the local spirit has its finger on the pulse of the art world despite being non-corporeal

although now i feel bad since i first posted this yesterday and haven’t seen the yellow character since the day before that but i presume i will again. generally i feel bad whatever happens.

this is actually the third edition of this picture and that one also. it appears that i did not make “normal” website entries for them because, like this one, it depends on an obnoxious social media sort of context that this website isn’t and in 2018 and 2017 i must have had enough other things to post that i was comfortable skipping them. Last year i suddenly started seeing what could be described as PLUMBER BLUE JERKRABBIT but evidently that was not sudden enough to inspire a continuation of this impotent protest then, so there are definitely different tiers of it.
I forgot to change the “bed” line from 2017 even though I have a real bed instead of a pair of mattresses now. I cannot determine what the floor clutter was supposed to be, so attempting to update it to resemble the present clutter would be a waste of time as i am destined to not know what that is later either. otherwise this is a completely logical use of time yes

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i saw mid 1990s reader rabbit games for the first time recently and this is what came of that
the interface imitation is an afterthought and so the words do not work very well with it, if they work at all.

i was already too old for the original versions of reader rabbit that i was occasionally near during what legally qualified as school for me, so i missed out entirely on the later versions that actually had characters and animation. hence why i cannot read. however my “audience” tends to be 10-20 years younger than me and not necessarily aware of how young i amn’t

Initially I just wanted to draw the dumb mouse misbehaving,

ruining everyone else’s day while calling out “see me!” and i wondered what else was going on. oddly enough while within the target demographic i probably would not have. possibly i was smarter then than now.
With the book theme and the large amount of small, hostile words that dominate official government messaging, i pushed the drawing toward the specific act depicted.

maybe reader rabbit isn’t a fascist but i lack any attachment to the character so i do not mind implying nefarious things.

and ideally this will not lead to any real person meeting the fate reserved for rabble rousing revolutionaries

before leaving i would like to point out that in the old macintosh game i saw in the past, i was under the impression that reader rabbit worked in a mine, but apparently actually OWNed the mine and has acquired a luxuriant dwelling, which includes a custom-made carrot-themed toilet. the branding is appropriate since rabbits don’t actually eat carrots often so possibly if they did it would cause them indigestion and as I know from reading the historical case study Watership Down, rabbits also don’t have very good long term memory so a toilet like this might one them remember the association. That also explains why Reader Rabbit has been repeating first grade for two decades. The only question is why there is so much space between the toilet and the sink. i suppose that means you don’t need to worry about your toothbrushes if you neglect to close the lid before flushing but that is generally a good habit to get into regardless of space allocation.

comic page 4-7 ! not again, the 4-7 from last time is now 4-8. I didn’t like how this once aggressive creature suddenly seemed cowardly for no reason and also having fearsome deeds occur out of view seemed inconsistent with what i have done up to this point. beyond that since treco has only effectively intimidated lope so far, to have a creature that also tried to intimidate lope be victim of it requires that i show it. And i had to wonder what could possibly HAVE happened which would accomplish that? And I am not sure that THIS shows THAT, but it shows more than before this page existed whatever the case. maybe ponappa is less cowardly than bothered and confused. this also gets slightly more use out of an old character design that i hated to waste on an extremely brief appearance. it is still wasted but to a lesser degree

i saw this while shopping. i don’t know if it is the WORST marketing character i have ever seen but it is the worst one i can remember right at this moment. definitely, probably, the worst one that used to be bearable.

At least Queen Brahne in Final Fantasy 9 has a weird sort of elegance to go with the disproportionate eyes and mouth and the player is meant to be unsettled by this appearance and not in favor of what this character endorses.

even the soulless marketing website wanking out over this megabland packaging redesign struggles to be positive about the shodawful ai meme hellscape mascot change
admittedly i have never bought bit-o-honey but i was never bothered by its presence until now. i remember years and years ago honey nut cheeriors cereal having a bit-o-honey sample bar hidden inside the box somewhere because i don’t know why, and me and my older brother both desperately trying to claim it just because children are easily impressed and made greedy for flashy nonsense even though i didn’t even like honey nut cheerios themselves. The presentation of the box’s “prize” made me see it as desirable. If it looked like THIS i wouldn’t want to go near it. and maybe in that moment that would have been preferable since i don’t believe i actually got to have the thing.

part of the shill page’s point is that the rebranded product seeks a more “mature” audience but as an adult sized person i STILL don’t want to go near it and only did so in order to capture evidence of it. this appeal is “mature” in the sense that a child wouldn’t pretend something horrible was good simply out of spite for another party that they dislike for a stupid reason.

The product has changed ownership a few times and right now it is owned by the spangler candy company which also makes “necco wafers” and artificial-banana-flavored “circus peanuts” and they just want the world to be worse i suppose.
in fact i apparently mentioned bit o honey and necco wafers in the same statement when declaring which bad candy my niece did NOT get on halloween a few years ago, not even aware that they were by then on the same side and uglier than ever.

even the computer generated “whammies” from the 2002 todd newton version of Press Your Luck weren’t as corporately ugly as this because whammies were ugly to begin with.

though arguably the sterile set design is inferior to new bit-o-honey at least retaining bright red in its background. I can SEE the horribee in front of it whereas the bland whammy, bland set and bland todd tend to bland blend into each other.

i am impressed that disney-owned abc found something i would less like to meet than the deedles. and this also foreshadows old bit-o-honey being reintroduced in 2040 and hopefully I will have better things to do by then than write a web page about it.

may 7: i forgot that since i posted this a few minutes after midnight may 1 i should have the next post up today instead of tomorrow. whoopth.
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i sketched out the next pages and considered that i might need to insert another page before this one to explain why this pineapply creature is acting like that since it looks like there isn’t an organic way for that to be explained afterward without the lizard no longer being able to dopily smile about it
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page 7 of part 4 of this
this section may end up being less relevant even than usual since the imps’ position in time is out of synch with what needs to happen to them next.
this was posted later than i meant to because i was discussing with someone how funny ub iwerks’ name is.