“Headcase”, Sam Chivers2004 (Sci-Fi, tech; backlinks; similar)⁠:

[Early webcomic by British artist Sam Chivers. Notable for being a Flash webcomic, originally hosted at www.realitytax.com, but apparently removed when published in the 2004 comics anthology Prophecies: Volume 1 (Sequent Media, ISBN: 0974653101).

“Headcase” is a wordless narrative in a Moebius-like style set in a grim dystopian cyberpunk future where an initially hopeful working-class robot (reminiscent of a crash test dummy) struggles to get to his job, survive his shift, and the indignities of the day (such as stepping on poop), becoming progressively ground down and broken; he adopts the spirit of a monkey, whose prank precipitates his beating by a local thug; the robot then commit suicide, smashing his head open, revealing it was piloted by a small dying animal. The monkey spirit resurrects the corpse, becoming a busker dancing in a costume for donations; at the very end, the monkey-robot steps on a piece of poop and becomes annoyed.]

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