How Not To Lose Your Job To Automation, Ozymandias Style!!

Worried about losing your jobs to automation, or to computers?

Than this story is for you!!

Dave Bartlett was an old-school pilot in the not too distant future:

Ah, but no job is immune for obsolescence, is it?

And so Dave retires...

But just a couple of months later, a mysterious visitor arrives!

Well, that's quite a conundrum, because none of these spoiled young pilots have the first clue how to fly manually!

Fortunately, poor Dave hasn't been forgotten!

Well, after a particularly arduous journey, Dave succeeds in the mars round trip, no doubt pleasing Zarkorr and saving our species!

And things work out pretty well for Dave, too!

Ah, but surely there's an ironic twist coming, right?

D'oh!!

So, if you're about to lose your job, fake an alien invasion, and everything will be all right!!

From Tales Of Suspense #35 (1962)

Who Watches The Watchers--Robot Style!!

Worried about machines getting artificial intelligence and wiping us out? Fearful that our own creations might turn on us? Remember how a few years ago we were worried computers were too dumb to know year day it is, so they're gonna kill us all--and now were worrying they'll become too smart, and kill us all?

Well, then, this comic story is for you.

Slay Monstrobot reminds you: there's no irony like cheap irony!!

From Tales of Suspense #35 (1962)

The Four Seasons...OF DEATH!!

Everybody's talking about the weather...

Four grunts in Korea each have a favorite season ...

But if there's one rule you should follow in a 1950s comic book, it's don't have a favorite anything, because it will come back to ironically kill you later!!

Take, for example, the G.I. who thought summer was the best season:

D'oh!!

You know, it wasn't actually summer, that killed him, just his dumbass lack of concentration...

SHUSH--don't question the theme!!

Let's move forward...to fall!!

But...

Now wait a minute--

Nope, gotta keep moving! How about winter?

I think you know what's coming...

Man, war is a pretty dangerous place!!

Well, last up is spring. Spring couldn't possibly kill anybody, right?

 Slay Monstrobot reminds you--there is no irony like cheap irony!!

Also, don't have favorite things. And everybody dies, kiddies--everybody!!

From Battle Cry #16 (1955)

Manic Monday Triple Overtime--Comic Ads From The Other Side!!

Remember that toy you always begged your parents for? The one that had that advertisement in every comic book ever?

Well, it's probably a good thing you never got it...

Slay Monstrobot reminds you that there is no irony like cheap irony...

From 2000 AD #1510 (2006)