Giant Mutant Frosted Honey Bun.
on November 16, 2020 at 1:01 amWelp, here’s the money shot! …or should I say the Honey shot OH HO HO HO HO HO HO HO
I was really introducing all this action-scene stuff (and Mike’s backstory) to much of the Shortpacked! audience for the first time, and I really wasn’t sure how it was gonna go. Shortpacked! had a very large percentage of readers who were there for just Shortpacked! and not any of the backlog of previous Walkyverse strips. So I wanted to make it work, but also I mostly didn’t care because I really wanted to draw action-scene stuff (and Mike’s backstory). If nobody ended up liking it, at least I wanted to make it look rad.
and if anyone asked whoa where’d this giant mutant frosted honey bun come from i could just point to ALL THREE newspaper front page easter eggs
all three of them
clearly foreshadowing this
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I never questioned this before, but
how did he tunnel beneath the streets
Cinnamon roll-shaped drills.
The enormous subway and sewer systems of New York?
It’s NYC, he’s been living in the subways.
After the cut his agent takes, who could blame him?
This definitely is less confusing in context than it was as a Shortpacked storyline.
As someone who read “Shortpacked!” before “It’s Walky!”, I’ll say it wasn’t THAT confusing for me? Just kinda random which made it somewhat hilarious. It also made easier to follow some things that followed, and I don’t just mean the other storyline that Willis will show here.
Shortpacked!-first readers just see this part of the story from Amber’s perspective, that’s all.
Opening with “Giant Mutant Frosted Honey Bun” is definitely throwing new readers into the deep end of the It’s Walky weirdness pool.
internet relay chat chat!
To be fair, this is exactly the kind of weird non-sequitur Shortpacked! would have happen on a given Thursday.
I know, right?
I still think the resurrected Ronald Regan thing was weirder than this.
Guess the heroes in a half-shell failed in protecting the underground.
*And now, Honey Buns in their natural habitat, a vending machine (Save them from Joyce)*
It would be a completely different matter if it was a giant mutant pizza with extra pepperoni.
Let’s see how this plays out, shall we
I’m kinda glad I read the backlog of Walkyverse strips before I read Shortpacked! for the first time. And we’re definitely getting close to my favorite part of this storyline now.
I remember IRC.
One of the few ways consuming media had an advantage in the Old Days is that when you jumped in on a tv show or comic book, you started mid-storyline and went with it, which left an indelible memory of your starting point. Now when in virtually medium (bringing us back to SP!), you can simply start from the beginning and go, which makes it very difficult to remember what was current when you began, since the only thing special about it was that the pace of new material slowed down. I THINK I was reading at this point, I don’t think I had any problem with it. I don’t even remember it feeling that incongruous. If anything, it just felt like the “wacky” shortpacked featuring adventures of Batman or My Little Ponies or whatever merged briefly with main SP. Even though I didn’t read the older material until this repost project, I had gotten plenty of spoilers by looking up characters’ backstories. So that might be it. Even if I didn’t know who Honey was, I certainly knew enough about the IW era to not be jarred by it.
“No, seriously: Do. You. Know. This. Guy.”
“Probably not but that’s the interesting thing about being a superhero: It doesn’t matter.”
Come to think, what happened to Honey Bun’s successful acting career? He was integrated into society!
I mean, maybe he knows it. Or maybe he just, you know, looked at it and described it. “Giant Mutant Frosted Honey Bun” is a pretty accurate off the cuff description