Plastic Brick Automaton

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"As mighty as those two bricks you could never pry apart."
The main tagline

Between the MSpaint visuals, screwy concepts, and frequent Refuge in Vulgarity, you'd be forgiven for viewing Plastic Brick Automaton as anything but the work of a madman, but look past the stick-figures and rape jokes, there are some moments of true absurdist genius.

Originally named Lego Robot comics, the name was later changed for unknown reasons.

Tropes used in Plastic Brick Automaton include:
  • Mad Scientist: The author. Several comics depict blueprints or inventions, some plausible, others less so. One notable example, the underwater Hamster city known as "Hampture" was actually built and demonstrated via crowdfunding.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Slapping wrong-doers in the past, in hopes of improving the future.
  • Time Travel: Utilised mainly for slapping historical figures for their wrongdoing
  • What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: An early strip shows the author snorting smashed up breakfast cereal, and injecting liquified owls into his tear-ducts before drawing a comic in the hallucinogenic haze.