Tallow turned the corner into Bat and Scarly's office to be greeted by a large plastic robot on the bench waving its arms and shouting, "Say hello to my l'il frien'" in an electronically processed voiced as a small plastic penis repeatedly jabbed out from its groin on a short metal piston.

Bat emerged from behind the thing. "Don't judge me," he said. "I got bored.

Auteur: Warren Ellis