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Zeke

Cassiopeia’s mechanical partner Zeke is a tin man with a heart of gold, sure, but he’s also something much more important: a cowboy. In space. In the future. Who’s robotic! Eisner, please.

First Appearance: The Prize Page 13

Archive

You really want a robot for a friend?' 'Yeah. Ever since I was six.'

The Prize Page 13

They weren't satisfied with a bomb that could knock out a city. They finally built one with a cobalt casing, all in the sweet name of peace.'

The Prize Coda Page 1

Didn't I promise you fireworks?' 'Yeah.'

The Prize Coda Page 2

Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty.'

I learned that if you're gonna have a general over for dinner, you better have turkey legs and beer on hand.'

Thanksgiving 2014

Exactly my point! Here are six thousand years of recorded history, a history that includes remarkable composers, astonishing symphonies! But what is the one song that half of them sing to their children generation after generation? You put your right hand in. You put your right hand out. You put your whole self in. And you turn yourself about. You do the hokey-pokey. You give a little shout. That's what it's all about! It doesn't mean anything! I have been studying it for seven days!

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 12

I have a sense of comfortableness in love; it isn't grand sweeping passions that I expected to feel.'

New Year39s 2014 Part 2

We send those men up into space to unlock the doors of the universe, and we don't even know what's behind them.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 13

I don't care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do. So let's get to work, let's lay it out, okay?'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 17

Do a barrel roll!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 18

How could something as big as Atlantis just sink?' 'I'm sure the passengers on the Titanic were asking themselves the same question.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 20

Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.'

Valentine39s Day 2015 Part 1

That's when we'll teach them something every human knows: payback's a bitch.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 23

If there's a spark of life, bacta will keep you going.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Coda Cassiopeia

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.'

Robot Domination Part 1

Man knows, he knows that nothing will begin unless he speaks, and that nothing will change, unless he moves.'

Robot Domination Part 2

Hey, you guys are good. How the hell do you do that?'

Robot Domination Part 3

There are five thousand forty-seven classifications of tables on file. Specify design parameters.'

Robot Domination Part 4

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

The warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was!'

Quinn Ice Cream Ventures Summer Offerings

All my life, I have been responsible only for myself. When I risked, I risked alone to avoid making others pay the price for my mistakes. They want me to show them another way. What if I show them the wrong way? What if they come to me not because of the lesson, but because of the teacher?'

Casinopeia Cover

Nah, this is nothing. A little trigonometry, some minor wrist action.'

Casinopeia Page 4

First, you two let Scourge and Starscream steal one of Trypticon's eyes. And then you two allowed Astrotrain to be used as their escape vehicle. So Scourge is helping Starscream voluntarily, and you four were unable to stop them! Well, all I can say is...BWWWAAAAAAA!'

Casinopeia Page 5

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.'

Casinopeia Page 6

The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up.'

Casinopeia Page 7

Sometimes, in the dark of the night, I lie awake and wonder if different intelligences can communicate at all; or, if I've had a particularly bad day, whether the phrase 'different intelligences' has meaning at all.'

Casinopeia Page 8

Though my sentries may sleep and my ships may rest at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire.'

Casinopeia Page 11

Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing'

Casinopeia Page 12

If a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second."'

Casinopeia Page 14

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

Casinopeia Page 17

Do you fasten and then zip, or zip and then fasten?'

The Pants Stance

The answer is don't think about it! It's not like we can do this every week anyways, we get three or four more of these, tops.'

The Big Leagues

I didn't know that similarity was required for the exercise of compassion.'

Complementary Angles

We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television! And now some of us laugh at outer space. God help us... in the future.'

Technically It39s A Fajita

Blade swing with the force of a cyclone, cut crystal and bone, pistol and chrome, stand in my path, you're a dead man, I cut the whole world in half for the Number One headband.'

Personal Cattacks

Like you said, who sleeps anymore?'

The Parent Trap

Well, now, when you're a poor little orphan foster wretch, anything's possible. Or so we tell ourselves.'

The Big Race Page 2

Behold. The Ninja ZX-11.'

The Big Race Page 3

If we have souls, they're made of the love we share.'

The Big Race Page 4

The thing that scares me most of all is that it burst out from the jungle directly in front of our ambush position. It had killed Jensen and Lucca before we knew what was happening. Nothing that large should be able to move like that.'

The Big Race Page 8

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.'

The Big Race Page 11

With it, we can see what we wish to see in other people. Without it, we can't see anything at all.'

The Big Race Page 12

On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact midpoint, everybody stops, and turns, and hugs, as if to say "Well done. Well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark." Back on Earth, we called this Christmas, or the Winter Solstice. On this world, the first settlers called it the Crystal Feast. You know what I call it? I call it expecting something for nothing!'

Christmas Eve 2015

The secondary gyrodyne relays of the propulsion field intermatrix have depolarized!'

The Big Race Page 23

Que l'enfer que tu trouveras soit le fruit de ton insouciance.'

The Big Race Page 25

Well, like the good book says: payback's a bitch!

The Big Race Page 28

Science is magic that works.

The Big Race Page 30

I brought you something blue... me...

The Big Race Page 31

Embarrassment factor, 91%! Advised repair schedule; reboot startup disc, offline for 36 hours and replace head. Boy! What a night!

His Thinking Cap

You're no Superman. "The ladies say otherwise!"

Questions You Mustache Yourself

I thought it said 'liberate me,' 'save me.' But it's not 'me.' It's 'liberate tute me' - 'save yourself.' And it gets worse.

Weirder Dealies Pt 2

Whether we are based on carbon or silicon makes no fundamental difference. We should each be treated with appropriate respect.'

Let39s Bee Friends Again

It's always coldest before the warm.'

It39ll Make You Sweat

Life is not a malfunction!

No One Man Should Have All That Flower

You are the millionth human to look at a spark, a flea, a raindrop, the moon, and the first to see it. For anyone to say that this is less remarkable than what Newton has done, is to understand things in but a hollow and jejune way. 'Tis like going to a Shakespeare play and remembering only the sword-fights.

Past The Edge Page 2

I can't even begin to tell you how fascinating this is. "Anthropologist fascinating, or actual fascinating?"

Past The Edge Page 15

Old age, she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough."

200th Update Spectacular

The past is past, the future unformed.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.'

Guest Stargazing

We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is.'

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 1

I see myself standing with Kirk's head in one hand... and a tribble in the other.

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 2

You must trust in others or success is impossible.'

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 3

Live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending.

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 4

We do not have to adapt to the environment. We will change the environment to suit us.

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 6

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.'

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 7

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion.

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 8

Your Omega Force is nothing more than an... Omega Farce.

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 9

Well, I've found that life is, in general, much easier if I forget most of the things that happen to me.

The Body Snatchifiers Pt 18

Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

The Trail To Tomorrow Pt 8

We've had a good ride.

The Trail To Tomorrow Pt 9

That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.

And I Am Content

Well, they don't seem to be making me sick. You know, I think this will be a good way to build a tolerance to the humans' filthy food!

I have to be prepared to make sure that never happens. Somebody has to be able to stop you.

Opposing An Onslaught

We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.

A Cold Case Page 2

What's the matter, robot? You got a rod up your spine? "Yes, I do. That's how I'm built."

A Cold Case Page 3

Guest Malefactor

You make it sound so creepy. "The unknown always is."

Pommel Horns Are Good

We're still flying. "That's not much." "It's enough."

We Dont All Need Hats

Sterling, tough, dependable, honest, brave and true.

Not The Beach Episode Part 1

No, it's not fair. You're in the wrong universe for fair.

Not The Beach Episode Part 2

They swim and they fish, but that's what I do all year round.'

Not The Beach Episode Part 4

I know what I know because I have to know it, and if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me, either.

Not The Beach Episode Part 6

Tough chick needs backup? Since when did she ever need a hand?

Not The Beach Episode Part 11

Oh, I'm sure we'll see each other again. "I'd like to think so, but one can never say. We live in uncertain times."

Shhh... my common sense is tingling.

Unusual Suspects Page 1

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Messages Pile Up

How could something as big as Atlantis just sink? "I'm sure the passengers on the Titanic were asking themselves the same question."

Takeout Order Page 5

Seems there was no profit in it. "In revenge, there never is."

Takeout Order Page 7