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I can't stop thinking about Mr. Ice Guy making all the terrible puns from Mr. Freeze in "Batman & Robin".

Side note, it's one of my absolute favourite movies of all time (for real, unironically), but how did they not have Arnold say "Frosta la vista" even once?
-tbj

I really love this, especially with as long as I've been bugging you to do a Yunia version of a Monster Manual. One of the things I love about your sense of humour is that you're unabashedly corny and cheesy, because you do it in such a clever way. You elevate the art form.

Also, I bet that barrel hole comes in quite handy for a number of things.
-tbj

I'm not good at finding hidden images, like that one that's a candle stick or two faces, which is what makes this more terrifying... I see what looks like teeth, tentacles, and hair, but I can't tell what it might actually be. That's what makes things really scary at night - the ability to "unsee" something creepy. Oh, it's just my coat hanging on something in the dark. What sticks with you is when you can't rationalise what unscarry thing you might be looking at.

This is really brilliant, and I don't think I'll be looking at it again. Hahaha...
-tbj

I'm picturing a Siegfried and Roy mashup with Aleksi, and his act is out-contorting the big cats while also performing magic. Like a never-ending scarf from his bellybutton, or he stands up and a thousand foam balls fall out of the crook of his back...

Thanks for lifting my mood considerably, Yuni. I'm really grateful to you.
-tbj

I love the mythology. The image is disturbing AF, and I still kinda love it. ;)
-tbj

God damn, this is good. I love everything about this. World building, character building, and outrageously beautiful images. I can't be more specific, because it's all just good and works. I do love the metaphor for self realisation.
-tbj

I'm loving this so much.
-tbj

It's got a real Capcom feel, I think? It really feels like it's art from one of those amazing, in-between, consoles like Neo-Geo or Jaguar?

I think this is you creating a new genre, like Vaporwave - it's something that feels super nostalgic, but didn't really exist in its own era. It's improving on nostalgia. I hope your muse inspires you to do more as real box art. Maybe invent your own fake console for them - and it has to have a weird hook. Like PS3's cell computing, or the original Genesis's insane audio processing capabilities...

The Yuni-Vision was the successor to the original, fairly obscure, Jahi Calumniator Computing System (CCS). It was a 24bit system that had motion controllers and a version of the Kinect, but way back in the '90s. It even had early cell computing capabilities that let you "daisy chain" them by plugging a big, thick, cable into the rear. It came bundled a game that mostly involved having to twist your body to make it through tubes and forming your body into shapes that appeared on the screen at the right time as a combat mechanic, kind of like a DDR and Arkham Asylum mashup.

Since then, the fan community has kept it alive with new games and the proliferation of 3D printing has brought all kinds of peripherals that would have never been allowed on the shelves of a K-B Toys. For some reason the rights are held by Tenga, who has no plans to produce an homage system like the mini systems.
-tbj