Joel Watson draws Hijinks Ensue, which is about a buncha dudes and geek jokes. One of them’s even gay! It’s like our strips are buddies.
Joel’s also a man of all trades. He can play piano! He can help you configure your WordPress site! He can help you run your Dumbing of Age panel! He can hold you oh oh so tenderly.




Oh. My. GOD. That is hilarious. Bless you, Watson! (c what i did thar?)
no, i’m confused. what does thar mean?
this is pretty much what win is made out of.
Poor Starscream’s dick hole. I wish we got to see it on panel though, just out of curiosity.
No kids for Starscream. Er, wait, robots with assholes and di-OH GOD MY CHILDHOOD!
Not to mention that Megatron likes to stick his barrel into fellow male Transformers and shoot.
That explains why I am gay… He-man and Transformers did it to me!!!!! Oh, and Smurfs too! A society of only men walking around shirtless. Oh, and Thundercats. Damn, the list could be endless…
Oh god I cannot unsee this. See, this is why I’m gay. Female gay. For the ladies. Because Megatron makes my va-jay-jay scared.
Silly Rick! Thundercats doesn’t make you gay. It makes you a furry.
Nope, that’s what Care Bears was fur.
It’s not just Willis….
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/28/132393643/Undeliverable-Mail-Is-Auctioned-Off-At-Center-In-Atlanta
You know, twice recently I have had to ship a package to the States. And on the little Customs form is a field in red with two checkboxes: “If this parcel cannot be delivered, do you want to (_) Return it at sender’s cost or (_) Dump it?”
I have never seen this on any other form for anywhere, and it makes me a bit nervous about the USPS, that apparently stuff is “undeliverable” often enough that they need a little field about it on anything that gets sent with them.
They still kick UPS’s ass, though. Not that that’s hard.
Now, if only I could get stuff across the border from the States faster than 4-6 weeks. It’s about 3-5 DAYS to get stuff into Canada from Hong Kong, and oceans are involved there. DAMMMIT, USA. It’s just PAPER. It’s just a BOOK. GIVE ME MY STUFF!!! Fuck, it took like two MONTHS to get velcro name tapes outta there!!
NOTE TO US BORDER AGENTS: Velcro name tapes and kids’ books are not security issues.
GIVE ME MY STUFF!!!
Heh. Dave, if I get the other half of a blender, then once I stop laughing I’ll send it to you. Or, like, hold it hostage against a SP book. One or the other.
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*saves the comic, clips out the 4th panel, and keeps it*
<3
“I Wheeljacked your mom.”
Makes one wonder how many Transformer names Mike can defile into sexual references.
“I gave your mom a ride on my Astro Train until she Starscreamed.”
…Yeah, I’m not really up to date on my names, that’s the best I got off the top of my head.
…Ramhorn Thrust right up her Arcee till it busted her Grimlock.
…she got a Seaspray of Sludge on her Ironhide before taking my AstroTrain to her Dirt Boss.
I gave your mom an Erector.
Your mum gave me an erector. Last night, for a nickel.
I Spasticked your Darwinian Evolution XD
Er.
i here by move that “i wheeljacked your mom” becomes a shirt all in favor?
Aye.
This plan is better than the one with the purple griffin or whatever XD
Just trying to figure out measurements here… when Megatron is in gun mode for Starscream to use, his barrel is wide enough so Starscream could put two fingers into… so if the hole is big enough to fit that barrel than the whole thing would have to be as thick as his arm… GOOD FOR YOU STARSCREAM!!!
It is funny because Willis got jacked.
BLESS YOU, WATSON!!!!
I think the world is ready for a Watson/Willis uber nerd comic. Or maybe the Earth will implode because of the gravitational pull of so much awesome.
geniiusssss! Mr. Joel is so awesome.
“Dear, sweet Starscream…”
What a great line.
What’s toy related humor doing on Shortpacked? Where are my lesbians, unnecessary drama, and miscarriages?!
PS I actually thought this was really fucking funny. Good show, Watson.
Starscream saves Willis!
Wow! I’m a regular reader of hijinks ensued, something positive, and questionable content…but I’ve never read shortpacked. I’m not sure if it is the dick jokes or obvious lack of moral character, but something about this comments section is telling me I should start!
Join us. Join us.
Aw, I was hoping for Sodomuffin.
As a ready of both, I vote yes! Start with “Roomies”, and do a comic-reading marathon all the way up to Shortpacked!… it’s all in the same continuity.
Thanks for all the nice feedback guys. I had a blast making this comic.
Watson… what HAVE you done…
This is fucking hilarious, but the plot isn’t really that far from the sort of thing that the Decepticons really pulled on the Eighties cartoon, which reminds me of just how stupid the cartoon supervillains of my youth really were.
Think about it: why include that whole “murder the humans” protocol that’s just going to attract the Autobots’ attention before the plan is complete? Heck, why bother mailing the blenders out at all? They could take the blenders (or one big blender, whatever), dump bio-matter in them themselves, and have all the Energon they could want before the Autobots even know what’s happening. Hell, they could do it all legally if they wanted – a few Cybertronian trinkets could buy them whole industrial fruit orchards, plus workers, and they could just sit back and let the Energon stack up while the Autobots can’t do a damn thing.
Why do it quietly and Legitimately when you can do it overtly, noisily, illicitly and get the attention of your enemy so you have another excuse to have them beat you up?
“I Wheeljacked your mom.” I eagerly await a situation where I can use that…