What’s going on in the stockroom
on December 6, 2021 at 1:01 amChapter: Same Planet, Different Dementia
Characters: Amber O'Malley, Ethan Siegal, Head Alien II, Jacob Williams, Leslie Bean, Malaya Eugenio, Pamela, Rachel Jackson, Ultra Car
Location: Shortpacked!
MEANWHILE in the rest of the store: wtf
A quick penultimate moment with this iteration of the Shortpacked! crew. Pamela’s basically their mom.
Oh hey, Ultra Car is here! Sorry, Ultra Car, I kinda banished you to the stockroom for most of this story ‘cuz it was kinda a Leslie showcase. But it’s important to remember she’s still around. And she gets to see her mom again! Who’s being extremely mom right now.
This strip in general is pretty dang mom!
Head Alien II dramatically descending a staircase of boxes he’s suspending in air with his mind is probably peak Head Alien. We can probably pack it up here. And we do, basically!!!! THESE RERUNS ARE NEARLY OVER.
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*waiting for Momming of Age to start*
Just think. If Dina and Becky have kids, they would be… Babies MacIntyre
…okay, probably not, I’m guessing Becky wouldn’t really want the kids to have the same last name as Toedad when they could instead have the same last name as Dina
she’s gonna take dina’s name and mount it on her wall
Huh, I hadn’t actually thought about how Pamela would fit into the usual Shortpacked dynamic before, since we mostly saw her interacting with Leslie
…as someone who read Shortpacked! before the other Walkyverse comics, it took me entirely too long during my first readthrough of Roomies! to realize that the Godlike powers weren’t a natural part of the Head Alien’s abilities. At first I was really confused as to why he wasn’t using them there (beyond him generally just being more idiotic in his first real appearance than he would be later on).
She just didn’t want to give them severance pay is all.
That’s the pay you get when HAII has severed your limbs, right?
Also yeah, it’s fitting that Pamela’s question about what could be more important than watching her daughter grow up is answered by another mom trying to get home to her child, even moreso now with the advantage of hindsight since Rachel didn’t know UC was her daughter specifically yet. (I’m assuming UC has known since this arc began at the very latest, since this arc is the last time we see her pre-transition)
She may have discovered her identity off-panel.
Ya know Ultra Car, this is why your mother grounds if you you watch Rick and Morty.
Huh, in hindsight, ‘buster’ isn’t really a term you’d apply to a daughter, right? What would Rachel have said if she knew at that point? ‘Do it or you’re grounded, missy’?
“Who’s Missy?”
“Well, I couldn’t very well keep calling myself ‘the Master,’ now could I?”
Depends on the kid I guess
So like, Pamela knew she had a godlike alien supervillain in her stock room the whole time, then. And not like a FUN supervillain, like her and Galasso, but an ‘I killed all my nemeses and then jumped universe to do it again. And again. And again. Because I can, and I find this more fun than ruling the world without competition’ sort of supervillain.
Yeah uh, that… actually you know what, okay, that IS a decent reason to keep the drama tag installed is if you also know it’s the only thing keeping him from killing your entire universe. It wasn’t really a factor you cited, but you know, fair enough.
But of course, even if this is peak Head Aliening, there’s a damn good reason we can’t pack it up just yet. Leslie’s not done.
Why is HAII godlike?
Absorbed the power of his universe’s Cheese due to a complicated sequence of events. As he said earlier, he’s currently immortal, and is capable of doing all this levitating boxes for dramatic effect and such. When he showed up in J&W!, he’d been mostly depowered in his last universe by that universe’s Joyce and Walky (before they died, IIRC.) That hasn’t happened to him in his personal chronology yet. He’s still got Cheese powers here.
Ah, thanks!
I think we got like a week left.
Then what?
We’ll keep commenting on the last strip for a few days, then the comments will slowly peter out. There’s still the DoA comments, but it’s a little sad knowing the reruns here are finishing up.
Whoever’s last, turn off the lights on your way out.
There’s probably still gonna be some new Shortpacked strips on April Fool’s and whatever other random times Willis feels like making a new strip there.
It’s over.
It bums me out but sometimes that’s how it goes.
Things only die if they’ve got life in ’em to begin with.
There’s also “The Last Roomies! Story Ever, I Promise”.
The grand return of Sly Sirs.
I wish “can’t we just grab another version of [person] from another universe?” wasn’t an actual thing so much media does without much thought these days because it is a wildly unsettling premise.
Are we going to get the “Robin proposes to Leslie” story where we see how Robin became an abductee here? I’m assuming not, given that the end of the reruns is specifically noted to be near, but I think that’s the last bit of directly It’s Walky!-related story content remaining.
No hard feelings if we’re not. I’ll always have that one good joke I made to keep me warm.
The purpose of this site is to put things in best-reading-order. The best way to tell Robin’s story is just to read Shortpacked!, which isn’t true of Rachel.
I’m not sure I agree, in hindsight, with the decision to put “This Man, This Manhattan” here. Like yeah it’s got Honey Bun and Jason, and fills in some details on Mike, but if I was reading the Walky saga I’m not sure I’d reach that and feel as though essential context had been provided to me.
I think that was here mostly because it was originally supposed to be an It’s Walky! story before 9/11 forced a change of plans.