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Much as I hate that man right now, you gotta love that suit.
And by that man, I mean Jerkass Homer. Geez, that picture above really does inspire some nostalgia. Look at the way Homer’s drawn, especially the mouth area. There’s a sort of loveable humanity in his face that doesn’t come through in the more rigidly-drawn, squat-expressioned Homer of the Zombie Simpsons era.
“Look at the way Homer’s drawn, especially the mouth area.”
That’s a great point. When was the last time Jerkass Homer had a simple smile on his face? It’s not like Homer’s supposed to be happy all the time, but the occasional moment where he acts like a person (even, in the above case, a self absorbed jerk) would be nice.
I think the show lost a certain something, in terms of visual style, when it went from hand-drawn to computer-animated. In real life, no one looks exactly the same all the time, and that’s captured by the imperfect nature of traditional animation. The bane of Zombie Simpsons is obviously shitty writing, but the utilitarian, sterile animation does the show no favours either.
You do raise a good point concerning Homer’s lack of happiness in the Zombie era. I mean, in the show’s golden age, Homer’s wackiness was channelled through displays of infantile happiness – giddily chasing the dog with the puffy tail, joyously fetching his giant foam cowboy hat and airhorn, caressing his half-eaten, mould-ridden giant hoagie even after it made him deathly ill, etc. There was a definite sense of sweetness about Homer back then – you really did gain affection for him in spite of his offensive characteristics. Alas, for about a decade now, Homer’s default “wacky” setting has been rage – flying off the handle, threatening others and bringing violence upon himself, and generally being an angry and obnoxious sociopath. Homer’s been crude from day one, but he wasn’t always a bastard.