Dave Willis, author of the webcomic Shortpacked, posts a comic about two outspoken, popular(?) fandom bloggers who apparently are not big on Beast Wars. It is not very flattering.

These two bloggers (one Tom Croom, and one Joey Snackpants) soon show up in the comments to sow seeds of dissent. Or something.

Tom Croom is in a webcomic!
You clearly don't understand the true definition of "straw man".
Tom Croom will tell you why Beast Wars sucks if you donate $250 to the charity of his choice!
YOU CANNOT TRICK DAVE WILLIS.
Joey Snackpants still thinks Beast Wars sucks!

And as a bonus: This all started when because someone didn't get invited to a Transformers convention. I mean, have you seen their panel?

ETA: Apparently there's a Shortpacked tag.

NSFW NSFW NSFW

Questionable Content's Jeph Jacques and Shortpacked!'s Dave Willis have a little crossover going today, which leads to Willis posting this drawing of himself as the creator of QC in his LiveJournal. So far, so good.

In response, Jacques posts a VERY NSFW drawing of Willis being fucked by a dog and sucking a guy's cock. Without an LJ-cut. There is now an ETA stating (bolding his):

dear everyone bitching about how I should've put this behind a cut because bawwww I look at LJ at work and almost got in trouble waaaawwwwww

Maybe you shouldn't be looking at livejournal at work

And lo and behold, there are indeed many comments requesting a cut, and just as many making fun of those who did.

Willis responds with an equally NSFW drawing of Jacques eating poo right from the source. And it all goes downhill from there.

There is bonus discussion in the comments on Jacques' incorrect use of terminology, as he states that Willis is a dogfucker, but he's clearly being depicted as being fucked by a dog.

Also, beware of guro macros in the comments.

So, we've all seen the heights of frothiness that Transformers fans can reach, but what about the fanboys' fanboys?

First, Matt Moylan of the webcomic Lil' Formers posts a comic comparing the various incarnations of Optimus Prime.

Then, David Willis of Shortpacked! satirizes Matt's comic in one of his own.

Cue fanboy outrage, in both blogs of the involved artists. Multiple times.

And in the tfwiki.net talk page for Matt Moylan.

And in the wikipedia.net talk page for David Willis.

The heights of impotent nerd rage their fans reach on behalf of people with careers most of the fans would punch an elderly relative for is pretty hilarious.

Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

There's been some wanking going on over at Shortpacked! recently. The most recent storyline has had Amber, one of the two main female characters in the strip, talked into going around in her underwear so she'll be so "intimidatingly hot" that one of her coworkers will stop hitting on her. This doesn't work.

The day of that strip, in its newspost on the Shortpacked lj community, an anonymous comes in and asks the strip's creator "Plz plz plz, Willis, don't ruin Amber with [premarital hanky panky] like you trashed Joyce n' Walky. Show some love to us prudes you used to be a friend to. :("

People don't respond well to the idea that characters not staying virgins until marriage makes their relationship trash, but it blows over fairly quickly.

But then, in the next day's new post, Willis brings it up again:

"Don't try to tell me that Joyce is "trashed" because someone put something in her hole down there. You're not going to win me over. You can tell me she may have made the wrong decision for all sorts of rational reasons, but do not try to tell me that she is a worthless human being now. It makes me sick. If the state of a girl's hymen determines how much you care about her, like the flip of a switch, you've got a way worse problems on your hands than whether you slept with somebody or not."

Things are peaceful for awhile, people either agreeing with that section of the post or ignoring it, but then the anonymous comes back. And gets wordy.

Highlights include the mouse equating being a prude in this day and age with either being a German Jew in 1945 or being someone accused of witchcraft during the Salem trials, Willis being "as much a caricature as your strip" because he doesn't just let bygones be bygones about the "trashed" comment after the mouse said it was just hyperbole, and a bunch of people getting pissed off at the mouse trying to make themself out as a victim.