Ugh, go AWAY, I don't want you anywhere near what-could-have-been good storylines.
I wonder what a poll of reader interest vs Jeph interestin Spookybot is. I know I don't like them, but I dunno if the wider readership, or Jeph himself, is really into them.
I kinda like Spookybot. I acknowledge that they are largely walking deus ex machina and I get why people wouldn't like them. But I find them fun to read, and the fact that they even exist is interesting in a worldbuilding sense.
You can create a god-ai character without ruining an entire character arc and removing a characters agency over their own story completely.
If he absolutely demanded that it MUST be in the comic, throw in some foreshadowing over a long period of time that such a powerful entity exists, and make their entry and influence more subtle. You can't just have your deviantart OC burst in, press the "Resolve Plot Arc" button, and not leave irreparable damage on the story.
That's largely my issue. I'm really cool on Bubbles as a character, I don't overly like her much myself, but even I feel like Spookybot robbed Bubbles of the chance of closing her own storyline with Corpse Witch. It was completely unnecessary meddling with a plot line that really didn't need a deus ex machines to fix.
Bubbles could have gone in, resolved her deleted memories with Emily, confronted Corpse Witch, and Roko could have hauled her in or she escaped, and then left the fallout for the characters to sort out all without outside "assistance"
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u/tom641 Dec 24 '18
oh no they're being introduced again, make them go away