A strange footnote of Comic Book publishing are the Robot Comics and Robot Crime stories that Bob Burden published, first in 1987 and then again in 1997 (sort of a 10 year anniversary!). It's really hard to explain Robot Comics, as the story meanders through a surrealistic landscape. This is Burden's original introduction from page one of Robot Comics:

"The story you are about to read was written and drawn some 6 long years ago (making it 1981..Ed.). From a literary standpoint, it is the first published form of an experimental genre I began working with in the late 1960's called ELECTRA-FICTION, the direct antecedent of the as yet unseen Nuclear Fiction.

I will not explain it here but I ask you to enjoy this as a cultural oddity that exploded on the pages with no bounds of reason or any attempt to conform to known standards. It is in essence, experimental literature guised as a leaking barrel-ful of rip-snorting, foot-stomping belly laffs. Yessir."

Within the pages of Robot Comics the Banjo Mummy plays his music, robots swing, miscreants dance and general mayhem ensues. Making cameo appearances are several of Burden's characters including: Chiquita Robota (her first appearance here, she later is reprised in Robot Crime); Uncle Billy (who later orders a Mail-order bride in Flaming Carrot #18); Skeletons Dance (and once again in Flaming Carrot Stories #1); and the Artless Dodger (from Flaming Carrot #3 and Visions #2.

In 1997 Burden writes and illustrates a 6 page story for the 20'th anniversary of Heavy Metal Magazine. The story is entitled "Robot Crime" and features the familiar faces from Robot Comics. The story is a strange one about Killer Diller, a robot criminal and his cronies who set out to "do some crimes." Once again, mayhem ensues.