Oh boy. This is going to be…interesting.
So in case you don’t know already, Jeff Kinney announced something of a new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book earlier this month, a spinoff-type book called Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid that is told from Rowley’s point of view and will be released in April, right on time for Diary of a Wimpy Kid‘s birthday. Now, Greg got some pretty good attention during November’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade compared to the year before. And I finished The Meltdown, and thought it was fine. Things were going so well, yet now thanks to this, we now have proof that the Diary of a Wimpy Fall isn’t ending anytime soon.
I know that I made a promise to keep my Diary of a Wimpy Kid posts in a positive light from now on, and that’s why I’m pretty late on talking about this. Kinney is just making this so hard, as I was among the many fans who didn’t exactly welcome this book with open arms. So I will do my best to sound as positive as possible, despite the fact that I think this book is probably a bad idea. Arguments can be made for its existence, especially if it’s fine, but that doesn’t mean we needed this. This now gives Kinney an excellent excuse to amplify his ongoing oversaturation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while Poptropica remains in the back burner as next year’s shutdown of Flash looms ever closer.
It won’t be easy sounding as friendly and awesome as Rowley, but it’s time to get into this update on the wimpy decline.
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