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10:57 pm
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We are wasting valueless time here.
Shortpacked!: Everything old is ... old again!
Ultra Car just had to comment on this eventually.
Preorders for Shortpacked! Book 2 continue!
 Phew! I'm down to the last group o' folks in this year's BotCon set. That's right, these are the Shattered Glass heroic Predacons, represented as Mini-Con redecoes. According to Razorclaw's bio information, he was once a professor at Tyrest University, and when the Autobots blew it up, he and two students retreated into the mountains to have inappropriate relations become ferocious predators.
More college professors should disappear into the mountains to become lion-dogs.
 No explanation is given for their tiny size in the "real" fiction, but I would probably adopt the April Fool's version's "shrink ray" explanation anyway, so the absence of a real story helps soothe that into my personal canon. (Annoyingly, their size in the comic ranges from "same size as everyone else" to "dinky," depending on the panel. Don Figueroa is usually more consistent than that.)
I really wish Divebomb (the bright orange bird-thing) had more paint in robot mode. Other than his head, all his paint is dedicated to his sparsely-detailed wings, which are hidden in robot mode. I think I'd love him a whole lot more if that were the case. I love him anyway, what with my orange fetish. It is, after all, a delicious Sunstorm-like orange.
The other guys are cool, too, though less orange, and are much better in the area of paint layout. They manage to get paint in both modes instead of decoing just one.
Poor heroic Decepticons. These dinky dudes are half of their rebel forces.
Tags: botcon, movies, short circuit, transformers
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10:25 am
[Link] | Oh, good, I was hoping The Spirit would just be Sin City 2.
Tags: movies, sarcasm
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11:00 pm
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A return to the Bus Stop
Ultra Car: And his big ugly face is as dumb as a butt.
Shortpacked!: Where are they all taking a bus to, anyway?
 Last month in Joyce and Walky!:
It's Christmas time in Denver, and everyone's celebrating, preparing, and/or angsting. But some holiday moments are more startling than others, as Sal discovers.
Today's SP! strip was formed while reading a San Francisco-area newspaper found discarded on the BART a week or so ago. I thought San Francisco was supposed to be a crazy godless libtard town, but even they still have embarrassing letters to the editor. It was a perfect opportunity to bring back the Bus Stop.
When I was a boy, my mom told me I should be an editorial cartoonist, but I don't think today's strip is what she had in mind.
You know, for as mediocre a cinematic experience as I'd found The Golden Compass to be, I've done an disproportionate number of strips about it. (Two.) I hereby purge it from my memory.
Tags: joyce and walky, movies, religion
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10:59 pm
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/40075246/7420342) [Link] | Shortpacked!@TNI: Decepticons are a cowardly, superstitious lot.
Ultra Car: Hundreds of pickle pie gags, but not one "relish" pun. What a waste.
Shortpacked!: The Golden Whoozits.
 Destro's back! Destro's back! Destro's back, and he's on the attack!
Because Jin Saotome is my best friend, he mailed me 25th Iron Grenadier Destro and a Crimson Guard. Just in time for Christmas, and wrapped appropriately! (It said "open now" on it, so put your cudgels away.)
This Destro is a remake of 1988's Iron Grenadier Destro, which was not only the version of Destro available during the period of time I was actually paying some attention to G.I. Joe, but it's also what he still looked like during the Generation 2 crossover with Transformers a few years later.
 Even unusually-directed nostalgia aside, this is a great figure. First of all, he's got a fuckin' sword. Second of all, that sword goes in a fuckin' awesome scabbard that hangs across his backside. Third, he's got a little handgun that folds into a holster on his leg that includes a little plastic flap to close back over it. And, dudes, let us not forget he has that shoulder cape. That's seriously styling, and something of a step up from his previous Seventies-reject look. He's regal, he's rockin' it military-style, and he's got that fabulous new gold noggin.
It's the scabbard in particular that makes this figure for me. It's a huge point of visual interest that not many, if any, other Joe figures share. And, seriously, it's a redo of a 1988 figure, six long years into the RAH franchise. That tickles me in ways you can't imagine. Now all I need are a Ninja Force Scarlett and Dr. Biggles-Jones, and I'll feel my G2-era Joes are complete. Those, of course, will never happen, so I'm planning on attempting my own...
As today's SP! strip implies, we saw The Golden Compass this afternoon. Man, Catholicism sure blows, huh? The animal in the last panel was originally an adorable little piglet, but it was suggested that a chicken would be funnier. I also had a cute lamb in mind. Man, nobody in that movie had any daemon Eatable Animals, did they? Not a single cow, pig, or chicken. Disappointment.
Tags: gijoe, movies, religion
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10:57 pm
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/52157496/7420342) [Link] | Shortpacked!: Because Osama Bin Doggy is so done.
 Yes, we know. The goggles, etc.
That was the point.
Man, those Best Buy DVD-exclusive masks are a tight fit. It's almost like they were made for, you know, children. Those bastards. Regardless, after some time spent stretching the things, they can eventually be squeezed over your head. Breathing is optional.
I'm trying the new font again in today's strip, but this time in a slightly different way. Now, it's always in faux-bold, to help with legibility, and emphasis is placed by using all caps on some words. Let me know how that works, and then tomorrow we can go back to the old font.
So, hey, DC has started up this Zuda thing, which is basically like Keenspot... if Keenspot owned all the rights and buried strips deeply in some Flash and gave artists a few bucks for it. Seriously, it's going to revolutionize... something. Anyway, the folks over at C|NET gathered my thoughts about it, where I solidified my indie cred.
Tags: maggie, movies, spider-man, webcomics
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