MechanicalBrain

@mechanicalbrain.bsky.social

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Mechanical engineer and aspiring artist. 35, he / him / hey nerd. Webcomic definitely coming eventually probably

MJ: Peter, get OFF the internet! Peter: NO! I'm almost ENJOYING my anger!
Six tillandsia airplants clustered together in a red china bowl on a black table. The largest is blooming, its leaves flushed pink and two delicate tube-shaped flowers emerging from the center.
How do you like your coffee? Panel 1: Infernus HOT. That's not what- As hot as possible. (mug: FIRE CHIEF) Panel 2: Shade Black. (mug: DON'T TALK TO ME) Panel 3: Psy-ko (wordlessly opens a 2L bottle of GAMER SAUCE) Panel 4: Star (pouring sugar and creamer in with reckless abandon) (from offscreen:) Ok, sweetie. Taylor, that's enough. Taylor! #makeaterriblecomicday2025 (mechanicalbrain)
Mort Anime Club, looming ominously
Mort Anime Club, looming ominously
Character sheet of a petite woman with pale skin and light blonde hair. Her left eye is blue, and her right eye is multicolored and iridescent. She weara a white supersuit with blue accents, goggles, and a quadrotor-inspired helipack on her back. She appears discontent. Alias: ANGEL EYE Name: Madison Ward Age: 2 Height: 5'2" Ability: Hypervision (Right Eye) Smile: Unconfirmed Affiliation: AEGIS Status: Active Role: Support (Spotter)
A "superbolt" multi-jackbolt tensioner. A large screw, with multiple small screws sticking out of the head of the fastener.
A series of lineart illustrations of three characters in various scenarios: Infernus, a large man with hair standing straight up, Shade, a smaller man with ink-black skin and hair, and Psy-ko, a petite woman with messy hair and pointy teeth. Left, all three are stacked on each other's shoulders, in reverse order of size. Psy-ko, on the bottom, is floating off the ground. Infernus points forward gleefully and Shade struggles to hold him. Center top, Shade and Psy-ko are stuck together in an oversize "get along shirt" and are squabbling. She is pulling his hair and biting his arm. Upper right, Infernus carries Psy-ko over his shoulder, running away from something while she reaches back after a floating pizza box, slices spilling out, and Shade looks down from above, exasperated. All three are yelling. Lower right, Infernus is wearing a bathrobe and aviators, heating up a coffee mug marked "HOT SHIT" with a flame from his fingertip. Bottom center, the three stand together with Infernus in the middle, one hand on Shade's shoulders and the other ruffling Psy-ko's hair. Shade asks "So do we like have a theme?" and Infernus replies "Our theme is we're awesome." Psy-ko is thinking about pizza.
A 4x4 grid of possible post-Trump American political futures, organized as follows: Leftward < > Rightward Nothing ever happens ^ v The Happening Top row: Everything magically goes back to normal Quadrennial red-blue flip perpetual stalemate Last concerned American sighs, turns on NFL Talibangelical post-coup bureaucratic stagnation (spreadsheets are hard) Second row: Mayor Pete takes charge! Golden age of transit ensues (ignore the national debt) Nation comes to its senses, sheepishly apologizes to allies Musk-Muscovite State-Bankrupting Space Megaproject Hell (Mars still 4 years away) GOP Sunni-Shia split: MAGA true believers vs. Thielite Broligarchs Third row: Surprisingly-benevolent DOGE AI accidentally implements perfect socialism Trump '28 gambit backfires into third Obama term, neolib great restoration Entire nation privatized, sold to highest bidder (MBS) Divine Trump-corpse interred on golden throne (40k starts early) Fourth row: Ocasio-Cortez woke-quistador ascensión (Puerto Rican statehood and brutal incel purges) "God's favorite country" once again saved by direct divine intervention Yarvinite techno-feudalist patchwork corporatocracy (constant armed uprisings) Multiple Trump assassination plots converge in hilarious caper (Vance nukes everyone)
1pm Train Lunch Fruit & Cheese Box Turkey Gouda Sandwich 2pm Arrived! Hotel -> 3pm Checked in *FLUMPH* 4pm Power Nap & Hourlies
9am Acela! *Nyoooom* 10am "Time to draw my dailies!" 11am "Drawing on trains is fun!" *rmbl rmbl* *undo undo undo* 12pm "Let me check" "The news" *phone spews fire* "Hm yes I see" *I am reduced to a burnt skull* "Cool!"
7am Catching the M E T R O *blinking floor lights* "Wormsign!" *bonk* (I didn't sit down in time and fell into her) "Sir, I don't know you" "Ma'am, we're literally married" *shoks at her wedding ring in shock* 8am - Union Station Pret a Manger: closed "Nooooo my breakfast!" "Starbs is open." "I could Starb." Starbucks Barista, off panel: "HILLARY" Wife: "Hillary is here!" Me: "Hill-dawg" Wife: "Madam Ubersecretary" They spelled her name wrong. Wife: "Hate crime." Drink: "Kaitlyn"
Hourly Comics Day 2025 5:45am *alarm clock noises* "buh." 6am KHRGL HRBF GACK BLR AAAA Got sick @ xmas Phlegm forever WHERE'S MY BELT?? Just pack another one! (wife) AAAAA and that's how I ended up packing two belts
An illustrated passport page depicting a row of German-style half timbered buildings. One has a clocktower, another flies a German flag. Two Volkswagen-styled vehicles are present in the street. Above is a suspended monorail train. The "sky" is tiled with hexagonal panels. The lower right corner reveals that these buildings are built on a ledge, with a lower level of the city below. Willkommen sie am KEPLER Deutsches Kulturviertel
A tub of Land O Lakes "Butter with Canola Oil"
An illustrated passport page depicting a large underground city. Central to the image is an angular statue of a figure holding a torch aloft, surrounded by high rise buildings on all sides. Above, a paneled blue cieling approximates the sky, and outlines the shape of a tube branching in several directions. A highway runs through the center of the scene. Trees and greenery are visible between buildings in the foreground. Several quadrotor aircraft are above. ARMSTRONG First & Finest Lunar Tube City
An illustrated passport page depicting a shipyard in space high above the Earth. The Sun is visible in the distance, lighting the scene from behind. The Earth is visible as a crescent, the rest dark. The focus of the page is a series of scaffolding-like shipyard structures linked together, with a number of ships and other dark silhouettes contained within. Worker craft flit about, moving materials and ship sections. КОРОЛЁВ KOROLEV SHIPYARD EARTH-LUNA L-1
A Greature in the form of a black cat with four eyes and a head as long as its body. Caption: wow, it's CCAATT! "mrp."
A passport page illustrated with the ruins of a 21st Century city, with skyscrapers present as leaning, hollowed-out skeletons. Birds are present in the sky. A meteor streaks by, the fireball of reentering orbital debris. On the near skyscraper, deer graze on a mid-level roof. Something lurks within. EARTH Hudson River Remediation Zone
An illustrated passport page, depicting the Venusian sky, cloudy and streaked with diagonal sunbeams, featuring a mining facility suspended from a balloon, raising and lowering dredging buckets by cable through the clouds below. Another such facility is visible in the distance. VENUS Ishtar Terra Aerostatic Dredging Facility Warning: do not descend below 40,000m
An illustrated page of a "Mars Passport": A thin horizontal strip crosses a large red angry sun. Each side of the strip is a barren horizon with a couple buildings. On the top side, an observatory and a radio dish, with a spacecraft landed nearby on its tail. On the bottom side, several squat buildings and a control tower, with a patrol craft in the sky. MERCURY <<authorized landings only>> North Pole Heliophysics Station South Pole Supermax Facility
MJ: Peter, get OFF the Internet! Peter: NO! I'm almost ENJOYING my anger!
A screenshot of the NYT Strands game. The daily theme is "I now pronounce you..." and I have submitted a guess of less than four letters, which the game has flagged as "too short", so it looks like the game is calling me short.
A red eight-wheeled fire truck for use at airports. It looks cyberpunk.
1 Like = 1 Answer, comic edition
The Onion's Kelly Comics' "SICKOS" at the window, looking in and grinning while saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!"
The Onion "sickos" YES... HA HA HA... YES!
Character sheet of a short Japanese girl with messy dark brown hair, in a white tank top, black athletic pants, and red sneakers. Center, flying through the air with her fist raised. Bottom left, using her powers to levitate a pizza slice, grinning smugly. Bottom right, using her powers to levitate a number of small rocks, scowling. Top right, using her powers to punch a huge dent into a wall. Alias: PSY-KO Name: Aiko Akabane Age: 18 Height: 5'1" Ability: Psychokinesis (EA5) Fuel Source: Pizza Affiliation: Rogue Wave Status: At Large Wanted For: - Unlawful Use of Superpowers - Breaking and Entering - Destruction or Government Property - Destruction of Government Vehicles - Destruction of Government Facilities - Resisting Arrest - Assaulting Law Enforcement
A character sheet for Flaire, a tall, slender woman with brown hair, dressed in western/cowboy clothes. Her superpower is "finger guns".
My new profile picture. A cube-shaped head at an isometric angle, with white skin, green eyes, a prominent nose and eyebrows, glasses, and blond hair styled in a preposterous swoop. (This is what it does on its own, I swear.) The head is open from above, and inside are several gears, as a play on my username, "mechanical brain".
An image of a Multi-Jackbolt Tensioner manufactured by Nordock, colloquially referred to as a "supernut". It is a metallic cylinder with threads on the inside, and eight screws sticking out of one face.
A character sheet, depicting a man with jet-black skin, and facial features that look like a face drawn on a chalkboard. He wears a loose black hoodie with flared sleeves, and black pants and shoes. Center, he is recoiling from something, perhaps a bright light. Bottom left, he is making an annoyed expression. Lower right, he transforms into a snake-like shadow and slinks away. Upper right, he emerges like ink from the shadow of a lamppost or tree. Alias: SHADE Name: Alex Black Age: 21 Height: 5'7" Ability: Shadowwalk Allergies: Sunlight, Optimism Affiliation: Rogue Wave, AEGIS (former) Status: At Large Wanted For: - Unlawful Use of Superpowers - Dereliction of Duty - Espionage - Theft of Classified Materials - Breaking and Entering - Hostage Taking
A tall, gangly Monstera Deliciosa plant with eight leaves
A character sheet showing several views of an angry man with red hair and a black and red armored suit, with a flamethrower gauntlet on each hand. Alias: INFERNUS Name: Nathan Palmer Age: 29 Height: 6'3" Ability: Thermal (Class P5) Disposition: Explosive Affiliation: Rogue Wave, etc. Status: At Large (Escapee) Wanted For: - Unlawful use of superpowers - Incitement of violence - Breaking and entering - Hostage taking - Theft of classified materials - Conspiracy - Assault - Reckless driving - Arson - Arson - Arson (repeats off the page)
A 3D character made entirely out of orange traffic barrels, grinning and giving a thumbs-up, leaning on the DelDOT logo
A picture of large fully rigged sailboat with five masts and tons of sails, emitting zero carbon
30 Rock screencap edited to say: Liz Lemon: "What an election, huh?" Jack Donaghy: "Lemon, it's July."
30 Rock screencap edited to say Liz Lemon: What an election, huh? Jack Donaghy: Lemon, it's July.
Character sheet of a woman in western / cowboy attire, who can shoot energy blasts from her fingertips. Alias: FLAIRE Name: ???? ???? Age: 24 Height: 6'0" Ability: Finger Guns Raised on: Westerns Affiliation: Rogue Wave Status: At Large Wanted For: Unlawful Use Of Superpowers Disturbing The Peace Theft Vandalism Resisting Arrest Assaulting Law Enforcement
The prototype cover page of a notional webcomic, title stylized as SUPER human HERO. A young woman in a blue super suit with yellow boots, gloves, belt, and cape is descending from the sky. Her fists and eyes are glowing with a golden energy, and she is grinning.