Artcow David "Walky" Willis / Shortpacked - Fingerwagging Cishet Shitlord

[Ewan McGregor]

I can't believe anyone really cares that much.

A-hem

Same vibes

Spoiler: Autism

That new Hot Shot smell
Posted January 8, 2023 at 1:00 pm

Hello! This is attempt #2 at Modern Poseable Hot Shot! Let's see how this guy does.

See, there's an integral problem with making Armada Hot Shot, But With Joints. Armada Hot Shot transformed in a certain way that doesn't really.... allow for real arms? Like, he's a sports car, and his arms are layered on top of his torso, and they really only swung out to the sides because, like... there's no room for additional jointing, and this also means his torso is absolutely flat. So if you want to give him real arms and a real torso so that he doesn't look like Pancake The Robot Man, you have to... change things? A lot? And the more you change things, the less he looks like Hot Shot.

The first attempt at Armada Hot Shot But With Joints, Universe (2009) Hot Shot, tried to reinvent him pretty hard. It gave him a vehicle mode that was shaped more like an actual car (an Audi TT to be precise) and it did all sorts of crazy shellformer stuff that resulted in him having arms, sort of. I mean, sure, he had arms, and those arms articulated... but not with the amount of panels piled on them from every direction. The toy, despite all its joints, was immobile. (also the feet were extremely loose, making it difficult to stand the thing, but that's a separate issue)

And so attempt #2, in all honesty, has a pretty low hurdle to succumb. Legacy Evolution Armada Hot Shot comes back to do Armada Hot Shot Again. But good this time, we hope! And for the most part, it succeeds! The good news is, its arms are finally absolutely free to move about. Nothing is attached to them. If there's panel-y backpack stuff, it's tucked away. And he's got a waist rotation joint, at long last, which honestly seems like heresy in connection to an Armada Hot Shot toy. Also unlike the previous new Hot Shot, he's got his axelzooka again (but not geared to a Mini-Con nor does it fire anything). He's also stolen Jolt's gun one more time, but that's really the cartoon's fault for stealing it first. His feet do fold out like the original toy's, but there's no chainsaw stuff sculpted on there. Driving claws? Sort of.

The downsides are his forearms are a little anemic. They have to be, because so much is being crammed into that middle section of the car, but the result is a Hot Shot that's not quite his expected silhouette. He had big punchy arms, and now he doesn't. The roof of the car, instead of hanging off the underside of his forearms, is now on the back of his legs. This is out of the way of his arms! It's not out of the way of his knees, though, and in order to bend those knees more than 30 degrees, you gotta fold those car roof halves out of the way. (The car windows are still sculpted on the insides of Hot Shot's forearms.)
But otherwise, hey, yeah, it's finally an Armada Hot Shot that functions well as an action figure. It's an odd existence, since his entire appearance was originally wholly dependent on being a platform for various gimmickry. He looks the way he does because the play pattern came first. But now here's that design but with ankle tilts.
Something gained, something lost.
Tags: generations, legacy, hot shot, armada

Also, he's still doing Shortpacked! Now with a 50% more strawman and a 100% less funny.

 

[RX-78]

after the then-current comics made fun of his semi-official OC (Shattered Glass Ravage) by killing them off in the background, he threw a fit and tried to make out that it wasn't SG Ravage at all, but actually the guy that Ravage's deco is based on, because...it just was, OK!?!

Damn, imagine being openly ridiculed by the very franchise you orbit. Gawd, I can't imagine anyone else whose been publicly humiliated like that bef-

 

[Flexo]

A-hem

Thank you for fueling my nightmares. Let me rephrase: I don't want to believe anyone cares that much.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Can absolutely confirm. One of the main reasons the Transformers fanbase is as awful as it is (aside from the obvious) is because he runs the wiki, which means casual/entry-level fans looking up information on the series will be exposed to his weapons-grade autism. He absolutely uses the wiki as a means of pushing his own opinions as "fact" regarding anything TF related; as just one example, after the then-current comics made fun of his semi-official OC (Shattered Glass Ravage) by killing them off in the background, he threw a fit and tried to make out that it wasn't SG Ravage at all, but actually the guy that Ravage's deco is based on, because...it just was, OK!?!

It's funny to go back and read old comics like this and know he was absolutely making shit up. You just know the other guy from this original conversation was way more reasoned and was probably talking about how it'd be cool if you could get new molds, and Willis made himself look like a total retard by trying to 'Um ackshually" the whole thing.

He's probably used mod powers to rewrite people's posts so he can make them look dumber so he can win the argument.

 

[RX-78]

Can absolutely confirm. One of the main reasons the Transformers fanbase is as awful as it is (aside from the obvious) is because he runs the wiki

Is this the reason why the site is bloated with nauseatingly unfunny jokes, memes that have been dead for decades, and bad toy photographs instead of, y'know, the information about the series people want to see? You say he's autistic but it takes something awfully special to miss the point of a freaking encyclopedia and if he really did have official connections at one point before getting thrown out on his ass then you'd figure he would have put those to use, like getting the behind the scenes details that fans of fan franchise would eat up with a silver spoon. Christ, what a faggot.

I can't quote Ewan McGregor's post for some reason, but I'm curious: this twat has made it abundantly clear that he hates those dirty, filthy, stinking, piss-yellow Japs for taking the limelight away from his precious toy commercial (that was made in Japan) during the anime boom, so why is he a fan of a character who debuted in Armada? Is he in the clang closet over Hotshot and that plastic lust allows him to pull a mental gymnast routine on his own racism? I mean that backpack or whatever it is at the bottom of the picture has katakana written on it, that should trigger him into having an autistic meltdown over Takara ditching transformers for the cooler and more successful Brave series.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

I can't quote @Ewan McGregor's post for some reason, but I'm curious: this twat has made it abundantly clear that he hates those dirty, filthy, stinking, piss-yellow Japs for taking the limelight away from his precious toy commercial (that was made in Japan) during the anime boom, so why is he a fan of a character who debuted in Armada? Is he in the clang closet over Hotshot and that plastic lust allows him to pull a mental gymnast routine on his own racism? I mean that backpack or whatever it is at the bottom of the picture has katakana written on it, that should trigger him into having an autistic meltdown over Takara ditching transformers for the cooler and more successful Brave series.

I am sure the astute amongst you will notice that, much like Dobson, Willis' art has an animesque quality to it because, much like Dobson, he is a former weaboo and he is currently a closet weaboo.

See, this is a funny thing about SJWs of the Tumblr variety: They all have a background in Anime, more specifically Shoujo anime and BL/Yaoi at that. They are all fujoshis. While I don't think Tumblr as a ground zero for current year woke shit was organic, Tumblr wokeism was LGBT-oriented before it was race-oriented.

Once upon a time, Tumblr was a bunch of fujoshis thirsting about Superwholock gay shit, the racial aspects of their mindset came when local niggers started noticing that all these pairings were white and started chimping out as they always do whenever they are not the center of attention.

I digress, but this is all too common also in LGBT circles where niggers will chimpout every time they see a gay couple (and only a gay couple) where both are white (and only white) or an instagram picture that shows more than two attractive men (and only attractive men) where there aren't any nigger (even if there are asians or latinos). They are that desperate.

I'm just mentioning this because, in this context, Tumblr users were over time harassed into condemning anime or face the accusation of racism by deranged niggers, thus anime became haram for not being 'diverse' enough. Thankfully for them, they got their Halal Woke Officially Approved Anime in Steven Universe.

None of them stopped doing anime by any means (no pun intended) they just became more hypocritical about this.

I'm just mentioning all of this because this is the context in which Willis chose to fish for a following. Willis might have an 'official' reason for disliking anime (Because they took the 'spotlight' out of Transformers or whatever) much like Dobson had (Anime was too popular and them, stupid youngsters didn't appreciate it as they should. Worse, they dared to find Ranma lame) but in the end they're still very much weaboos that are shitting on something they like for spurious reasons.

Willis started Roomies! with an art style that was much more in the stye of 90s american newspaper strips such as Zits and, God forbid me, Calvin & Hobbes but by the end of It's Walky! his art had evolved into definitely more animesque features. Shortpacked! is awfully drawn for the most part and a huge step back in WIllis' art progression that he arguably never recovered from, and one, at that, that drifts away from japanese influences.

All of this is replaced by a noticeable Tumblr Style in Dumbing of Age, which is Calarts Style with Anime characteristics: Noodle limbs, odd autistic focus on certain anatomical features such as noses or gums, transparent dykish hairdos, gaudy, flamboyant, screaming bright palettes, diversity characters and manic, psychotic, exaggerated facial expressions to emphasize how quirky the character is.

I don't doubt that, after adopting his final form, Willis is arrogant enough to look down on anime as 'bad' art.

And, to finish this long-ass post, yet another example of Mary being /ourgirl/

 

[RX-78]

So his excuse for not being able to draw sex scenes was being haunted by the ghost of his grandmother until he was 26, so what's the excuse for big fat nigger lips and dead shark eyes? The jew professor didn't get so lucky either, I think walky just likes men equipped for fellatio lmao.

 

[Flexo]

And, to finish this long-ass post, yet another example of Mary being /ourgirl/

"Mary"? When did Ethan transition to a girl?

Also that last comic. WTF is even the meaning of it? Does anybody know what the point is? "We're not people" sounds like something a fascist (i.e. MovieBob) would say.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

"Mary"? When did Ethan transition to a girl?

Also that last comic. WTF is even the meaning of it? Does anybody know what the point is? "We're not people" sounds like something a fascist (i.e. MovieBob) would say.

Mary's from Willis' first comic, Roomies, which he did back in the late 90s. After Joyce got abducted by aliens, he brought her in to be the new religious girl, except more of a hypocrite and judgmental one who was more there to shame Danny for being more liberal than he was when they were kids together. She was two years younger than the main cast and was going to marry Howard after discovering she was pregnant, only for the graduation story Willis did later to reveal that she got an abortion.

In this comic, she's mostly used to get shit on because she's religious... except that Willis took it too far and had her getting shit on way more than readers thought she deserved. Like this strip, she has a legitimate complaint, and gets slapped for it. Much like the mothers, Mary is always wrong regardless of what's happening. There was a later arc where Carla, a trans woman, was being annoying and Mary asked her to stop, to which Carla said no. This escalated until Mary walked her over to the boys side and finally got her to shut up and this was presented as the ultimate evil... except that from the framing, it's presented more as a last result by a frustrated student trying to study than a malicious act of misgendering. Which, to this day, I am convinced Willis did on purpose so he could act like anyone who pointed this out was being an awful human being and he's so much better than them.

Though I never cottoned on to her being a trans Ethan. That's hilarious.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't doubt that, after adopting his final form, Willis is arrogant enough to look down on anime as 'bad' art.

The main thing I notice about this faggot looking at his "art" these days is everything he does looks like shit. It's like CTRL-ALT-DEL but even more lazy. And every bit of dialogue is pure gay bullshit. It's retarded, with zero content to it. It's like Dobson fucked Tim Buckley up the ass, they had a retard ass baby, and that ass baby made this comic.

This guy should kill himself.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

There's something about Mary

Mary's privacy is violated by the antics of toxic dyke and co-dependent worm, but it's her fault for not dressing at the right time

Sanctimonious Cunt also has an opinion, because she is Sanctimonious Cunt

Whatever the hell this strip is.

Sanctimonious Cunt dismantles Christian doctrine with a Disney reference. I don't care you lampshade it, Willis, it is still stupid.

Sanctimonious Cunt (And Willis) cannot even spell prophecy.

Sanctimonious Cunt doesn't understand that, if she is going to church as a non-believer as a personal favour from a believer friend, it is impolite to challenge the believers there on their beliefs. I don't think Sanctimonious Cunt would have done this if she was invite to a Synagogue or a Mosque.

Except they're not nice people. They're disingenuous, insensitive and a love-bombing cult. They're only nice in the context of themselves, therefore they're quite evil outside that context.

More psycho-bitch shenanigans

I get the joke, but Mary has a justifiable prejudice against a family of which she has met two member and one is a crazy BPD bitch and the other is a Psychotic, sex-obsessed whore.

I rate this autistic

So this is one of many instances in which Toxic Dyke's been grossly incompetent and violent about it.

Mary is doing her best Gendo impression here

I actually laughed at this piece of Mary trolling. And if it was done on the reverse, with any of the series resident LGBT atheists doing this to her, Willis would be expecting us to laugh the way I'm laughing now, and not at all to think of them as the villains he intends for Mary to be thought as in this piece.

Now, for something completely different: Saturday Morning Mary (aka the trans saga)

'comments are closed'

Another Mary win

More Saturday Morning Mary

This is all for today, go away now

 

[Flexo]

Whatever the hell this strip is.

This is literally one of the most "protestant" jokes of all time.

Basically it's an old argument in every denomination: does the doctrine matter or does presentation matter? In this comic, the author (through mary) is literally saying what they teach isn't important as long as it's entertaining. (note I'm greatly over-simplifying - obviously what makes the debate so thorny is that both things are important and have their place)

Damn, I'm in love.

Also Carla deserves to die in a fire.

 

[Brother Wind]

Well this takes me back. My girlfriend in highschool was a big fan of these. I kept up with them for her, I thought I quit because he was preachy, but I might just be retarded

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Okay, Willis, if you're going to try and make your Walky's mother the villain... don't make her right. Walky is proudly a slacker. He bragged about never studying and still getting As. You just had an arc where he fucked around with Amber doing nothing earlier today and only left because the chips ran out. Also, a webcomic in the 2020s? Willis, the only reason you can make it a career is because you have an established audience. The majority of others who have recently started, in fact the majority of webcomics that ever had a following, failed to get the author a steady income they could rely on. Plus, this shit is taking away from time that could be used to improve his grades.

If I found out I was paying for tuition and board, about $25k a year, for my kid to dick around and flunk his classes, I'd be pissed too. Everything she's saying is perfectly valid. But she's the villain, because Willis' mommy was evil.

The woman died four years ago and yet her eldest son is still shitting on her memory to a bunch of strangers online.

 

[AnOminous]

The woman died four years ago and yet her eldest son is still shitting on her memory to a bunch of strangers online.

Plebcomics really captured this spiteful little faggot.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

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Okay, Willis, if you're going to try and make your Walky's mother the villain... don't make her right. Walky is proudly a slacker. He bragged about never studying and still getting As. You just had an arc where he fucked around with Amber doing nothing earlier today and only left because the chips ran out. Also, a webcomic in the 2020s? Willis, the only reason you can make it a career is because you have an established audience. The majority of others who have recently started, in fact the majority of webcomics that ever had a following, failed to get the author a steady income they could rely on. Plus, this shit is taking away from time that could be used to improve his grades.

If I found out I was paying for tuition and board, about $25k a year, for my kid to dick around and flunk his classes, I'd be pissed too. Everything she's saying is perfectly valid. But she's the villain, because Willis' mommy was evil.

The woman died four years ago and yet her eldest son is still shitting on her memory to a bunch of strangers online.

To be fair, I gotta love how Walky's mum is drawn here. He perfectly nailed the "I'm married to a nigger I dated just to spite dad and now I'm stuck with his dumb ass, a retarded half-nigger daughter who is a thuggish petty criminal and a retarded half-nigger son who acts as a fucking five years old and it's somewhat of a male equivalent of 30-something girls trying to act moe with even less prospects of a future than his thuggish petty criminal sister, now dating a dumb, equally childish pajeet-ish girl" face.

Little things like this make reading Willis worth it.

 

[The Lawgiver]

See, there's an integral problem with making Armada Hot Shot, But With Joints. Armada Hot Shot transformed in a certain way that doesn't really.... allow for real arms? Like, he's a sports car, and his arms are layered on top of his torso, and they really only swung out to the sides because, like... there's no room for additional jointing, and this also means his torso is absolutely flat. So if you want to give him real arms and a real torso so that he doesn't look like Pancake The Robot Man, you have to... change things? A lot? And the more you change things, the less he looks like Hot Shot.

This take is so fucking cartoonishly wrong the reason armada hot shot was made with no arm joints is a blatant case of the usual budget/safety standards shit in troy manufacturing that leads to stuff like robot toys having fake joints at parts that are clearly meant to move a certain way. I remember back in the day some people would mod armada hotshot into having movable shoulders though I can't find photos on image search anymore. The new Hotshot is nearly identical to the original transformation wise save for some hollowing and other proportional changes made to accommodate the fact they decided to make the legs turn into the front AND hood of the car instead of giving the hood panels to his arms.

One of the main reasons the Transformers fanbase is as awful as it is (aside from the obvious) is because he runs the wiki, which means casual/entry-level fans looking up information on the series will be exposed to his weapons-grade autism. He absolutely uses the wiki as a means of pushing his own opinions as "fact" regarding anything TF related; as just one example, after the then-current comics made fun of his semi-official OC (Shattered Glass Ravage) by killing them off in the background, he threw a fit and tried to make out that it wasn't SG Ravage at all, but actually the guy that Ravage's deco is based on, because...it just was, OK!?!

I kinda wonder if he's the reason why the "influencers" in the fanbase (and some official media the last decade) consider hot shot a different character than Hot Rod despite him being blatantly Hot Rod in how he behaves and the fact he's literally named Hot Rod in Japan. His powerlinx colors are literally just g1 Hot rod.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

So, in the recent arc, Joyce admits she has no idea that there's a trans person on their floor and Dorothy confirms that yes, there is one, but refuses to out them. And then this happens:

I laughed, but not for the reason Willis thinks I should have. Joyce took one look at Carla, after talking about trans people, and doesn't get it. That means that Carla is so obviously a dude that apparently you can take one look and instantly know. And Willis didn't think about how this reads. This dude thinks he's the ultimate ally and then pulls out based shit like this.

If he wasn't a raging moron who can't see beyond his own nose, I absolutely would believe in the conspiracy that yes, this is secretly right-wing.

 

[Flexo]

So, in the recent arc, Joyce admits she has no idea that there's a trans person on their floor and Dorothy confirms that yes, there is one, but refuses to out them. And then this happens:

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I laughed, but not for the reason Willis thinks I should have. Joyce took one look at Carla, after talking about trans people, and doesn't get it. That means that Carla is so obviously a dude that apparently you can take one look and instantly know. And Willis didn't think about how this reads. This dude thinks he's the ultimate ally and then pulls out based shit like this.

If he wasn't a raging moron who can't see beyond his own nose, I absolutely would believe in the conspiracy that yes, this is secretly right-wing.

Carla is such a dick he really is a strong argument that trans folks aren't bullied enough. Like seriously if you're that narcissictic you should be hospitalized or sent into exile so you can be forever with the person you love the most.

That he may have fans is the more concerning thing.

 

[Zaryiu2]

Didn't know he still made comics where he continues to be wrong all the time although i shouldn't be surprised, all that is missing is edits. Speaking of which

Here's a lot effort edit