Shortpacked! by David Willis

Discussion (23) ¬

1. 
   JacquieH

   October 27, 2010 at 8:33 pm | # | Reply

   How dedicated is the fanbase? My brother had every line of every episode – including the movie – memorized to a T. He’d then act out the scenes in front of the tv.

   It was like watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show in college!
2. 
   TemplarKnight

   December 7, 2010 at 5:50 am | # | Reply

   Granted, now that I click the next button I just look silly.

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     George

     May 11, 2012 at 11:27 pm | # | Reply

     At least he didn’t say what happened, so you still have new information for us.
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     dcmeserve

     February 23, 2013 at 10:33 pm | # | Reply

     No, dude, you’re now part of the comic. When Ethan talked about the responses he was getting, I knew exactly what they were like because of your example. In a way, you’re the one who convinced Ethan to get into Power Rangers.
3. 
   Ragnal

   February 2, 2011 at 10:24 pm | # | Reply

   I never got this. I grew up with TF, TMNT, Power Rangers, the Steven Spielberg produced cartoons…and I liked these shows. Ethan has to at least be my age at this point.

   How does Ethan not enjoy PR?

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     Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

     February 9, 2011 at 11:58 am | # | Reply

     Agreed! Power Rangers and Digimon = EPIC!

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       Andrew

       February 16, 2011 at 5:09 am | # | Reply

       Digimon was fucking ace! It was way better than Pokemon’s later seasons.
   • 
     Wack'd

     July 9, 2012 at 12:27 am | # | Reply

     Power Rangers started in the nineties.

     Transformers started in the eighties.

     Ethan, being an 80s kid, would’ve missed the Power Rangers craze very, very easily.

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       Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

       February 5, 2013 at 11:40 pm | # | Reply

       Hmm, there are plenty of 80′s kids I know that watched Power Rangers and still love it. I being born in ’89 got to watch a good deal of the 80′s and 90′s shows
4. 
   Phoequinox

   February 28, 2011 at 5:04 pm | # | Reply

   Second panel, second sentence, me.

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     Palmetto

     June 28, 2011 at 4:06 pm | # | Reply

     “Okay, I love you, bye-bye!”
5. 
   Paul1963

   May 15, 2011 at 12:06 pm | # | Reply

   I remember Power Rangers when it was called Dynaman, had funny dialogue dubbed by the Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre and ran on USA Up All Night.
   “You are Dyna-Pink!”
   “No, I hate pink!”
   “Too bad, it’s the only color left!”
   …or…
   “Quick! Let’s split up! Cover ALL OF JAPAN!”
   It was kind of odd to watch it and realize that, comedy dub aside, the original show really was about (for example) a giant frog running around Japan stealing brides from weddings because he wanted to marry them himself…
   As for the version that became huge in the mid-’90s, well, I was 30 at the time and mainly thought of it as “That damn thing that keeps bumping The Tick back another half-hour every week.”

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     OldManDave

     May 20, 2011 at 4:08 pm | # | Reply

     Thank You! I was really starting to feel old there for a bit! I always saw PR as a cheaply made live-action Voltron rip-off with some martial arts thrown in…

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       David Willis

       May 20, 2011 at 4:13 pm | # | Reply

       …you do realize Voltron is a rip-off of Power Rangers, right? You have it backwards. The source material of Power Rangers is way older than Voltron. Voltron is the rip-off. America just got Voltron first.

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         Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

         February 5, 2013 at 11:43 pm | # | Reply

         THANK YOU! I can’t stand the people that think that Voltron or any other series with a Megazord and 5 people in colored costumes came before Power Rangers.

         For those that don’t believe that, the Super Sentai came out about 40 years ago and the first Megazord about 37 years ago. If you don’t believe it, research it.
6. 
   SonicBlueRanger

   July 16, 2011 at 11:45 am | # | Reply

   POWER RANGERS FTW!!!!!!

   I’m a Power Rangers fan incase you couldn’t tell.
7. 
   LuffySP

   December 15, 2011 at 4:47 am | # | Reply

   I loved Power Rangers! And Digimon/Pokemon. Only seasons 1& 2 of Digimon though (after that I hated the casts) and I quit Pokemon when Misty left. I am all up in Pokeshipping (my first ship, awww) and I couldn’t deal with the other ladies.

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     Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

     February 5, 2013 at 11:45 pm | # | Reply

     Tamers was great as well. It’s my second favorite. I didn’t like Frontier for the longest time and it took some time to get used to watching Data Squad. The newest one, Xros Wars was great, however Xros Wars The Boy Hunters Who Leaped through Time was very weak. The only thing that saved it was the return of the old Digidestined.
8. 
   HeLok

   December 28, 2011 at 12:32 am | # | Reply

   As a diehard He-Fan, I often wonder why I continue reading your comics, Willis. But I realize that it is only to learn more about you to ascertain your weaknesses for the day we meet…
9. 
   Rycr

   April 28, 2012 at 2:14 am | # | Reply

   “That thing that came on before Animaniacs”?

   When I was a kid, which I assume was around the same time Ethan was, Animaniacs was just that thing that came on after Power Rangers.

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     Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

     February 5, 2013 at 11:48 pm | # | Reply

     I don’t remember Animaniacs being on Fox Kids, I remember it being on WB64
10. 
    FakeAccount3000

    July 20, 2012 at 10:37 pm | # | Reply

    I was the world’s biggest He-Man fan as a little runt and even I forgive you. I’ll defend the little comic books they packaged with the toys to death, but the show was terrble. Terrbhl. At least Skeletor was hilarious.
11. 
    Beastlybro7

    February 20, 2013 at 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Hehehe skeleton nyeh