http://www.ftg-comic.com/2008/11/20/index.php
Ethan Allen’s Ticonderobots have formed a gigantic combine harvester and are, as we speak, crashing through the walls of Voltaire’s home in an attempt to destroy Frederick the Great. Today, things start off badly, and get steadily worse. There’s destruction a-plenty in Episode 174: Desperate Times. Soak it in!
– The Count and Geoff
If memory serves me correctly, in Japan groups contain five things. If you had a half dozen eggs to sell, you would bill them as five plus one. I’m not sure why six isn’t as good as five, but I do know that groups of four are less desirable because the word for four, shi, sounds like death.
So, Japan being the world leader in giant robots, this is why all groups of robots that combine to form a larger robot consist of five robots.
This is pretty much the rule these days.
I’m sure some people realized the robots were going to combine to form a larger thing as soon as we introduced them. I’m less sure that people had their money on “Combine Harvester.”
–Geoff
Why else do you have five robots if not to form some larger robot from them?
Further, some might say that a robotic combine harvester could just as easily drive itself, and that therefore the role of The Beaver is superfluous. To these charlatans I say, go ahead, next time you see an unattended harvester, just see how it handles without a beaver at the helm, and then may you know the embarrassment of an opinion too quickly formed!
– Count Dolby von Luckner
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2008/11/18/index.php
Ethan Allen’s tragic past has been revealed to us just as he has given command to cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war. The fight is brought to Voltaire’s well-appointed living room as the Ticonderobots reveal their true evil purpose! Today, the revenge of Allen begins in Episode 173: Harvest! Take a deep breath.
– The Count and Geoff
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