Shortpacked! always makes me feel conflicted because on one hand @itswalky‘s Historical Jesus is perfect but on the other, my picture Bible had him in a purple sash, so what is reality?
THAT PURPLE SASH IS BULLSHIT
Shortpacked! always makes me feel conflicted because on one hand @itswalky‘s Historical Jesus is perfect but on the other, my picture Bible had him in a purple sash, so what is reality?
THAT PURPLE SASH IS BULLSHIT
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#shortpacked!I don’t know if you guys read either of David Willis’s comics—he makes Shortpacked! and Dumbing of Age. And one of his comics just made me really happy in a sex positivity related way:

I love that David Willis spends time combating rape culture, promoting sex positivity, making comics with queer characters—Ethan, the protagonist of Shortpacked! is gay—and refusing to let his politics overwhelm what he’s really making: funny, solid, usually lighthearted comics. Partly because he knows he’s an ally, and his voice shouldn’t be the center of these political conversations. And he’s really talented, and oh man, basically just, David Willis appreciation post.
Anyway, this comic pinpoints something that’s important and doesn’t get talked about enough.
So yeah, if you’re a queer geek and/or a feminist geek I really recommend this guy’s work.
Sometimes amidst all this praise, I remember I’m still partly that little mal-educated fundie boy from backwater Indiana, and I worry I’ve raised everyone’s expectations regarding my Progressiveness unreasonably high. WHAT IF I SCREW UP???
If I’d drawn sexist jerk comics all these years, nobody’d expect anything from me! But now I’m trapped. TRAAAAPPED.


THIS. I’ve loved David Willis for this Shortpacked for forever, but Kevin Bolk always puts up a good fight as well, and I wanted to express my appreciation to both I always like seeing male artists take a stand against female objectification in comics. It needs to be an outside perspective, unfortunately, to get the point across sometimes - because as soon as a woman like myself comments on the problem all we hear in response is “you’re just jealous” and “you know you want to look like that.” Actually, I don’t. I know people who are constantly being belittled for their abilities because they’re drop dead gorgeous or they have huge breasts.
I’m not saying there aren’t women out there who want this - but let’s be honest… it’s mostly men who want this kind of woman. It is not completely their fault either - they’re constantly bombarded by media and society that tells them this is what a woman should look like, just as much as women are. Of course both men and women have a skewed perspective with this influence.
Well I have news for you - BOOBS ARE FAT. MOST WOMEN WITH HUGE BREASTS DO NOT HAVE TINY DELICATE WAISTS. That small percentage of women who do have tiny waists and huge breasts almost always have serious health issues due to so much weight on a frame that can’t support it.
But the real problem is not so much how they look - as others have pointed out, men are portrayed as strong muscled hunks in comics and other media as well (although I have to point to Shortpacked here, because they argue so much better than I ever could on that point). My major problem as far as objectification is the lack of women with distinct personalities. As a comics and anime fan, I’m constantly running up against females that are not well rounded characters. It’s like people don’t know how to write female characters. Women only use their bodies to get what they want, but beyond their bodies and sex appeal their characters always seem empty and lacking.
All I want is for female characters to have more power than the “power” they gain using their bodies to manipulate. This stems way back to the antifeminist church fathers’ writings way back in medieval times; they used to attack women for the same thing. I feel we should be past that at this point in time, don’t you?
/TLDR.
Kevin Bolk managed three sets of both boobs and butts! He is a wizard!
Twin trolls Argle and Bargle set out from the internet to torment the good people of the MSTF panel at Botcon 2012, with Shortpacked! author David Willis trapped in the middle.
Get ready for Opinions! at the first ever live Isle of Rangoon performance!
Yet another parody, this one of David Willis’ toy-centric Shortpacked, not to be confused with his college centric Dumbing of Age or his previous aliens, secret agencies, college and a whole bunch of other random crap centric It’s Walky, all of which feature Mike Warner, your hero and mine. He hates you.
Also he slept with your mom.
More Fanart for Shortpacked!
This is based on one of his recent comics: http://www.shortpacked.com/2012/comic/book-14/03-totally-babies/equaltime/
This is just a response to a comment I couldn’t draw earlier due to work and parties.
Shortpacked by David Willis
Shortpacked.com
One of the sketches I got at San Diego Comic-Con this year. David Willis of Shortpacked! fame did this while I gushed to him about how much I love Amber and how Ethan’s toy collecting/hoarding hits too close to home sometimes. He ended up using my Captain America hoodie as reference for Cap’s costume.
The ENTIRE 2,000+ strip run of Shortpacked! is now available in the app, joining David Willis’ other comics Dumbing of Age and It’s Walky!/Roomies! Thank you for enjoying The David Willis App.

Another Shortpacked! Fancomic
this time featuring Mike and the seldom seen Ken.
…I just feel like Ken’d be the kinda guy to buy that Chewbacca shirt…
shortpacked by David Willis
at shortpacked.com
I remembered I had this comic in the Joyce & Walky! free archives that explained Head Alien II’s origin, so here I am reposting it on here. It’s written from the viewpoint of HAII when he’s in Shortpacked!’s “real” universe, so the last row of panels of this stuff hasn’t yet happened to the iteration that’s currently in Shortpacked!.
Tl;dr This current SP! storyline takes place between the second and third rows of panels.
Who is your dad, now?
I WILL reblog this video every damn time I see it because this kids is A GENIUS
