I’d already drawn four comics today. At 11:30pm, I figgered I was about done. NOPE.
EDIT: Also, while I was drawing this, news updated from “killed by bombstrike” to “killed in firefight with Real Life G.I. Joe.” Oh well. S’why you don’t rush the scoop!
I have absolutely nothing argumentative or asshatish to say about this one, so:
Congratulations to the armed forces!
Explanation, please.
Extremely breaking news as of about an hour ago:
Osama Bin Laden is dead. he was killed in a US bombing strike a week ago, and DNA confirmation of the body just came in. This is a pretty happy time.
>happy about a death
lol
That’s not a death. It’s vermin control.
Actually, it’s now said that U.S. militants on the ground were tipped off and found his base, there were shots between U.S. special forces and Osama’s people. He was shot in the head and somewhere else I believe.
Thanks. They were saying bombed at first. We’ll get more details soon.
Killed in a gun fight with ground forces that invaided the family mansion he’d been staying in. Body recovered, DNA tested, and everything.
Osama died. Cake was had. Virgins screwed Osama.
But not in that order.
YES I KNOW ABOUT BIN LADEN. I mean, what’s the gag here?
The joke is we found him because the idiot twittered his location my becoming “mayor” of Ponderosa via the FourSquare app.
That can’t possibly be true. That’s so retarded that it can only be a bad b-movie.
Okay, okay, got it, that’s just a gag Willis is making. Good. good. For a minute there I thought someone was claiming that that’s how it actually went down.
God I”m tired.
Willis had like five minutes to draw, color, upload, and post the comic. I think he gets a little leeway on joke quality.
excellent joke quality. btw new meme? FOURSQUARED!!
Talk about a last minute update. XD
Should’ve named it Ponderosa. Is it wrong that I just laughed at this?
WOW TALK ABOUT IN THE NEWS
I mean, were you racing out the door to be the first with a comic? XD
HAHA! Guess so
Timing!
GTFO, Casper!
(Assuming you are a Nostalgia Critic fan)
Well, technicaly NC is in the same universe as shortpacked thanks to Linkara
OMG!! That is the most awsome connection ever! and with that coffe thing they went too that means that they both exist in the same world as questionable content (I think) which means that the NChick can date Leslie!
Doom!!!
Yes doom, I say, doom …. I love that word … dooooom …. heh .. ahem.. er …. Anywho, QC’s coffee shop is one of my other favorite hangouts.
I just wonder how long before someone franchises the concept of good coffee, weird menu items, snarkines, open client disdain and possible decent baked goods with a side order of physical trauma for the beligerent?
Grrrrr….. i wanted story resolution, and you give me hilarious jokes?!
DAMN YOU WILLIS!!
That’s how he rolls =p
I am Chrisby, and I approve this comic.
Haha, wow what a quick turnaround.
Yeah, sure, it’s true that Osama wasn’t behind that “much” radical Islamic terrorism, percentage-wise, and it’s also true that he’s probably already been replaced with someone else. However, it IS true that he was a pretty big figurehead and a symbol, and for ten years has represented, “America is weak! They can’t even catch this one guy!”
Well, now we’ve caught him. It’s a good time to celebrate.
Holy shit, you are FAST.
It’s funny that I was waiting around to see, “Is Willis gonna spit out a comic about this in like ten minutes? …OHHH YEAHHH”
That’s exactly what my thought was as well! I was like, “Watch Willis come out with the first comic” Low and behold, WHAM, sure enough.
If Willis had only a few minutes more, I bet he would’ve drawn a shower of those little plastic order signs falling down.
Well, so far out of all the comics I’ve read today, Willis is the first and only one today to make the comic.
Niiiice.
That was directed at both you, Willis, and the armed forces, btw.
and that’s why they created Four Square
Only took them about nine and a half years.
Blame that asshole, Grant B.
What the hell, dude? I’m not even ON Foursquare!
Well, the government was so busy dealing with that martian invasion in 2004 that it’s a wonder we got anything else done!
Well, we’ve only been actually looking for two of those years. In 2002, Dubya said that finding Bin Laden wasn’t a priority. When Obama took office, he said it was.
Let us raise our glasses to the thousands who were killed in his name!
Dude went from idea to done in forty-five minutes.
That is why he’s the mayor of Taco Bell and will not be bombed by the US.
This is what you get for letting gays into the military!!!
…wait!
I must be really out of place on a website where someone asks for an explanation for this, and people jump in to say that Osama was just killed.
Seriously though. Can someone please explain this comic to us out of the loop? There’ve been Shortpacked!s with references I don’t get, but this one has got to set some kind of record in that category.
The man in the comic is Osama Bin Laden. He was killed today.
In the comic, he’s using Foursquare, a program that lets you tell your friends where you are. If you’re in a place the most, you’re mayor of that location and where you are is publicly visible.
The joke is that Osama’s a dumbass.
Okay, thanks… now I feel kinda stupid for never having heard of “foursquare” before.
Don’t feel to bad, I only know foresquare because of PVP.
I’m afraid I don’t get the joke…..but I get the part about dead nasty man.
In the comic, Osama’s using Foursquare, a program that lets you tell your friends where you are. If you’re in a place the most, you’re mayor of that location and where you are is publicly visible.
The joke is that Osama’s a dumbass.
okay… that’s three explanations of foursquare so far. Is Willis going to have to make a foursquare equivalent of the “Ethan is Gay” thread?
…All I can really say about this comic is that I admire your turnaround time, Willis.
(That, and didja have to make him look so…cuddly in Panel 2?)
I would have used “Achmed’s Falafel Shop” but that works too. Couldn’t have happened to a bigger ass.
So.. you’d go for a cheap stereotype joke?
Only if it was “Achmed’s Felafel Shop and Used Camel Emporium”. Camels are always funny.
What stereotype? He was in PAKISTAN. I’d say the odds of there being a Falafel Stand nearby is far greater than the odds of there being a Ponderosa.
Dear Cheese, I’ll never understand why people look for insults where none exist. Maybe it’s just so they can sound superior to others? :’(
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This comic amuses me. I think I should have tomorrow off. (In the military)
Seeing as it’s the same day we announced Hitler’s death, it definitely needs to get adopted by the Armed Forces. (one month to go and done in Iraq.)
Man, what a great idea! Seconded.
This made me laugh so hard, almost peed myself
What I want to know is, was he dressed as a woman at the time?
I want to see the “killed by real life G.I. Joe” version of this comic. Presumably with Roadblock.
Seconded.
“Ya got a place with your fame on it…
I got a bullet with your name on it!”
Thirded
Fourthed
I concur! A GI Joe version would be most excellent.
Amazing Job Willis.
Fatality..
Well done America. Kudos.
I don’t get to say that kind of thing often.
well, THE MORE YOU KNOW.
Also: I knew Foursquare was a trap!
I don’t want this to be the end, I want this to be the beginning. Really, things truly started in Egypt, with those protests that successfully and peacefully removed a despot from power. Now its happening elsewhere, some smoothly and some forcefully…but it IS happening. God, I hope they can do it…make this dream of a better and free government a reality all across the middle east. If it works, then this is a milestone for history, as potent as 9/11 but with a far different result. This might just be the day we not only killed Osama…this could be the day we helped bury his ideals with him.
Okay, enough serious talk. Awesome comic. I don’t usually say this without any irony, but….”AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!”
I don’t wish to be negative, but remeber while many countries are getting an opertunity to strive forward these days, The US has taken quite some strives backwards in the last decade. (companys declared as people, collective barging rights stripped in a state, the continued existanced of a facility where “innocent till proven guilty no longer applies”, bipartisan push for an internet kill switch….etc)
By all means say “Hell Yeah” to this, but remember that principles and rights not only have to be fought for to get, but also to keep!
In many ways its a shame he wasn’t taken alive – a full trail would have been very nice.
Corporate personhood is SO not from the past decade.
Wasn’t the deposed Egiptian Dictator pro-America?
I think one of the worries know is that extremists can take over many of those middle-east countries, the right way … through democracy.
-airfox
The same goes for this country, you know?
Had to read the comics to get the joke because I had no idea what foursquared was. interesting though.
meant the comments.
And all I can think of is how much he used to enjoy volleyball. Well, that and nine and half years breaks Dillenger’s record.
So does this mean all those people being held without charge or trial will finally be released?
Bloody Brilliant Willis!
AMERICA! FUCK YA!
RIP Bin Laden, the Most Short Lived Mayor of Ponderosa Ever.
But, seriously, it’d be hilarious if he got tracked down because he actually owned an iPhone. I mean, anything for some type of hilarious death for him. It’s hard to have a martyr when your religious figure gave his location away by playing too much Call of Duty on his PS3.
If my thirty seconds of watching the news is accurate, it was actually kind of the opposite. What tipped us off about the mansion/compound he was in was that they -didn’t- have internet. They’d basically isolated themselves from the outside world. Burned their trash instead of putting it out, etc.
…what cracks me up is that apparently this means he must’ve taken road trips out to caves to film his various “Death to America” videos. This paints an entirely different view of him… he wasn’t some ragged ‘self proclaimed freedom fighter’ type hiding out in the wilderness… he was an evil poser!
All those terrorist network leaders are evil posers. They convince desperate poor people to kill temselves for “the cause” and that tehy will be rewarded for that, but hide in comfortable and secured fortresses.
To be fair, that is how most nations operate (minus being specific about the how of how they die for their cause/country)
When was the last time a world leader took to the field to fight (without including those who already lost their nation)?
That’s fair.
The difference I see is presidents and kings don’t send soldiers on literal suicide missions. As dangerous as the missions may be, there’s always a possibility of surviving it.
With guys like Bin Laden, desperate people are told to kill themselves for a cause.
This is why I don’t have a foursquare account.
I had to go to bed early – about an hour before before the news broke. I wake up at 3:45 am, and the first thing I see about this is the LJ Shortpacked feed … It somehow seems appropriate that I’m getting my breaking news from SP. The world is weird.
This morning’s Philadelphia Daily News front cover had a picture of Osama bin Laden with the text, “WE GOT THE BASTARD”!
One paper, I think the Post, had the headline “Rot in Hell”.
I actually read this comic before seeing the news.
A) I need a life.
B) I still lol’d even though I didn’t know Bin Laden was dead.
So the US just bombed a Ponderosa Steakhouse? U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A
And now he’s been buried at sea so people will wonder if it really happened forever. Especially since he was originally reported dead back in 2002. The End
Now WTF happened with Robin?
Yeah, I’ve been saying it all day. We should’ve brought back his head and chucked the rest out to sea. Display it prominently on the White House lawn atop a nice, high pike for all to see.
I wish I never entered my real address into my Sony Playstation Network profile!
Playdate with satan, ttyl
Is that Osama or Achmed, the Dead Terrorist?
SILENCE! I keel you!
Based on a true story
Maybe I’m getting old, but I missed every single reference there. Except Osama being dead, which is manifestly a good thing.
“Foursquare” is an application that those damn kids these days on their phones to track who goes to what restaurant/coffee shop/soda jerk/hootinanny. Being the “mayor” is something the program calls you if you go to one of those locations more than the other people who own fancy phones.
Bombs are large firecrackers that airplanes drop. Airplanes are like cars but louder.
Trust me, I know more about airplanes and bombs than I care to.
Shit, the bears have mastered air travel/warfare.
Us lions really need to pick up our game.
Actually you’re far behind. Do a web search for “wojtek” the WWII soldier bear. (Yes, this happened in real life.)
Na-na-naa-na, Na-na-naa-na, Hey,hey,hey, GOOoD-BYE!
OK, now that everyone’s explained FourSquare, what the hell is Ponderosa?
Ponderosa was a ranch on a show called Bonanza. Bonanza was like a western except of people shooting at each other it was more about family values. Family values are the reason I think my mom shouldn’t make me pay rent.
Ponderosa is also a place where white people sometimes eat overcooked beef and seafood inland. They also have a small chicken selection if your date is insisting on paying and you don’t want to put out.
There was also a fake news article on the same topic to which I’m sure Willis is referring.
http://www.chaser.com.au/2011/bin-laden-captured-after-checking-in-on-foursquare/
Nope.
And now, thanks to you, whenever I Check-In, I look to the sky to see if an airstrike is coming in, and then I yell “FOURSQUARED!!”
Well done. Awesome on the promptness, as well!
Thank you for this strip Willis, just…thanks. It warms this soldiers heart to laugh like that.
I still think he’s alive.
Yeah, and the moon landing was fake.