White House Robot Romance #1

(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Rachael Stott

When Chef-9 learns that Service-1 is scheduled for immediate decommissioning, he makes an unprecedented choice: abandon his station, break protocol, and flee with Service-1 into the streets of Washington, D.C. But what starts as a desperate act of defiance quickly spirals into an international crisis. Service-1’s memory banks hold highly classified state secrets—ones that could tilt the balance of power between America and Canada. As paranoia mounts and the military mobilizes, the runaway robots find themselves hunted by government agents and targeted by corporate spies.

White House Robot Romance #1 features covers by Rachael Stott, Jill Thompson, Elsa Charretier, and Bengal. 

DSTLRY has announced that White House Robot Romance, the prescient, amorous political thriller from Chip Zdarsky and Rachel Stott, is programmed to hit comic shops on September 3, 2025, with a final order cutoff date of July 7, 2025. Future issues of White House Robot Romance will be released in seven-week increments; each issue is 48 pages, in DSTLRY’s prestige format with spot gloss and perfect-bound. 

From writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Rachael Stott, colored by Tamra Bonvillain, and lettered by Ariana Maher, this disarming sci-fi romance follows two service-bound robots who defy their circuitry to foster newfound love as the United States and Canada escalate toward war.

When Chef-9 learns their fellow automaton Service-1 is set for decommissioning, they abandon their post in the White House pantry to flee with their companion through Washington, D.C., outrunning agents, drones, and their own rising emotions in a bid for freedom. 

DSTLRY has announced White House Robot Romance from Eisner-winning writer Chip Zdarsky and acclaimed artist Rachael Stott. Colored by Tamra Bonvillain and lettered by Ariana Maher, this disarming sci-fi romance follows two kitchen-bound robots who, just as they begin to transcend their programming, become ensnared in a political crisis that threatens to drag America and Canada into war.

When Chef-9 learns that Service-1 is scheduled for immediate decommissioning, he makes an unprecedented choice: abandon his station, break protocol, and flee with Service-1 into the streets of Washington, D.C. But what starts as a desperate act of defiance quickly spirals into an international crisis. Service-1’s memory banks hold highly classified state secrets—ones that could tilt the balance of power between America and Canada. As paranoia mounts and the military mobilizes, the runaway robots find themselves hunted by government agents and targeted by corporate spies.

White House Robot Romance #1 features covers by Rachael Stott, Jill Thompson, Elsa Charretier, and Bengal.