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Concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.
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I’m surprised nobody thought of this yet
Also, I honestly didn’t know this until later, but rest in peace George Lowe. You will always be Space Ghost to me. And Captain Beefy.
Okay, I finally saw that live action PPG reboot trailer.
It’s not the worst thing I’ve seen (believe me, I’ve seen way worse adaptations…not that this one would be great anyway), but it’s so bland and generic. There’s no real passion or drive in ‘Powerpuff’ whatsoever - the acting is so wooden and the writing feels half assed. It’s by the numbers, and I think that’s the worst thing about it. It was made for a quick buck, not to appeal to fans or casual viewers or whoever watches the CW these days.
Yeah, no wonder it got scrapped.
Oh brother. Unis been kicking my ass (well, that and bad time management). Really need to work on that so it doesn’t cut into hobby or mental health time…
Also, I really want to get a Sega Saturn for some reason.
Brilliant. Just brilliant *chefs kiss*
“Excuse me, he asked for ALL pickles.”
😳
(Starting with this strip, I’ll have a new schedule - art and fan art on Tuesdays, comics including The Gang on Fridays for personal reasons)
Magazines That Never Were - Nimoy World
Art by Chris Shapan
I like how HIM and Mojo are just plain old plushies but the Puffs
3edgy5me UwU
The Powerpuff Girls x KILLSTAR (2025)
Amen to all of this, especially the fifth point. It’s infuriating to see the CN library being mishandled by Max in such a negligent way, and the fact that so many shows bounce from service to service for such limited durations. They deserve better. These shows should be accessible, not the other way around but I digress.
I do have an additional and equally rambly point I personally believe in: the general visual identity of Cartoon Network was far more important to modern art and animation than we think. A lot of CN shows carried over the UPA style - simple shapes making diverse and complex character and background designs, all the way from Powerpuffs to Craig of the Creek, practically every last of those CN shows I felt had more influence over how modern cartoons look now.
Say what you will, but that visual identity has to be carried over for future generations. If there’s artists and cartoonists that use 90s era themes in their work - I’ve seen one artist that used PS1-era polygons for their character designs - and try as much as I can to replicate that 90s era Cartoon Network aesthetic, then there’s something worth believing in.
Hi all, I’m still here, I just haven’t been active because it hasn’t been a great time to be a fan of Cartoon Network. I’ll always be a believer, though, and I believe that
The Cartoon Network name will live on, even if its franchises are scrapped for parts
We need leadership who believe in CN and don’t push [adult swim] first
Checkered Past is a good idea and a good use of the schedule, although it needs some alterations. For one thing, it should be a part of the CN lineup, which shouldn’t have to close shop at 5.
MeTV Toons is good and a welcome home for classic cartoon fans, but it’s no substitute for CN. It was never meant to be and hopefully never will be.
The CN library deserves a stable streaming home. If not Max, so be it. Let Hulu or someone else take on the shows.
We need more good, winning original animated series. I didn’t particularly care for Invincible Fight Girl, but it’s a step in the right direction. Hoping Iyanu is closer.
Seeing how @powerpuff-man9895 did a post on the first PPG short turning 30, I’ll do the same for the first Dexters Laboratory short, Changes, which premiered a week later and is the second What A Cartoon short to premiere! It was also the first in a series of pilots for Dexter’s Laboratory.
One of the things this short does so well is how it’s just a sibling quarrel taken to 11. Whereas the show had episodes just involving Dexter’s inventions and experiments gone awry, the best part of the show for me was how it juxtaposed mundane suburban life with science antics.
Hot take: jarring as it is, I really wished they added Dee Dee’s bit black bushy eyebrows in the show. It made her way more goofier expression wise!
And of course, my favorite scene from the short:
I swear, I wish I was THAT clever with my work when it came to zany jokes like that.
Crazy it’s been 30 years since this short debuted.
Hot take - I actually liked the art direction and animation in this short compared to the series proper. Don’t get me wrong, the show has excellent art direction but there’s some genuinely fantastic backgrounds and oodles upon oodles of sight gags in the short that are really clever. Really something that needed to be rewatched over and over just to see how much was put in it.
I also kindof adored the Mayor’s initial design here and his personality, a bit more neurotic compared to how childish he was later on. And yeah, Fuzzy was great here.
And how did pissed Bubs not become a meme exploitable at this point?! I made an edit if anyone wants to use it for shitposting purposes, one with a caption box one without it.
30 years ago today, "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", the very first What-A-Cartoon short, premiered on Cartoon Network! It was the first of 2 (technically 3, if you count "Whoopass Stew") pilots for the PPG series.
It might be a hot take here, but I always liked how Fuzzy was portrayed in this short: He was a villain here, but in this pilot, he was a little more smarter in planning his scheme, going as far as to create a literal meat gun. In the series proper, he was dumbed down a bit and flipped out at even the smallest of slights.
And of course, I can't forget my favorite moment of this episode:
Isn't she cute when she's angry, folks?
Just a heads up, there’s no Gang strip this week. I’m busy with uni and personal stuff. I’ll post a strip next week!
Damn! I gotta break this down a bit.
First, I was not expecting concept art and storyboards! I liked the storyboard involving the Amoeba Boys bumbling about and torching an entire library, that was fairly amusing. I’m not surprised that it didn’t make it that far into production, given how a lot of dev studios I believe at the time were pitching video games based on cartoons and many of them not sticking. Ah, such is a volatile industry…
Second, I also didn’t know this was meant to be a GameCube title either. I can only hypothesize: I guess when I discovered it, Shock of Ages was also meant to be released on the PS2 much like Relish Rampage? Or be a proper multiplatform title like other cartoon video games (PS2, OG Xbox, GameCube, PC/Mac, GBA…you get the idea)?
Now, if it was a GameCube exclusive judging by how it was presented on Kieth Erickson’s portfolio, had it been released it’d probably would’ve been a collectors item by now. A GameCube exclusive based on a popular cartoon show? Way too many hardcore fans and retro game collectors would’ve ate that up!
As for publisher, the GameFAQs page mentioned THQ, which is a bit weird considering how they had the exclusive rights to Nicktoons games. Bam Entertainment had the Cartoon Network license and published most of the Powerpuff Girls games. Then they lost it, and the rights for other CN shows went to a ton of other studios like Midway, Sega, Crave, D3 and even Capcom (well, namely for that Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law game).
I wouldn’t be surprised if Bam lost the CN exclusivity at some point it caused the game to be scrapped or switched publishers, then scrapped. Hell, there was a Dexter’s Lab game - a mech fighting game akin to MechAssault that was being made at the same time and that was further in development also. Maybe that explains why that got cancelled too.
This is such a cool find. It’s a shame that there wasn’t design docs, if any, or whatever else behind it. One can dream.
Hey! Seeing that you’re the resident rare PPG merch blog, I need your perspective. I know that the PPG video games aren’t very good but this one intrigued me because of how…mysterious it is. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/917583-powerpuff-girls-shock-of-ages
I have no idea if it was a real game that got cancelled or somebody made it up. I couldn’t find any prerelease info on it, or an archived announcement from any site - let alone GaneFAQs. Seriously, what is this game?
super sorry for the super late answer!
first of all, "resident rare ppg merch blog"?! you flatter me!
as for your question, it seems this really was a cancelled game! ive found the portfolio of Keith Erickson, an animator who worked on the game as well as the gba game mojo-jojo a go-go:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050219234557/http://raccoonlad.topcities.com/portfolio/port00.html
prop/location concepts
plus some storyboards!
not a clue on what this game would've entailed though! i don't think this game got far enough in production to warrant to have a public announcement on news articles which is why it's so mysterious! thanks for the ask!
What’s a nice bike ride between friends?
Hey everybody! Time for a brief update.
I apologize for the lack of posts - life and uni just came in swinging, so I had to avoid socials for a bit. Next week or so I’ll start posting my comic and other stuff I have in my pipeline soon!
Futurama
Art by Colin Cracker