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Spa Daze

February 26, 2021



Tags: Francis the sheep, relaxation, Robot, Robot & Francis comic, self reflection 

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Spa Daze
Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid
Panel 1: A seemingly limitless space. GIANT EGGS float in an unseen grid formation above a dark floor, far into the distance.
Panel 2: CRACK!! ROBOT’S LEG breaks through one of the eggs! Shell falls everywhere.
Panel  3: ROBOT sits, breathless, on the floor beneath the GIANT EGG he just escaped from. He’s surrounded by EGG GOOP and shell bits.
Panel 4: FRANCIS wanders in, with a GIGANTIC SQUID THING on her head. She’s enjoying a SMOOTHIE through a VERY SQUIRRELLY STRAW. She is very relaxed.
ROBOT
Where have you been?
FRANCIS
Hot squid massage. Smoothie Bar. You?
Panel 5: The dark nothing between time and space.
ROBOT (Voice over)
I awoke lost and alone - traversing the dark nothing between time and space. My younger self showed me all the ways we could avoid this inevitable future, and we laughed and laughed. Then I lost $200 playing billiards against the Horseshoe Nebula, ate a light lunch, and took a short nap.
Panel 6: ROBOT and FRANCIS retire to the SMOOTHIE BAR.
ROBOT
It was narrated by Morgan Freeman!
FRANCIS

Cosmic Spa Day is the best spa day!
<div class="no-script"><p style="text-align: left;">Spa Daze</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Panel 1</b>: A seemingly limitless space. GIANT EGGS float in an unseen grid formation above a dark floor, far into the distance.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Panel 2</b>: CRACK!! ROBOT’S LEG breaks through one of the eggs! Shell falls everywhere.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Panel<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>3</b>: ROBOT sits, breathless, on the floor beneath the GIANT EGG he just escaped from. He’s surrounded by EGG GOOP and shell bits.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Panel 4:</b> FRANCIS wanders in, with a GIGANTIC SQUID THING on her head. She’s enjoying a SMOOTHIE through a VERY SQUIRRELLY STRAW. She is very relaxed.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Where have you been?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Hot squid massage. Smoothie Bar. You?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Panel 5:</b> The dark nothing between time and space.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT (Voice over)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I awoke lost and alone - traversing the dark nothing between time and space. My younger self showed me all the ways we could avoid this inevitable future, and we laughed and laughed. Then I lost $200 playing billiards against the Horseshoe Nebula, ate a light lunch, and took a short nap.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Panel 6</b>: ROBOT and FRANCIS retire to the SMOOTHIE BAR.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It was narrated by Morgan Freeman!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
Cosmic Spa Day is the best spa day!</div>

She Seems Relaxed

February 18, 2021
I wish I felt how Francis feels. Robot always uses Napkins. Good bot.

Tags: Francis the sheep, makingcomics, Robot, workinprogress 

Stress Distress

December 30, 2020




Tags: catharsis, de-stress, Francis the sheep, Robot, Robot & Francis comic, stress, time travel 

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Stress Distress
Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid
Panel 1: EXT., DAY, SNOW PLANET. ROBOT and FRANCIS, terrified, hide behind a boulder. Vicious ZOMBIE SNOW BEASTS look everywhere for them.
FRANCIS
I’m fairly certain this excursion is taking years off my life.
ROBOT
Really? Which years, do you think?
FRANCIS
Beg pardon?
Panel 2
ROBOT
I read this very scientific study that said stress, while already universally disliked for being an all-round jerk, can also travel through time and space to affect any part of your life.
Panel 3
ROBOT
For example, your stress from these Zombie Snow Beasts is transmitting through time and space as we speak. It might travel backwards, and be the reason you felt sad and alone for two weeks in the farmyard paddock as a young lamb.
Panel 4: A diagram shows how the stress from the ZOMBIE SNOW BEASTS could potentially affect FRANCIS throughout her entire life, traveling back in time to make her sad in the paddock, or possibly traveling forward and killing her with a heart attack tomorrow. Several unrelated moments in FRANCIS’s life are also labelled on her time line: birthday, electric fence (yikes), hay bail concussion, meets Robot, angry crow incident, and space piranhas.
Panel 5
ROBOT
Or it might travel forward and kill you with a heart attack tomorrow. This is why stress doesn’t get invited to any fun parties.
Panel 6
FRANCIS
This universe is really stupid. I want my years back!
ROBOT
Not to worry, I’ve got just the thing.
Panel 7: Robot pulls out two very large blaster gun things. CATHARSIS! RAY™ appears above them, as the ZOMBIE SNOW BEASTS are now aware of them.
Panel 8: ROBOT and FRANCIS blast all of the ZOMBIE SNOW BEASTS with the CATHARSIS! RAY™ blaster gun thingies.
Panel 9: More blasting.
Panel 10
FRANCIS
I feel ten years younger!!
ROBOT
That’s probably radiation. These things are not safe at all.
<div class="no-script"><p style="text-align: left;">Stress Distress</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 1: EXT., DAY, SNOW PLANET. ROBOT and FRANCIS, terrified, hide behind a boulder. Vicious ZOMBIE SNOW BEASTS look everywhere for them.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I’m fairly certain this excursion is taking years off my life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Really? Which years, do you think?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Beg pardon?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 2</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I read this very scientific study that said stress, while already universally disliked for being an all-round jerk, can also travel through time and space to affect any part of your life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 3</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For example, your stress from these Zombie Snow Beasts is transmitting through time and space as we speak. It might travel backwards, and be the reason you felt sad and alone for two weeks in the farmyard paddock as a young lamb.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 4: A diagram shows how the stress from the ZOMBIE SNOW BEASTS could potentially affect FRANCIS throughout her entire life, traveling back in time to make her sad in the paddock, or possibly traveling forward and killing her with a heart attack tomorrow. Several unrelated moments in FRANCIS’s life are also labelled on her time line: birthday, electric fence (yikes), hay bail concussion, meets Robot, angry crow incident, and space piranhas.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 5</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Or it might travel forward and kill you with a heart attack tomorrow. This is why stress doesn’t get invited to any fun parties.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 6</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This universe is really stupid. I want my years back!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Not to worry, I’ve got just the thing.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 7: Robot pulls out two very large blaster gun things. CATHARSIS! RAY™ appears above them, as the ZOMBIE SNOW BEASTS are now aware of them.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 8: ROBOT and FRANCIS blast all of the ZOMBIE SNOW BEASTS with the CATHARSIS! RAY™ blaster gun thingies.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 9: More blasting.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 10</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I feel ten years younger!!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That’s probably radiation. These things are not safe at all.</p></div>

I Just Wanted to Draw Zombie Snow Beasts

December 21, 2020
Comic work in progress, page one of two. Brush, some sponge, and a bit of black Lumocolor pencil I’m going to regret applying before a proper clean up.

Tags: art tools, Francis the sheep, Robot, workinprogress 

Support System

November 2, 2020



Tags: aliens, comics, Francis the sheep, illustration, inequality, Robot, Robot & Francis comic 

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Support System
Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid
Panel 1: SPACE. A dirty smoke trail careens toward a cube shaped ALIEN PLANET. CRASH!
Panel 2: ROBOT and FRANCIS stand near their ship. FRANCIS is wiping her hands on a RAG. They are surrounded by nondescript BOXES, stacked high into the sky.
FRANCIS
The phlang-o-tron is on the fritz. I fixed it, but it needs be replaced.
ROBOT
Good work! Let’s get out of here - these boxes are giving me the heebie-jeebies!
BOX
I earn a root beer float for good work!
Panel 3: ROBOT and FRANCIS freak out at the unexpected voice.
FRANCIS
Who said that?!
ROBOT
Gah! All these boxes have people trapped in them!
Panel 4: The PERSON IN THE BOX explains.
PERSON IN THE BOX
We’re not trapped! We just work and live in these tiny boxes until we die, or until we are no longer valuable to the system.
Panel 5: ROBOT and FRANCIS examine the stack of BOXES, while considering the argument by the PERSON IN THE BOX. ROBOT leans on the box they are talking to.
FRANCIS
That doesn’t sound like you’re NOT trapped.
ROBOT
Also, it looks like you all are just supporting the guy on top.
Panel 6: Sitting atop the tall stack of boxes is an OBESE CAT-LIKE CREATURE in a TOP HAT. It’s far too large to be sitting on such a narrow tower of boxes.
PERSON IN THE BOX
No, we’re all equal! I mean, he gets paid more, and has a nicer view, and controls the root beer float box, but…hey, is my box moving? HEY!
Panel 7: ROBOT stumbles, as the BOX he’s leaning on slides out of from under him.
ROBOT
Uh oh.
Panel 8: STACKS OF BOXES topple to the ground. ROBOT and FRANCIS run for their lives!
FRANCIS
RUN!
Panel 9: ROBOT and FRANCIS fly away from the planet in their SPACE SHIP, as the PLANET falls into ruin.
Panel 10: ROBOT and FRANCIS, safe aboard their SHIP, enjoy ROOT BEER FLOATS.
FRANCIS
Lucky for us the root beer float box fell right into the ship as we were running for our lives!
ROBOT
Good work!
<div class="no-script"><p style="text-align: left;">Support System</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 1: SPACE. A dirty smoke trail careens toward a cube shaped ALIEN PLANET. CRASH!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 2: ROBOT and FRANCIS stand near their ship. FRANCIS is wiping her hands on a RAG. They are surrounded by nondescript BOXES, stacked high into the sky.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The phlang-o-tron is on the fritz. I fixed it, but it needs be replaced.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Good work! Let’s get out of here - these boxes are giving me the heebie-jeebies!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">BOX</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I earn a root beer float for good work!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 3: ROBOT and FRANCIS freak out at the unexpected voice.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Who said that?!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Gah! All these boxes have people trapped in them!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 4: The PERSON IN THE BOX explains.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">PERSON IN THE BOX</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We’re not trapped! We just work and live in these tiny boxes until we die, or until we are no longer valuable to the system.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 5: ROBOT and FRANCIS examine the stack of BOXES, while considering the argument by the PERSON IN THE BOX. ROBOT leans on the box they are talking to.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That doesn’t sound like you’re NOT trapped.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Also, it looks like you all are just supporting the guy on top.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 6: Sitting atop the tall stack of boxes is an OBESE CAT-LIKE CREATURE in a TOP HAT. It’s far too large to be sitting on such a narrow tower of boxes.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">PERSON IN THE BOX</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">No, we’re all equal! I mean, he gets paid more, and has a nicer view, and controls the root beer float box, but…hey, is my box moving? HEY!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 7: ROBOT stumbles, as the BOX he’s leaning on slides out of from under him.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Uh oh.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 8: STACKS OF BOXES topple to the ground. ROBOT and FRANCIS run for their lives!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">RUN!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 9: ROBOT and FRANCIS fly away from the planet in their SPACE SHIP, as the PLANET falls into ruin.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 10: ROBOT and FRANCIS, safe aboard their SHIP, enjoy ROOT BEER FLOATS.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Lucky for us the root beer float box fell right into the ship as we were running for our lives!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Good work!</p></div>

The Secret to Great Adventure

August 30, 2020
Robot and Francis the Sheep have another harrowing misadventure! Not to worry, it’s all part of their plan. Read the full comic.

Tags: comics, forethought, Francis the sheep, illustration, planning, Robot, roll with it 

The Secret to Great Adventure

August 30, 2020

Tags: forethought, Francis the sheep, planning, Robot, Robot & Francis comic, roll with it 

+ Transcript
The Secret to Great Adventure
Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid
Panel 1: ROBOT is pulling MUTANT SPACE PIRANHAS off his head. Nondescript debris floats nearby.
ROBOT
A friend once told me the best adventures come unexpectedly. Spontaneity, she said, is the secret to great adventure. She was eaten by a Three Legged Gullfinch on Bleacher 9. Tragic, but not unexpected.
Panel 2: FRANCIS describes their current predicament.
FRANCIS
I bet your friend never survived a school of Mutant Space Piranhas who ate her space ship, only to get hopelessly stranded on the Screaming Rock Heads of Jibber Jabber, moments from crashing into the centre of the hottest star in the galaxy.
Panel 3: ROBOT and FRANCIS sit atop one of many Screaming Rock Heads of Jibber Jabber, all careening through space toward the hottest star in the galaxy. There are a couple MUTANT  SPACE PIRANHAS still floating about, and lots of SHIP DEBRIS.
Panel 4: ROBOT and FRANCIS, heading toward the HOTTEST STAR IN THE GALAXY.
ROBOT
Her loss. Speaking of impending death, do you think it’s last minute enough to implement my heroic plan to get us out of this harrowing ordeal?
FRANCIS
Planned escape! That’s the real secret to great adventure!
<div class="no-script"><p style="text-align: left;">The Secret to Great Adventure</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 1: ROBOT is pulling MUTANT SPACE PIRANHAS off his head. Nondescript debris floats nearby.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">A friend once told me the best adventures come unexpectedly. Spontaneity, she said, is the secret to great adventure. She was eaten by a Three Legged Gullfinch on Bleacher 9. Tragic, but not unexpected.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 2: FRANCIS describes their current predicament.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I bet your friend never survived a school of Mutant Space Piranhas who ate her space ship, only to get hopelessly stranded on the Screaming Rock Heads of Jibber Jabber, moments from crashing into the centre of the hottest star in the galaxy.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 3: ROBOT and FRANCIS sit atop one of many Screaming Rock Heads of Jibber Jabber, all careening through space toward the hottest star in the galaxy. There are a couple MUTANT<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>SPACE PIRANHAS still floating about, and lots of SHIP DEBRIS.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 4: ROBOT and FRANCIS, heading toward the HOTTEST STAR IN THE GALAXY.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Her loss. Speaking of impending death, do you think it’s last minute enough to implement my heroic plan to get us out of this harrowing ordeal?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Planned escape! That’s the real secret to great adventure!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"></p></div>

Inky Black Space

August 27, 2020
I entered August intending to make more comics, but the month is almost over and I only have one in progress. It’s almost done. I’m fairly sure scanning this page will be a hot mess, but that’s a weekend problem. Stay well, peeps!

Tags: adventure, comics, Francis the sheep, illustration, optimism, plans, Robot, workinprogress 

The Meaning of Life

May 21, 2020
Wherein our two intrepid space idiots go in search of the ultimate knowledge. Kind of. Read the full comic.

Tags: comics, Francis the sheep, illustration, Robot 

The Meaning of Life

May 21, 2020

Tags: Francis the sheep, lunch, religion, Robot, Robot & Francis comic 

+ Transcript
The Meaning of Life
Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid
Panel 1: ROBOT and FRANCIS search an alien landscape for something unknown. They seem quite determined.
Panel 2: Beautiful wild flowers surround them. It’s a very nice planet.
Panel 3: Their search ends in a stunning valley. Towering before them is the goddess CHAKKA OF AKONG. She is surrounded by swirling magic.
Panel 4
FRANCIS
Great Goddess Chakka of Akong, your wisdom knows no bounds! We are humbled to be in your presence!
ROBOT
We seek guidance!
Panel 5
CHAKKA OF AKONG
My knowledge is as deep and as wide as the Universe is infinite. What do you desire? The meaning of life? The secrets of the universe?
Panel 6
ROBOT
Nah, something much more important. We need directions to Galaxy Joe’s House of Noodles!
Panel 7: CHAKKA OF AKONG isn’t impressed with this request. Not even a little bit.
CHAKKA OF AKONG
Are you asking me, an immortal, all-knowing, higher being, for restaurant directions?!
Panel 8
FRANCIS
To be fair, they have the best noodles, and our map app couldn’t get a cyberweb connection out here.
ROBOT
Hold on Francis! I got a signal! Galaxy Joe’s - first left past the Gummy Nebula. Let’s ride!
Panel 9: CHAKKA OF AKONG is completely baffled by this entire chain of events.
CHAKKA OF AKONG
What is happening right now?!
Panel 10: ROBOT and FRANCIS blast off into space, once again on the trail of, apparently, lunch.
Panel 11: GALAXY JOE’S, home of the gigantic noodle bowl.
FRANCIS
What did she mean when she said she’d erase us from this plane of existence?
ROBOT
I don’t know, but it’ll be reflected in her Goddess review. 1 star. Short tempered. Would not idolize.
<div class="no-script"><p style="text-align: left;">The Meaning of Life</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Comic written and illustrated by Ryan Reid</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 1: ROBOT and FRANCIS search an alien landscape for something unknown. They seem quite determined.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 2: Beautiful wild flowers surround them. It’s a very nice planet.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 3: Their search ends in a stunning valley. Towering before them is the goddess CHAKKA OF AKONG. She is surrounded by swirling magic.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 4</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Great Goddess Chakka of Akong, your wisdom knows no bounds! We are humbled to be in your presence!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We seek guidance!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 5</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">CHAKKA OF AKONG</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">My knowledge is as deep and as wide as the Universe is infinite. What do you desire? The meaning of life? The secrets of the universe?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 6</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Nah, something much more important. We need directions to Galaxy Joe’s House of Noodles!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 7: CHAKKA OF AKONG isn’t impressed with this request. Not even a little bit.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">CHAKKA OF AKONG</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Are you asking me, an immortal, all-knowing, higher being, for restaurant directions?!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 8</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">To be fair, they have the best noodles, and our map app couldn’t get a cyberweb connection out here.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Hold on Francis! I got a signal! Galaxy Joe’s - first left past the Gummy Nebula. Let’s ride!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 9: CHAKKA OF AKONG is completely baffled by this entire chain of events.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">CHAKKA OF AKONG</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What is happening right now?!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 10: ROBOT and FRANCIS blast off into space, once again on the trail of, apparently, lunch.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Panel 11: GALAXY JOE’S, home of the gigantic noodle bowl.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FRANCIS</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What did she mean when she said she’d erase us from this plane of existence?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ROBOT</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I don’t know, but it’ll be reflected in her Goddess review. 1 star. Short tempered. Would not idolize.</p></div>

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