I really wanted a robot battle anthem in this storyline, but I'm not very good at writing amusing lyrics, so I decided to hold a contest and have the readers do it for me. This had the added benefit of allowing me to fill the Sundays with weeks and weeks and WEEKS of runner-up lyrics. Bite me, I was always running out of stuff to run on Sundays.

The borders and illustrations are all from an online archive of 19th-century songsheets.

Rob McCarthy is a friend and Viz coworker. Much later in Narbonic, he costars with my husband in the Sunday feature "Continuity Repairs with Rob and Andy."