Pulverize!

[shortpacked]

Shortpacked!: Things start to fall into place...

The Animated Skywarp replacement is now almost a week late, but my new Robot Heroes arrived exactly as promised! Apparently UPS > FedEx.

Comments

[c_lawnmower]

are you gonna go all sociopolitical on us?

[shortpacked]

I'm not really sure what you're talking about. I've just been having fun being silly!

Is this one of those "things"?

[c_lawnmower]

oh, I was worried you were gonna try to make some kind of commentary on the state of the economy and have the staff of shortpacked! drive out to california looking for farm work ala Grapes of Wrath.

[shortpacked]

Has it really come to the point where even mentioning the economic realities people are facing is a politically-charged commentary? That's kind of sad.

[jbluez]

No one doing any Christmas shopping at all is an "economic reality"?
Hehehe

[shortpacked]

Yes, that's absolutely exactly what I was just saying. Thank you. Your ability to pull bullshit out of thin air and attribute it to other people is breathtaking.

[jbluez]

Sorry. Kinda got that message from your comic of an abandoned store. My mistake.

[shortpacked]

Yes. Friday's strip featured the words "economic reality." It said in bold text across the face of the strip that "this is happening right now, for real

[jbluez]

Um. Well, I wasn't being, you know, serious...
I apologize for upsetting you. Truly.

[shortpacked]

Re-reading your comments again, I still can't see them as unserious, but I'll take your word for it. I'm sorry for my outburst. I get a lot of dumb email.

[jbluez]

It's all good. I guess I forgot a smiley or two. :(

[c_lawnmower]

I wasn't insulting you or condemning you for it. I just said "you're not getting all sociopolitical on us, are you?"

You could've said "yes" and I would've been cool with that.

Frankly I think it's great when people who have the ability to spread some kind of message in mass media take the opportunity to do more than make jokes about how different men and women are or how silly kids are from a dad's perspective

HA freaking ha Bill Engval. I get it. I got it when Tim Allen did it ten years ago.

The whiplash on cognitive dissonance can be a bitch

[fifthie]

Eh, reality is sucky boring and awful, you write a comic that people use to escape from reality, you injected reality into said comic at a moment when in addition to being sucky boring and awful, reality is ALSO a horrifying mass of pulsating unknowable dread that most people are terrified to even think about looking at lest the gasping beast take notice their presence and reach out to ensnare them in one of its innumerable multitude of slime-coated appendages.

I'm just saying, I can see where people might get tweaky over it.

[obsequiosity]

"Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, Mike'll be there holding that turkey leg a little bit higher.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, Mike'll be there. Laughing.

Mike'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. [Oddly enough, this one didn't need editing.]

Mike'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready but they're trapped in a well, and when the people are eatin' the pesticide-tainted stuff they raise and livin' in the asbestos-lined houses they build - Mike'll be there, too."

[fifthie]

Dear Willis David Guy:

Please make this comic.

YOU KNOW IT MUST BE DONE.