First of all, how on Earth did this strip involving my characters in costume end up running on Halloween??? Second… let me tell you folks a secret a very early shortpacked! strip, which i ultimately never ran — in fact […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Robo-Vac gets his own movie because this is 2003, when superhero films were beginning to noticeably ramp up. Before then, I was like, pfffft, nobody’d buy a movie based on Robo-Vac. And now, in 2018, it’d be insane if there […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I used Neptune because using Uranus would have sounded dirty, but looking back I feel I should have leaned into it. Joe is definitely trying to crawl up his own asshole here. Yeah, Joe, this is what happens sometimes because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thiiink this is the only time Walkyverse Marcie has spoken? I mean, it’s not funny if she keeps breaking the Marcie Doesn’t Talk rule, so unless I’m a garbage cartoonist this was probably it. (Walkyverse Marcie CAN talk, she just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dangit, I read Joe’s first line and was all ready to make a Reverse Vader joke but then Robin touched on the reference herself. Dangit, Robin. You really belong in Shortpacked!, don’t you.
I remember checking whether Fazoli’s was established in Denver, Colorado, for this strip. Google tells me there’s three in the Denver-ish area today, but none of them are very close to the downtown area the SEMME living quarters would be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speaking of how characters have since evolved, this is a much more deadpan Agatha than we have currently.
It’s a “fun” “quirk” of evangelicalism to label any religion that’s not the specific group of evangelicalism you’re from “paganism.” Though it’s usually kinda No to use that label on a Jewish dude. Robin, though, the Catholic, is fair game.
Around this time, I was suddenly searching for ways to put Daniel The Dog into panels because clearly he was a castmember I basically forgot existed 99% of the time. (There’s a joke to this effect later.) Also, dang, Joe, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THERE’S the robin we know
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