussion

Wow, this really is a departure from Randall's usual style. 108.162.219.17 12:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I guess it would have been impossible to make robot as stick figures and make people recognize them as robots...., hence I think this is a one-off Spongebog (talk) 15:39, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

This '600:_Android_Boyfriend' is the only other "Robot" strip I can think off Spongebog (talk) 15:42, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Is this a nod to Perry Bible Fellowship in some way? It seems more like a PBF strip. 141.101.98.37

Agree, I thought of PBF too. Is there a category here for "Comics with non-stick-figure characters"? - Frankie (talk) 14:29, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I went to PBF to see if there was a cross-over, but I was disappointed.--108.162.210.135 18:24, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

You're not alone, I was immediately reminded of Perry Bible Fellowship too. These two transformers seem very similar to the recurring PBF characters of Magnimus and Refridgeron -- view them here and here. 108.162.216.38 00:05, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Insecticons, maybe? 108.162.216.57 19:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

The title text is reminiscent of the style in which David Attenborough would present this sort of metamorphosis in nature. 108.162.246.120 23:01, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Any better hint? Sounds nice. --Dgbrt (talk) 23:21, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Well, more specifically, anything from his Life series, especially "Life in the Undergrowth", which focuses primarily on insects and arachnids. 108.162.246.120 23:36, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

When this came up in my RSS reader I had to double and triple check, and then click onto the site and make sure the url was xkcd before I was sure that this was indeed an xkcd comic. Although I like the content, I can honestly say this is my least favorite xkcd. lcarsos_a (talk) 07:52, 5 March 2014 (UTC)