Hey, look, it’s Jason Atwood from Multiplex! Used without permission! Ain’t I a stinker.
By the time you read this, I will have seen Dark of the Moon. And, god willing, it will have been better than Revenge of the Fallen. Not that that’s a high bar.
(I’m back, and I am confident that it was indeed way better. That’s all I’ll say. Keep spoilers out of comments, please.)
Mike is amazing.
It’s how he gets his hair to be so aerodynamic.
Mike is so awesome, someone may need to stary a religion. =P
gluh. start*
*climbs up on soapbox with a megaphone*
All hail our lord and saviour Mike! He died, and returned to life! He gave his life to save us from the menace from the skies! Take in wine and become good, just he does! Our lord’s soul is pure! Pure evil, but still pure! You are all Mike’s children, for he has fucked your mom!
so i did some quick math, cuz im an engineer which is professional talk for “nerd with calculator,” and seeing as 51% of the worlds pop. are female, and about half of the women in the world have children. then based on the assumption that mike stuck to his guns and paid a nickle per mom, it would cost a little over $86 million to nail every mom in the world.
You forgot to take into account the change he gets back on account of your Mom not being worth a nickel.
Or you’re missing who got the nickel.
Best comment ever!
That’s….that’s……That’s a LOT of nickels!!
it already does…
Does this mean Mike is or is not a fan? Or is just being spiteful? [read: normal Mike]
I took it to mean Mike is showing his true stealth-nerd colors (pun intended)
Mike enjoyed Darth Vader because Darth can strangle people with his mind. So can a Green Lantern, if he or she really WANTS to.
True, but it’s much easier for Green Lanters to smash, cut and burn things with their minds. I imagine that appeals even more.
No they can’t. Unless it’s officially wartime, Green Lantern rings will shut down if their wielder tries to use lethal force.
NERD.
I should think it’s obvious that Mike is the world’s biggest Guy Gardner fan.
Wait, what? How does that explain all the people killed by Sinestro when he was a lantern or by Hal Jordan when he got mad after the destruction of Coast City?
He just wants the movie theater employees to wear embarrassing costumes.
It can’t be both?
It means that Mike won’t miss a chance to be a jerk.
I’m guessing it’s just Mike simply seizing the obvious opportuniity to be a violent jerk. He doesn’t care how anyone is uncomfortable as long as he’s making somebody uncomfortable (physically, emotionally, intimately, etc).
He hangs out with geeks, true, but maybe he simply gets along with them (sorta) because he gets a private arrogance boost knowing that he actually *is* a superhero (more of an antihero or even villain protagonist, really, but he does have superhuman strength). And he knows at the core of his being that he’s better than everyone else, so it doesn’t really matter which of his lessers he deigns to crush and which he allows to live.
The 3D glasses here aren’t that bad, but I’ve never tried the iMAX 3D ones.
Also, I love that Smurfs poster. WHY is really the only word to say about that movie.
I completely agree. The other question I keep asking myself is: how did they manage to make the Smurfs so frightening in the official poster ? It actually freaked me out when I saw it the first time. And they have badass postures. Why the hell have the Smurfs got badass postures ? Aren’t they supposed to be gentle creatures ?
I totally agree. I adore Neil Patrick Harris, but there’s no way I’ll see that movie…
Mr. Willis should market that poster.
“How much farther to the Uncanny Valley, Papa Smurf?”
“Not far now…”
Indeed. It’s just… WHY?
Also, Air Bud 13 in the background, too. I didn’t even get what was so great about those movies when I was in the target audience.
The 3D Glasses masks probably wouldn’t work at the theater I work at, since they’re RealD 3D, and we use Dolby Digital 3D.
God, I wish we used RealD 3D, we have to keep and clean the ones we have now.
Mike’s bargaining posture is highly awesome.
Honestly, what thing of Mike isn’t awesome? I’m guessing his nickels, considering how readily he spends them on moms such as yours.
thats awesome. one more reason to love mike. also, i want one of those cinemasks
There is not a number high enough for how much WORSE than RoTF this film was. I hope Michael Bay gets ripped apart by insects. That’d be kharmic retribution.
I think you saw a different film.
Also, keep spoilers out of here, please.
I thought not mentioning names of who killed what or who died WAS keeping spoilers out. That’s why I left out the names.
It’s better to nip discussion of any details early, lest I wake up tomorrow morning and find a whole damn thread of spoilers for those unsuspecting. That kinda stuff snowballs.
Like this?
“I really loved that scene where ____ killed ___ by ____ his face off! It was so shocking!”
(I’m assuming this will apply to about half of the deaths in the movie)
Great. So now I know people died in it. thanks.
Personally I like spoilers like that, though mainly because I play a version of madlibs with them using increasinly filthy words.
That said, it does lead to some eventual disappointment with the movie in question.
But then, what can match up to mans boundless (if depraved) imagination?
Since I haven’t seen it, would it be all right if I posted made up spoilers? Like how the Avengers showed up at the end to take out megatron?
Or how Bumblebee got captured by Megatron but was miraculously save by Mudflap and Skids?
God I hope this thread carries on)
I wish you’d said Mudkips.
Having seen the movie, I’ve just mentally replaced the entire ending with your suggestion of the Avengers showing up to save the day and I’m not going to lie, it makes for a much better movie. In my mind now that movie will always end with Captain America riding the Incredible Hulk into battle like a warhorse and laying waste to any giant robot he can find. Thank you, sir.
SNAPE KILLS OPTIMUS PRIME
Megatron beheads Ned Stark!
The AllSpark is a Horcrux!
I haven’t seen it yet either, but I keep expecting Micheal Bay to surprise us by having the autobots all connect together and form Voltron. I think it would be fun to watch the reactions to that if nothing else.
Or how Bumblebee is a horcrux?
I have to honestly say I agree with you. I’m livid at how bad that was.
Jesus Christ, what a freak. You didn’t like the movie, so the director deserves a violent death? Do you have any idea how fucking crazy you sound? Grow the fuck up and try to have a normal response to your little toy-based cartoons.
Someone engaging in overdramatic hyperbole? ON THE INTERNET??? WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE!?
So they went all the way to Chicago to see the movie?
There’s a wormhole around the corner from the Multiplex 10.
Yup.
And therein lies my problem with Malaya. She’s incredibly judgmental and openly insults people with lifestyles she looks down on.
I wouldn’t wear an Optimus Prime 3D mask thing, but if I saw a group of people wearing them, I wouldn’t say “OH MY GOD NERDS GET A LIFE YOU FREAKS” or say I’m getting “Nerd cancer” if they sat next to me, I’d just think they were eccentric.
Especially if they bought a ticket for me.
OK, now repeat with me: “This is shortpacked! Everybody in Shortpacked! is screwed up one way or another. And that is what Shortpacked! is about.” Repeat until it sinks in.
NERD HIPSTERS!
Combining the worst of both demographics?
They are the leading cause of Nerd Cancer you know.
I would have thought Nerd Hipsters are Nerds who developed Nerd Cancer,
Nerd Hipster being of course the final stage of one of the more aggressive types.
For Malaya, Nerd > Hipster.
Nice to know she has got some sense.
I’m willing to guess she REAAAAAAAAALLY hated Scott Pilgrim Versus The World.
Who didn’t?
The same people who liked Fight Club and V for Vendetta. People who didn’t read the books first. (Btw Fight Club was still a really good movie, and even though they got a lot of flak I also liked V for Vendetta, and Watchmen. Still the comics were about a 1000 times better.)
I liked all three of those movies, but I did read the book for V for Vendetta first. I actually liked the film better because I though the ending of the book was weak.
Never read/saw either of them. Read the Scott Pilgrim comics, then went to see the movie, liked both.
QED, bitch.
(Actually, in spite of Romana being turned into a complete bitch in the film, I still liked the movie better because the ending made sense. Maybe I’m just an idiot, but I still don’t understand the final battle from the books.)
Waited six months for that ending and then was like “wut?”. Can’t imagine if I’d been following from the beginning.
Never got around to seeing the movie. Looked good though.
I read the Scott Pilgrim series and loved the movie. I thought it was a lot of fun. I understand that books and movies may be quite different (*cough* Harry Potter), but have learned that I can enjoy both for what they are.
Chuck Palanuk is on the commentary track for the film and at the end he says the film is better than the book. So I went out and picked up the book. It had a better ending, but the film was better overall.
(I reject your argument and actively mock it. It’s possible to love Fight Club as a film without thinking being a mouthbreather who thinks Tyler Durden is his personal lord and savior.)
Hahaha Malaya owns.
I mean UGH GOD SHE SAID A MEAN THING ABOUT NERDS kill teh bittch
lol mike is lolariously viciously assaulting a random innocent person HE IS SO AWESSUM lol
Mike takes his cosplay seriously!
I believe that’s Jason he’s assaulting.
I don’t know who you are, dangermouse, but I like the cut of your jib.
+1
Make that +2. We need more Malaya fans, they’re hilarious.
There are very few people in the real world who act like Mike. Anyone acting like Mike in the real world would be locked up.
There are many people in the real world who act like Malaya. Anyone acting like her is often encouraged.
God that’s a humorless avatar. Just so freaking stern.
And yet its so delightfully perfect for that comment…
Would be better if it were in rhyme.
Ok, let’s give it a try:
In the real world, it’s scarce to meet a ‘Mike’,
You’d have to search the jails to find a lookalike,
But any time you want you can meet a Malaya,
You only have to look for the exalted game players.
She has character flaw, that’s what makes her interesting. It doesn’t mean we can’t dislike her, I sure as hell do.
Malaya, take that off right now so Leslie won’t be scared to kiss you. B|
Leslie is so evil! She called the mask “Dumb.” I hate how Leslie is always cruel to nerds all the time! Clearly she is meant to be the villain.
are you saying that the mask doesn’t look stupid?
And she rejected Robin, just because she’s a control freak, and now she flirts with Malaya. Yep, she’s a villain-in-progress.
I’m being silly by making a “Malaya is evil cuz she hates nerds” post, only swappingin Leslie because she made a comment about the mask.
NEEEEERDS!
I like how Malaya’s Optimus Nerd Mask coincidentally has narrow eyes because she’s coincidentally asian.
Uh… the eyes are narrow because they’re emoting. She’s embarrased to be wearing the mask, and in comic/cartoon land, emotions are so powerful they defy physics and warp the shape of masks.
the mask seems to actually show the expression of the wearer, those are narrow eyes of fury.
I may be wrong, but I think the size of the glasses changes to give a bit more expression to the masked faces. Ethan’s one doesn’t look exactly the same in panels 5 and 6, but it’s subtle. Maybe I imagine things.
Wow, what the FUCK is wrong with you.
PC Outrage FAIL!
And not just that, but did you count her eyes? She’s got two! TWO! Man, this art is just dragging out all the asian stereotypes, isn’t it?
Next thing you know she’ll have hair and be able to speak words.
Wait, what’s that? SHE ALREADY KNOWS HOW?
I like how you don’t know what a facial expression is.
She’s Asian? i thought she was some flavour of Hispanic.. like Puerto-Rician or Cuban
She’s Filipino.
To Ninja Rick it’s all good: http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/02-the-new-girl/older/
in reply to myself: der she was emoting. Saw it in Scott Pilgrim.
Air Bud is 91 in Dog sequels.
And the nerd hipsters all wear the 3D glasses provided by the studio OVER the Cinemasks.
Seriously though. I know a lot of people who probably qualify as nerd hipsters.
Silly. They should wear retro 3D glasses. They work for movies AND they help you see Void stuff!
Evidently the theatre doesn’t have problems with Amber bringing Snkrs in.
snkrs is part ninja
I hate it when I get my Void stuff in my Medusa Cascade. *high fives 47 for an awesome reference on his part. Also if your in on this, make vague references because as Geeky as Transformers Geeks can be, we are WAY Geekier*
“And the nerd hipsters all wear the 3D glasses provided by the studio OVER the Cinemasks.”
…wouldn’t that make their eyes explode or something?
OK, so there’s Smurfs Why Why Why, Air Bud 13, Smell It Star Wars (or possibly Suck It Star Wars), and either Robot Vacation or Robot Vacuum.
Definitely “Smell It.”
“Now that advances in theater technology allow for a smelltrack along with a soundtrack, audiences can finally enjoy the saga with the exact scents that I imagined for each scene back in 1977. Of course, once the tech becomes available for home theaters, we’ll be putting out another set of DVDs…”
I hope the trash compactor scene in Episode 4 was just that, trash, and not sewage. Otherwise, the theater will empty at that point.
The sad thing is that Robert Rodriguez is bringing Smell-o-vision back, so this actually isn’t all that far-fetched. Seriously, check the weblink on my name.
it would take fart jokes to a whole new level
That would be “RoboVac”, a running joke that started wayyy back in Roomies! It was Joe & Danny’s favorite comic book.
Introduced here: http://www.itswalky.com/d/19980120.html
Darn, Robot Vacation sounds like fun. Like Surrogates except your robot goes to Hawaii while you do all the work.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/4/6/
Why does Malaya get the mullet version of Ethan’s hair?
Longer hair tends to do that when you push it back.
way to teach them Mike, there is no way to avoid incidents so you better make the public (ie. Mike) happy, which is also impossible, so you better have decent health coverage for your movie theater employees (which is unlikely)… so you better just be ready to be punched and or kicked by Mike (which is inevitable)
Mike u understand my pain
I liked DOTM…or at least, what I saw of it.
Lucky me just HAD to pick the theater that had the last half-hour or so of the film’s data unexpectedly corrupted. Fortunately I got both my $14 back, along with a free RealD movie pass.
So, was it just my theater, or did they just not show any trailers before this anywhere? Cause that kinda pissed me off, I like trailers!
My theatre showed entirely too many trailers. Which is weird, since I’m used to IMAX stuff not showing many trailers. One of the perks of paying a billion dollars to be in there.
But being premiere night, it’s best if they show them now since they -know- the theater will be entirely too packed at the very least on opening night. Anyway, it might have been a ‘just in case they cant’ do it later’. Why risk it being in and out of theaters in a blink, right?
Either that or DotM just has an unnaturally high amount and you still got the reduced amount. Either way, it seems you weren’t disappointed from what I can tell, so why worry? Who knows, depending upon what I hear I might hit the theaters up in the next few days.
There can never be too many trailers.
We watched about 30 min of trailers. Everytime they changed projecters you could hear the entire theater shift in their seats. They the played mor previews..
I love that the Optimus glass’ eyes are expressive.
I didn’t think today’s comic could be more glorious then yesterdays.
Yet between Malaya, Ethan, Mike, and Snkrs, it is.
Yep, this confirms it. Malaya is totally Billie’s long-lost half-sister.
I support this theory!
Seconded
Thirded!
Why did Ethan even invite Malaya? Nobody besides Leslie likes her, and she doesn’t even want to see the movie.
And he invites Malaya, but not Ken? Is he really that forgettable? (I’m guessing Ethan had to choose between inviting Robin or Leslie and chose Leslie, and nobody wants to hang out with Faz, Rick, or Galasso, but if Malaya was notable enough to invite, it surprised me that Ken wasn’t.)
I think he only invited people who were working that night. I don’t think Ken was working, and Malaya was.
Ethan’s a nice guy, and probably figures that it’s better to diffuse Malaya by being friendly to her than to exclude her.
Of course, Robin was also working, wasn’t she? I guess she didn’t want it to be awkward with Leslie?
Also, +1000 for the tie-in to the current Multiplex storyline!
But Robin wasn’t so much “working” as she was “stalking Leslie and/or Malaya.” Ethan may not even have realized Robin was there.
robin did work that day, but she had an earlier shift.
it looks to me like he only invited the people in today’s strip. i only saw five tickets from yesterday and that’s how many other people are there today. it’s a shame. we haven’t seen malaya react with everyone yet and on top of that, it’s mostly just been her with either leslie or robin. it would have been nice to see some variety.
interact, not react.
Awkward? Like the hotel room after prom?
(I will make that a meme or I’ll die trying)
My bad! Looks like I jumped the gun- Today’s strip shows Robin’s in the theater too.
Leslie asked for a ticket for Malaya. So, technically, Leslie invited her. Ethan may have just been too polite to refuse. He did buy $20 masks for everyone. So, the cost of the extra ticket wouldn’t be a big deal.
She asked for “Malaya’s ticket”, and Ethan had already bought them, so it’s kind of implied that he’d bought one for her.
Amber still got her hamser on her head! She can’t put the cinemask on then no?
So, who got the Bumblebee masks? Or did Ethan just buy Primes?
Ah, Mike – enough beatings, and the Multiplex staff will be forced to bring back costumes for the employees’ safety.
So, the Shortpacked cast has shown up in the Multiplex theater and Coffee of Doom. What other exotic locales has Willis used?
Oh, this looks like it’ll go well. *hopeful sarcasm*
The more I see her, the more I dislike her.
Ethan and Mike totally made this strip 1000% worth it though.
Funny, I’m just the opposite.
I’m totally digging Malaya, and both Ethan and Mike are meh to me at best.
Ethan looks awesome in that mask. Like a half-Optimus, half-Batman.
This, of course, means that he should wear it all the time, perhaps after coming to the above realization.
… I officially love that Mike is in this comic by the way.
I’m surprised Ethan didn’t paint his black and use it like a Batman mask
for a transformers movie? that would be silly. but i could imagine him changing it afterwards.
Ethan wants Batman on his face!
(crude, I know, sorry. also, FAAAAAACE!)
oo Mic’s gonna go see Green Lantern
Nah, he’ll just show up to check Jason’s in costume. He’s just that mean.
I like the fact Mike digs Green Lantern (although I liked the Kyle Rayner era more than Hal) and I can’t wait to see the flick. Hipster glasses for me, though. Those masks have got to get tedious after a while…
What was the total face loss count though?
- a_o_t_8.
Mike has the best background escapades.
Damn, it’s been a while since we’ve had some good old-fashioned Mike-violence, isn’t it? Ah, those were the days…
i blame amber. she’s been diverting his attention with something as petty and worthless as love
TWUE WUV!
Mike=WIN
Malaya needs to follow Mike’s lead and engage in some wholesome ultraviolence, that should improve her popularity.
All she needs is some droogs and some spiked-milk and she’s good to go.
Don’t forget the Beethoven & Gene Kelly. ^_^
Hipster or Nerd? Hmm.. Hard choice there, Malaya. *gwahahaha*
On another hand, I’ve stopped watching 3D movies after I and my S.O. got sick every time we watched a movie that required to wear those dorky glasses. No amount of alcohol wiping those glasses could get rid of the germs stuck to it.
It sounds like there is something very -wrong- with your theater, then. So far, three different theaters I’ve been to 3D movies at have all had the glasses come in little plastic bags you have to open up, assuring they’re clean before they ever touch your face. And since they’re sent off to be recycled afterwards for new uses(literally recycled, like aluminum cans are), they’re still guaranteed cleanliness. Does your theater not do this bagging/recycling process?
Depends if their using passive glasses or shutter glass’s.
Passive glass’s are vastly cheaper to make as they are just, well, polarised plastic. However, they need more expensive special projectors that project both images simultaniously.
Shutter glasses, on the other hand, contain two LCD displays (also polarised, but with liquid crystal between), a IR reciever, and circuitry to flicker them rapidly to make alternative left/right eyes go black.
They are thus vastly more expensive to make and cant be disposable.
Personaly I find passive a lot better anyway, lighter and more comfortable as well as never getting any flickering, and, yes often cleaner.
The last time I went to see a 3D film, they still used the old red/blue glasses, it looked OK, like watching an moving version of a Viewmaster.
a moving NOT an moving
you think thats bad? My theaters so cheap I had to blink my left and right eyes quickly myself!
Oh no..I think they were the passive kind and it’s only cleaned by this guy who wipes them off with an alcohol laden rag and puts them down on a tray. As far as I know they’re constantly re-used and that’s how far “recycling” gets where I live.
And mind you these are in the “high-end” theater malls. (>_<)
Being in a third-world country would do that. :/ So yeah, no 3D movies for us right now. (T^T)
Was the last comic supposed to establish Malaya as liking girls, or is it still supposed to be ambiguous?
i thought her introduction to leslie established that.
Actually you’re right, I went back and re-read it and there were some pretty strong hints. Thanks, Ryan.
Not sure. Ken said Malaya had only dated guys, so Les may be her first woman…or it’s solely to spite Robin.
Hmmmm Prime on hippster Les action
Jumpin’ flibbity-jibbit, I think this webcomic board gets more hits than any of the 60+ that I read on a daily basis.
A low bar with “Revenge of the Fallen”? Are you kidding me? There are Coleman Francis movies that were better than “Revenge of the Fallen”.
Let’s be honest, there were Uwe Boll movies better than “Revenge of the Fallen”
Ah, Uwe Boll, You’re like the Godwin’s Law of movie criticism.
I believe that Seltzerberger deserves the title of the movies answer to Godwin’s Law far more than Boll does.
My question is this … why is Robin not invited to the movie?
Are we getting one of those situations where everyone stays friends with Leslie and Robin gets left out from everything now? I’m hoping not.
Looks like the general consensus is that Robin was on the early shift and is now somewhere else after being dumped by Les again.
He payed $20 the masks? They are only $10 at Wal-Mart…
i know people are going to compare this movie to revenge of the fallen, but how does dark of the moon compare to the first one? that’s what i want to know.
It is easily eight times better than the other two combined. Good story, amazing graphics, way less racist/dirty jokes, some star treckk jokes and refrences bact to some of the best G1 episodes w/o totally copying the plot. I have a new favorite movie and I am pretty tough on movies. I saw it on imax 3d which is totally worth it.
But there’s still SOME racism and dirty jokes in it then?
Aw, haha, Malaya looks so cute in her mask.
Oh, Lord, I see the pattern forming here. Leslie is Agent Scully. Whenever Malaya says something nasty or pissy or puts down nerds (which, recall, Leslie is one), Leslie will be out of the room. Before long, Malaya will thoroughly alienate everyone (if she hasn’t already), and at least some of them will try to tell Leslie that she’s bad news, but because Leslie doesn’t see it and she’s seriously invested in this new girl being better for her than Robin, she won’t believe them. She’ll blame their “gossip” on anything but Malaya being the petty, spiteful, conceited person she is – most likely their friendship with Robin.
Oh, this is going to get uuuuugly.
Wow, I hope not becuase that will become annoying really quick like if true.
It’s the only way a relationship with Leslie lasts any length of time at all.
yeah, but nobody’s really friends with robin so that options out. she’ll probably blame it on malaya not being part of the “in” group of the long term workers
Is it just me, or does the yellow Angry Bird look a lot lime Mike?
It’s just you.
Actually, looking at my gravatar, I see it.
Huh.
I loved it when that robot turned into a car! …and, the way that guy screams GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!!! (Ok… I haven’t actually seen it. I just figured those were safe guesses.)
I realized why Malaya is so annoying to me. She hasn’t gotten any development yet. She’s a one note, maybe two note character (she doesn’t like the geeky stuff everyone else does, and she may like girls). She sorta the new Leslie of the group (seriously, compare how Leslie acted when we first met her vs how she acts now). I’ve decided to postpone my long term judgment of Malaya until she gets her character arc and I see what she looks like fully developed.
Yeah, before too long she’ll have a backstory, some friendships and a gay experience or fifty. Seriously though, the cartoonist does do great work building complex characters out of a one-note personality (read; Leslie, Mike, Joe).
The big difference with Dumbing of Age in my opinion, is that in DoA the characters started out complex, rather than building it up. Except DoA!Joe and DoA!Mike. They’re just jerks.
She has friends. She treats them like crap. Backstory might help, but Willis isn’t usually big on freudian excuses. Beef? Just disgruntled. Mike? Parents seem perfectly nice. Jason? Son of an interdimensional warlord.
DoA is pretty highly polished, Willis is really on form these days after all these years experience. I think I’ll actually buy those when books are made.
Perhaps Malaya is Sindney Yuss’s little sister (Roz’s Axis of Something counterpart), and this is all just an elaborate plan…
Nerds rank higher than hipsters! Learn something new every day.
I dunno… she seems pretty developed to me, she’s rudely dismissive of people and things she chooses to not understand. We basically know she hates everything about toys, sci-fi, comics, and nerd-dom in general… She’s so ignorant she can’t be bothered to even identify what she’s dismissing. What we have here ladies and gentlemen… is the human embodiment of the internet troll.
Ha! Perfect assessment of Malaya.
No, no. A troll does those things on purpose to elicit a reaction.
Malaya is completely oblivious to the mindset of her audience when she critiques aspects of nerd-dom. Remember when she built the Transformers display? She had no idea that Ethan was an obsessive-compulsive man-child with an unhealthy nostalgic attachment to overpriced trinkets from his childhood. After all, it’s not something that one would expect a middle-aged adult man to fixated on.
There. That was trolling.
The difference is intent.
Trolling or not, it was pretty damn accurate.
Someday…someday I will figure out what exactly a hipster is. The internet has not been able to answer the question very well so far. All I know so far is black rimmed glasses, skinny jeans, an old fashioned hat, possibly a cigarette, and….people hate them. That’s all I have. It’s like people just made up this culture so they had something to hate, but didn’t have to feel bad about hating anyone who actually existed. Unless they just don’t exist in Michigan….hmmm….
go to a starbucks near a college campus, odds are you’ll see a few.
Hating “Hipsters” seems to be a mostly USA-n fetish. But then clique wars seem very culturally USA to me.
I really don’t see what the big deal is. Hipster, hippie, chav, biker, mod, rocker, teddy boy, goth, new romantic…
Whatever.
i agree. all groups are the same at heart… which is why i just hate everybody. it makes everything so much easier cuz you don’t have to group then hate, you just hate as soon as you see them
Based on usage, I’ve worked out that “hipster” = anyone who A. dislikes anything that you like, or B. likes anything that you dislike.
‘Air Bud’ looks an awful lot like ALF…
I dunno if that would make the movie better or worse…
Mike is the only thing that saves this page.
Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines and brother, Mike hurts people!
I approve of continuing the Head Alien tradition of expressive masks.
Ha! Love the cross over! Every time I’ve checked out this comic I’ve liked it — which should tell me to go read through the archives, right?
so… i know that mike doesnt need logic to fuel his hatred of all things, but why would the dress up as the green lantern at the transformers premier?
To have a wrong-costume related incident.
If you read the Multiplex comic relating to Green Lantern, you’ll remember they didn’t dress up for that film either. So Mike obviously demands that they make up for all the movies that they didn’t dress up for, going backwards. After GL it will be X-Men First Class.
So did Mike just beat up Jason or a random non-name employee? And if so… is there a chance he’ll make to where we can see characters wearing costumes in Multiplex again?
And Jeeze! The more Malaya we see, the more I dislike her. I mean, she SERIOUSLY cannot let herself or let anyone else enjoy ANYTHING. She just has to be a cynic about everything and use fowl language to get her point across.
Yeah, the masks are a dorky, but they are FUN dorky. And frankly, considering some theaters just re-use the glasses instead of having clean, packaged ones, I’d personally be grateful to not have to touch glasses that were on someone else’s greasy face and covered in god-knows what.
And the fact Ethan was nice enough to spend 20 dollars EACH on the masks for all of them as a GIFT, one would think Malaya would have at least had the manners “thank you” even if she didn’t want it.
And what’s up with Leslie? She once baked herself into giant chocolate bar to try and tempt Robin into sleeping with her. Who is she to judge what looks dumb?
That’s definitely Jason on the receiving end of Mike’s knuckles.
Nerd cancer? Batiukonoma?
Yay! A crossover between two of my favourite webcomics!
mike!!!
I’m gonna watch the movie this afternoon! Anybody have anything they want to say to me before I die?
I want to apologize for being an offensive jerk back in May.
I liked it.
I think I’m going to skip Transformers this time. I didn’t really care much for either of the previous ones. But then, my big movie of the summer was Green Lantern, which I enjoyed and everyone else seemed to think was the cinematic antichrist. So, what do I know about movies.
Anyway, I may not like the way Malaya acts toward people, but I think I may side with her thought that the masks are just a bit too much. I’d go with the standard “hipster” glasses myself.
I haven’t liked either of the transformers movies so far. Spends far too much time on that whitwicky kid and his boring bullshit. I’ve seen Japanese Harems that are more tactful in their whole “Ooh, a lovably helpless nerd somehow getting ridiculously attractive women while being pulled by his ear into wacky antics”. I mean, I get that subtlety isn’t Michael Bay’s thing, but really.
When I tune in to a war between two factions of transforming robots and get an hour and a half of some punk kid staring slackjawed at his jawdroppingly gorgeous girlfriend before hastily wrapping up “That subplot with the robots n shit” then I feel like I’ve been ripped off.
Despite this I have an absolute surety that I will pay to see this in theatres yet again. Hopefully we’ll have a better explosions to whiny dipshit ratio this time, but either way I can give up ten bucks and two hours to see some badass robots and cool explosions even it’s accompanied by an unsavory sidedish. As much as I’m not a fan, Bayformers is hardly the worst of my movie investments. I’m sure I’ll have a good time.
HAHA! Love the background in the last panel!
Okay, someone needs to explain ‘hipsters’ to me and why they seem to be the new emo.
Just another clique centered around nonconformity and the rejection of the mainstream. Not much to talk about.
Just think indoor sunglasses and Pizzly bears and you’re halfway there.
Near as I can tell, it’s a subculture of people based around the obsession with being nonconformist, liking things “before they were cool” and doing things “ironically”. Like people who wear cartoon character t-shirts because the truth is they’d never seriously wear a cartoon character t-shirt (if that makes any sense at all).
That…sounds very confusing, actually.
It’s simple. They do, wear, and listen to things that they consider uncool, which makes them cool among their peers.
It’s a life of contradiction, being a hipster.
Hopefully Robin will turn up soon and kick Malayas ass for stealing Her Lesbian.
“stealing” HER lesbian? Leslie can make her own decisions from what I’ve already seen. Granted, they are not always good ones, but at least she does what she wants to do. You’re just biased because you either love Robin or hate Malaya, or possibly both.
Mike is speaking to my very soul..
Every time someone gives the reason of “some people made us” I always wanna scream “fine then, I’ll make you do the opposite” because I am just as much a person as whoever.. that is..
Anyway, for anyone confused about the whole “hipster” thing, here’s College Humor’s take on it using super-heroes: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6389568/hipster-superheroes
Could be worse, you could have used a concession character. They are all gay so would have fitted in perfectly
As a reader of Multiplex, this was awesome!
As a reader of both mutliplex and Short Packed! I must say the the two comics overlapping is pretty awesome, and should happen more often. ie, Mike showing up in the background of multiplex #604.
I’d still go with the thick hipster glasses! Wearing the Cinemask for the short time I did during the HoF at Botcon felt like it was going to pop my head like a pimple.
Am I the only one who had a momentary suspicion after the last panel that Mike caused the original incident as well and is just fucking with the guy?
He would do that- but no, that actually happened in Multiplex as a result of a fake swordfight getting out of hand.
Anyway, I recommend reading Multiplex. Because it’s good!
PROBLEM: Those masks are for RealD 3D, not IMAX 3D.
I don’t care if it’s 9 months after the movie was released.
YAY MORE MULTIPLEX CAMEOS!