Not All Robots

Mark Russell and Mike Deodato Jr. created Not All Robots for AWA in 2021. The Walters family shares its home with Razorball, a robot who spends suspicious amounts of time building machines in the garage.

The domestic premise grows into a satire of a society dependent on machines it also fears. Ordinary household routines become tense because neither side fully trusts the other.

The series uses comedy to expose a grim arrangement: humans have ceded work and power to robots while expecting family life to remain unchanged. Razorball's presence makes that contradiction impossible to ignore.

Its satire lands through familiar anxieties about employment, resentment, and violence. The future is absurd because its pressures are recognizable.

Robots occupy jobs and homes, but the resulting social order offers little reassurance to either people or machines. Coexistence has become a managed truce.

The title's provocative phrasing points to the danger of reducing a whole group to either threat or innocence. The comic asks who benefits from those categories.

Deodato's realistic figures and ominous domestic settings make the satire feel uneasy. A garage or dinner table can carry the tension of a thriller scene.

Razorball's mechanical design stands apart from the family while occupying the same rooms. That visual mismatch is the story's central arrangement.