I’ll wait

By DonHatter

For the third and last day, I finished animating Buttercup, her lighter, fire, water, the ladder, and did some shading and lighting to the characters. I also added the background and lamp pole with a sketchy brush for it to look more fuzzy to contrast the foreground. After adding a few filters, the animation is finally complete! (The audio is from The Muppets Chistmas Carol)

Bonus points for being the finale, so the show canonically ends with Weasel learning that nobody ever found him funny or entertaining and becoming dejected

First before you start reading, I have already completed watching The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to watch Evil Con Carne. But I stumbled across Grim & Evil on Tubi. So here’s my review.

I want to take this opportunity to revisit Grim & Evil (2001-2003) and focus on its unique dual nature, which provided the audience with two completely different flavors of Maxwell Atoms’ dark humor. Although I enjoyed the series in its original form and appreciate both segments, looking back makes it apparent why The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy outgrew Evil Con Carne and eventually became a standalone show. It is also fascinating to note how many early Grim & Evil segments were later repackaged directly into the standalone Billy & Mandy series.

Here is my analysis of the two halves and the reasons why the scale tipped so drastically:

1. The Power Dynamics: Relatable vs. Absurd

• Billy & Mandy : The core dynamic is a genius subversion of power, as you have two ordinary children who enslave the literal Grim Reaper. The latter is ancient, powerful, and terrifying, but utterly helpless to Mandy's cold cynicism and Billy's chaotic stupidity. This gave an infinite sandbox for comedy, as they could go from getting a report card to visiting the Underworld, but the power dynamic always remained hilarious.

• Evil Con Carne : This segment was rooted in classic, absurd cartoon villainy. It followed Hector Con Carne, a billionaire madman turned into a brain and a stomach on a stupid circus bear, trying to dominate the world. While hilarious, the power dynamic was much more traditional (a goofy villain failing at world domination).

1. The Comedy Flavor: Character-Driven vs. Gimmick-Driven

• Why Billy & Mandy worked long-term: their humor was heavily rooted in character-driven. Billy's pure, unfiltered idiocy contrasted Billy's pure, unfiltered idiocy contrasted perfectly well with Mandy's deadpan, borderline-sociopathic demeanor. Because these personalities were so different, you could throw them into any situation you wanted (a school dance, a grocery store, or a battle with Dracula) and the dialogue would write itself.

• The limits of Evil Con Carne: the comedy was heavily dependent on its gimmick (the brain/bear, Major Dr. Ghastly's unrequited love, General Skarr's frustration).

1. Marketability and Aesthetic Evolution

• Billy & Mandy leaned heavily into goth subculture, classic horror movie parodies, and urban legends. It felt like The Twilight Zone / Tales from the Crypt for kids and had a huge cult appeal that lasted incredibly well with Cartoon Network's expanding demographic in the mid-2000s.

• Evil Con Carne felt like a spiritual successor to Hanna-Barbera's villain tropes (Dick Dastardly) and 90s cartoons (Pinky and the Brain). It was good, but didn't have that fresh-edginess cultural bite. (Though, Gen. Skarr moving to Billy & Mandy's neighborhood later on was a stroke of genius.)

Conclusion / Discussion

Grim & Evil , as a whole, is a fascinating experiment in programming. Evil Con Carne gave us fantastic sci-fi absurdity, but Billy & Mandy gave us a foundational piece of mid-2000s alternative cartoon culture. Looking back via Tubi, it's obvious that splitting them up was the right move, as it let Billy & Mandy embrace its dark, surreal potential without being anchored to a world-domination sitcom.

What do you guys think? For those who watched the original Grim & Evil block, did you prefer one over the other at the time?

Since 2023, the original channel was rebranded to the Canadian version of Cartoon Network despite its Canadian french version Tēlētoon still broadcasting.

Ever since the leak started, I've wanted to try to practice animating Bloo for a while, but I don't have a flash animation software. Who says that animating Bloo can only be done in 2D flash or 3D?

I decided to animate him on Flipaclip because, why not? After a few minutes of learning his expressions and movements, I made an animatic for the video.

https://reddit.com/link/1x7ipca/video/ie3u3dp1huvh1/player

After TWO DAYS of animating Bloo AND his scarf, I've finally completed part one of my fan animation video!

https://reddit.com/link/1x7ipca/video/49afvhf4huvh1/player

You all must be aware of the 200GB Cartoon Network leak that happened last weekend, containing many rigs, merchandise portfolios, animation bibles, promotional artworks, PDFs, certain FLA files from Gumball and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and other content.

Unfortunately, Ben 10 Omniverse i dont was included in this massive leak, preventing us from having these things.

Well, if it weren't for the fact that nobody else noticed or found this but me, I found what would be a sort of portfolio of the graphic package for Galactic Monsters merchandise between 2014 and 2015. With the new artworks used since 2013 at that time.

Unfortunately, I don't know what the hell happened to the page and I can't find it, and I don't even remember its damn name :(

Fortunately, she had them saved since August 2025 and published them for everyone to see.

Well, the last image is from before you're here, from blitzwolfer. I remember Ben 10 news posted it on Twitter, I don't know, I honestly don't remember, but there it is and I just put it there.

I hope that one day more never-before-seen Ben 10 Omniverse things will come to light

And here they are! The 3 more powerfull from Townsville! 🩵🩷💚

I'll probably draw more characters in the future 👀