Deprived of an explosion
on November 24, 2020 at 1:01 amChapter: This Man-- This Manhattan
Location: New York, New York
The fun of figuring out how Mike’s 2D Flintstones hair works when it’s being blasted over his scalp by intense winds! Also: I try very hard to not break the “Amber’s ears shall never be depicted” visual rule as she’s whipped in 10 different directions. Lots of hair-based problem-solving being done here.
Note Chekhov’s broken power lines in the previous strip.
I sold this page as a print at conventions! It was popular. For some reason. Despite/because-of the horrific bisected Honey Bun below.
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Come for the X-TREEM makeout
Stay for the honey bun body horror
though, technically isn’t her mask over her ears anyway?
I never wanted to see Ambers ears before but now I feel I’m really missing out! On something, no idea what though.
Learning this rule made me suddenly develop the headcanon that she gauged them when she was younger as a small act of rebellion (that she would never ever let him see beneath her hair) against the fuckhead controlling her life.
Willis is just trying to make us archive binge every strip Amber’s in for the page views! Don’t fall for it!
…W-we never see Honey Bun ever again, do we? I don’t remember them showing up.
Oh god.
Indeed. I believe we just saw that character get killed for realsies.
Also, after my moderately pedantic issue with the “human wedge” thing a couple days ago, I have to say here that the Honey Bun was bisected in a bizarrely smooth fashion in this comic. Considering the amount of random bursting and tearing that happened before, I would have expected messier lines.
Maybe H.B. was getting stale, like donuts left sitting in the display all morning.
…Well now I want to know what the ear thing was about.
I had the desktop background of this one for quite a while.
I’ve read this storyline multiple times before, but I didn’t realize that Mike was using a broken power line to swing from and catch Amber until now. Don’t know how I missed that.
And this is my favorite Mike moment in Shortpacked!
Mike, never again will I believe any denials on your part that Amber is the most important thing in your life or that you neither understand nor share her love of doing things the super-hero way!
This was one of my favorite Shortpacked! strips.
I try very hard to not break the “Amber’s ears shall never be depicted” visual rule.
As a man who likes womens’ ears I can’t believe I missed this detail.
That’s The most cliche thing ever and i fucking love it
Dissected EYE POPPED Honey Bun below. Let’s be complete. :/
This page rocks. The design, the art, the action, the kiss, and the punchline!