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by David Willis on February 4, 2006 at 2:45 am
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It’s Saturday, so as always, there’s a free Joyce & Walky! strip up.

I was reminded the hard way today why I tend to stick to a MWF schedule for Shortpacked!. The amount of time needed to spend on an individual strip varies wildly, from those cheap draw-a-panel-then-copy-paste-a-bunch-of-times ones to, well, the one I drew this evening. All of this evening. And it wasn’t so much difficult as it was time-consuming, in a way unique to itself. As you know, Shortpacked! can and will steal someone else’s artstyle for a joke, which can really suck if the artstyle is staggeringly beyond my usual chickenscratch. Next time, I should really stick to Spongebob Squarepants or something.

At the moment, it’s intended to run a week from Wednesday, but that’s changeable. I left Monday and Tuesday open, for the weekend before is Toy Fair, and I know I’ll have something to say. But I may have diarrhea of the marker, so Wednesday could become Thursday or beyond.

Hey, it’s Captain America!

Not much to say other than that Ponderosa’s Friday Seafood Buffet could use some stuff that isn’t shitty. However, the orgasmic nature of their chicken wings is eternal. All hail.


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by David Willis on February 1, 2006 at 8:18 pm
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Today’s Drama has some content that is indeed questionable.

We also found out today that Palisades is pretty dead. We all saw this coming, sadly, but it still sucks. Seriously, I was gonna buy their Sesame Street stuff. I had the biggest hard-on for it. Here’s a story my dad can confirm (Hi, Dad): When I was a little kid, I loved Sesame Street. With a fanatical fervor. My grandparents had lots of spare wood in their garage, so every time I visited, I would assemble the Sesame Street sign/lamp post out of it. Repeatedly. Eventually out of anything available. Remember Close Encounters of the Third Kind? The making of the Devil’s Tower out of mashed potatoes? Yeah, I was that crazy about that damn sign. I think I had Aspergers.

It got to the point where I was in like first grade, and I was still so hung up on Sesame Street that my mom actually bought me every Transformer we saw. Well, she sure got me out of Sesame Street. But damned if I ever got out of Transformers.

But anyway. There was a Sesame Street playset diarama that Palisades was going to sell with the first wave of figures. It had The Sign. I was going to buy the fuck out of it. But Palisades is dead. Apparently they sold way too much stuff that only one person (like me) wanted. Damn.

I hear they did Transformers statues, too. You know, based on the Pat Lee look. Yeah, things weren’t going so well for them. Sucks, ‘cuz I bet they hired all sorts of cool people. Oh, and the biggest tragedy, I’m sure, is that I mention them in, like, a strip next week. In the present tense. I guess I’ll have to rewrite it. Sucks to be me.


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Meanwhile…

by David Willis on January 3, 2006 at 10:20 pm
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As Monday’s strip suggested, it’s been a party tsunami up in here. More on that later, after everyone has absconded. But anyway. That’s why I’ve been mostly elsewhere.


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He's more machine now than man.

by David Willis on December 30, 2005 at 7:57 pm
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BWX!

by David Willis on December 29, 2005 at 6:21 pm
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I told ya I’d get some photos of the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary toys next to their decade-old counterparts. And with marginably better quality! The new ones are in front to the left, and the old ones are in back to the right.

Cheetor — BWX Cheetor looks like someone dunked the original dirty water. Both the yellow and the blue are desaturated. The spot pattern is the same, though the lines on the cheetah face are thinner. As noted before, BWX Cheetor is actually less show-accurate than the original, since they’ve changed his previously gold forearms and toes blue. (…I think I left BWX Cheetor’s gut gun at my dad’s. D’OH.)

Rhinox — Similar to BWX Cheetor, BWX Rhinox’s colors are darker than his predecessor, albeit not in the same way. His brown is much richer and the paintspray is reddish. The green is also darker. New gold paint detailing is on his head to better match the show’s CGI model. Though, sadly, that’s really all they could do for him, other than some slight color hue changes. The show’s CGI model for Rhinox dropped the samurai motif completely, not to mention the “mutant head” gimmick, so you’d have to remove those parts to move him closer to that representation. (Which I plan to do, now that I’ve got my photos taken. The mutant mask halves will go bye-bye, as will the flip-down crotch piece. Both come off their hinges easily.)

Waspinator — Now this is the prize of the set. Even Graham, who hates show-accurate tinkering, thought Waspy looked nice. Now, the original Waspinator I have is actually the Japanese version, which had some small changes from the original American release. (American Waspinator had lighter gray and a more olive-y green on the shoulders.) BWX Waspinator altered many things. It changed the light green color to a drab yellow and the gray to a medium green. There are now several paint applications on his head and even some paint detail on his robot legs which approximate corresponding details on the show’s CGI model. The gold and black stripes in his wasp mode are now in a very metallic shiny paint. He shines. I love him. (What I don’t love is that dinky Pred symbol on his wasp back. That would have looked so much better if it were scaled up to fill the whole area.)

Mmmm. Bring on wave 2!


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