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Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie

Original art by @foldingfittedsheets. Check out their Commissionpalooza!

TITLE: Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie AUTHOR: Mabel Syrup ORIGIN: Calvin and Hobbes (comic strip; July 10, 1988; created by Bill Watterson)

The charming childhood story of Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie, which tells the memorable story of... a hamster named Huey and a kablooie that is gooey, is beloved by children and known by parents the world over. The book is perfect for reading at bedtime, as long as the reader remembers to do all the squeaky voices, gooshy sound effects, and of course the Happy Hamster Hop, and refrains from making Hamster Huey speak very sarcastically, do everything very fast, or get decapitated. Your child will surely love this book just as much the thousandth time they hear it as they did the first, and will demand to hear it a thousand and first time, regardless of whether or not you want to read it over and over and over and over.

If you enjoyed Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie, be on the lookout for Mabel Syrup's upcoming sequel, Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander! And if you didn't enjoy Hamster Huey... you may also want to be on the lookout for it, just in case. [Donated by Calvin's dad, who says "Just keep it, please. I'll tell him his tiger ate it or something."]

I. Children's books — Character Name and the Noun Phrase — Kablooies (gooey) II. Favorite books — Bedtime stories — Read it to me again, and again, and again.... III. Running gags — Just a funny title — Left to the imagination

Hahahaaa, so this one might be where I've finally gone off the deep end with this project. As any right-minded person who was a child in the late '80s and early '90s, I love Calvin and Hobbes, so I've wanted to include Calvin's favorite book for a while. Unfortunately, the cover is only actually shown in the strip once, and it's... not very detailed, as you can see below. So, since I couldn't find an available image of a hamster that I liked and have rather limited art skills, I decided to commission actual artist and Tumblr user @foldingfittedsheets to create artwork that could at least more or less pass for the image from the strip that I could then add a title to and bookify. Apparently intrigued by my... let's go with "niche" request, they accepted the commission and produced the absolutely delightful Wattersonian artwork that you can see in its unadulterated state below. If you like their artwork and would like to commission some of your own, their Commissionpalooza is still open!

The only canonical image:

@foldingfittedsheets's amazing original art before I mucked with it:

[pharaohgargamel]

✨1 апреля - день смеха.✨

Смурфики устроили карнавал✨🎭😄😺

Выиграл Шутник (Джоки) который оделся как я🤩✨

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✨April 1st is April Fool's Day.✨

The Smurfs organized a carnival✨🎭😄😺

Won by Jokey who dressed like me🤩✨

[rob-nobody]

Tobin's Spirit Guide

TITLE: Tobin's Spirit Guide AUTHOR: John Horace Tobin ORIGIN: Ghostbusters (movie, 1984, directed by Ivan Reitman) EDITION: Ghostbusters, Volume 2, Issue 8 (comic book, 2013, published by IDW Publishing) Considered the standard reference guide to known ghosts, goblins, spooks, specters, demons, and other supernatural entities. While the origins of the Guide are murky—Tobin was either an Oxford graduate who traveled extensively to research the supernatural, a Cambridge graduate who exposed fraudulent mediums, or the chronicler for a group of ageless beings from the beginning of time)—and it is unknown how Tobin managed to gain information on so many extremely dangerous creatures, it is generally agreed that it was researched in the early 1900s and first published in the 1920s, and its information is almost unfailingly accurate. Since then, despite its niche appeal it has been republished many times including leather-bound, hardcover, paperback, pocket, and very expensive electronic editions. The information it contains has occasionally been of use in saving the world.

I. Reference — Encyclopedias — The occult and supernatural II. Reference — Bestiaries — Spirits and demons III. Plot navigators — Tomes of exposition — So what are we dealing with here While Tobin's Spirit Guide is first mentioned in the original movie, it doesn't actually show up on the big screen until Ghostbusters: Afterlife in 2021. It has, however, showed up in a variety of other material, starting with The Real Ghostbusters cartoon [1986-1991] and including several comics series, board games, video games, RPGs, and even an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As I'm sure you can imagine the designs were rarely consistent, even those from a single source like the cartoon, but this one is fairly representative.

Screenshot from the cartoon:

Comic cover that was my primary design source:

[jaxieus]

amazon... you guys gud?

[the8moons]

From now on Bakugo's mantiddies are called Ka-Boobs

[bibliophile91]

Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark

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gerard’s natural chatgpt cadence