Comments on: Warhero

By: Mo

Mo — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:37:16 +0000

OH GOD AVALON. Though I didn’t pick up webcomics until 2000. I swear, I’m not sure why I didn’t read IW! back then, because I sure as shit read everything else. (Maybe I didn’t have room in my brain for another sci-fi epic, what with the twistiness of Sluggy Freelance, the funky horror of CRFH!!! and the fantasy mess that Life at Bayside devolved into.)

I started with Shortpacked!, might have even been pre-drama tag, I don’t remember, because another artist (with whom I was trying to semi-reboot Bad Boys of Computer Science) kept sending me links and eventually got me hooked. Much later (I think when DoA started) I realized that binging the Walky history might be useful to get more of these characters.

By: dcmeserve

dcmeserve — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:22:25 +0000

Mike was the key for me I read DoA first; didn’t see any problem except that Mike’s behavior didn’t seem explained/explored as much as I’d like. Then I started on Shortpacked!, and early on Mike showed up, and other characters knew him already! So clearly I was missing something, and so I looked around more. From there I found Roomies, etc.

You have to follow that whole dang thing in order (and have a good memory to boot) to finally make sense of everything. Actually some of the Ruth/Billie stuff there still doesn’t quite make sense to me. I haven’t even finished it yet; I’m following it in tandem with Shortpacked to try to replicate the original flow.

By: Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

Digidestined of Trust (Tim) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:54:22 +0000

I got stuck here when they revealed Bulk to be coming back to Power Rangers and there was a guest strip for that week when Willis had his hand cut up pretty badly even though it had healed nice enough by then. Had Willis decided not to go with that strip and keep going with his original Shortpacked idea, I’d of never found this place.

By: C

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:52:11 +0000

Someone made a comment about Frank Miller and references a Shortpacked! comic for emphasis. I thought that single comic was hilarious, so i read the rest of shortpacked. Then I got to this comic, and was informed that there were 7 years I’d been missing. So I got up-to-date on shortpacked and started from Roomies…

I think that was about 4 months ago. (I don’t have a lot of spare time.) I’ve finally archive-binged myself back. Now I’m going to get up to current on this one again and start on Dumbing of Ages. I figure that by the end of that, it will have been 6 to 7 months since the original David Willis reference, and I’ll be able to go back to reading the blog that I’d been diverted from.

By: JW

JW — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:38:51 +0000

I got linked to one of the non-story Shortpacked! strips and ended up binging.

I haven’t read ANY of his other comics, though since I gathered that this is a sequel to It’s Walky! (and since Willis has mentioned Robin appears there first) I had been planning on doing that archive binge next.

That’s the thing with advertising your work; it gets new fans in

By: Rycr

Rycr — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:05:27 +0000

Roomies -> It’s Walky -> Joyce and Walky -> Shortpacked

Roomies, It’s Walky, and Joyce and Walky all kinda blend together. One picks up right where the previous one leaves off, so they’re all posted at itswalky.com. Shortpacked takes place some time after It’s Walky.

Dumbing of Age is its own continuity, so you don’t need to read any other comics before reading that, although if you do, you’ll spot all sorts of little inside jokes and nods to previous comics.

To be honest, I started with DoA too, although I eventually went back and started at the beginning of Roomies and read all the way through to the last strip of Joyce and Walky before I read Shortpacked.

By: dragoonchris

dragoonchris — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:35:20 +0000

It’s weird that everyone in shortpacked doesn’t mention about the alien invasions that happen a few years ago.

I remember some people talk about this webcomic with funny Transformers jokes. About 2 years later I read Roomies/IW/J&W. A year later, DOA came to existence.

By: Jetstream

Jetstream — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:42:47 +0000

Honestly I’d say anyone from Walky’s squad should probably be fairly well known. They got the most press.

By: Kasamari

Kasamari — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:41:39 +0000

I actually saw DoA first and learned about the rest via comments myself. I read through the series from it’s beginnings back when DoA was still only about a month old. I think I found Mr. Willis accidentally through Girls With Slingshots which I only found through Blind Ferret Entertainment when they added Ms. Corsetto to their list of people. Blind Ferret is known for Least I Could Do and Looking for Group by Mr. Sohmer an Mr. deSouze

By: Magnus369

Magnus369 — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:42:29 +0000

Ugh you brats make me ancient. Sadly, I used to have to wait for roomies! to update. As well as avalon (that bastard) so started reading a bunch of others, and not just keenspot/keenspace stuff either.

Of course, in those days I worked at an isp, so I didn’t have to pay for internet… nor did I have to deal with dial-up… muhahahahahhahahaha.

I USED TO BROWSE THE NET WITH A T1 WHEN IT MEANT SOMETHIN BABY! AAAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

and now sadly, I have a 20mbps link from my house for $40 a month, where as my boss used to pay over 800 for the t1 line, (1.544mbps), and almost $3k for the bandwidth.

now shut up, get me my damn cane, my Geritol and get the hell off my lawn.