Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 18, 2012

Am I slow, but I am not getting the Rayna the Robot joke? Did I miss something?

Duh

Finally I’m in!! Been locked out.

Good morning guys. Oh hoe I’ve missed y’all. I’ll try to drop in and out during the day. Off to work. Have a great day!

I’m lost with this too.

Basically, Rayna is a student staying at home or is at another location, remotely controlling the drone (I forget exactly what it’s called) through a computer and webcam so she can attend classes.

I think this has to do with students attending school remotely due to their health problems, using robots like that.

I think it’s a dropping the fourth wall, self-aware that he’s in a comic strip joke. The “Rayna the Robot” thing is just the (somewhat awkward) set-up to the joke. Or not?

shes a mouth sucking vacum cleaner

My first thought was that Rayna is a stiff, awkward, introverted student that the other kids have thoughtlessly nicknamed “Rayna the Robot,” and that the cartoonist was symbolically showing this by drawing her as a robot. But now I think that phantomcellistf is probably correct.

Rayna sounds like a Spanish version of Robby the Robot.

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