u/RevolutionaryAir1725

A single from some collection of horror stories (the rest of which I cant remember) in which a space ship crew of about 10 people are on their way to somewhere. The book was entirely black and white.

There is a big racial divide between the crew with 4 of them being african american who are constantly being berated by the white crew members who I recall held higher positions on the ship aswell. Theres a broken marriage between one of the white crew members who blames it on the ships largest black crew member. The mechanic along with his friend beats up the youngest of the african american crew members for some petty issue. The young man notes how the pleasure the mechanic got from beating him was worse than the pain of being beaten up.

During their flight a meteor hits the ship and they send 2 humanoid robots (C3PO-like) to fix it. Another meteor destroys one of the robots while a smaller meteor makes a small dent on the second robots head.

After this people start being murdered and the crew immediately lock themselves into 2 parts of the ship (along racial lines of course). Both sides suspecting the other harbors the murderer. Eventually the young african american crew member gets his hands on a pistol and crawls through the vents trying to catch the killer. He finds the other last surviving member of the crew on a chair having committed suicide. But looking at him he realizes that the body posture does not make sense for a suicide and when he turns he sees the robot trying to come at him. He fires in a panic and kills the robot.

After this the comic cuts to a news host talking about the incident and how the lone survivor was admitted to full therapeutic care with robot assistants. The young man then closes the television and thinks to himself how the therapeutic care was nice but the robots not so much. In his hands there is a hammer and behind him is a smashed robot butler saying:

"at your service sir-bzz"

"at your service sir-bzz"

"at your service sir-bzz"