Underwear outside
on February 19, 2021 at 1:01 amChapter: Tales Told out of School
Characters: David Walkerton, Joyce Brown
Location: Joyce and Walky's apartment
This punchline is a fancy in-universe way to say “look, I know Shortpacked! usually does these jokes, but Shortpacked! is BUSY, so I get to make them right now!!!!”
I mean… he’s not wrong.
He does live in a box of someone’s mental construction, though.
more like a DORK creature of the night amirite
The Dork Knight?
Assuming this is a little after October 10th, 2009.
That’s place this right around the time that Shortpacked! Giant Frosted Honeybun storyline with Amber and Mike was being released.
If so, it took him a bit less than a month (11/05/09) to repeat it in the “right” place.
Thanks, I was gonna ask what the SP storyline at the time was.
Shortpacked did, in fact, do this joke. Exactly this joke.
Yeah, Walky wrote that strip after this conversation
What inception level rabbit hole have we stumbled upon
To be fair, a lot of superhero costumes are pretty weird-looking when you think about them.
Flashy, fanservice-y costumes sell comics.
And the early ones being based on carnival strongmen who were more about being distinctive than intimidating doesn’t help their cases much.
But heaven help you if you try to change superman’s costume.