it’s harriet!!!

Yes, the ideal answer when a cop asks to look around is, "Not without a warrant" because in the real world, the law requires it, and we're supposed to be afforded that protection.

The thing to remember about Columbo though is that he's not so much a cop as he is a detective-shaped object. He's a cop-mimic, like those spiders that evolved to look like ants so they can creep up on them, or a snake that resembles a more dangerous snake to deter predators. This elfin creature does not exist in the same world as our cops and laws and chain of custody. He doesn't exist to jam us up so the chief will get off his back about stats. This isn't The Wire.

Columbo doesn't want to poke around because he needs an excuse to justify the "probable cause" he'll later cite on his paperwork leading to the plain sight discovery of incriminating evidence. Columbo already knows you're guilty because you're the overbearing Pater Familias of a prestigious think tank where the military industrial complex makes up the scenarios they'll use to justify next year's budget increases. He doesn't need to make up evidence because his glass eye has already seen into your heart as he sits on his little toadstool, in a hole in the baseboard, where he and Mrs Columbo live like fairytale mice.

Columbo isn't a "cop." He's a puckish trickster who uses the elite's expectation of preferential treatment to get inside their defenses and fuck up their hive. The evidence he collects would never hold up in court because it doesn't have to. The case isn't building to an arrest warrant, criminal charges, arraignment, depositions, jury selection, trial, and conviction. It's building to the moment Columbo gets 'em. In this world, when he gets the murderer, it's over. They lose and that's justice.

We don't need a warrant from Columbo because he isn't after us. He doesn't need to abuse his authority to move the case forward because there's a fucking robot right there and the most technologically advanced item in the script can't help but provide the proof he needs to get the murderer.

"BEEP. Fuck Dr Cahill. BOOP."

The only way I'll draw anything close to shipping or romance is if I'm actually drawing something else.

My live reaction: "Oh shit, we are killing ourselves today gamers!" It's hard to write jokes about abusing someone in the Weird Route (for me anyway), but Noelle taking agency(?) and committing double suicide (and murder)? Now there's room for a bit of black comedy. That's killing 3 birds with one lake, baybeee! I am still skipping WR in my comic tho. I just wanted to write this small joke.

I was trying to figure out how I wanted the serious depiction of WR to look, and these came out too cool for what I was going for, but they're still neat.

the dog from teletubbies. perfect creature

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift