Shortpacked! by David Willis

by David Willis on March 12, 2012 at 12:01 am

09 - The Secondish Coming

Look at the tags for this strip.

It is my Holy Trinity.

└ Tags: batman, doritos, taco bell

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mechaqua

March 12, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

Honestly the Doritio taco isn’t that great but still its tasty. Great artwork by the way!
Stephen Bierce

March 12, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

It’s not vigilante justice…it’s Fourthmeal. Think outside the cowl.
Gordon

March 12, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

I find this strip offensive.
- Gordon
  
  March 12, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply
  
  OFFENSIVE TO GOOD TASTE.
  - Foxhack
    
    March 12, 2012 at 3:27 pm | # | Reply
    
    I FIND IT OFFENSIVE TO MY BOWELS
    - arjay2813
      
      March 12, 2012 at 7:36 pm | # | Reply
      
      i have no idea why but the way you say that and that image just work so well together. i laughed irl hard
- mechaqua
  
  March 12, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply
  
  offensive but delicious!
  - fellixe
    
    March 12, 2012 at 12:27 am | # | Reply
    
    Makes me quiero Taco Bell so I can make a run for the bathroom and drop the chalupa, if you know what I mean.
    - Corrects your Spanish
      
      March 12, 2012 at 12:53 am | # | Reply
      
      “It makes me I want Taco Bell”
      
      That’s what you just said
      - fellixe
        
        March 12, 2012 at 1:16 am | # | Reply
        
        Yes, when translating from one language to another there are often gramatical inconsistencies. When trying to make sense of Spanglish it gets worse.
        
        Not the Adam Sandler drama, of course
      - johannhowitzer
        
        March 12, 2012 at 4:14 am | # | Reply
        
        So the Chihuahua always said “I I want Taco Bell”? That’s pretty funny. Or is the “yo” optional and not grammatically redundant?
        
        Arkadi
        
        March 12, 2012 at 11:02 am | # | Reply
        
        The ‘yo’ is optional; the ‘me’ is just plain wrong. ‘Me quiero’ means ‘I love myself’.
      - Chrono Crow
        
        March 12, 2012 at 8:38 am | # | Reply
        
        This isn’t reddit. Get out.
        
        Also, underwear-shaped glass shard in panel 3.
        
        Garth
        
        March 12, 2012 at 11:52 am | # | Reply
        
        Damn, now I can’t unsee it.
Doctor_Who

March 12, 2012 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

I had one. I honestly barely noticed the Dorito.

…The three packets of fire sauce may have been a factor.

When do we get one in Cool Ranch?
- Victor Prime, the Ghost-Who-Waddles
  
  March 12, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply
  
  Soon.
Ryan

March 12, 2012 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

My boner has a boner.
- fellixe
  
  March 12, 2012 at 12:18 am | # | Reply
  
  You should have that looked at
- lawzlo
  
  March 12, 2012 at 1:55 am | # | Reply
  
  You should start a very unique porn site. You’d be rich.
Bunk

March 12, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

There is nothing about this strip that is not perfection.
Wack'd

March 12, 2012 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

The third panel is the best of everything ever.
MichaelHaneline

March 12, 2012 at 12:34 am | # | Reply

Taco Bell and Dorritos should pay you mad cash for this, Willis.
fellixe

March 12, 2012 at 12:40 am | # | Reply

I can imagine the sad pretenders to follow, though. Subway sandwiches on the optional foot-long Triscuit, Del Taco burritos with tortilla made of Fruit Roll-Up… Not good.
- Historyman68
  
  March 12, 2012 at 2:38 am | # | Reply
  
  I’d try that Subway thing
- Tunasammich
  
  March 12, 2012 at 4:38 pm | # | Reply
  
  A foot long triscuit?! Where the poop do I sign up?!
RachelEvil

March 12, 2012 at 1:03 am | # | Reply

Well, damn, now I’ll have to try that.
NF

March 12, 2012 at 1:06 am | # | Reply

I don’t understand what’s going on.
- Doctor_Who
  
  March 12, 2012 at 8:22 am | # | Reply
  
  It’s a very accurate reproduction of the scene from Batman: Year One (by Frank Miller) where a bat flies through Bruce Wayne’s window. He just tried to fight some crooks and got his ass handed to him because he wasn’t intimidating enough.
  
  So he’s sitting in his study, pretty much bleeding to death, and wondering if he should just up and die, when suddenly a bat crashes through the window, scaring the bejesus out of him. He realizes how frightening it is, and is inspired to pull himself together and become Batman.
  
  Except here Bruce is a taco, the bat is a bag of Doritos, and this inspires the new Dorito Taco at Taco Bell.
  
  And it makes more sense than anything Frank Miller has written in over a decade.
  - NF
    
    March 12, 2012 at 12:00 pm | # | Reply
    
    Awesome.
  - pew pew!
    
    March 12, 2012 at 2:14 pm | # | Reply
    
    I’m guessing Miller hasn’t seen many actual bats.
  - Roborat
    
    March 12, 2012 at 2:49 pm | # | Reply
    
    Always had a problem with that, bats only weigh a few ounces, it would have just bounced off the glass. Not quite the same dramatic effect, however.
    - Historyman68
      
      March 12, 2012 at 9:40 pm | # | Reply
      
      African bat, or European bat?
      - Chris
        
        March 12, 2012 at 9:58 pm | # | Reply
        
        So two bats, carrying a coconut would weigh enough to break the window?
  - Bryy
    
    March 12, 2012 at 8:12 pm | # | Reply
    
    It literally showcases how batshit crazy Miller’s Bruce is.
    - Wack'd
      
      March 12, 2012 at 9:16 pm | # | Reply
      
      If I recall correctly, the actual origin story has it fly through the open window. Much more plausible, but presumably not dramatic enough.
emeraldbeacon

March 12, 2012 at 1:55 am | # | Reply

Make it a print.

Please, make it a print.
Zuche

March 12, 2012 at 2:08 am | # | Reply

So what you’re saying is that Bruce was just a chip off the old block?
- fellixe
  
  March 12, 2012 at 2:16 am | # | Reply
  
  That was cheesy
  - Zuche
    
    March 12, 2012 at 9:49 pm | # | Reply
    
    Well, nacho…really.
    - wererat2000
      
      March 12, 2012 at 11:02 pm | # | Reply
      
      wow, you’ve got this whole pun thing in the bag.
palaeoemrus

March 12, 2012 at 2:35 am | # | Reply

I’m not high enough to understand this. And I don’t get high anyway so…walking away now.
- Historyman68
  
  March 12, 2012 at 2:39 am | # | Reply
  
  I don’t think Willis does either… though I could be wrong?
Ado

March 12, 2012 at 3:17 am | # | Reply

There’s no taco bell in australia :’(
- PaulW
  
  March 12, 2012 at 9:30 am | # | Reply
  
  Then who won the Restaurant Wars in the Demolition Man movie?
  - Thrudd
    
    March 12, 2012 at 11:05 am | # | Reply
    
    But that was the republic of california – the rest of the world didn’t matter – heck, according to pretty much anyone in the states, the rest of the world doesn’t even exist except as folklore and myth.
    - Thrudd
      
      March 12, 2012 at 11:07 am | # | Reply
      
      Disclaimer – the previous post was in sarcastic jest and does not reflect of the mental faculties of those actually able to find this webcomic and read these posts.
      - Ado
        
        March 14, 2012 at 7:15 am | # | Reply
        
        Im oddly certain that in the movie Demolition Man australia had been abandoned for some unkown reason (or it just plain doesnt exist anymore). Hell we dont even have a decent Krispy Kreme to person ratio here, not to mention the very distinct lack of pop-tarts.
TemplarKnight

March 12, 2012 at 3:27 am | # | Reply

Alright, this is just downright spooky.

Tonight after getting off work, I went to Taco Bell and on the ride home I was listening Batman Year One on my iPhone while eating the Tacos.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
NinjaNick

March 12, 2012 at 3:49 am | # | Reply

DORITACOS!
SDGlyph

March 12, 2012 at 3:57 am | # | Reply

Hmm. Despite the original being Miller, I’m actually getting a serious Mignola vibe off this – especially panels 4-5. Nice.
- David Willis
  
  March 12, 2012 at 12:39 pm | # | Reply
  
  Well, Miller didn’t draw Year One, he only wrote it.
Mobius Strip

March 12, 2012 at 6:52 am | # | Reply

But the original flavor of Doritos is taco flavored, so if Taco Bell is now making Doritos flavored, thus taco flavored tacos, are they admitting all their other tacos don’t taste like tacos?
- Garth
  
  March 12, 2012 at 11:54 am | # | Reply
  
  Not taco flavored, nacho cheese flavored (allegedly).
- David Willis
  
  March 12, 2012 at 12:40 pm | # | Reply
  
  I don’t really follow. It’s just a taco in a Nacho Cheesier Doritos-flavored shell.
PaulW

March 12, 2012 at 9:29 am | # | Reply

And for those of us who eat the soft tacos…?
- Doctor_Who
  
  March 12, 2012 at 10:05 am | # | Reply
  
  Just let it sit for a few minutes. Those shells get soggy fast.
dangermouse

March 12, 2012 at 10:37 am | # | Reply

I was 100% ready to be all OH, FRANK MILLER YEAR ONE PARODY, NEVER SEEN ONE OF THOSE BEFORE ON THE INTERNET EVER

but no, that was fantastic.
Katarinea

March 12, 2012 at 11:08 am | # | Reply

http://9gag.com/gag/3276158

You’ve been 9gagged, Mr. Willis.

(for some reason, whenever I think of you, I think of Bruce Willis. . .)
- Wack'd
  
  March 12, 2012 at 9:17 pm | # | Reply
  
  Yippie-kye-yay, Mike.
John Harmon

March 12, 2012 at 11:28 am | # | Reply

This may be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. Taco Bell: Year One.
- Doctor_Who
  
  March 12, 2012 at 5:09 pm | # | Reply
  
  Your avatar made me think “Since when did Impulse have a beard?”
  - John Harmon
    
    March 13, 2012 at 7:31 pm | # | Reply
    
    I don’t know what that means. This is just one of my cartoon characters.
    - Doctor_Who
      
      March 27, 2012 at 10:39 am | # | Reply
      
      .
      - Doctor_Who
        
        March 27, 2012 at 10:40 am | # | Reply
        
        Sorry, got the link, but text failed. That is a picture of Impulse.
Mel

March 12, 2012 at 1:36 pm | # | Reply

There are no Dorito shells in Canada. My taco has a sad now
KenB3

March 12, 2012 at 4:50 pm | # | Reply

This strip is much more satisfying than the Dorito Taco actually was.
Joshua

March 12, 2012 at 6:01 pm | # | Reply

Tacos are a soft shelled and delicious lot.
SonicBlueRanger

March 12, 2012 at 8:03 pm | # | Reply

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Also the strips not bad either.
Maycroft

March 14, 2012 at 4:31 pm | # | Reply

The conqueror snack.
historyman68

March 20, 2012 at 12:47 am | # | Reply

I like the handwriting – Willis, is it your handwriting, or is it a font you created from your handwriting? I’m just curious.
- David Willis
  
  March 20, 2012 at 12:49 am | # | Reply
  
  It’s just my handwriting, though with rounder Ws and some extra cursive-like serifs in there, just to make it superficially different.
Ysoserious

April 24, 2012 at 10:51 pm | # | Reply

I may hate Taco Bell for masquerading as a Mexican food serving restaurant, but this was just pure win! XD
Lurlock

May 19, 2013 at 5:46 pm | # | Reply

Shouldn’t this be Nachitos? Or are we out-of-universe here?

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