The third Honey Bun headline spotting. Really laying it on thick. Well, a very narrow thick. Like, a very tall, skinny tower of the same thing, over and over. And, dang, Mike’s parents are really just a grand piano short […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I keep forgetting that Amber literally blackmailed Mike into this relationship. It’s one of those things I’d THINK years down the line would result in me going wow dang david what were you thinking, but actually it still feels about perfect, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was as close to “explaining” Mike’s death/rebirth as I’d planned to get. Honestly, I just thought it was funny that he was randomly alive again. But I poked at the pathos of it a bit here as I outright […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mike’s death in It’s Walky! hadn’t been really touched on in Shortpacked!, mostly because I was trying to keep Shortpacked! its own space. But I threw a wrecking ball to those boundaries in this storyline. I was 4 years in, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
drawing some conspicuous medals on the wall
Are Mike’s parents weirdos after all?!?!??!? A second “GIANT HONEY BUN ATTACKS” newspaper headline seen. I might be hinting at something. HMM. I’m subtle!!!! I think at the time, I worried the shift from “oh look it’s a nice story […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
COOKIES WILL BE INCREASED UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES I keep looking at Mrs. Warner and thinking, dang, I used to draw her way older, but then I remember, oh, right, I aged her down a decade for Dumbing of Age.
Mike’s parents are, obviously, extremely Father Knows Best/Donna Reed Show 1950s parents, down to Harriet Warner having, like, Sally Brown from Peanuts hair. (Also, her name is Harriet.) George Warner carries a newspaper and a pipe! Though I think at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shortpacked! was extremely light on references to The Huge Apocalyptic Ending To It’s Walky!. I mean, for good reason. It was a silly comic about toys, and you don’t want that hanging around its neck. You also want Shortpacked! to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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