bimshwellian comicoid part 4 page 4

another slowww-progressing page with those boring, confusing-to-keep-track-of gnomes but at least they are slightly closer to being dealt with and once they are then i won’t necessarily need to show them for a while, though it is necessary for them to appear some more.

no smell is good enough to justify gaining delgo attributes on one’s face or anywhere else

apparently this large chested rubbery man wearing dish washing gloves who is admiring the job he did cleaning an implausibly shiny serving pan is both beauty AND the beast
my niece was binge watching this sort of thing over her christmas break. the overwhelmingly most watched item has been, obviously, Mulan 2.
I don’t know why but fortunately i can tolerate its widely known badness better than plenty of more highly regarded, equally annoying products’ supposed greatness. I like that i can look up mulan 2 and see people complaining about it and not feel like i need to issue a verbose rebuttal that nobody will care about except people who don’t want to see it since they were looking for my cartoon drawings rather than criticism of cartoon drawings that they like better than mine.

I don’t understand this. I thought much of the point of the 2017 movie was, foremost, as with the other disney remakes, to cement the cartoon version as The Original being adapted rather than itself an adaptation, but also to rebrand the character Gaston as more inarguably bad and less fun. He’s always sullen, he shoots the beast from a distance with a hand gun instead of demanding what he considers a fair fight with more old fashioned weaponry, and he doesn’t even juggle eggs, right? bad guys can’t be fun, our willingly captive audience had been groomed by us to be too dumb to understand that we aren’t encouraging bad behavior so we need to update our products for The Times. But also still sell and merchandise the unupdated version for folks who obsess over The Good Old Days and will rebuy the same movies for whatever you charge just like they rebuy the same nintendo games from nintendo or ebay at obscene inflated collector price, whichever is more, then brag about it. Just don’t talk about Song of the South.
but i suppose that was eight, nine years ago by now. long enough to shift principles and remake, resell and remind some more. especially since “original” Gaston is pretty much MAGA ideal, at least until the woman he flaunts his macho perfection at rejects him, (probably becuase he is french rather than a proper american), and disney is feeling the hurt from the largest share of its long captive audience breaking free and turning on it via orders from a more powerful cult. Maybe this was never “canceled” and they just use that word to get creeps interested. The LEFT WING media tried to CANCEL Gaston just like it did to James Woods and Gina Carano! But DISNEY brought him back! Just like we brought Jimmy Kimmel back! Who we only removed because we thought you wanted us to! We’re good now, right? Please don’t boycott us!

I will give A tip but i am not giving you $10+ beyond what I expected to pay just for handing over two meatless pizzas which already have zanily inflated prices presumably to compensate for people who give bad tips when receiving table service when dining in the restaurant which I have not done.
well i won’t give 10$+ extra UNLESS you are looking directly at me when i have to deal with this thing and that doesn’t feel quite fair, especially if i have just had to stand here dodging dine-in customers and servers in your tiny waiting spot while the sound system blears terrible christmas songs. And i STILL won’t LIKE it!


my own recent ice sighting. thankfully this is not capable of murdering me for driving a car except at very close range.

this toilet has been outside not far from my home since late october and it is a source of continuing fascination for me, especially when it moves to other locations on the same property but remains outside. It is either self conscious about me photographing it or trying to provide me with fresh inspiration.

obviously, easily, the most important thing happening right now. President Trumpy issues criminal orders and insults those who criticize those orders weekly, but I only put out one of these videos per year!

2025 in pictures

january

february

march

april

may

june

july

august

october

november

december


alas, that is what happened [last] year.

and of corpse i did not finish the year end video before the year ended. did you think i would? i did! i don’t know why.
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i made a sketch in 2012 and then periodically looked at it in later years and tried to remember what my plan for it initially had been but never did.

so this year i tried to sort it out on a few occasions and only got this far. i have its various stages of production already in my year-end video but generally i do not put works-in-progress in there. and also i should prioritize finishing the video over finishing up this one picture that only occupies one second within it and is not clearly discernible as unfinished but i also do this for free and nobody asks me to so i can leave it in there if i want to even IF i complete it later and want to put that in a later video, OKAY? no it does not MATTER if you approve my decision as being oll korrect!

i should probably update this again before the year ends

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alas I fear that this will be Latke’s final Hanukkah as well

the monster that used to be nemitz changed into a monster that looks like it used to be nemitz, but which is and has been sprite-named “spof” either way. why i think i need more when i can barely run the game now as it is is mostly the fault of obsessive compulsion, as usual.

in fact the latest version of the gzdoom engine is now “uzdoom” after the former maintainer whose name supposedly coincidentally is abbreviated “gz” was ousted for being precisely the sort of person who usually has administrative roles in “communities” related to old nerd interests and runs even MORE worrisomely than before. if i become again willing to take this computer apart and try to replace its “thermal paste” again i can check on if a properly functioning computer can feasibly run this in levels with more than 2 monster types active at once without overheating and shutting off out of presumed rage at how stupid the monsters are. i suspect my hardware is, as usual, as always, woefully inadequate for what I want it to do, even when, perhaps especially when, it is something incredibly old fashioned and stupid. the older something is, the more people selling the new ones want to make it difficult to use. you know that, i know that, but I rarely adapt to it effectively.

to clarify, the “story” i have with this watch out for dopes business< has it taking place before the comic strip in which it is established that whatever elpse and nemitz are is not native to this location so there should not be hordes of them as the dope's adversaries. although elpse also says "we were here first" and elpse is highly ignorant and might not be aware if there are in fact plenty of them still there. i briefly considered making it look like nemitz with elpse coloration with that in mind. and this is all made up nonsense anyway and i can do whatever i want. nonetheless i did not want this monster to look like nemitz and waiting for me to sketch an alternative was not effective. after deciding last week on the "nonsense anyway" option, only AFTER i started redrawing it i finally had solid ideas for how to change it, as often occurs. i do not mind if it looks like it USED to be nemitz, only that it does not look like it is nemitz now partway through sketching in angle 4 it struck me that the purple and green color scheme looks like barney the dinosaur, who has been getting blown up in doom add-ons since doom add-ons have existed. but that is somewhat in character with nemitz, to try and pass mitzelf off as a different character and end up resembling one that is even more likely to deserve to come under attack. i do not know yet if i will also include the flower. in fact i do not even have a longwinded reasoning explanation for why i did or did not include it yet.

something to do with elon musk. it was deleted, as is the ideal and natural way of things.

lamentably the source was located, but that is not important.

this is also not important. Although it is striking how the passage of two decades has made MySpace and its operators seem relatively non-evil by comparison to what followed them.

this is important

or for any prototype fans

page 3 of part 4 of this solves nothing but it doubles my new page output for the year so that is statistically significant.
I do not like mouth-emitted particles but this is mild. It bothers me that i came up with this resolution but i don’t think this will be a problem for anyone else like it is for me and i can ensure it won’t get worse than this. i COULD explain it away as instead being force-of-air-based but that would contradict the not-pog being able to smash the bubbles together on the previous page.

i can think of NOTHING more ENTICING than a SACK full of MEAT. I would betray an oath of loyalty and my past livelihood and risk execution should I be recaptured for that, but not otherwise, sure. I think a lot of people would. If glorious leader Trump is so worried about foreigners he should forego the illegal thug deportation ice gangs and just drop sacks of meat into whatever countries he is worried about. Gosh maybe the rest of us will even leave to go after it and he can have america to himself. The president can afford better food than that.

yes very much so. this is just the level of artistic quality and inspiration that i expect from someone who doesn’t know how to spell crayon.

meatwhile this guy is really han de to have around

of course not, obviously i was vaccinated

one thing that is funny to me about the japanese video game production and publishing company Koei’s longstanding obsession with Romance of the Three Kingdoms is that they refer to the famed hero Cao Cao as “Sousou.” With no space in the middle, presumably pronounced like Susu. Even in games that have been translated into English and the name outwardly presented as “Cao Cao” you might be able to find “sousou” labeled on the game’s internal data files. Even when we call him Tsao –or Sow or Cow; silly farmbred livestock, sure, but still bulky and formidable– he remains Susu on the insisiside. This guy is supposed to be the most treacherous and fearsome warlord of his era, if not all history, and he has the same name my sister got called as a baby. I like especially when it is combined with another word; a spinoff game called Legend of Cao Cao is just “Sousouden.”

however, i take freddy readiness very seriously

This song is NOT on that playlist and I will not be suggesting its inclusion even now that i know who it is about.

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ALLLLLLSO i just moments ago realized that last night i accidentally “published” an unfinished post about moraff when i thought i was editing the previous week’s post about moraff to say that i wasn’t ready with a post for this week yet and also had not yet decided what that i was working on i would try and force into being a post for this week, which turned out to not be the one about moraff. if you saw it and wondered why it seemed unfinished, that is because it was! and if you saw it and didn’t notice it was unfinished, then this website is terrible!

It takes me so much by surprise to see anyone talking about moraff that I miss the point and the context if it is the slightest bit below the surface.
oh no comments are disabled on the post so i cannot even go over there and acknowledge my error. now this person who never heard of me and already forgot i quote-posted that will never know that i now know i misinterpreted it.
“pc-98” is a japan only computer system known for high quality pixel art, at least outside of the main sprite graphics, which tend to be pretty crummy and minimally animated, even when they aren’t cursed. I know this, I think about dumb falcom games all the time, and how they got away with recycled game engines, awkward monster battling, lack of things to do apart from battling, and the total absence of special effects that they get away with rereleasing over and over forever due to the strength of their background music and also their unusually detailed shop-keeper portraits and opening cinematics. But usually I do not think about this at the same time as moraff.

but this did manage to remind me

of a recent Moraff sighting on the Great British Sewing Bee program. a less fantastic British sewing bee could never handle such an occurrence. I also have ANOTHER moraff update but it is getting complicated and I would like to stop looking at these eyeballs immediately so maybe I will try that another time.

they tried to make the sandwich seem more dangerous by referring to the range as “point blank.” you can’t THROW a sandwich from a range beyond that and have it still be a sandwich after half a second. A long distance sandwich projectile would require a high powered launching device that would probably hurt more than a blank point throw. This reminds me of the time some guy tried to get richard simmons arrested for slapping him, and indeed in that case the charge presser was also an oaf with a height and weight advantage who failed to inflict the intimidation he thought he was entitled to and so whined about it to a higher authority. like when me and my older brother were children and we would try to get our younger brother in trouble for stuff less bad than what we did, except we were children acting like children.

what are the charges for, then? To put in his place the way-too-gay guy who managed to succeed despite people like you? I remember this because the “victim” Chris Farney despite being unnamed in initial reports got to be a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel Live television program over this a few days after suffering the assault.

You might not be old enough to remember or trash-entertainment-aware enough to care but a long time ago Kimmel (and his owner, Disney) despite being pretty much the same as now actually passed for fairly conservative and regressive and had this guy on just to laugh with him about how absurd Richard Simmons is. The fellow also casually said “fuckin” during the interview and it was only after that point that the show ceased to actually be live and instituted a tape delay. funny to listen to this now and hear that attempts WERE made to censor the farnster in real time but then they missed the big moment.
I might also mention that in those days several minutes of every show would be just laughing at how stupid the Mexican crew member Guillermo Rodriguez’s voice was but i think they might STILL do that, but that then also makes Guillermo one nationally visible, non-native born american citizen who won’t get deported by sandwich-averse icicles and if an attempt is made to do that it will be harder to sweep under the radar.

Of course Richard Simmons ALSO made news for surreptitiously placing his tongue inside a hamburger that Roseanne Barrrrr was eating while filming her own talk show which is PROBABLY more legitimately offensive, though according to Simmons Roseanne actually shoved the hamburger in his mouth first, so then he shoved the burger into Roseanne’s mouth and exited the set which isn’t actually what happened; both of them bit the hamburger willingly and pretend-groped each other and then had 18 more minutes of interview after that. People like that just have absurd exaggerated personae, almost like real life cartoon characters, that should not be taken too seriously. UNLESS they try to run for public office, because if they think they’re qualified, and voters also think such persons are qualified, then they are surely out of their minds and not safe to have also out of prison.

I do believe Trump has met some of these victims already and that is part of the problem

why is this news? south park has been why-is-this-newsing a lot lately but this instance seems pretty typical and quarter-century-ago by south park standards. if the plan is to make trump try to prove he is heterosexual by pointing out all the minors with x chromosomes that Eppy J linked him up with, he might well be stupid enough to do that but remember that this is the guy known for buying teen beauty pageants just so he could perv around backstage and who said he can “grab em by the pussy” to Billy Bush and Billy Bush got fired, while Trump got a substantially superior job. The people who vote for him are absolutely not concerned that he himself is a sexual predator, only that he covers up for other ones, and then only ever for about a week at a time before picking on people like Guilermo and Richard and [women apart from] Roseanne became priority #1 again. Trump shills are already desperately trying to reclassify sexual relations between old white guys and minors as not necessarily actionable pedophilia based on [reason] after years of insisting biden was a pedophile just for smelling his granddaughter’s hair or something.

not all the expected parties are dismissing it, but I think they will once the time comes to do that. And by thinking this I can be pleasantly surprised when they don’t rather than SHOCKED when they do.

gorply borpity it’s The Democrats’ and B-b-b-BIDEN’s fault you put the wrong picture of Trump’s rubber stamp signature on a website? This is like Gargamel blaming the smurfs when he got caught stealing a Snickers bar from a gas station. for one thing we have very scant evidence that democrats actually exist. It is rumored that they have magic powers and come from france.

there the sandwiches are small enough to not cripple you if a protestor tosses one at you and the little bag keeps the evidence all together. If only national unity was so simple!
So sick of these morons and the north vs south BS in america.

I wanted the fish to be able to attack from a distance if necessary, and without needing to stop, like doom engine monsters generally do, but i may have made too big a project of it. the fish’s animation needs to be substantially more smooth and consistent than it was so that if the lizard turns while shooting, which is already difficult to make it do, its upper body does not visually detach from its legs. While trying to facilitate this i discovered that in the existing walk cycle, the fish’s left foot stepped faster than its right foot and that i had made that error on EVERY angle since i would use whichever i drew first as a guide for the rest. correcting that might make it subconsciously less unsettling than it was before, but also might not.
while close up i imagine the fish might start jumping like the werewolves from castlevania 2, who do not gain power or extra animation frames from jumping, only become more disturbing. i do not have the power to program something people have never seen before in the past, but i can make things nobody else would want to do in the future.

now this creature can bang its eyes together and theoretically launch the merged eyeball at adversaries, but why would it ever do such a thing? earlier i might have claimed that an eyeball themed attack would be too obvious, but the lumps going through the stalk-pipes seemed like an opportunity unlikely to present itself again.
I thought about how all the “weird” stuff people do with eyeballs now totally grosses me out but i never had a problem with the eyeball-enemy-enriched Guardian Legend years ago, and any projectile in a game heavily reliant on projectiles flying around that isn’t a fireball makes it seem marginally less conventionally boring, so perhaps i will try that.

page 2 of part 4 of that
yes i DID post page 1 almost a year ago and then nothing after that but i had every intention of continuing; this part here was already sketched. i DO know what will happen next but have not sketched THAT and am yet uncertain if it will continue to have three-row pages or if i will revert to not being able to handle 4 once i no longer need to depict 8 characters in the same panel for a while.
Some crucial details like the hat rack and sky swirls remain to be filled in but you know how i am with the appearance of one update per week even if most of it legally occurs the next day. Sunday tends to be busier than i expect since it is everyone else’s day off so they treat it like my day off, too. no! i have IMPORTANT imaginary deadlines to keep! I will update this again once it is the proper update. Unless I already did!