#hostess fruit pies

[gameraboy2]

The Thing and the Ultimate Weapon, 1979 ad

[rvxen]

in light of the release of the anime version of UZUMAKI, here's a Hostess Fruit Pie parody if Junji Ito needed to fill some extra pages...

[angeloftheodd]

Hostess Cherry Pie Wrapper From The 60s 🍒🥧

📸 Pinterest

[deepdreamnights]

The People of UltraMerica VS Johannes Factotum (take 2)

From Issue #26 of TyrannoMax. (original version here)

Process under the fold.

Converting the old photobash/style transfer version into comic art was done with my usual comic process. Elements were generated in chunks via Dall-E 3 and Midjourney, composited, reduced down to lines, re-inked, and then colored and captioned from scratch, before aging is a applied.

The pie packages themselves were inked over the photomanips (and I updated the ones in the hostess blurb from the last panel to match the style of package from panel 4, something I'd skipped originally and always bugged me).

Multiple prompts and elements per panel.

[the-gershomite]

The Incredible Hulk and The Twins of Evil!

Hostess Fruit Pies ad

[highbrow-hepcat]

[pretty-little-fools]

[ultradude13]

How does Daredevil deal with a muscle head? Feed them Hostess Fruit Pies, of course!

[stone-cold-groove]

Make the most of their wonder years. Wonder Bread ad - 1967.

[acmeoop]

Beep Beep! The Road Runner “Treat to Eat” (1975)

[viewfromthelake]

Ad from inside cover of The Superman Family, Vol. 24, No. 183, May-June 1977

[gameraboy2]

"Take your mind off me and your evil schemes. Have some Hostess Fruit Pies!"

[doctorslippery]

Shouldn’t the Wendigo be out eating people instead of helping the Abomination beat up Hullk? 

[deepdreamnights]

Ape Vs Cosmic Pie

Context under the fold.

There comes a time in the AI-assisted comics production process when you have to figure out what the robot can do.

When re-making my Hostess Fruit Pie Ad parody style transfer collage-comic into a AI-illustrated collage-comic, recreating Judge MenTaul tearing into the cosmic fruit pie was a process.

For example, the word "pie" overrides the context of "hostess fruit" in prompts, so if you type in "hostess fruit pie sitting on a white table" you'll get something far, far more upscale:

And not remotely accurate. Dall-E 3's are even more surrea for having the packaging with semi-accurate branding, and the implication that the hostess is part of the filling (probably due to DE3's bias-correcton method of "Add a person descriptor randomly to the end of prompts):

If you want a Hostess Fruit Pie, you have to prompt for an empanada. (I went through a lot of pastry terms figuring that out.)

Prompt: a mysterious gorilla wearing jeans tears an empanada in half with both hands, pulling it open to show its filling. The empanada's filling is fruit shaped like little planets in a sauce of cosmic energy, comic book panel by jack kirby and wally wood, 1968, waist-up composition, front view

Going for the full shot in one prompt is almost always a fail, though the malformed concepts from the attempt make it worth it. for the final shot, the hands, pie, filling, ape, and head all came from different gens, with a lot of modification to each.

The test pattern is modded from a wikimedia commons element.

[the-gershomite]

The Thing and the Ultimate Weapon

Hostess Fruit Pie ad

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

The Marvel and DC ads for Hostess products were exactly this bizarre.

Hey, everyone talks about redeeming the Homeworld Gems, they just never specify how they’d do it.

(and if you’re not versed enough in old comics to get this joke)