Panel 1: Title panel that reads “Bob by JDVM.” The letters in “Bob” are heavily bandaged as if they have just been in a fight and lost. Every other panel in this comic split diagonally in alternating orientation and shows two different scenes at once. Panel 2A: Doctor (a stick figure wearing glasses) and Freida (another stick figure) enter into a room holding each other up. Doctor’s glasses are severely damaged. Voice (offscreen): You are late. 2B: Spyder (a dark nucleus ball with five large spider-like tendrils protruding from it, and a tangled mess of wire jumbled all around the core) raises its arms in indignation. Spyder: SKreek! Panel 3A: Doctor turns towards Dr. Smith (a stick figure holding a clipboard) who stands behind a desk. Doctor: We had a car thrown at us. 3B: Crescent (A squat robot whose head is a crescent shape holding a wand with a crescent shaped head) is confronting Spyder with a clipboard of his own. Crescent: But you failed. What do you mean? Panel 4A: Spyder raises its arms again in anger, much to Crescent’s surprise. Spyder: Skrrrkeeek!!! 4B: The women are facing Smith now, who looks at his clipboard. Smith: You should have been *here*. Freida: I was having lunch. Panel 5A: Closeup of Crescent who looks irritated. Crescent: No. The Smith Robots clearly beat you. The Henchmen spent seven hours untangling you. 5B: Closeup of Smith who now looks at the ladies. Smith: We have a refrigerator here. Panel 6A: Crescent grows more irritated as Spyder continues to rage. Crescent: You’ve been paid for that already. Spyder: Skeeerk!!! 6B: Doctor begins to turn away from the whole thing. Smith: Freida. You need to be professional if wish to continue doing science here. Panel 7A: Doctor is walking out the door. Smith: You’re a bad influence, Helen. You always were. 7B: Closeup of an irritated Crescent. Crescent: But you did not stop the Smith Robots. Panel 8A: Fred (yet another stick figure) walks into the room holding Arf (a shaggy mop of a dog). Smith: Get back to work. 8B: Spyder has a Henchman (a stick figure with an inverted triangle for a head) held over its head as if to snap it in two. Crescent: Please put that Henchman down. Panel 9A&B: Closeups of Smith and Crescent with a clipboard in one hand and facepalming with the other. A single speech bubble hovers between panels, pointing towards both of them. Both: Good help is so hard to find.

Transcript

Panel 1: Title panel that reads “Bob by JDVM.” The letters in “Bob” are heavily bandaged as if they have just been in a fight and lost. Every other panel in this comic split diagonally in alternating orientation and shows two different scenes at once.
Panel 2A: Doctor (a stick figure wearing glasses) and Freida (another stick figure) enter into a room holding each other up. Doctor’s glasses are severely damaged.
Voice (offscreen): You are late.
2B: Spyder (a dark nucleus ball with five large spider-like tendrils protruding from it, and a tangled mess of wire jumbled all around the core) raises its arms in indignation.
Spyder: SKreek!
Panel 3A: Doctor turns towards Dr. Smith (a stick figure holding a clipboard) who stands behind a desk.
Doctor: We had a car thrown at us.
3B: Crescent (A squat robot whose head is a crescent shape holding a wand with a crescent shaped head) is confronting Spyder with a clipboard of his own.
Crescent: But you failed. What do you mean?
Panel 4A: Spyder raises its arms again in anger, much to Crescent’s surprise.
Spyder: Skrrrkeeek!!!
4B: The women are facing Smith now, who looks at his clipboard.
Smith: You should have been *here*.
Freida: I was having lunch.
Panel 5A: Closeup of Crescent who looks irritated.
Crescent: No. The Smith Robots clearly beat you. The Henchmen spent seven hours untangling you.
5B: Closeup of Smith who now looks at the ladies.
Smith: We have a refrigerator here.
Panel 6A: Crescent grows more irritated as Spyder continues to rage.
Crescent: You’ve been paid for that already.
Spyder: Skeeerk!!!
6B: Doctor begins to turn away from the whole thing.
Smith: Freida. You need to be professional if wish to continue doing science here.
Panel 7A: Doctor is walking out the door.
Smith: You’re a bad influence, Helen. You always were.
7B: Closeup of an irritated Crescent.
Crescent: But you did not stop the Smith Robots.
Panel 8A: Fred (yet another stick figure) walks into the room holding Arf (a shaggy mop of a dog).
Smith: Get back to work.
8B: Spyder has a Henchman (a stick figure with an inverted triangle for a head) held over its head as if to snap it in two.
Crescent: Please put that Henchman down.
Panel 9A&B: Closeups of Smith and Crescent with a clipboard in one hand and facepalming with the other. A single speech bubble hovers between panels, pointing towards both of them.
Both: Good help is so hard to find.

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Posted on August 2, 2026 by JDVM

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