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[xtank5]

The ads are probably laid out that way because it generates better revenue.  The design has a small banner ad unintrusively inserted at the top and vertical ads under the comic on the left hand side.  Those ads are placed in such a way that your eyes will wander over them while viewing the site.  They aren't placed in such a way as to repel you or intrude on the site's content.  That's why you don't see vertical ads to the sides of the comic.  Instead you have an ad at the top, near the title and some buttons which take you to other parts of the site you may be interested in.  As you view these buttons you will also inadvertently see the ad; your brain may pick up on something about that ad that makes you pay attention to it, maybe even click on it, and potentially buy something from the advertiser.  There is a similar strategy at play with the vertical ads by the chapter links.  Overall it is a fairly clean design that is both pleasing to the eye (of the end-user, you an I) and to advertisers.  With this design Tom is able to make a small profit from his comic at practically no cost to you. (Except if you buy a shirt from snorg tees or something)

All said and done, having and viewing an offline archive of your own will be depriving Tom of some income, and if that makes you feel bad you may wish to consider donating directly to Tom or buying some hardcopies instead.  Just don't distribute your script or archive because that is almost definitely illegal.

[Reelya]

Well I clicked the ads more times than I usually do (which is zero times), so i'm pretty sure Tom got more income that way that he would have if I'd viewed it online. don't they pay for ad banners per-click?

[Karlito]

Sometimes it's per-click, sometimes it's per-view. Typically the owner of the site isn't allowed to disclose how they get paid by ads.

[RedKing]

Yays for next chapter! Parley! Smitty! Reynard! Shadow! Robot! Other Robot! The girls! And the benevolent malevolent trollerific eye of Coyote watching over all of them.

[penguinofhonor]

I have never seen more sexual tension between an animated shadow and a robot wearing a hoodie.

[Karlito]

They're just bros.

[penguinofhonor]

Oh no they're not. Shadow wants to snuggle.

[Zangi]

I don't think they can even process the concept of the raunchy kind of love.  They have no biological stuffs that would nudge em toward that end.  So its all cool and platonic.

(Then the author proves me wrong on a much later date, much to the horror of... not everyone.  When you consider the intertubez.)

[Pnx]

What would the child of a robot and a sentient shadow made 3D even look like?

[RedKing]

What would the child of a robot and a sentient shadow made 3D even look like?

Spoiler: Just a guess. (click to show/hide)

[Mephansteras]

Well...the Shadow People are in fact creatures with male and female genders. And Tom stated that Shadow was a descendant of the Shadows that stuck around from one of the flashbacks (with the tree dog). So Shadow could in theory have kids, just not with a robot.

Of course, he's 3d now...so no idea if he'd be able to take a regular shadow wife or not.

In any case, I think Shadow probably just likes snuggling because that's not something that a shadow can normally do.

[alway]

No one expects the robot inquisition!

Also, why you disrupt adorableness? D:

[RedWarrior0]

Robot Civil War?

[Karlito]

He's been a fugitive for pretty much the entire comic. I kind of thought they'd have stopped looking for him by now, but maybe this kind of thing happens every week.

[RedKing]

Well....I did not see that coming.