Arrrr, yonder wench be harborin’ the son ‘r lass of a biscuit eater.
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Well, that’s pretty definitive.
As definitive as Mike fucking your mom.
Soooo that’s the first thing Mike will say to his child?
“i did your mom”?
And this time he’ll say that with a genuine smile.
Oh lord that would be epic. Also SW, your pic is hilarious.
oh Lord its gonna be the real spawn of the devil.
“Hey kid, your collage fund was started of the first nickel I got for your mom” would be my guess.
My dad wasnt that much of a prick…he just supposedly picked me up, and listed in years, months, days, minutes and seconds till I was 18 and out of the house…and got a scowl from the nurse…btw he was a year off (17 woot)..and he got me luggage for my 18th, just like he said…
DAMN YOU, WILLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSS
OK, let’s remember that there is a protocol for the DYW invocation; this protocol goes back to when the DYW was first used by a veteran boardie in 2004 or so. The protocol is thus: All caps, no extra letters, period at the end. As follows:
DAMN YOU WILLIS.
That is the time-tested, proper and true method for invoking the DYW. Thank you for your attention. We return you now to your Monday, already in progress.
I might add further that the veteran boardie noted above is exceptionally gifted, brilliant, handsome, dead sexy, and is lusted after by everyone’s Moms, everywhere. So his precedent must be followed.
They are also the model of extreme modesty and honesty.
Well, I thought that went without saying.
And that’s why he’s modest, folks.
WILLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS
Parseltongue version
Happy anniversary, Willis!
“Arrrr, yonder wench be harborin’ the son ‘r lass of a biscuit eater.”
Hey look, somebody who celebrates talk like a pirate day.
Thank you for explaining that. I should know that but for some reason I read it and then just didn’t process why it would be there.
Didn’t a certain artist meet a certain someone thanks to pirate speak and have a pirate themed wedding as well?
If I read correctly, congrats. If not, my apologies.
Yes a certain artist did. I want to say they were married on talk like a pirate day too? amIright? If I am, Happy Anniversary!
What do you bet the unborn child takes after Mike, and is “kick kick kick kick kick kick kick” for nine solid months?
Except that it won’t even have legs for a while yet.
Right now it’s little more than a blob, most likely.
Do you really think mere physical impossibility would stop the Spawn of Mike? This is the guy who banged the mother of the Cheese, and the Cheese doesn’t even have a mom.
Hey Ethan, you’re not the center of the world after all!
Sorry, replied in the wrong spot somehow.
Or maybe he takes after his grandparents! And he’s all 50s nice and obedient!
OMG – Mikes Spawn [tm] would be a total rebel and anti-anything parental – so a bible thumping chartered accountant that works itself into the upper echelons of the evil empire known as Hasbro …… what do you mean Bandai has pulled all their licenses?
Since you used improper punctuation on “Mikes Spawn” [TM], you can go ahead and have it, since it makes absolutely no sense.
i’m not sure quite what you were trying to say, but i love that amber’s got a bun in her oven. this is now my favorite storyline of any of you’re stories
AAAAAAAHHH!!
ok got that out my system
mike looks… scared? or disgusted. but i’m leaning towards scared
I think the look is worry or concern.
It be the fear of being held accountable for that ungodly spawn that will emerge to wreak havoc upon this earth.
That and changing diapers.
I don’t know. That sounds like the kind of thing Mike would like to bond with his child over.
I like that Mike is totally hover-handing Amber. “This is as close as I’ll come to touching you right now!”
To me, is a Sober Mike smile.
As close to a non-creepy-sober-mike smile as possible, anyway.
This is totally babies.
It’s so babies, it’s Babies McIntyre.
If they name the baby “McIntyre” I don’t know what I’ll do…
I see what ya did thar.
What does that even mean?
To quote today’s Darths and Droids:
“Achievement unlocked! “
I was beaten to the punch!
I am so sad.
She’s…so relieved she’s not pregnant?
Damn, I’m surprised it took so long for somebody to point out that she might be excited that she ISN’T pregnant. Which was my first thought.
Ku-dos!
Judging from Willis’ comments below I’d say she’s pregnant….
Unless it’s a joke ‘She’ll carry it to term. Because she’s not pregnant.’
Sorry, Ethan. Looks like you have a whole Boss Fight of Crazy to get through before you may Abscond to your room.
On another note, what the hell is with Mike’s face? It’s like he doesn’t know how he should be feeling over this just yet.
No blush on the cheeks. I’m guesing Mike’s face is just sober plus one swelling cheek.
Or he’s right between drunk and sobering up.
Sounds like the reaction of every guy who ever heard he was going to be a dad to me. It takes a few minutes for the unbridled joy to set in.
Too late.
*wonders if Mike is reaching out for a coathanger*
I was scratching my head about his hand just hanging out there luke that. Is he almost drunk enough to be supportive, but now sober enough to not quite pull off a hug?
Hrm, this looked to me like it could be either case (Amber happy because she’s pregnant or Amber happy because she’s not pregnant), though given everyone’s reaction and the comment underneath… Oh dear. That poor child.
I thought that too until I read “Arrrr, yonder wench be harborin’ the son ‘r lass of a biscuit eater.”
Ethan’s first(?) encounter with Murphy’s Law.
Mike’s face couldn’t be more perfect.
Also, Robin back in the appartment! Then again Mike and Amber are there too, so perhaps it’s just because of a general celebratory occasion?
Doesn’t look like anyone’s celebrating. Well, Amber is, but you’d think everyone else would have responded by now.
Shocked silence, then? They couldn’t have been waiting for Ethan, since undoubtably he planned to be out late or stay the night at Drew’s. It is unexpected, so I wouldn’t blame them for being in shocked silence. Then again Leslie looks like she’s not too keen on the whole thing, so who knows.
They may have stopped when Ethan came in, looking morose.
I think they were still waiting for Amber to come out with bated breath. Amber just happened to come in immediately after we see them so we don’t get to see their reaction.
Roz: “Robin, run and grab a pregnancy test and we meet back at our apartment, NOW!”
Maybe reading too much into it, but I kind of figured that was why Robin was the only one not changed out of her work gear. Mike and Amber don’t live there and they changed somewhere as did Malaya apparently. Robin may have run – actually ran – for the pregnancy test.
That’s a good explanation, and it works out all right that Robin has superspeed (so running for the test would take very little time) that really the “change” is only that they all took their work shirts off–they are all wearing the undershirts that they had on with said green shirts. Robin is the only one who doesn’t actually ~have~ and undershirt, so she couldn’t just take her shirt of (because, y’know, maybe she might actually try and be sensitive to Leslie’s feelings at this critical juncture)
Maybe Robin couldn’t change clothes just because of the scorpions…
Yeah, I noticed that too. No one’s really talking so it’s not like everything is better. I really wish that girl would get her act together.
Well then. Out of the mouth (keyboard?) of Willis himself.
What’s next, I wonder? Amber sure looks happy, though.
Man, everyone here has the weirdest definition of “looks happy” I’ve ever seen.
That expression there looks more like someone torn between joy and horror to me.
Sorry Ethan. Things were already getting crazier. There was no way you could have avoided it.
That ring looks suspiciously like a pregnancy test…
Nice. Ha ha ha
Well it looks like the comments made by a lot of people when she first got sick were correct after all.
Mike is not fit to be a father. This kid is going to have some serious emotional problems.
If he/she does, that may be more due to having Mike’s DNA than being raised by him.
For some odd reason I think Mike would be a good father
Well, lack of discipline certainly wouldn’t be a problem, I’ll give him that.
Why? Why on Earth would you think that? If Mike was drunk reguluarly enough to give a child a healthy amount of affection and care, he’d die!
Technically the amount of booze Dina gave him to keep him a good boyfriend probably would’ve killed a normal person. I’m thinking his powers give him more of a… not a tolerance, but a resistance to alcohol poisoning?
I’m holding out hope that their relationship will crumble before the baby is born.
Or maybe Mike will hit his head REALLY hard on something and become permanently “drunk”.
I can hope.
AAAAAA
AAAAAAAAA
AAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WILLIS
I almost wonder if Amber is crying from relief that the test is negative? But then again that description is pretty conclusive soooo
YAY, Mike’s not drunk!
Er…Mike’s not drunk…so he’s just gonna abandon that summbitch, ain’t he? >_>
He had to apply some liquid courage before his previous attempt to end the relationship. Presents a bit of a predicament at this point.
…ok, this is pretty out there, but who wants to bed that the test is negative and that Amber is crying cause she’s so relieved and she SO didn’t want to be a mother yet? XD
I’m probably completely wrong, but if I’m not, it’d be EFFIN’ hilarious. Especially given Mike’s expression.
If she IS pregnant, that baby will be born scowling. XDDD
Sorry Ethan, big things are happening. No rest for you.
Seriously, does ANYBODY read Willis’s comments before replying?
Yes. and I read them. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t be lying. Like he’s done… oh, 20 times or so? or once last week?
If this turns out to be a miscarriage, I want my Internet Money back.
Agreed. Stop giving us non-babies, internet.
Yeah, have my baby, Internet! Wait, didn’t word that right….
Ditto.
The baby will come to term.
Thank you Willis!
…though I do know of other comics that had pregnancies not end in miscarriages…
That sounds vaguely ominous. But then again it is Mike and Amber’s kid so…
But will then immediately be abducted by the StarJammers. That’s right, I’m on to you Willis!
Actually.. Head Alien is probably a better candidate.
um… WIIGII!
Did anyone else just hear an ominous chord?
Sorry, I was tuning this piano over here.
I’ll believe nothing from you, sir!
I mean, that there really is a baby. Not the full-term part. The very idea!
Seriously, until one of them flat-out says she’s pregnant, I’m going to be thinking you could be messing with us. Enough of your lies!
Hmm… looks my comment on this topic got deleted. Well, I’ll just say that I’m happy you have the guts to follow through on the storyline that you started.
There is a certain other comic that I USED to follow that started this particular storyline, then… cut it short part way through. I’m the artist had his reasons, but it came across as halfarsed and like he was unwilling to change the comic’s status quo.
I’m glad you’ve got the stones to follow through.
The baby will come to term…….s with its non-existance.
SHOCKING SWERVE!
D=;;; There goes the neighborhood…
Is that an ant carrying a slice of a watermelon?
Is this saying something about your marriage, Willis?
Oh good, I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw the significance… though if he could time it that well, hot damn.
I’m good, but not that good.
What’s with the weirdly personal questions about Willis’s marriage lately? First the one about Ethan/Drew, and now this.
WE NEED TO KNOW. EVERYTHING.
Exactly!
Plus, today’s their anniversary so it’s kinda on our minds.
If I had been wearing socks they would have been knocked of, and I thought this arc couldn’t get anymore series changing.
Hmm? Is that a ring case? Why is it white, and shaped like that?
And why did somebody pee on it?
Mike’s just marking his territory.
God damn you Willis. If this weren’t so much like watching a train wreck, I’d have checked out from this comic about three strips back. As it is, I’m sticking around in the hopes Mike becomes less of a douche, and maybe everything will work out.
If “Mike becomes less of a douche” I want MY internet money back
And Mike will tell the child that he fucked its mom.
haha.
Explaining the nickel in the kid’s college fund.
For a nickel.
Breeders? In my Shortpacked? It’s more likely than you think.
I know SP is mostly self-contained and doesn’t require too much knowledge of continuity to get by, but what do you think the Vegas odds are on this kid having super powers?
I mean, from a purely genetic standpoint it seems inevitable. You can’t have that sort of ancestry without something carrying over, right?
Yes indeed, I’d say there is a very good chance that this child will be…immune to criticism.
Or with horrible daddy issues. Just sayin’.
I was wondering the same thing. But AFAIK, Walky’s son-from-the-future didn’t demonstrate superpowers, and he had TWO parents with Martian DNA. 8~S
Machete did too have powers! They were remarked upon.
Machete? Did Walky get his naming sense from Scott Pilgrim or something?
Bobby Walkerton just thought the name sounded cool.
Well, depending upon whether Amber was wearing the mask at the time, their child will have the following:
1. Super Stregnth.
2. The power to assess, cripple, and destroy anything with emotions.
3. Well above average constitution.
4. A lack of any visible emotion besides ______ unless drunk where it will be the exact opposite.
5. If Amber was wearing the mask while humping Mike, the immunity to criticism. Though, the ability to be immune as long as a mask is worn might be passed down instead, depending upon how her powers work.
Oh, my bad. It’s been a while since I read that section.
Funny thing. It never occurred to me before now that Machete’s powers were inherited. I just thought they were future-powers, on account of being from the future.
I am hoping those are tears of relief…This arc is messing with my emotions.
PREDICTION: The baby isn’t Mike’s.
I know that doesn’t make any sense, but I’ll say it anyway, Just in case
Right, it’s Jacob’s. And that’s why he’s been in his apartment getting all fat. Ha ha ha
Willis could conceivably be lying to us and she’s happy she isn’t pregnant.
(Probably not though and I hope she is.
)
Nope, It’s confirmed. Check the author’s comments
Sorry, I misread your comment. I’m having an off day with these comments
Weird. I remember Willis saying something along the lines of drastically decreasing focus on Danny and Billie when DJ came about because he didn’t know how to write a couple with a child and therefore the characters became alien to him. So either this is Willis’s way of phasing Amber and Mike out of the comic or Willis has a lot more confidence in writing about interpersonal situations that are not his own than he did four years ago.
Which I think may have been around the same time Ethan came out, so it’s probably the latter.
I am, of course, referring to Joyce & Walky. Danny and Billie appeared all of once in SP! and that was for an April Fool’s gag.
I’d say David’s writing has improved. Most likely more confident to write a story with parents in it. I would like to see hwo this develops myself, Mike as a dad would be hilarious..
I totally called it! Ether that or it will be a twist lol but this is good so far.
arrrr, ye be celebratin National Talk Like A Pirate Day, yaaarrrr
I be celebratin’ too
The child will always be happy, but extremely hostile when drunk. Genetics…
I think when Amber is in labor, Mike will chew it free from her uterus, and then Ethan will fall in love with the baby.
I demand you draw me this guest strip.
Hmmm…
If Mike starts sparkling, I am so out of here.
If you recall, Mike was a mummy, not a vampire. He had to hide his glorious body under the bandages. I can’t recall if he sparkled or not.
DAMN YOU MCALPIN!!!
Squee? She’s pregnant!
That’s what we’re going to hopefully find out tomorrow. Though knowing Willis…
Truly a momentous occasion if Leslie is letting Robin into the house.
I know right? That was the first thing that struck me too.
I’m sure that says something about me, but no clue what.
She’s actually holding a cake thermometer. Cupcakes are exciting business!
Yeah, I dunno.
Oh hey, and gratz on the wedding anniversary.
GD? You said GD in a comment? Who the hell do you think you are? Next you’re gonna have Ethan beat Galasso with a song or something aren’t you? Should I expect to see you in an issue of Suicide Squad anytime soon?
Cheers to another year of your matrimonal ship sailing the seas, Willis!
Awww.. Faz is gonna be an uncle!….
Willis….is maggie pregnant? Otherwise its really hard to explain why we’ve waited for the conclusion of this strip for nearly 3 weeks and we end up finding out amber’s pregant on the one year anniversary of your marrige to maggie.
She is not. The story just worked out this way. And you’ve only been waiting to find out since Wednesday!
I more meant that its been 3 weeks since this particular storyline began. I really thought I was onto something significant there…hmmmph. guess not.
It took three weeks because just having one strip with Amber saying “I’m pregnant” is kind of dull, you know?
To you maybe. I’d crap myself! twice.
How it should have been done: three panels of Batman jokes, then suddenly in the last panel Amber just says “I’m pregnant” out of nowhere.
Amber: “I’m Pregnant.”
Batman: “I’m Batman.”
Mike: “I KNOW!…Wait, what?!”
Maybe the baby is Batman’s. SURPRISE PLOT TWIST!
I wish I could say this was a joke, but that is exactly how my best friend told me she was pregnant.
Ok, first I misread “best friend” as “boyfriend”, and I also thought it was a response to the “I’m pregnant”/”I’m Batman” comment above. Time for me to have a lie down, apparently.
Faz will be… I don’t know, either devastated or completely illogically thinking its his or happy I guess. I have no idea what Faz will do but it should be interesting.
Oh, I fully expect Faz to be there with the comments about her hormones and making a chart on her breast size day-by-day.
This is just creepy enough to be right.
Okay, I get the pregnancy test thing, and the obviously positive result, but I am trying to break down each character’s expression and it’s driving me crazy. DAMN YOU WIIIIIILLLLLLLIIIIIISSSSSSSSS!!!
One word. Twins.
Another word: Quintuplets.
Octuplets…. OCTO MOM AMBER
She’ll have so many babies…! FOUR HUNDRED BABIES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs&feature=related
Mike’s face! HIS FAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
That’s probably because Mikes the one that’s pregnant.
(Martian resurrection turns you into a seahorse. Who knew?)
So one night the little spawn will emerge and crawl into mikes navel and mike will have the baby bump for 6 months – or until its old enough to graduate college …. ugh .. I just tried to visualize that last bit and … ewwww ….
Martians, presumably.
This is their secret revenge.
*laughs maniacally*
On 9/7 I said:
“This is a perfect combo of final test if she can really take him at his worst and proposal. I was rather expecting a pregnancy test, a roll of nickles and a ring… but this is so much better.”
Now I need to put a stopper on the precog again.
Wait this cannot be good.
Especially since you just know she’s going to have twins, so that she’s going to have to either give one up to Galasso or lose her assistant manager position.
While I would presume its positive, frankly, that reaction COULD be for either result, (i.e., I’m gonna be a momma! / I’m not pregnant- hallejulah!)…
Mikes kid should tag team with Bobby and RULE THE WORLD. Or play with Ethans transformers and make him squirm by doing so.
Finally got my own gravatar thing set up
I quit, again.
Oh hey! Robin is there!
Leslie actually let her in the house?
This has to be some elaborate set up…nothing is straight forward in Shortpacked!
Amber probably slept with Jacob as revenge or something awhile ago and the big shock is when Amber gives birth and the baby looks nothing like them….Congrats on the baby though guys!
I got it. Mike had sex with Jacob, then saved the semen and injected into Amber when having sex. The big shock will be when the baby is born and Amber can’t figure out why the baby looks like Jacob.
Aww…
poor Ethan but still
Um, am I insane or is Leslie’s head just kind of free floating without a neck?
Nope I see what you’re seeing
I… I hadn’t noticed it before… now I can’t stop noticing….
It’s 3 am and I’m cracking up. XD Going to wake someone up….
Ew, she’s touching the pee part
Amber: It’s postive.
Mike: I need a drink.
Ethan stares at him.
Mike: I’m sobering up.
I bet it gets abducted by aliens.
Oh and boo for going with the ‘woman throwing up must be pregnant’ rule (to be retracted if it’s revealed she’s just crying tears of happiness for NOT being pregnant).
….pregnant women who’ve just been given a mind-shattering proposal aren’t aloowed to throw up?
No, it’s not that. It’s just that in about 90% of all fiction ever made, if a woman throws up, it’s because she’s pregnant, usually unexpectedly. It’s lazy shorthand for the signs of pregnancy and a thoroughly worn out ‘surprise’ reveal for the pregnancy.
Mike’s expression reads to me like someone who LOVES his girlfriend and whats her to be happy, but it still worried about the concequences of something HE isn’t entirely happy about. Still gonna support his gf though be solemn rather than excitable about it.
In other words, damn you willis, best Mike!expression ever.
Fiance – she said yes last week
But it wasn’t a real proposal.
This could turn out to be the most important point made on this page. So, Amber is pregnant… Are they going to go ahead and just assume the proposal to be valid? Will Mike bring himself to do it again for real? Hmmm…
When angry, she hits the person she loves… but is always SO SORRY after she’s done it, and swears she didn’t mean to do it. Now she can dop it to a child! That’s daddy’s lil’ girl!
Oh dear… If that kid inherits Mike’s super strength, Amber damn well better hope it NEVER kicks.
I wonder how mike’s child would be like.
Y E S S S S S S S S S S S S S.
Unless, of course, the reveal is she’s overjoyed to not be pregnant, in which case I still yessssssssss but not in capitals and definitely not with the spaces. Sorry I have a baby problem!!
Yes, good, I’M LITERATE. Well, this is certainly not an embarrassing comment chain at all.
Willis’ comment seems oddly specific, but knowing how he likes to blow our minds… shmaybe, Amber is relieved at not being pregnant, but SOMEONE ELSE IN THE ROOM IS PREGNANT.
I vote Leslie, that would blow lot’s of people’s minds.
Though in storyline, how long has it been since Robin and Jake Manley got together?
Hmmm come to think of it Ethan’s now-ex-boyfriend is bisexual and seemed to be coming on to her. Nah, WAY too chalkboard-complicated.
I wish people would stop acting like Drew and Ethan are over. So far all that’s happened is that they had a fight and they’re taking a break which might just be a break. No one’s broken up with anyone and the metaphorical body that is their relationship isn’t even cold yet.
Robin/Jacob was months ago. Like, Robin would be ready to give birth by now, if she hadn’t already.
Maybe Malaya? Dhalsim said that she has had boyfriends (who are not him). No mention of how recently.
But the prize choice (in both likeliness and hilarity) would be Roz. With Jacob’s kid. Lawl.
But I doubt any of this is the case. Willis may enjoy screwing with us, but I think it’s fairly obvious that Amber is the pregnant one. Or else she’s overjoyed that Mike gave her a Wiimote as an engagement present.
SQUEEEE…I mean wow so she was pregnant. *thumbs up* Good job Willis.
Though, now I have to wonder…will the child obtain Mike’s super strength? Or maybe his frown. OH OH! It would be so awesome if it was a little female Mike. 
Mike’s dressed in black. Amber’s dressed in white.
Ethan: “I now declare you husband and wife.”
(Of course he can do that! It *is* set in San Fransisco, and they are totally OK with “gay marriage” there.
You might as well remove the Toxitron tag, He’s completely invisible.
That’s not one of his powers!
Mike now developed the HOVER HAND ability level 10!
So doesn’t the
demon spawnoffspring of an alien abductee inherit their powers?If so, the entire Shortpacked crew is screwed on so many levels…..
I CANNOT WAIT to see Mike as a father. ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Happy Anniversary to Mr. and Mrs. Willis!!! I hope this means we’ll be seeing another big wedding this time next year on Shortpacked!. Can’t wait to see who might show up from the Walkyverse for that kind of event.
You do all realize, of course, that since Amber promised Glasso her second-born it’s going to be twins.
Wow. That… would be epic.
Now I’m picturing Glasso as Rumpelstiltskin.
how is babby formed
how girl get pragnent
This is hilarious because your Gravitar is Hot Shot.
I suddenly have a craving for JaAm…
It would also have been hilarious had the avatar been Galasso.
Seriously, am I the only one not looking foward to this? Baby storylines are the death of every web comic they appear in
says who? Its the death of the webcomic if its done VERY poorly like any other story for a comic. The onlty comic that HAS been destroyed by such an arc is cad and they handled it TERRIBLY
I no longer read Spiderman because of Marry Jane’s miscarriage.
I was looking forward to seeing the writers tackle Peter as a dad and seeing what life it would breath into a very long running, repetitive comic. Then I saw the writers/editor back-peddle and I realized they just are not mature enough to handle anything with real drama. I was paying for crap.
I will gladly support this comic and it’s artist/writer for being far braver and creative then those cowards.
I have full faith Mr. Willis can handle this story element and show everyone how it’s done.
“Peter, you’re now a father. I can’t risk you running around trying to get yourself killed fighting supervillians anymore, much less risking having the baby be used as a hostage. So, quit being Spiderman.”
“Okay, honey. With parenting comes even greater responsibility, after all.”
***The End***
Lol! Good trolling, my friend. A+.
With Mike as the father? What could go wrong?
I hope it’s her’s, and I didn’t miss something along the way. @_@
It’s one thing to suggest it might not be his, but I think we can be fairly certain that she’s the mother.
Happy anniversary, Mr. Willis.
I see you are boldly going where few comic book writers/editors will dare go.
Bravo.
I’m wondering when or if Amber’s going to freak out about having her child raised by someone so much like her own father…
If the kid is a girl, they’d better name it Dina.
This. Absolutely
Shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, that Ethan owns the DC Universe Online collector’s edition Batman sculpture.
A side thought: I wonder if Mike’s baseline isn’t shifted, and he doesn’t go so much from sober to drunk as from knurd to ‘sober.’
Of course, if he keeps drinking, he’ll be drunk by any standard.
Eagerly awaiting the “Amber’s dad just wants to see his grandchild” storyline!
Upon which he meets the child’s father.
Amber’s father will not survive the story arc if that happens.
I would like to see this. Amber’s dad hasn’t has enough comeupence. Ever since Amber and Mike got together, I’ve been waiting for him to show up, try to act intimidating like he did with Ethan, and get the beating of the century.
“Yes, I have been in a war”
How about the Amber’s mom feeds the kid so many cookies it pops storyline?
Amber having a baby? But didn’t she promise her firstborn to Glasso for the Assistant Manager position?
The son of Mike & Amber raised by Glasso…
Dun-Dun-Dun!
Second born. But it’d be Galasso vs Mike. And Galasso brought Mike back from the dead, for some reason we don’t yet know.
Why the shock over Leslie letting Robin in the house? Are they really on such bad terms anymore? I mean yes there’s still a lot of awkwardness and hurt on both sides but they don’t hate each other.
Leslie wouldn’t forbid Robin to be there at all. they clearly can work around eachother now. Robin fucked up by trying to “Save” Leslie but it did solve one problem, the sexual tension was cut and they’ve stopped avoiding eachother. It helped Leslie come to a decision for now, and that decision was Robin is bad for her. Now whether that will continue remains to be seen, at the least Leslie seems to be a positive influence on Malaya. Lets face it, the only person who needs to tone the fuck down more than Mike is Malaya, and well, Amber can’t be hate fucking every person with issues in the store.
it’s nice to see Shortpacked getting more comments than DoA lately. I love DoA, but I’ve been with this continuity for years, and like it better. (only a little better though)
Mike’s gonna be a daddy!
… that poor child.
Mike pokes holes in people’s condoms by habit, it seems. It has proven his undoing.
Does anyone else find it odd that Ethan said “gee-dee” rather than “goddamn”? Besides being a very peculiar bit of self-censoring, I find myself reading it as “Gee-one”, no matter how many times I go back over it.
YAY!! Go Amber and Mike!!
Though, for the longest time I know they were pretending to be “bf and gf” but when did they actually decide to go ahead and have sex? Was it just part of the pretending package? I must of missed something :/
On their first sate. Seriously, it was one of Amber’s conditions: “At sunset we make love.”
And they’ve been doing it ever since. you may remember a meme based around Amber’s description of the events, and a tryst in the laundry room.
And even before they were a couple, Mike banged Amber to drive a wedge between her and Ethan.
Date, not sate.
I R Literate!
YAY for Literacy! lol sorry
Now, I knew they had a romp in the laundry room, just wasn’t sure when it all started. I will be needing to read Short Package from the beginning, for I just got done with the Walky and Joyce one last night. Yay me!
Yeah. I think you missed something … like their sexytimes.
Or their comments about the sexytimes.
Or when they were caught performing their sexytimes.
Also, checking the archives, I found this bit regarding Amber’s pregnancy. Waaay back from 2009. OMG! Faz’s the father!
-airfox
STILL DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW BABBY HAPPENED.
ALSO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND CAPS-LOCK ANYMORE. WUT IS IT???
the shock looks on their faces is because amber is carrying mikes spawn and mike is like omg things are moving so fast. ethan is proably omg no not amber with mikes seed.
So is Malaya official a part of the main group… {:-|
Ethan: And oh gawd… Mike has reproduced! Its the end of the days!
Is mike the first abductee to have a kid? The first we’ve seen? Or are there others?
I’ve heard some wacky rumor that Walky and Joyce have some kind of time-travel kid, but if that happened I either don’t remember it, or it happened in the “pay-to-view” Joyce and Walky comics that I never bought.
http://www.walkypedia.com/index.php/Machete
Oh hay, look, here it is.
I was just about to give you a link when i saw you had one already
Yeah, it’s within the last 20-30 pages of the Walky and Joyce comic with the Invasion, the colored pages mostly. They only call him Machete, but I didn’t know he had an actual name. So, according to this tad bit of info, Mike is the second of the abducts to have impregnated someone
It’s all your fault, Robin! You pulled the goddamned drama tag!
Hey! Looks like you called it about the pregnancy being Robin’s fault.
-airfox
I’ll wait to see whether it’s positive or negative before I comment on the pregnancy.
As for the rest, I’m more shocked Leslie let ROBIN in the house!
That’s the first thing I noticed too. I assumed Leslie’s reasonable enough to realize that this is something big enough that, well-recorded history of unpredictable narcissistic mania aside, Robin should be allowed to be part of.
Happy Anniversary!
Has anyone considered the fact that just a few strips ago, Mike was trying to drive Amber away for her own good? And now she’s forever tied to him by a child. Could his expression be regret?
Robin, Roz, Malaysia, and Leslie all in the same room. How has no one killed each other yet?
This is one of the funniest strips in shortpacked history! I have no regrets!