The packaging bio for T-Wrecks suggests he might be an upgraded Beast Wars Grimlock, but when he eventually got put into fiction that angle was ignored.
Shortpacked! by David Willis
Toys are serious business.
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Calgary Expo Calgary, AB: April 26-28
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BotCon San Diego, CA: June 28-30
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Templar, AZ
The Transformers Wiki
Hail to the Slash
80 page GIANT
Axe Cop
The Book of Biff
Butt-Taco
Comics Curmudgeon
College Roomies from Hell!!!
Diesel Sweeties
Dinosaur Comics
Dr. McNinja
Dresden Codak
Fans!
Fleen
Gastrophobia
Girl Genius
Girls with Slingshots
Goats
Hark, a vagrant
Hijinks Ensue
Intrepid Girlbot
Legend of Bill
Medium Large
Not Invented Here
Octopus Pie
Overcompensating
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PhDcomics
Power Nap
Questionable Content
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Rob and Elliot
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Schlock Mercenary
Sheldon
So Far Apart
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Ken was playing Grimlock before he was cool.
Me Grimlock say Grimlock was cool before Ken was born!
Me Grimlock not hipster! Me Grimlock king…of listening to obscure Cybertronian bands. You wouldn’t have heard of any of them.
What would Hipster Waspinator be like? Getting blown up before it was popular?
Well, he was getting blown up on prehistoric Earth.
Elowel.
HIP-STEEEEEERS!!
COME OUT ANA PLAAAAAAAY!!
Lost Last panel: Malaya walks by flicking them both off saying “Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerdss”
She’s related to Ogre from RotN?
No, Piccolo from DBZ: Abridged.
Or Vegeta.
I see that Ken’s gradual slide towards becoming a younger replacement for Ethan continues.
(After all, he does fill the “Transformers fan” role quite nicely.)
The Nerd is strong with him, aye.
What about Cindersaur?
You probably can’t make Cindersaur in Autobot colors.
Not even his BotCon colors?
Especially his BotCon colors. And even if the Autobot palette included purple, I wouldn’t want to play as an Autobot as Cindersaur. That’s the point of Autobot colors — you play them as an Autobot.
Not even his BotCon colors?
Goddammit I hate my phone sometimes.
Slowly but surely this comic is becoming SP!: TNG.
Leading ultimately to evil Wil Wheaton?
WIIGII! > BAZINGA!
BLASPHEMY! … Then again… I could see Walky refusing to come out of a ball pit at 3 am.
The only character as annoying as Wesley Crusher is Malaya. I think she fits nicely into the shoes of evil Will Wheaton.
I’m also totally on board with SP:TNG.
I see my SP:TNG comment is beginning to gain some traction.
Ah, dammit! I was playing with the exact same colour set-up. And I thought I was being so witty!
When you throw yourself out the window make sure you put your hip into it, dude.
Duh. He did say he was playing *HIP*-ster Grimlock.
My little brother had a T-Wrecks. It was awesome. I knew just enough about Transformers to wonder why they made a good guy version of Megatron.
the non existent Hipsters have invaded Shortpacked. here I was hoping this comic was immune to that fake group of people.
Hipsters don’t exist and no one can prove to me other wise so don’t try.
Funny, that sounds exactly like something a hipster would say.
We’re on to you, buddy.
Hey, he was denying hipsters before hipster denial was cool.
Huh, I used a BW Megatron colour for my Grimlock Titan as well. But the Orange/Blue I used for his Autobot colours weren’t inspired by anything in particular (I used these on this titan already prior to the Dinobot upgrade).
Also, I tried to design a more Prime-esque Cliffjumper (which ended up as my shocktrooper Infiltrator) and recently a Waspinator which turned out to be a bit impossible due to the coloring and such.
Willis I kind of imagined that all of your Autobot builds were just bright orange versions of various characters
What does Hipster even mean?
That’s what I want to know. I hear it everywhere but I have no friggin clue what it means.
Young white person with means that I do not like.
Someone who wants to be counter-culture by following an existing culture with norms. So basically they don’t want to follow people but follow the not-normal people and are judged according to how well they live up to the group’s subcultural clique and dress stylings.
“You might be a hipster if…” you are proud of the fact you liked X before X was cool/mainstream.
For instance: I’ve liked pulled pork sandwiches for years. Recently, Burger King put a pulled pork sandwich on the menu, becoming (AFAIK) the first non-BBQ restauraunt to do so, making pulled pork mainstream.
Therfore, I liked pulled pork before it went mainstream.
…OH CHEESE IM A FOOD HIPSTER.
There is only one thing to do.
*falls on Star Saber*
People who goes against the stream just becuase it’s “against the stream”
Modern hipsters are people who look down on the ‘mainstream culture’, sometimes sport weird beards and fight against the evils of consumerism by buying lots of anti-consumerist products.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hipster
Him, Grimlock was king before being king was cool.
Ken becomes more and more like a less popular straight Ethan.
Except more successful on acquiring toys.
I’m fairly certain that means he wins.
…Why isn’t M. Bison in the new logo?
…And then Ken turns his T-Wrecks green so he’ll match the Classics Mini-con Terrorsaur (assuming FOC lets you make an Autobot that shade of green (I don’t have it, I know I should, but I don’t yet)), realizes what he’s done, and cries himself to sleep.
NEXT WEEK: Brody the Brony joins the Air Force.
And is disapointed to find that they have no Wonderbolts division.
So is it confirmed Ninja Rick is doing a dime for gutting the fast food worker with a sword, since he hasn’t been seen for ages and isn’t in the new logo?
He attended Amber and Mike’s wedding, so no.
You haven’t seen him because he’s a ninja!
Can’t believe Willis passed up a golden opportunity to use the word “defenestrate” in the last panel. =[