About

Emmie’s world might sound familiar. It’s a place where hopes and dreams constantly collide with the ups and downs of daily life, from job interviews (scary!!) to routine chores like groceries and laundry. Except Emmie is a robot – a sheep-loving android who is bad at math and worried about nonexistence. Even the ordinary is an adventure!

Now Recharging is a slice-of-life story that takes place in a world not that different from our own – aside from sentient/sapient robots being an accepted matter of fact. For one little robot designed to learn naturally with no apparent end application, there’s still a lot to figure out about life and living!

Now Recharging contains some swearing. Completed chapters are also available on INKR and GlobalComix. RSS feed available here.

Background

I’m Maiji/Mary Huang (she/her), and this webcomic started as my attempt to express and address some of my biggest fears, and also share things I care about, in a gentle, amusing and comforting way.

This story includes, in no particular order: warm family-like relationships, a sense of wonder for the ordinary, asexuality and non-binary identities, marshmallows, pretty rocks, Eastern philosophy and mythology, palliative care, not being afraid to talk about death and dying, many kinds of pancakes, soft fluffy sheep, GLADIATORBOTS!!, a beautiful princess who is a turtle (her name is Miss Princess Turtle), silly puns, and a bunch of other stuff I like.

Brief timeline

  • September 2015: Now Recharging begins posting on Tumblr as its main site
  • September 2016: Now Recharging begins running on GoComics
  • December 2018: Now Recharging migrates its main site to Smack Jeeves
  • December 2019: Now Recharging moves to its main site to its own little home (a world of thanks and much love to the lovely Atorier!)
  • August 2020: Now Recharging joins the SpiderForest Webcomic Collective
  • November 2020: Now Recharging begins running on INKR
  • February 2022: Now Recharging begins running on GlobalComix
  • June 2022: Now Recharging ends
  • December 2022: Featured in “Most Popular of 2022: Slice of Life” on GlobalComix

Translations

  • German: @wird-geladen translated by Aphelion Orion
  • Japanese: chapters 0 and 1 translated by Sho Fukuda (single pages, or booklet version for printing as a booklet!)

Special website thanks

  • Atorier for creating this site and helping me set everything up
  • Alyssa Alecci for feature updates (Alyssa also does freelance work – I highly recommend her if you’re looking for a developer!)