TODD and Son: The Series
Shortly after securing venture capital, the fledgling cable channel Robot Father Network realized that they had opted for a television brand identity so particular that it was near impossible to find any relevant programming. Fortunately, the network’s CEO had come across the show TODD & SON on Medium Large and quickly hired the series’ creator Francesco Marciuliano to create 746 hours of continuous programming. Alas, only 24 episodes of TODD & SON were completed before Mr. Marciuliano lost his sight, mind and will to live, forcing Robot Father Network to close shop out and be replaced by ESPN 7’s coverage of chess boxing. The following are those fabled, never-before-aired episodes. Enjoy.
Medium Large 
As a single dad, and although I’m not a robot, that last strip is perfect.
When you spend all your time parenting there’s not much to look forward to when you’re off-duty.
Thanks for this.
Well done overalll. Much better rate of “hit” than “miss” for a daily, compared to many of those I read now. Nice endings like “No time we have a blast radius to avoid” and “that was more a malfunction than fight” for example, to play the robot angle for jokes and then there is all the potential of children who aren’t cloying in strips. It looks like he was going to get more dialog partners among his robot-friends, which is good. I think if it lacked anything, the robot had more definition and personality than the kid, which is ok but you need even a good “straight man” to have some personality or else it’s soon Garfield-limits-of-expression.
IN a way, it’s sort of an inverse Calvin and Hobbes: the robot is Hobbes, and is real. And leads the mischief. And “Calvin” now has to keep up, in the form of the kid, who is real but basically more like the parents, just lives day to day and no mischief, or rolls his eyes and observes as his “Hobbes” goes off on another tangent.
I think it should have just continued and developed.
I miss the original beginning, when Todd had saws for hands and was given to whimsy.
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Wasn’t there another strip in this set in which Son had a birthday party and TODD arranged for the entertainment?
You’re missing “Tonka in the mouth!” MY GOD IT WAS MY FAVORITE… my life is never going to be the same again. DAMN THIS OVERSIGHT!
Poodle in the mouth!
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