That Failed Wacky Hijinks face
on November 15, 2021 at 1:01 amDouble-sized strip! There’ll be a few of these. Sometimes I would do them in Shortpacked! because Shortpacked! actually had weekends off and I wanted the cliffhanger to land where it should. Sometimes I just wanted something to have the proper narrative rhythm.
Anyway, uh, hrm, when I first drew this story for Shortpacked!, I kept needing to explain pre-Shortpacked! Walkyverse lore as it went along, since that audience wasn’t always up to snuff on their Roomies! or It’s Walky! stuff. Now I feel like it’s the other way around, where I gotta explain the Shortpacked! lore behind this It’s Walky! story!
SO. Just to bring us up to speed, once Robin ate an entire bowl of Cadbury Cereal, an invention of hers which involves pouring (unwrapped) Cadbury eggs into a bowl, pouring milk on it, and then just eating it like a regular bowl of cereal. She blacked out in the ensuing sugar rush and discovered that she had become the U.S. Congressional Representative for her district in the interim. So that’s just a thing she can do. Also, earlier, we learned that this power can be transferred to other people through make-outs, such as when Leslie got a contact high through Robin and woke up and found out she had re-shuffled the floundering Shortpacked! toy store into a more salesfriendly general pop culture store.
Anyway, looks like she’s at it again! Let’s see what she does.
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*now wonders if Robin accidentally ever had Cadbury Creme Egg cereal but forgot to unwrap them*
very confident that the answer is yes
That’s pretty metal.
Well, Joe did say he was okay with them making out yesterday
I don’t think I considered it at the time but, on reflection, I feel like that joke was there specifically to make this play better.
Yeah because otherwise, in hindsight… not cool.
Even then, this is without Robin’s consent, so… still not cool, Leslie.
It’s strategic makeout
Y’know, sugar rush
“All’s fair in love and war.”
“So which one is this?”
“Yes.”
A lot of this arc is Leslie not making her best decisions ever, but she’s always had a weak spot in her logic for Robin so it is at least a consistent character flaw.
“Well, Chekov DID say we could borrow the gun, so…”
I always wondered when, exactly, Robin came up with the idea for Cadbury Cereal. Back when we first <a href= "https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/cadbury"saw her do it in Shortpacked!, she talked as though she’d eaten the stuff before, but I kinda find it weird to imagine that she knew about this power the whole time that she was in SEMME, but never used it.
Actually, what am I saying, it’s Robin, of course she always knows whether she’s in a gag comic or not and acts accordingly. Well, semi-accordingly anyway.
That link should be to here. Man, I’m off my html tag game.
It’s kinda ambiguous, I think. She could have had Cadbury cereal before the comic you posted and we just never saw the first time, or she could have come up with the idea that morning and is just treating it like an obvious thing for a person to do
It may also have been before she awakened her powers.
I really like a lot of the facial expressions on this page. That sad look between them in Panel 8, followed by all that regret in Robin’s face on Panel 9, in particular. There’s a vulnerability here that we never really see on DoA Robin. And of course those looks on Leslie’s face in the last three panels as she forms her wacky hijinks plan are pure gold.
…Am I allowed to miss Shortpacked! Robin when I started with DoA long after Shortpacked! ended? Pretty sure I am.
There’s enough Walkyverse that a binge of even Shortpacked takes a while. Join us in the mourning circle. We have chocolate, and sadness.
There are some characters I like better in the Walkyverse, and some I like better in DoA. Robin is definitely better in the Walkyverse.
Oh gods yes.
Shortpacked! Robin is still probably my favorite character from this whole franchise, DoA and It’sWalky! combined.
DoA Robin… whenever I see her, I’m initially excited because she looks like Shortpacked! Robin. But then the disappointment follows soon after when she proves to be little more than a parody of… well, of lots of things, really, most of them depressing.
Because the way to follow up a rash, potentially dangerous decision an even MORE rash, MORE dangerous decision!
If at first you don’t succeed
Double, triple and quadruple down
Momma didn’t raise no quitter
“The only antidote to a zany scheme is an even zanier scheme!” – Homer J. Simpson
You know, I’d remembered the portal in the J&W! ending only just enough to forget that right now, the explicit assumption is that HAII killed Rachel when replacing her, not just ‘we have no idea if she’s alive or not and may never know for sure.’ Oof. No wonder Joe’s still in really bad shape.
Side note – was Leslie’s remaking of the Shortpacked! store inspired by a real store’s change in direction? To me it feels a lot like when Gamestop redesigned and devoted half their sales floor to pop culture fandom merch and trinkets like Funko Pop, but I forget which came first.
Really enjoying the author’s notations because I don’t remember as much of Shortpacked! as well as many of the other folks here.
and then she came back from the dead, i guess
True Love’s Kiss (TM)
Raising the dead since 1937.