Fear and Loathing in World 1-1

With great apologies to the late Hunter S. Thompson, for the out-of-context riffing.

“Luigi had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest. … We had two bags of fire flowers, 75 mushrooms, five invincibility stars … And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge winged turtles, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car …

Update: The picture’s artist is suzyage4. He says he drew the above image back in 2005. It’s still timely — Mario is timeless after all.

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