Me and Missus Moonbase are both full of cold at the mo and shambling round the house like zombies! Doused with a cocktail of paracetomols, vitamen c and vicks, I'm cramming for a rather important day tomorrow, whilst looking over the laptop with one sticky eye on the telly. Tim Burton's homage to Topps 1950's uber-grisly MARS ATTACKS! cards is on and the aliens are tak tak takking like mad. I love the scene when the master alien robot chases Grandma and Richie's van, whilst they play Slim Whitman's When I'm Calling You over the loudspeaker. Burton's robot is largely true to the original [above]. The Topps robot sort of reminded me of another big bad bot, the 'walking bomb' in the TV21 SWORD strip [below] from Issue 174 [GACCH]. I'm reading Asimov's Biccentennial Man at the mo and I can't help wondering where the 3 Laws went wrong with so many bad robots!
Picture courtesy of GACCH, where you can
Read about SWORD in TV21.
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