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

[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!"

Really, this is fucking making me sick. I get shit for mentioning that some banks are failing. I get shit for mentioning that it would be hard to find another job because of rising unemployment. Because, apparently, the idea that EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE is some crazy dogmatic thing that some people cling to like the craziest of religions.

So, ha, early forecasts suggested Black Friday would be smaller than in years past, so wouldn't it be funny if no one showed up to Shortpacked! that day? No, it's apparently not funny. Not funny at all. YOUR ECONOMIC DOGMA IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. Paying attention to the world around me is SACRILEGE. I have INSULTED YOU, apparently, by even remotely suggesting anything counter to "EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE."

And, what, it's not like I'm some mudraker, out to set the world right by putting out terrible penetrating truths. I did a joke in an Internet comic about nobody showing up to one store for Black Friday because the economy is bad. ...oh, am I on notice because I put the words "is bad" after "economy"? Is that, itself, going to get me on the EVIL SOCIAL COMMENTARY list?

So, yes. Fine. I give up. I am TOTALLY saying that FOR REAL people are not showing up at all to retail stores. You TOTALLY CAUGHT ME.

Asshole.

[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.