The first real avatar I made was ripped from the OldSkooled series. A wonderful sprite comic about 8-bit characters, more specifically from Nintendo 8-Bit Era characters. The first took much longer than I wanted, a way to alleviate boredom. But more so that because each frame I was making, I made in paint. In fact it took so long, I'm actually embrassed to express how long I took on it because it borders on obsessive and is even stupid to spend so much time on something so silly.

Each avatar will click to the appropriate url to the source sprite comic that inspired (AKA I ripped off). (#1-4 read from left to right, top to bottom) Nevertheless it was one the avatar series that basically brought out the....*sigh*...fame of my av making skills. I don't like to boast it because really it is a shameful thing when you take into consideration all the other things that you can be doing in the meanwhile...which in turn I am doing in other things than making avs all day.

Interestingly enough, people expected the series to continue after #2. And to tell the truth I didn't have anything planned for #3. A general idea, once again inspired by the source material but this was a total departure from the previous versions. I actually decided to add in other things that I felt were funny. Just to spare you the suspense, it didn't work out to be as funny as the previous ones.

#3 was the first time I deviated to form my own real plotline to the source material. Hell it didn't even relate or fit in the storyline in the original sprite comic, the bartender was the one who Samus and Mario was trying to visit in the hospital. But I had ideas.

One of the more obscure references was to a movie Playing God in which David Duchovny played an out of work doctor who had his licsense revoked due to a bodged surgery. What happened is that after a surgery he took a "depressant" drug. As he was cozying up with his subdued mood, he was summoned to another emergency surgery. In order to cope with his state, he took an upper drug. Not the best combination. Hence the mushroom and the magic potion.

Of course drug ideas and crazy hallucinations arose in the av. It dragged on and that what was probably the biggest problem about it all.

#4 was an idea that is totally seperate. In fact I can make a follow-up to it, despite being very well ended. I didn't like the fact that I ended with Mama-Mia, which is a bit too stereotypical for my part...but I had to do at the time. A lot of the jokes are in jokes once again regarding the fighting game work. The jokes mostly come from the SNK character Terry Bogard's "engrish" sound clips from his fighting games, Fatal Fury (AKA Garou Densetsu) and The King of the Fighters.

Among one of his more popular ones is when he yells out "Are you OK?" during his start up animation before he does his super attack; the "Buster Wolf" which he also yells out loud as "Busttaaaaaaaaa WOOOOOOOLF"!

In this case, while Terry's all stuck up in the bathroom, it's his brother Andy Bogard who asks if he is "ok". The term "Oh my Shit" is once again another engrish misrepresentation. It's based on his super called the "Angle Geyser" where in the first part of the attack he yells out "Overdrive!" the followed by "Geyser!".