Picture Perfect
 | This chapter is exclusively available to members of Bittersweet Club International. |
| Picture Perfect | |
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| Published | April 1, 2013 |
| Page count | 1 |
| Major characters | Mike, Lucy |
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Picture Perfect is a Bittersweet Club International-exclusive comic: a static version of the interactive story originally built for the old BCB iPhone app. Mike and Lucy take a stroll through the park, where a little boy, a slice of bread and some very unforgiving geese are waiting for them.
Partial synopsis
Mike and Lucy are walking through the park when Lucy stops to watch a little boy feeding bread to baby geese beside a pond. The boy yanks the bread away and taunts them with “SIKE! Get your own bread!” The geese retaliate as one clamps onto his shirt and the others close in. They pile onto the boy until he is face-down in the grass, and one eats the bread anyway.[1]
While Lucy howls with laughter, Mike, appalled, calls her “a real bully,” and storms in to rescue the boy. The geese swarm Mike too while Lucy keeps laughing.[1]
The geese turn out to be just the warm-up, though. Mike and Lucy aren’t the only ones spending their afternoon in the park, and the comic hasn’t even gotten around to the part its title is about.
Trivia & observations
- The original app asked readers to interact with their phones and used shutter sounds, screen flashes and vibrations, but it has since been discontinued. The BCI version marks its interactive sequences with annotations, though the opening note says they are not comprehensive.[1]
- At least one reader struggled with an accelerometer-based interaction. Oliver recommended putting the phone on a table “for a sure shot,” since “the accelerometer varies a lot between iPhones.”[2]
- A bug in the app once let readers unlock Picture Perfect without paying. Oliver first responded with “NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”[3] The next day, he added, “if you don’t have the money and you’re smart enough to figure out a way to unlock it, who’s stopping you? I think it’s fine.”[4]
Related chapters
- Gone Fishing: In this chapter, Paulo dangles food in front of a seal and snatches it away with the same “SIKE”. The seal knocks him into the pool, and Mike objects to the taunting in both chapters.
- Turning Tides: Mike and Lucy also walk through Roseville Park together here. Daisy spots them and brings both into the group’s game.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Picture Perfect, page 1 🔒 (members only)
- ↑ “Ask about the hold-still segment”. 2015-04-13.
- ↑ “Ask about the BCB app paywall bug”. 2015-04-25.
- ↑ “Follow-up ask on the app paywall workaround”. 2015-04-26.