sad-2
Explanation
This comic features a man talking to a robot. The man asks: "Robot, why am I so sad?" and follows up with: "And in the fuck is 'comedy' a major art before plumbing?"
The robot responds: "Because humans are flawed." There is a brief notation of "15.3."
In the next panel, the man makes a mocking noise: "Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb." The robot, trying to be helpful, says: "Please let me fix your sink in peace, Uniplex-4000."
In the final panel, the robot explains: "Sorry, couldn't hear you over the thousand robotic humanoid symphonies I was mentally composing. Duh."
The comic inverts the typical human-robot dynamic. Instead of the human being the competent one and the robot being the limited machine, here the robot is an intellectually superior being who composes symphonies in its head while performing menial plumbing work. The human, meanwhile, is the emotionally messy, sad creature making dumb noises. The role reversal also plays on the question of why humans prioritized arts like comedy over practical concerns like plumbing -- from the robot's perspective, humans have their priorities completely backward. The robot's sarcastic "duh" at the end suggests it finds humans' combination of emotional fragility and misplaced priorities to be utterly baffling.