I like to pretend I'm Eric Burns, only with more <I> tags

[napoleonherself]

David Willis is playing us. He's playing us all. Playing us like various instruments from hell. That damned octagonal orange speech bubble yesterday, and now this. Is it real alien-related drama? Is Robin just having a flashback? Is HA really there and, as suggested in a Websnark comment, hoping to walk around in a Faz suit and pretend to be a normal toy store employee for the rest of his life? We just don't know! Maybe the silliness and the "HILARITY!" and the "TITS!" are signs that it's a big fakeout. Or maybe they're just a smokescreen to lull us into thinking that this will be anticlimactic, so that the drama will be even more, uh, dramatic! You cannot tell! YOU CANNOT TELL!

Goddamn you, Willis. What the hell are you planning to do with all these souls? Because you own them, you know. You have to know. Or else you would not torture us so.

Of course, HA is funny one way or the other. "Instead, they'll just leave for some place they won't be required to know things. Probably Wal-Mart." Heh.

Comments

[darnn.livejournal.com]

So, is it worth reading this from the beginning just to reach this mystery you're talking about here, and possibly someone shouting 'TITS'?

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Depends. For its first year, Shortpacked! was a gag comic about a group of people working at a toystore (ignoring a run of autobiographical comics about Willis's unhealthy fascination with toys, said comics having been removed from the archives). They did and said silly things, often involving Batman. If this sounds good to read (and it is) then go for it. Although the "ZOMG DRAMA" isn't going to be as intense if you didn't read It's Walky!, and I don't remember if you did.