[Loki]

Sal might get this one. I thought it was funny.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Red X!!!

[Lucky]

[image]

[red x]

[tease]

[Lucky]

Ok, having read it... I don't get it.

i.toynewsi.com/g/albums/Shortpacked/sp-tni058.jpg

Here's the link.

[salmonjunkie]

i don't get it at all.

[Loki]

I can explain it, but now that I think about it, 1) time has made it less funny, 2) the explanation would suck whatever humor is left out of the strip and 3) the explanation is gross.

Sal - it's a joke about those weird Kiss Player things from Japan.

[OpTard]

this is pretty much why when someone says to me "hey! check out this web-comic" i always without fail say "no!"

they're never funny.

[Batman]

Shortpack'd is funny. "I'm Batman. I can breathe in space." Comedy gold.

[Lucky]

Sounds it.

loki said:

I can explain it, but now that I think about it, 1) time has made it less funny, 2) the explanation would suck whatever humor is left out of the strip and 3) the explanation is gross.

Sal - it's a joke about those weird Kiss Player things from Japan.

I don't care. It offered me no amusement so at this stage it can only go up. And I just REALLY don't understand what the hell is happening there. Why are Flint and Lady Jaye's kid speaking Japanese? And why does she appear to randomly go down on Beachhead while her parents look on approvingly? Why is any of this even theoretically funny?

Bear in mind I have no idea what a Kiss Player thing is.

And I just read like half a dozen of these Shortpacked comics. Huh? Its some emo dude who randomly makes geeky comments that aren't funny? Huh? This is funny?

[OpTard]

web comics stink

[Loki]

luckylopez said:

And I just read like half a dozen of these Shortpacked comics. Huh? Its some emo dude who randomly makes geeky comments that aren't funny? Huh? This is funny?

Shortpacked, like most web comics, is hit or miss. When he does one off ones, they're funny. Like Serg said, the Batman strips are usually good.

The drama ones, on the other hand, bore me.


You know what really stinks? DC making Robin a perv! I wonder who gave them that idea?

[Batman]

loki said:

You know what really stinks? DC making Robin a perv! I wonder who gave them that idea?

I was just going to say "Yeah? Well, you stink!" But your way is much more subtle--I like it.

[salmonjunkie]

I still don't get it. Why is that anime kid they claim is their daughter going down in Beachhead?

[Stu]

While we're here
www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=543

www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=704

www.biggercheese.com/BLICHARDS.png

[Loki]

The chick is the daughter of Lady J and Flint. In this weird Japanese storyline straight out of Virsago's fantasies, she's part of a group that "kisses" Transformers to give the robots a power up.

It was thought to be a way to market to younger Japanese girls to get them interested (kind of like the female Autobots), but it turns out it was intended for/was warmly received by older Japanese guys.

It's your basic creepy anime questionable content. The Shortpacked strip was making fun of it. And the thought of two bad ass GI Joe soldies producing a daughter who is (literally) a pipe chugger made me chuckle.

[OpTard]

stu said:

While we're here
www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=543

www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=704

www.biggercheese.com/BLICHARDS.png

i feel my point has been proven

[Lucky]

I was gonna say...

[Batman]

Proven, no. There are lots of really good webcomics. Supported? Yeah, I hate to admit it but . . . yeah.

[Lucky]

Wow.
forevergeek.com/gadgets/transformers_kiss_play.php

Japan is ready to release the “evolution” of the Transformers: Binaltech toyline: Transformers: Kiss Play. While Kiss Play Transformers will still be accurately sculpted, licensed vehicles, they will not contain die-cast parts, which so many fans had come to appreciate.

Instead, they will be packaged with PVC figurines of scantilly-clad underaged girls, appealing to the Lolicon Fetish, which is all the rage in Japan these days. You can read Western fan-reaction to the line Right Here. And if you need to laugh at how strange this is, then check-out this issue of Shortpacked.

Basically, as the story for the line goes, the Japanese Government has infused the Transformers with a new arsenal of special powers. However, those special powers are only available when they receive a kiss from one of the female officers. The girl packaged with Kiss Play Convoy (Optimus Prime in America) is intended to be Marissa Fairborne, a regular character from the third season of the original cartoon as well as the daughter of Flint from G.I. Joe. However, she’s considerably younger in PVC-form.

Transformers and the Japanese just got a whole lot creepier.

[Lucky]

Wait a second. So Optimus Prime has sex with the daughter of Flint and Lady Jaye? This is like, canon from what I read? What the fuck? What the hell did you fucking geeks and freaks do to my childhood?

[Loki]

Disturbing, ain't it?

[salmonjunkie]

Well, give me another reason to hate the Japanese, why don't ya?

[salmonjunkie]

sergeial said:

Shortpack'd is funny. "I'm Batman. I can breathe in space." Comedy gold.

Well, I just spent the last half hour going through about 6 months worth of those Shortpacked comics.

I want that half hour back, dammit.

[Lucky]

What's more I just read the "I'm Batman. I can breath in space." one that Serg quoted as being an example of funny and its really, really not.

www.shortpacked.com/d/20050131.html

Seriously, this comic sucks.

[OpTard]

shortpacked stinks