We accept that cartoon characters get revised over time - early Homer Simpson looked like a seizure drawing of a jaundiced penis - but if the first book in the whole series is specifically about your character's long nose and the consideration of surgery to remove it, you can't just phase it out later without comment. So he didn't go through with the procedure in the first book, but he clearly had it done at some point. 'Boy, I sure am glad thought bubbles aren't visible, otherwise I'd look like a psychopath.' But Little Sister ain't no punk: She's going to stab the bully with lances, bust her head open with morning stars, crush her with tanks or just straight up kamikaze a plane into her furry ass. We hated bullies, too, Sister Bear, but most of our fantasies involved either whupping their ass in front of our karate mentor (a proud Jean-Claude Van Damme) or else besting them in some kind of ski race in front of our ski mentor (also a proud Jean-Claude Van Damme).

This is a face-eating time.'Īfter getting beaten up by a playground bully named Tuffy, darling little Sister Bear nurses cruel revenge fantasies that are a bit excessive, even for the hyperbolic imagination of a slighted child. 'There's a talking time and a face-eating time. The Berenstain Bears and the Bully is that book. With roughly a blazillion titles in the series, the Berenstains were bound to throw in at least one blood-soaked reboot full of violence and retribution, if only to keep the series fresh for their ever-maturing fan base. Kiddie book mack daddies Stan and Jan Berenstain have sold hundreds of millions of Berenstain Bear books over the decades.

Horrible bear book