First of all, sorry today’s comic went up late. I had a busy weekend, then had to deal with plumbers and workers early this morning and then most of the afternoon ‘cuz the ceiling of my bathroom collapsed due to a leak. This process has been ongoing since last Wednesday (I think. It’s been going on so long now I’ve forgotten the details), but they’ve gotten a lot of work done so maybe I’ll be able to wash up in my own shower within the next couple of days. *fingers crossed*
Now that you know the details about my destroyed bathroom, we can talk about today’s strip! Mu and bot are reunited. They have Yuki, supplies, weapons (well, Mu does,) and a plan. I think that’s all they need to get started on their quest! Let’s hope no other mishaps occur here at the BOTcave so I can give you the next episode at our regularly scheduled date and time. (i.e. around midnight, this Wednesday.) See you then!
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Glad Mu is learning the ways of humans quickly!
yep! bot’s gotta teach him the important things (like fist bumps) flame_fingers!
and check you out – the comic went up at an odd hour and you still managed to claim the top spot! does this mean you’re gonna go for a new record? hmm… regardless, enjoy these Shades of Firsting and wear them carefully – these give Optical Fist Pounds:
😎
I’ve got a couple of busy weeks ahead, but I’ll still try 😀
To quote Boondock Saint “We’re sorta like 7-Eleven. We’re not always doing business, but we’re always open.” 😎
good luck! 😀
Poor Mu, he’s getting crushed with excitment hahaha
I would have probably gone for a high five, would have laughed to see Mu jumpimp up for it
Sorry for your plumbing issues bot! Those can be a real bitch!
Also typo on the second panel “moutains”
awww… you’d have to help Mu out and offer him at least a “low five,” f_f. and he has such little hands, too, so be careful!
thanks for the typo-spotting. it’s what i get for rushing to get this strip up amid all the construction and commotion going on over here. fixing now. 🙂
And yeah, the plumbing issues suck. hopefully this will all be over and done with in the next day or so.
Darn, I’ll admit that I wanted the shades bad enough that I was waiting for the comic to be put up last night. Ended up giving up around 3:30AM central time. Figures the one time I decide to wait and pounce the shades of firsting is when the comic gets put up late. Guess I’ll just have to try again on Wednesday. You hear me shades? You will be MINE!
Anyways, It’s good to see that Jefbot found Mu. Now they can go to the alien space craft together! Also, if Beverly Hills and the Sunset Strip are within walking distance then Jefbot must live in a pretty nice part of town.
sorry ’bout that, GB – i’ll try my best to get wednesday’s strip up at the regular time, so be ready to pounce again! 🙂
and yeah, while the geography is a bit compressed in the comic, it’s a fairly accurate representation of where i live – there’s a pocket right between the Sunset Strip and Beverly Hills that isn’t too expensive and is just a really cool neighborhood. i love it here.
I’ve been to the general area before during the summer of last year. It’s a pretty nice place, but the traffic was pretty bad. Someone needs to invent a teleporter or a Portal Gun to help LA with it’s traffic.
yeah, you have to know which roads to take to get in and out of that area (protip: take Fountain whenever possible.) and YES! my kingdom for a Portal Gun!!!
WANTED: L.A. Transpoter Pad Operator
Requirements: must hawe a scotish accent and must be able to suvive ia a RED SHIRT.
So, Ibet you had to take a nice, long drive as research, to find the best pace fo a UFO to land. Right?
yep. and i’ve spent more than a bit of time hiking around the hollywood hills, too. 🙂
Okay that’s adorable. 😛 I approve of the brofist
woo! brofist + hamstafist, DJ!
Dang it! Still not first. The only time I stand a chance is when it goes up late.
I’m almost expecting something to happen as a result of the fist bump. Wonder twin powers, activate? Sparks? I’m not sure, but something. Boy, Jefbot is lucky that Mu was still hanging around. Now Mu can protect him! 😉
sorry you missed the Shades, Shanna!
and my original sketch for that fist pound was WAY more dramatic, with speed lines and stars coming off of it and a big “POUND!” sound effect in the background! i thought people might think exactly what you thought – that there was some Wonder Twins powers being activated, so i’m glad i toned it down. 🙂
and i think jefbot’s lucky that Mu has little legs, otherwise Mu would probably be long gone by now. heheh.
Well dang. And I actually thought I had a chance this time. Oh well
(Y) for the awesome fist bump in the last panel!!
woo! FIST BUMP!
Few! I was worried. I had all these conspiricy theories as to you dis appearance.
i read them and liked them, me! and i’m a sucker for conspiracy theories. 🙂
Epic brofist! And good for bot… lets hope he survives this. Or finds some kind of alien weapon.
agreed: if bot doesn’t survive this, it’ll be very bad for this webcomic, bj42. if all of a sudden the comic’s entitled “The Cornfather” or “Musashi: Mutant Hamster” then expect the worst. 😉
ADVENTURE TIME! Come on grab your friends.
We’ll to very alien lands.
With JEF the BOT and MU the MUTANT
Together forever in the ADVENTURE TIME!
Okay, so maybe he’s not a mutant, I just needed a rhyme.
And Mu looks so adorable when he got hugged! \(^u^)/
hahaha love this
Damn you for making me sing it in ma brain and getting it stuck!
I have been damned.
i’m the same way, f_f – whenever i hear the AT theme song it stays in my head for hours. so catchy.
Adventure Time!
Come on, grab your swords.
We’ll go to very distant worlds.
Mu the Borg
And Jef the Human
The fight will never end.
it’s Adventure Time!
heheh. this one’s good, too, me!
i love it, ROM! big fan of AT so your song hits a sweet spot. always wondering what the theme song for a JEFbot animated show would be. hmmm… 🙂
HECK YES! Space adventure to save the ones you love? Perfect.
So glad to have Mu back and I’ll finally be relieved when we see Cel again too.
i’m all for space adventures too, Takla! as for cel, well… her location is still a mystery, but let’s hope jefbot isn’t going on this little trip for nothin’.
Right before I went away my bathroom ceiling also collapsed a bit ( about half).. So we took it completely down, fixed the plumbing and put up a new ceiling. Then again I have been doing construction for my father since I was 16, and the guy who helped has been doing it for 30 years.
Still was a huge pain in the arse so I’m sorry.
I actually have take apart the wall in my apartment and fix it next week, that should take about 2 days only, hopefully.
To be honest? It seems like Musashi was almost expecting jefbot to return, good thing he didnt disappoint him.
So my grandmother got hit by a car while in a nail salon the other week, so yea… I get to spend tomorrow with a lawyer so we can try and figure out how to handle this. Anyone have experience with suing someone?
Darn how do I delete a copy post?
Leave it to shootzee.
yeah, like ROM! said, i have to do the deleting. if you ever need something deleted, just make a little note to me to do so.
i envy your construction skills, Satoshieyes! apparently, the leak started in the apartment above me, so they had to rip out the wall in his bathroom to fix it before they could get to repairing my ceiling. bleh. it’s almost done now, though, so hoping it doesn’t delay any future JEFbots. 🙂
yeah, it’s altogether possible Mu was waiting in that alley, giving bot a little time before giving up on him.
and so sorry to hear about your grandmother! i hope she doesn’t have any permanent injuries. sending healing vibes her way.
Yello! I’m not gonna even try to get the Shades this week. I gotta get up early on M-W-F, so I can’t stay up that late/early. NEXT WEEK, however, I shall have my day in the sun (I hope). Might be going to see IM3 again on Thursday with my brother. Watching a good movie again is not a problem in my book. I always enjoying seeing movies several times (I saw JC’s Avatar 3 times, twice in regular 2-D and once in 3-D).
well if you have that day in the sun, it would make sense to do so while wearing the Shades, KB! good luck with it!
i saw IM3 over the weekend and dug it. much better than IM2 but i think IM1’s still my fave because it was so fresh at the time. love the humor and character stuff in IM3, tho. wouldn’t mind seeing it again.
My internal voice for Mu is Michael Dorn: Worf on Star Trek TNG, Mata Nui in LEGO Bionicle 4, I.M. Weasel from I Am Weasel, and Gork the Head on Adventure Time!.
ha! michael dorn’s a good choice, me. love his voice, especially when he’s angry.
Love the fist bump, but I can’t help hearing the crunch of ‘bot’s fingers as Mu accidentally gives him a power-punch . . .
heh. true that, Sarah W. Mu’s so strong, it’s probably best if he just holds his fist up and lets bot do the bumping. 🙂
Fist pump sound effect *Kabow!*
that, or “kaBOOOM!!!” TPC! 😉
Revised JefBOT Movie Titles:
JefBOT: The Animated Image: Angry scarf returnes to merge with its master.
JefBOT II: The Wrath of Wil: Although “wrath of scrawn” is a great verbal pun, wil wheaton is JefBOT’s mortal nemesis.
JefBOT III: The Search for Cel: I agree with JOE on this one, enen though “search for scarf” sonds cooler, Cel is the character that needs to return by JefBOT IV.
JefBOT IV: The Trip to His Appartment: Remember how Cel modified that prop gun to shoot real ammo? And I’m sure one of the has the prop time machine from the movie, The Time Machine. Well, in JefBOT IV, Cel modifies that prop to actually work. And they use it to go back in time and get Mu and Yuki for some reason.
JefBOT V: The Fandom Frontier: JefBOT goes on vacation and goes the a huge Star Trek convention with almost all of the actors there. Then he notices his nemesis, wil wheaton, is there, too.
JefBOT VI: The Undiscovered Township: Peace talks open up with the “villainous wil wheaton.”
However, I have no idea what happens in JefBOT VII: JefERATIONS.
JefBOT: First Contract. Bot gets his first Major Motion Picture role.
Shouldn’t there be new people in the ‘The Next JefERATION” movies?
i hope “First Contract” happens IRL, r61! 😀
great titles, me! of course, the reboots would have to happen after the TNJ stuff. 😉
why does it appear to me that mu gave up? so sad, tell me otherwise! Oh and go Jefbot (trying this without a weapon_ you deserve the brofist/hamstafist the hug probably wasn’t in mu’s plans though
Mu just has tiny mutant-hamster legs and, therefore, walks slowly. Granted, he can jump pretty far, but he wouldn’t want to jostle Yuki’s cage too much.
this is a plausible explanation, too.
i can assure you that Mu hadn’t given up, Hides In The Dark! he was either a) lurking around there for a reason b) was waiting for traffic to pass before venturing further c) giving bot a chance to come to his senses before moving on. and yeah, Mu probably has no idea of what to make of the hug. 🙂
Some of my friends used to initiate fist pounds with me, but then reacted in pain and told me I hit too hard. I didn’t even try using any strength at all. I didn’t do it like I was throwing a punch or anything. I needed coaching on the proper way to fist pound. Once a girl I was friends with did a fist pound with me then reacted in pain when my fist met hers. She then pointed out that I used too much force and instructed me to do it a few more times lessening the force each time. I finally got it down pat. I’m sorry to say though that I made this poor girl feel like her hand was destroyed by the time I could do this correctly.
ha! yeah, there should generally be no real force of impact behind any fist pounds, Rainey. heheh. you don’t know your own strength! glad you finally got the hang of it before you hulked out on someone. (well, besides the girl) 😉
So he DOES have two eyes. I had my doubts before.
I know Fist Pound was supposed to be focus of the story here but its the hug that gets me. Poor Mu. Also Good for him!
awww, glad you dug the hug, Maryz. and yeah, Mu has two eyes, unlike the filthy, mutant possum beastie!
I just noticed: up through #504, that sweater hadd a zipper; in and after #505 i didn’t.
the zipper’s still there, but visually, i just liked it better with the white line representing it rather than the white and black line, me.
The line no longer passes through the design, and it is no longer unzipped halfway through the design. Also, in this comic, the white line touches different areas of the design. Panel 2: the white part, panel 5: the orange part
Also, is the design supposed to be a “6”? I used to think it was just 3 cool curvey things and a dot, but, recently, it started to look more and more like a “6”.
Hmm interspecies fistpound… I spent too much time on the internet, I’ll take my leave… 😉 XD
heh. i’m afraid of where your internet-addled brain went with that, Orzahn. very afraid. 😉
Yeah! Great victory for all species…the first interstellar/interspecies fistpound! Also, teleporting Mu!?!
woo! if only someone was there to document the fist pound epicness, GG! and nope, no teleporting Mu, sadly. he still has to walk around on his little legs.
Wonder Twin powers, activate! x3
I’ve been watching to many old school cartoons lately, don’t mind me!
heheh. i used to think the Wonder Twins were pretty cool, Foxmouse, but now i’m like, turn into ANYTHING other than a pail of water, Zan! 😉
Okay, insomnia or no, 21 minutes in my give up point on Firsting.
i think that’s a good idea, Bender_Sastre; no use prolonging your insomnia even more!
Awwww. Such a cute little guy. 😀
i think so too, TCG. 🙂
OH, NO! NO NEW COMIC! Not this again!
new comic’s up, me!
Wow, I gave up only a minute before it went up. Bad timing on my part.