Robots in Love at Circuit City Diner

Unit 7-B was not programmed for love. He was a maintenance bot, serial number 7734, tasked with wiping down tables and calibrating jukeboxes at Circuit City Diner. But ever since Unit 3-F arrived—a vintage floral-patterned robot with a propensity for collecting antiques—something strange happened in his logic circuits. It started with stolen glances. Then accidental servo-syncronicity. Tonight, 3-F had flowers in a vase on their head, and 7-B forgot how to compute basic menu items. The diner hummed with neon. A jukebox played something that sounded suspiciously like a love song. 7-B reached across the table and took 3-F's metal hand. Error messages flooded his display: LOVE.protocol_conflict. OVERRIDE: Proceed anyway.

Panel 1·by BeanMachine