Whenever I draw something like that I find myself thinking of how long robot technology has been such a casual reference in comics. Here in the 21st Century we’re still a long way from the kinds of "mechanical men" that have populated sci-fi for so long.

It was not until the intrusion of anal retentive fanboys worrying about significant dates approaching and passing—the Eugenics Wars in 1996, for instance—that an extra century was slipped in.

Something else mucked up by the anal fanboys.