Of these comics, the 2nd one is easily my favorite. The question was a great setup and I really like what I did with the newspaper in the last panel.
The 4th comic was a lame attempt to mildly startle readers which did not, to my knowledge, ever succeed. [May 28, 2012]
actually, about Japan being filled with robots is silly, all the ppl there are human and quite a lot of the younger generation like celebrating Halloween, this is especially true if the person is an Otaku and therefore gives them an excuse to cosplay as some gaming or anime character