If the Kickstarter reaches $42k by Saturday night, you get Sunday updates! I mean, yeah, you’ll get Sunday updates if we reach $42k afterwards, but they’ll start later.
there are some pretty awful cliffhangers coming soon that you probably don’t wanna have to wait through a sunday for
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Girl Boner ACTIVATED!
In addition I summon my wet panties in defense mode!
She throws them at a wall; SPLOOGE!
😀 LOOOL 😀
You sir/madam are awesome!
Yup. Wet as October.
He also did 1000 bench presses.
And had a bowl of Testoster-Os.
His roommate’s exercise routine was very…. ‘encouraging’.
Can I ….borrow said roommate?
All those ‘push-ups’ and ‘pelvic thrusts’ really paid off. 😀
If you don’t stretch you’ll get a cramp though.
He’ll do press-ups and chin-ups
Do the snatch, clean, and jerk
He thinks dynamic tension
Must be hard work
Such strenuous living
I just don’t understand
When in just seven days
Oh, baby
I can make you a man
Rocky Horror?
Course it is! Charles Atlas Song.
Whatever happened to Saturday night
When you dressed up sharp and you felt alright?
It don’t seem the same since cosmic light
Came into my life, I thought I was divine…
I used to go for a ride with a chick who’d go
And listen to the music on the radio
A saxophone was blowin’ on a rock & roll show.
You climbed in the back seat, you really had a good time.
Off the table, you ham.
I can bring home the bacon, Fry it up in a pan,
And never, never, never let you forget you’re a man,
‘Cause I’m a woman….. W – O – M – A – N
Too bad Ethan doesn’t reciprocate.
Welp, that’s subplot’s over. Now Joyce can get over herself enough to realize what Billie actually said and freak out all over again.
Damn you Willis, I don’t care if it’s your own creation, you have defaced a national treasure!!!
I recognize him and yet at the same time, I say to myself “Who is this?”. Also, Billie’s impressed, that must be a good thing.
Impressed enough for her eyes to grow.
Not only impressed but her pupils are doing a sort of Pac man thing.
Smitten Billie is adorable.
I’m pretty sure those are meant to be hearts.
Dilated pupils; classic sign of sexual arousal.
NO ALT text message today Willis? I’m surprised.
It’s there now
Damn he is quick.
He did that to me too the week before Ethan’s last comic when Drew’s doorway was sticking through his hair.
Speaking of which, AH! What in the hell?!
Oh snap. Ethan is Aladdin.
Or Dick Grayson?
Why not both?
Oh shit … is Mike smiling?!?
More of a neutral expression, which is still an improvement.
I don’t know, that looks like a small grin to me
IIRC, the last time Mike smiled in any continuity, he got married to Amber…
Am I right in saying this and therefore he’s set to hatefuck Joyce in the near future?
I mean, why wouldn’t he be enjoying Joyce’s crisis of sexuality?
Nuetral is smiling for Mike.
The good news is Joyce clearly isn’t a lesbian.
The bad news is, Ethan might be.
Kidding, by the way. I actually kinda like it.
I dunno. The hand on the back of the neck? For two panels in a row? Regardless, it/he is kinda sexy!
The answer’s simple, Mike put crazy glue on the back of his neck.
Thus, the “smile” on his face.
Walky and Mike saw this first, hence the reactions in panel 1.
Billies face in the last panel is great out of context.
Whoa there, Ethan. Don’t go all crazy with yourself.
(Also, for some reason, it’s just hit me that Ethan is TALL.)
Or erryone else is just short as sh.it.
He’s wearing heels.
Man, I wish it was that easy :/
But I liked the black watermelon eating his head…
Normally I’d complain about Ethan’s hair and wish it went back to normal, but…I don’t think I’d be any better than the G1 fans, would I?
I expect a hair cut the next, far off time we see him in Shortpacked!!
I wouldn’t!
The haircut or “the next far off time we see him”?
The new hairstyle looks naggingly familiar. It’s got that little spike hanging off the back like 2005 Ethan, but I feel like the rest of it was seen on another Walkyverse character, possibly with brown hair, that I can’t completely remember right now.
It’s starting to remind me of Smallville, somehow =p
Lust. It’s lust. Glad we got that cleared up.
Hey, that could be a purely Platonic blush!
To be honest, if the comic didn’t point it out, I wouldn’t have even noticed Ethan’s new ‘do.
Daaaaaaang. *wolf whistle*
(Possibly this is exactly what Billie is doing in the comic?)
There aren’t enough notes there for a wolf-whistle.
I see a future with those two. A future where he gets his freak on…and she watches.
I can’t help it, I think Ethan’s new haircut is hilarious.
And I’m also getting the popcorn ready for Amber’s reaction.
after seeing that haircut I’d like to know the answer to that question.
lust
Pure evil, sinful lust.
This reminds me of how I figured out I was bisexual. I saw a friend of mine in a bikini and I was like, “Okay, yeah, I’m definitely into girls, too.”
The longer I look at that haircut, the less I like it. Makes his head look lopsided. Front is nice, but the back is just too…something.
And that is my comment on my favorite gay fictional character, which makes me wonder about me sometimes.
I’d like to see it from the other side.
… And to be clear, I was responding to the comment about the haircut, not the comment about sexual orientation.
Billie’s face in the last panel is wonderful. That’s all I have to say about that.
I don’t think she’s sure yet, Ethan. You’d better take off your shirt to remove all doubt.
Boy Ethan you’re so fine you’re so fine you blow my mind hey Ethan! ~clap~ ~clap~ Hey Ethan!
oh god. Mike looks like he wants to answer her question. Though I’m sure it’d be educational for her, Joyce would be scared for life!
After reading through Shortpacked! for the past week it’s weird seeing Ethan with a new hair style.
Finally! Ethan has a new hair style! I liked the old one, but it was just so…round….
I really am enjoying Joyce’s budding self awareness.
I’m glad all that narrative build up for his hair cut has finally paid off.
Seriously, most foreshadowed haircut ever.
Dune Era Kyle MacLachlan ?
Ethan is missing the top of his head, isn’t he?
Okay, I haven’t pledged all my monies on the Kickstarter. I was going to, but then it turned I couldn’t: I don’t have a credit card and Amazon doesn’t want to accept my filthy European money. “Keep it,” Amazon said. “We don’t want your filthy European money. Come back when you have a real American credit card.” So I said: “Okay, jeesh. That’s not going to happen.” If I were able to pledge from my bank, I would have.
… unless it’s one of those things were you can fill in your bank number and pretend it’s a credit card because, yeah that works fine, it’s a a whole international system don’t sweat it, in which case I’ll run to Kickstarter and try again. Is it?
I really have no idea!
It turns out I can’t. I’ll look into getting myself a credit card then.
You definitely need a credit card; it doesn’t need to be American, though.
Could you get a credit card? Assuming you have a credit score above 0 then it takes like 10 minutes in a bank, and afterwards you can just keep it in a drawer.
I’m always surprised when people say they don’t use a credit card for online shopping, it’s so much more secure.
I’ve tried once, but they wouldn’t give me a credit card because i don’t have a steady income. I usually just use Paypal or my debit card. Everyone uses debit cards around here
When I set up Amazon for Kickstarter, Amazon gave me the option to use Paypal … (so Kickstarter asks Amazon for $$, Amazon asks Paypal for $$, Paypal asks VISA (not sure if this step happens) for $$ and then VISA asks my bank for $$.
I dunno. I’m Dutch. No-one uses credit cards here.
Aww, I was gonna recommend buying one of those disposable CCs, but if no one uses them where you are, that might be hard to come by =/
That’s what i hate about Kickstarter. I WANT to give money, i WANT to contribute nad be a part of it. But Kickstarter just doesn’t give me a way to do it
My HSBC Visa Debit card works fine for Kickstarter, personally.
AFAIK, USA-based kickstarters can only be paid through Amazon, and UK-based kickstarters ask directly for card number.
Debit card still work just as good as credit card, if you have it properly set up (not sure if that was “internet transactions” or what for me, and I had to set limits)
Dayung. I don’t know if it’s the hair cut or the shirt, but it makes him look more…muscular? (Or maybe that’s just the way he towers over everyone else oh my god Ethan how tall are you)
All the emotional baggage he carries around has started to bulk him up. Also Ethan is pretty tall, but both Joyce and Billie are fairly short, so he looks like a giant in comparison.
Heh, yeah. And hm…the only one I can think of challenging him for tallness would be Jacob, and maybe Jason? Judging by Walky and Mike’s size compared to Joyce and Billie in the first panel (and accounting for the fact that they’re a bit further back), he still seems like he’d be half a head taller than Mike.
Joe’s about the same height, and maybe a little broader. And Galasso’s bigger than either of them.
I think Willis’s style exaggerates height differences, because otherwise, given he recently stated Sal’s height (over in the Roomies! reruns) to be 5’7″, Galasso’s gotta be like eight feet tall.
It also makes him look younger, though, which is a good thing. He was greying already on Shortpacked!, and I had a hard time seeing him as a college-aged dude over here.
Ethan’s head is kinda pointy.
Not the best haircut. But he really needed to lose the old one.
I feel like Mike’s half-smile means that that is also whatever-you-don’t-want-him-to-be-sexual in this continuity, which to Ethan means “tempting to Ethan”. Are there perverse sexual lusts between Ethan and Mike in the future?
Also, I would expect Ethan’s haircut to be more, I don’t know . . . fabulous? Something Caesar-cut-like with a flip in the front? With Ethan’s seemingly thick hair, it would be so hot! (How the heck is Ethan not attracting gay college guys?!)
I’m amused by how long you’re dragging out the *reveal* of the cliffhangers. I have been expecting one for weeks and still… no cliffs.
I don’t get it; are we supposed to think that’s a good haircut? Because it looks awful. On Ethan, anyway.
I don’t like it either. At least in the 2nd panel, there’s something weird going on in the back. In the last two panels it looks better.
I… hnngh.
I’ll have to get used to this.
This chapter is now known as “The Hair Diaries”.
I hate to break it to you, girl.
But you could be bi.
Well, yes, she could be… But I’m taking Joyce’s last comment to mean ‘Oh, so THIS is what lustful thoughts feel like when related to new hairstyles… Oh my….’ so at the very least, she isn’t lusting after Sal.
Yet…
I give it 2 weeks. In comic time, of course, because then it’ll be the other side of this decade before it actually happens, meaning we’ll all have years to make more cracks about Joyce’s budding bisexuality.
Did ethan seriously part his hair in the middle? Is he a dunce or does he just not realize that he chose a douchebag hair cut?
*eyes Billie in the last panel*
Please tell me that this is going to result in Billie trying to seduce Joyce’s gay boyfriend away from her.
We can but hope.
It’s Hair Week on Dumbing of Age!
NO ONE’S HAIR IS SAFE