guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition

occupational hazard

SecUnit 3 and MurderBot my beloveds

One of the best moments in the whole series. Based on below:

Iris is good at noticing patterns.

| The Care and Keeping of a SecUnit |

Complimentary companion to this piece

go read the murderbot diaries

One-Esk and Murderbot meet in the waiting lobby for Robo-Therapy

(…specifically rage counseling )

Probably two of my favorite robot/ai/construct protagonists in literature! Though I have a lot. (What’s up Culture shipminds…)

Creation notes:

A pattern I��ve been noticing is that a lot of these robots are very traumatized, very angry, and don’t like talking about their feelings. I was gonna originally make this short comic about One-Esk (aka Breq) and Murderbot on the first day of group therapy for rage counseling and it would just be a bunch of shots of them sitting in silence cuz neither of them like talking about their feelings but, uh…. the shots were just a lot and the series of events wasn’t really flowing right so I scrapped that idea in favor of not having to draw a zillion backgrounds. Still wound up taking a stupidly long time to create a product that feels… underwhelming. I really like how Breq turned out but I just couldn’t get the hair or costume design on MB to really fit the corpo-futuristic spacer asthetic I was going for, while still capturing that social-anxiety-comfort-hoodie energy. (Was originally contemplating having a shot of MB pulling hoodie strings closed over their face in one shot but wound up scrapping that idea as well.) Cannonicallly, MB should probably be in all dark blues and blacks, but the colors just weren’t working so I went with yellow instead. Idk. Maybe it’s a loaner hoodie from one of MB’s humans.

Here’s a shot I never wound up using:

Anyways! I hope this made you smile if you like one or both of these series! 😊

Post script: if you like Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries, you should definitely check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy, or vice versa. More angry traumatized non-binary human-ai constructs for all! Mega-latestage-capitolist dystopia, or xenophobic -imperialist-socialist empire? Sentient space ships? C’mon. Just read both series u know you’ll love it.

Bored Murderbot in its pod

Some body horror I did for last year’s @murderbotzine

how many pings will it take for secunit to stop sulking?

!! tw for sort-of-organic gore

that one scene in exit strategy ft. mb leaking coolant or something and mensah w freckles

huge ups to WermoongRey from the discord for helping me with the particularities of this pose <3

The organic parts mostly sleep, but not always. You know something’s happening.

Fuck you.

I saw a redraw for this line recently, and it made me think of Murderbot... So here you go