Shortpacked! by David Willis

Discussion (20) ¬

1. 
   Eros

   July 4, 2010 at 11:32 pm | # | Reply

   YES.

   THANK YOU.
2. 
   MrGBH

   July 9, 2010 at 6:42 pm | # | Reply

   This is my favourite comic of all time from anywhere ever.
3. 
   Asur

   August 25, 2010 at 1:34 pm | # | Reply

   It’s ok 2007 Ironman, in 2008 you get a movie and everybody will love you forever!!!!!

   • 
     sjosten

     January 25, 2011 at 11:23 am | # | Reply

     But in 2010, your sequel will be entirely about how huge an asshole you are.

     • 
       Doctor Who

       April 20, 2011 at 11:23 am | # | Reply

       But everyone will love you anyway. We love Mike, don’t we?

       Hmmm, Mike as Iron Man. Best idea ever.

       We’d have to call him Nickel Man, though.

       • 
         jpnuar1

         June 15, 2011 at 7:16 pm | # | Reply

         You mean Nickel Woman. She’d be played by herself. (aka your mom)
       • 
         Maycroft

         February 15, 2012 at 1:48 am | # | Reply

         Gotta admit, Downey made a great job with the character.
     • 
       Ren

       September 10, 2011 at 6:44 pm | # | Reply

       Don’t forget the animated bad ass 3d series that now has a second season. XD IRON MAN ROCKS!
     • 
       Rowen Morland

       August 16, 2012 at 2:29 am | # | Reply

       You also do pretty well in the Avengers film in 2012 Ironman. Hang in there.
     • 
       Petre Pan

       May 10, 2013 at 3:44 am | # | Reply

       And then the next sequel makes you look like a hero who will sacrifice himself at the drop of a hat! The best hero!
4. 
   Tetsukalian

   October 6, 2010 at 11:35 am | # | Reply

   I’m sad that I have never gotten to read more Iron Man comics, because I think, from what I have read, that he would be my favorite super hero.

   • 
     Novii

     March 23, 2011 at 6:27 pm | # | Reply

     They have some pretty awesome anthologies and trade paperbacks out…I imagine that unless you were a bubble that popped yesterday, you could still find them…as they still exist and whatnot. o.O;;
5. 
   Liz

   January 7, 2011 at 12:14 pm | # | Reply

   This is wonderful
6. 
   Wade

   July 4, 2011 at 8:27 pm | # | Reply

   True it was a good concept in theory but then Dark reign came along and showed tony that Peter and other members of the Resistance were right about not wanting to give that information. Because it could and did fall into the wrong hands.

   • 
     MrGBH

     August 3, 2011 at 7:10 pm | # | Reply

     None of the info fell into Osborn’s hands. Stark deleted every copy, even the one in his head.
7. 
   Higurashi

   August 2, 2011 at 5:17 pm | # | Reply

   Then again, Iron Man, you’re also a prima donna. But do keep kicking ass. It’s good for everyone.
8. 
   Ficpuppet

   October 9, 2011 at 12:10 pm | # | Reply

   Wow, got here going through my fave Shortpacked strips and the comment thread for this looks so barren. Hmm, as a purely academic exercise, I wonder how many reblogs this will get (and how many wanks this will start) if you post it on tumblr today. :/ (By which I mean, DO IIIIIIIT, Mr. Willis! )
9. 
   Dave who hates bad pet owners

   December 15, 2011 at 4:35 am | # | Reply

   But Iron Man got his way and the Marvel U was changed forever. I think that means that the folks at marvel ultimately share Mr. Willis’ opinion. The government holds a monopoly on legitimized violence, supers would either be co-opted by the FBI or public enemy number 1. The quasi legal nature of their activities leaves too many questions unanswered.
10. 
    Aaron

    September 9, 2012 at 11:53 pm | # | Reply

    Hey man, I’m a die hard liberal, and even I was on Iron Man’s side in the Civil War. Maybe, just maybe we wouldn’t have to send the Hulk into Space if we could get him some government sponsored anger management classes. All I’m saying.
11. 
    DragonStryk72

    March 26, 2013 at 6:10 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, hold up. Bunch patently false points. She-Hulk brought up a very good point in court against Tony, that being that Iron Man mentally invaded every single person on the entire planet to selflishly hide his own identity.

    As to Spider-Man, he did own up to responsibility in the Civil War, when he tried to stop Gitmo in the Negative Zone.

    The Hulk has never killed *Anyone* under his own power, and they’ve even gone over this point in comic. Any time that it HAS happened, has either been under direct mind control, or when the good guys decided it would be a really brilliant plans to separate the angry green rage monster from the only thing keeping him in control. So basically, EVERY super should be jettisoned off Earth by Tony’s logic.

    As to destruction of *property*, again, that’s every superhero ever, on every side of the Civil War, *even* during and after it.

    Now, Tony Stark as a villain turned the Green Goblin into a slave assassin, jailed heroes without due process while exploiting legal loopholes, started a war with atlantis by having their ambassador assassinated, and set up a perfect storm by having a list of every super’s identities, which the world’s supervillains came together to get from him. They even went into a What If comic where Tony gets shown by the Watcher that if he had simply asked Cap’s help, admitting that he didn’t know everything that was needed do things right, the whole thing would have resulted in a Golden Age of Heroes.

    No mind control, he wasn’t a skrull, he was just Tony being horribly written. They were doing a lot of that at the time, just look at One More Day and Brand New Day.