In honor of the upcoming disaster that will be the “Smurfs” live-action/CGI debacle, I dredge up this piece of nonsense. There was, at some point, a program called “Comic Book Smurfen,” which allowed you to make small comic strips with pre-arranged layouts, panels, and characters. The creative possibilities for this app were exactly one, and here it is:
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I understand that “Les Schtroumpfs,” as they are called in France, are actually pretty good in their original comics form. But if you want to see every single cliche of the latter 20th century jammed in a single frame, then search for any image from the repulsive Sony CGI production and you will have it.