After the robot protest is broken up and Sigi loses her hands, and ends up in the hospital, Bloggo has a four-pane monologue over panes of the hospital. In this monologue, Bloggo writes about how hospitals are the one of the loneliest places in the night which is given an image of an empty hall; almost a blank panel besides the lines drawn for the walls. The next panel is a shift in subject to a nurse or doctor that is walking down the clean hallway, presumably with squeaky shoes as Bloggo said in the previous pane. The doctor is the only sign of life in the otherwise bare hallway of a place that not even germs survive due to the "unnerving smell of alcohol"(84).
The doctor figure is wheeling a cart that has a limb sticking out of it, which is presumably prosthetic due to the technology presented in the book. The limb kind of foreshadows the next pane, which is also a shift in subject where Sigi is shown with her hands cut off. The pane of her in her bed only shows the bed and IV the doctors are running into Sigi. Again, this shows more emptiness in a hospital while it is taking place in a darker part of the story after the robot protest has been violently broken up.
The last pane on the page shows another shift in subject to Hazel, a robot injured in the protest, on the operating table. This pane shows a few doctors in the room as well as Bloggo's father looking on. It is not as barren as the rest of the hospital which is sort of ironic considering hospitals are supposed to save lives, yet the most life we see is in a place they're fixing a robot.
Considering "Rex" is the latin word for "King" and the character has a huge block in the middle of the city as his tomb, is the character Rex an allegory or at least a re-telling of an Aztec King or some other royal figure?
Why did Rex seem happy when he was about to die in the end?
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