Deck The Halls With Cans Of Pringles

Just in time for your holiday feasts, Pringles is releasing three new seasonally themed flavors: Pumpkin Pie Spice, White Chocolate/Peppermint and Cinnamon & Sugar.

Why slave over a hot stove creating sumptuous deserts when you can just open a can, pour some in a bowl and be the envy of all your holiday guests? Your relatives, in their turkey-fueled comas, will think you spent hours creating these saddle-shaped slices of heaven!

So how do they taste? In a word... meh.

I taste tested the Pumpkin and Cinnamon varieties only, as I haven't seen the White Chocolate flavor around these parts as of yet. They were just OK. I was expecting something... I don't know, life altering. Instead all I got was some potato chips-- excuse me, crisps-- that taste vaguely like pumpkin and cinnamon. They were actually kind of bland. Sadly, my life remains unaltered.

The cans are emblazoned with a warning claiming that they're available for a limited time only. If you try them and like them and hate to see them go, quite honestly you could probably make your own by buying a couple of cans of regular Pringles and sprinkling pumpkin and cinnamon spice on them.

Monster Snack!

Sometimes a monster's stomping a city flat, he builds up a powerful hunger. When that happens, it's time to recharge with a delicious, nutritious snack!

Hey, it's another vector drawing. It took me a while to warm up to vector, but I'm kind of starting to like it. I doubt I'll ever abandon bitmap drawing for vector, but it's fun to dabble in it now and then, and it's another tool in the arsenal.

Originally I drew the monster walking along while snacking on the passengers, but I just couldn't get him to look right. I finally realized that was a dead end and redrew his legs so that he was standing still. That seemed to work much better. Also, the background was originally a reddish brown. It looked OK, and complimented the greens in the foreground pretty well, but at the last minute I played with the hue sliders just to see what would happen, and I decided I liked the greenish background much better.

The vector monster and the buildings were drawn in InDesign. I imported them into Photoshop where I added the painterly background, because that's something you just can't do very well in vector.