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

[Koby_Fish]

I wonder what his opinions on EarthSpark are/would be.

probably creaming himself over the non-binary bot

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

probably creaming himself over the non-binary bot

And the ugly-as-sin black/pinoy kids

 

[AnOminous]

I'm honestly surprised no LGBT group has come after him for it considering one of his most prolific lesbian couples was always one step away from throwing punches at each other.

Pleb pretty much nailed how utterly insufferable this asshole's characters are.

 

[Pargon]

Pleb pretty much nailed how utterly insufferable this asshole's characters are.
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I’d ignored DoA for so long that I didn’t know Becky was an actual character. The first time I saw her in a comic I thought she was such a brilliant satirical caricature of Willis’ characters, and that what I was looking at was a really well-done edit.

Leave it to Willis to be utterly beyond parody.

 

[Cask of Amontillado]

Pleb pretty much nailed how utterly insufferable this asshole's characters are.
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This brunette struck me as some hybrid of Joyce and Mary.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

This brunette struck me as some hybrid of Joyce and Mary.

It's pretty much Joyce. You are only reminded of Mary because that's how Mary would react, which is incidentally how any normal person would react. Pleb wanted to channel the normal person, which just happened to align with Mary.

But Willis doesn't believe Mary is a normal person, or that normal people would behave like Mary.

Whoa, this is Meta as fuck.

Edit: There is a second part of this strip where the Redhead Canadian Asshole expy comes to berate the wrongthink, so maybe it IS Mary.

 

[Suction Bucket]

I'm always amazed at how totally creatively bankrupt Willis is. Dude's 40+ and has been producing "art" for pretty much his entire life and yet he's still just churning out endless inane bickering between his myriad bland "characters", some of whom are repackages of things he came up with as a literal child. Sometimes there's a brief stab at "aliens" or "haha wacky shop adventures" but it always returns to "a bunch of charmless generic d-bags standing around yammering about their feelings". And he's never really progressed as an artist or a writer, it's the same 2 male bodies and the same 2 female bodies over and over and over, with all the dynamism of a bunch of discarded store mannequins. Like, how do you even do that?

 

[Ewan McGregor]

And he's never really progressed as an artist

He kind of got worse?

He reached his peak with it's Walky!

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I’d ignored DoA for so long that I didn’t know Becky was an actual character. The first time I saw her in a comic I thought she was such a brilliant satirical caricature of Willis’ characters, and that what I was looking at was a really well-done edit.

Leave it to Willis to be utterly beyond parody.

The funny thing is that in the original verse, Becky was much nicer and more of a "what if Joyce had stayed a sheltered Christian instead of fighting aliens" character. This was also how she was in early DoA. The new Becky came about when Willis realized he could write a giant asshole and hide behind the LGBT shield whenever he was criticized.

Notice how all the biggest pricks in the comic are under that umbrella?

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

I haven't thought about Walky/Short packed/Willis in ages. I don't know if I've seen any recent threads on him on /co in a while. It sounds like he hasn't trannsed out like Greg from Real Life, so all I want to know is if Mary is still best girl?

I fucking hate people that hop with skates.

That right there would make me hate the character and hope they die a terrible death.

 

[Cask of Amontillado]

It's pretty much Joyce. You are only reminded of Mary because that's how Mary would react, which is incidentally how any normal person would react. Pleb wanted to channel the normal person, which just happened to align with Mary.

But Willis doesn't believe Mary is a normal person, or that normal people would behave like Mary.

Whoa, this is Meta as fuck.

Edit: There is a second part of this strip where the Redhead Canadian Asshole expy comes to berate the wrongthink, so maybe it IS Mary.

Redhead reminds me of a combination of Becky, Ruth, and Lucy.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I miss when Willis just told dumb jokes. Early Shortpacked showed that he was capable of being pretty funny when he wanted to be.

Too bad he decided he didn't want to be funny, he wanted to be Important™.

 

[AnOminous]

I miss when Willis just told dumb jokes. Early Shortpacked showed that he was capable of being pretty funny when he wanted to be.

Too bad he decided he didn't want to be funny, he wanted to be Important™.

And ended up neither.

 

[Chuck McGill]

Of all the people that made it big from the webcomic boom, how the fuck is it that Tim Goddamn Buckley made it out the most unscathed?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Of all the people that made it big from the webcomic boom, how the fuck is it that Tim Goddamn Buckley made it out the most unscathed?

LOSS is powerful and timeless

 

[AnOminous]

Of all the people that made it big from the webcomic boom, how the fuck is it that Tim Goddamn Buckley made it out the most unscathed?

He didn't chimp out (well not much anyway) and turn into an utter lolcow. His worst sin was just kind of lazy cartooning.

 

[Chuck McGill]

LOSS is powerful and timeless

Funnily enough, his reaction to loss.jpg itself is probably contributory towards his staying power. He acknowledged it was a direction people didn't like, he quietly altered course and more or less kept his mouth shut about it. Then after a reasonable amount of time had passed, he was able to laugh about it and even lean into the joke to a degree. I could imagine an event like loss.jpg laying low many other webcomic artists. Like the time Jeph Jacques got drunk and knifed up his own hand because he got criticism that he didn't draw a character 'fat enough'.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

I miss when Willis just told dumb jokes. Early Shortpacked showed that he was capable of being pretty funny when he wanted to be.

Too bad he decided he didn't want to be funny, he wanted to be Important™.

Looking at Roomies! is like looking at pictures of Chris-chan before he discovered Sonic/Pokemon.

It is an extremely naive, basic, childish comic he started writing in High School so of course it is about what he thought (and hoped) university would be like as informed by stupid 80s comedy movies.

It had, however, some gags that I found quite hilarious. He was always decent at surreal humor before

The War on Straw(tm)

kicked in.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Funnily enough, his reaction to loss.jpg itself is probably contributory towards his staying power. He acknowledged it was a direction people didn't like, he quietly altered course and more or less kept his mouth shut about it. Then after a reasonable amount of time had passed, he was able to laugh about it and even lean into the joke to a degree. I could imagine an event like loss.jpg laying low many other webcomic artists. Like the time Jeph Jacques got drunk and knifed up his own hand because he got criticism that he didn't draw a character 'fat enough'.

The cheeky edit he made on one of the anniversaries was great.

 

[Dr. Butt]

He didn't chimp out (well not much anyway) and turn into an utter lolcow. His worst sin was just kind of lazy cartooning.

Didn't he send pictures of his penis to a 16 year old?