Author: David M Willis

It’s like a who’s who of Shortpacked!‘s least popular players.  On the left we’ve got Blaine O’Malley, Amber’s divorced and estranged father.  He hasn’t been around in Amber’s life much, for Reasons.  One of those reasons might involve Faz, on […]
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Despite Ethan arguably being the main character of Shortpacked! for about eight years, we never saw much of his parents.  In fact, we only got one glimpse of his mom’s arm.  So I just kind of whole-hog made ’em up. […]
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Amber’s mom, Stacy O’Malley, suffered no huge changes in her translation from Shortpacked! other than shaving about a decade off her age.  (Shaving a decade off one’s age doesn’t matter quite as much when we’re talking about scooting it from 50 […]
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All I knew going into this was that I wanted both the parental Saruyamas to wear hats.  And on strip 4 of Dumbing of Age, they certainly did!  Now we get a closer look.
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The Original Universe’s Joe’s Dad was Joe with a beard.  But Walkyverse Joe has a beard now, so I decided to grizzle up Dr. Richard Rosenthal’s beard a bit in the Dumbiverse.  That’s right, he’s a doctor.  A BONE doctor. […]
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Hey, it’s an honest-to-gosh older brother of Joyce!  In the Original Continuity, Joyce’s older brothers were relegated to photographs or token appearances at weddings and I don’t think any of them got official names.  But here in Dumbing of Age, […]
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Joyce’s parents are a bit older than the other characters’ parents.  Joyce is the youngest of four siblings, while the rest of the cast are mostly first or second in birth order, so I get to gray and wrinkle up […]
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It’s Howard!  Seriously, it’s just Howard.  No changes from the original Walkyverse Howard, down to the shirt and pants and everything.  Well, he’s younger, I guess.  But I didn’t see any reason to redesign him.
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Here’s Danny’s parents, the Wilcoxes.  I haven’t really, truly drawn them since they appeared in late Roomies! stuff back around the early 00’s, so this was another case of “how do I translate these ancient character designs into my current […]
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Here’s the Dumbiverse version of Mike’s parents, the Warners.  They’re younger here than when we met them in the Other Universe.  And since they’re in a dorm, Mike’s dad can’t smoke a pipe and also his mom probably shouldn’t be […]
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