Robbie is a staunch believer in the theory of limited good. All that good luck is finite! You can’t have it all, Bobby.
There are so many superstitions and uses of language built around fortuitous events. What are your theories on good luck? Do you ever get a case of Schadenfruede when things don’t work out so well for others? Oh, I bet you do!
Related, but not ultimately directly, check out Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature.
The original script for this comic had Bobby asking Robbie if he thought most people are basically good or evil, so your book recommendation is closer to the mark than you think!
Thanks for mentioning it, Jude–I’m putting it on my library request list.
Bobby’s face, panel 5. Priceless.
I took a picture of myself in Photobooth so I could get it just right.
Saw the title ‘Golden Boy,’ and I wasn’t thinking that at all. Golden Boy is a fanservice anime too. It made me laugh. Maybe that’s part of the schadenfreude?
Perhaps! I saw this anime a loooong time ago, and even now it was still the first thing I thought of when I chose the title.
I take it Robbie doesn’t subscribe to the “Tough Love” philosophy.
Love so tough it’s galvanized!
when i cried as a earth larva my parents never granted me such treats even when they were the people who caused my pain
but they did give me cool hats on my birthdays, but only hats :/
Hats you say? I think there was a video game loosely based on your childhood!