Joe and Monkey
Joe and Monkey is a webcomic written and illustrated by Zach Miller. It debuted on 27 July 2004. New comic strips were posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. However, the comic has not updated regularly since mid-2008. Usually presented in black-and-white with occasional color strips, the strip follows the horizontal newspaper 4-panel format. The comic regularly features Joe Banks, a delivery truck driver for the fictitious Red Fox Delivery Company, Monkey, Joe's talking simian companion, and Kleptobot, a slightly evil kleptomaniac robot. Joe and Monkey spend much of their time discussing a wide  range of relevant and irrelevant topics mostly from current events in pop culture and politics, typically interjected with Joe's slightly off-kilter view of reality. Kleptobot, as per his name, spends most – if not all – of his time stealing things. In January 2008, Zach Miller stated on the Joe and Monkey website that he would be changing the comic strip from a daily schedule to Monday, Wednesday and Friday updates. He also indicated a desire to shift from mostly black and white to a full color format, though the majority of strips since then have remained black and white . The strip did not update from 14 February 2008 through to 2 June 2008 due to Miller's involvement in preparing the upcoming Dark Horse Comics publication of fellow webcomic artist Mitch Clem's "Nothing Nice to Say". After a long Hiatus (a year) the comic strip started updating again in July 2009 with a new story that spans 157 pages. The series has apparently begun a second hiatus, with no new strips being posted to the site since 2016. "Joe and Monkey" is a member of a Boxcar Comics, a webcomic collective. Guest artists have included Mitch Clem, Brian  Carroll and Joe Dunn. On June 19, 2019, Zach Miller confirmed via Twitter that Joe And Monkey was on indefinite hiatus. Later on Joe was forced to stay with kleptobot at the robot factory after ants took over Joe's house and he needed to fumigate. Megan was treated wonderfully but Joe was forced to stay with monkey in a closet. Joe and Monkey inadvertently wake up a deactivated robot called Kvetchbot who throws him out of the closet. Kvetchbot gets upgraded but when he finds out the Soviet Union had fallen and it is the year 2007 he attacks  Kleptobot. The two proceed to do battle through the city which culminates with Kvetchbot downgrading Kleptobot from being Y2K compatible so his generator would burst. Kleptobot reveals his reactor to be cold-fusion and nobley flies into space so the city would live his last action is to grab hold of the Fox news satellite and then detonates. On Earth Kvetchbot threatens to kill Joe and Monkey saying that when they're dead he'll start on Megan. Characters. Monkey tells Kvetchbot that won't happen and promptly tears Kvetchbot to pieces. Joe reveals in a sort of epilogue  that they stayed with the robots who couldn't put Kvetchbot back together "Either that or they didn't try I wasn't really paying attention" as he put it. Although go comics reveals in upcoming comics that Joe is sitting right across from Kleptobot while telling the story to a waitress. When asked what happens, Kleptobot jokes he's robot Jesus before revealing whenever he fights he uploads his data onto a server so if he's destroyed he can be re-installed onto new hardware. When asked if this cheapens death Kleptobot responds "Yes, it does" but he  amends "However, I did promise to take Megan out for a banana split. And death is nothing when compared to the power of ice cream" revealing that once more Kleptobot is truly a hero. Awards. "Totally Boned: A Joe and Monkey Collection" is the 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize winner in Comics.