Shortpacked! by David Willis

Discussion (7) ¬

1. 
   Yoto32

   December 16, 2010 at 4:23 pm | # | Reply

   The saddest day in a man’s life is when he realizes that he is not actually a ninja.

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     Lis

     May 14, 2013 at 3:40 pm | # | Reply

     I thought it was when he realizes his father is not actually a ninja.
2. 
   tiggerpete

   April 18, 2011 at 3:47 pm | # | Reply

   did the sign in panel 5 say “Normal Mall, not specifically for ninjas”? that’s awesome

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     frosgrok

     May 13, 2011 at 5:34 am | # | Reply

     Yea, I think that’s the doorway / passage to the “regular” mall.

     It is easy to see on this side.

     The passage from regular to the Ninja side is ——twick!——-

     AAAAAAAAAUGh……..
3. 
   dragoonchris

   January 10, 2012 at 11:04 pm | # | Reply

   I was wondering if we’re going to see a Ninja Turtles cameo.

   Shouldn’t I read this backwards and not forward.
4. 
   ble.d_out.colo.r

   September 1, 2012 at 6:34 pm | # | Reply

   Apparently Junpei Iori taught him how to be a ninja. -.-
5. 
   Stephen Bierce

   February 18, 2013 at 8:34 pm | # | Reply

   The proper way to grip a sword, as told by Musashi Miyamoto in his A Book Of Five Rings, circa 1645 AD:

   Grip the sword with a rather floating feeling in your thumb and forefinger, with the middle finger neither tight nor slack, and with the last two fingers tight. It is bad to have “play” in your hands.

   When you take up a sword, you must feel intent on cutting the enemy. As you cut an enemy you must not change your grip, and your hands must not “cower”. When you dash the enemy’s sword aside, or ward it off, or force it down, you must slightly change the feeling in your thumb and forefinger. Above all, you must be intent on cutting the enemy in the way you grip the sword.

   The grip for fighting and sword-testing is the same. There is no such thing as a “man-cutting grip”.

   Generally, I dislike fixedness in both swords and hands. Fixedness means a dead hand. Pliability is a living hand. You must bear this in mind.