Ash Version

And finally, the alternate-universe version of Bob and George, where instead of being about Mega Man, it would have been about the 1991 NES game Totally Rad. It was honestly kind of fun imagining what Zeb’s clothes looked like.

Eventually I wanted to incorporate all of these ideas into a totally new sprite comic that presented itself as coming from another dimension, where obscure games would take the place of more famous ones. In addition to Kangaroo and Totally Rad, there would have been Cheetahmen comics, Awesome Possum, Telefang, Wally Bear and the No! Gang, and several others.

Part of what I imagined for this alternate universe was that Katy Kangaroo would have a younger brother named Rupert, who, like Luigi, was often in Katy’s shadow.

Also featured here is Clone da Phone, a recolor of Todd the dingo, who would have been the equivalent of Toad.

Bonus sprite comics! This was part of an ongoing series that involved characters from Neglected Mario Characters (the very first sprite comic ever) traveling to another dimension where Donkey Kong did not become the iconic Super Mario franchise- instead it was Kangaroo, the 1982 arcade game.

Pronouncing “turtle” as “toitle” will never not be funny. How long was this plot going to go on, anyway?

And that’s it! There are no more Ash Version comics. I’m still bummed we never got to make any more, but I don’t intend to ever finish it, unless making sprite comics somehow miraculously becomes easier.

Pokémon Diamond- for those of you who don’t know- is a notorious bootleg version of Keitai Denjū Telefang, a Game Boy Color game in the vein of Pokémon. It’s probably the best-known imitator out there because of it.

Jpeg Man rebels against his creator!

If I remember correctly, the front-facing sprite of Jpeg Man is from an actual screenshot we found online. It was a challenge making the others look just as bad.

This is pretty self-explanatory.

This was meant to be posted on April Fool’s Day.

Some other miscellaneous bits and bobs. The banners at the bottom are from back when the comic was originally planned to be uploaded to Keenspace (now Comic Genesis), which had some sort of rule about comics based on copyrighted works that I can’t recall now.

This last one is a parody of the hand-drawn segments of the iconic sprite comic Bob and George. This version though was entirely drawn with a mouse and the line tool in Jasc Paint Shop Pro (which was something we did surprisingly often).

MegaMauve was also the star of a mostly unrelated parody comic that I posted on the Bob and George forums:

I ran it through gif and jpg compression several times to make them look as terrible as possible. Unfortunately, it was so deeply meta that everyone hated it.

This one is a parody of Pokémon Sonic, which was a completely random, chaotic crossover thing. It also only lasted 14 pages.

I also made this thing based on it: