Man, I want to do one of these so bad! My problem is that I've never really taken seriously the concept of an avatar. I've had many over the years, usually reflecting my principle interest at the time.

It should come as no surprise that I'm a Dragon Ball fan, so the first one I remembered drawing for myself was a straight-up DBZ character: a Fusion of Goku and Gohan (hence the net-handle). Imagine Vegetto, but dressed in Great Saiyaman colors.

After that, I really got into sprite comics. For self-insertions in my own A Ninja in 20XX (which was moderately successful), I used much the same: A dude in X-style armor, green-black-and-white, with spiky DBZ hair.

These days, most people know me from Twisted Kaiju Theater, wherein I am depicted as a Great Mazinger SD with -- what else? -- spiky DBZ hair. When Shin asked if I had a preference, I was experiencing a revival of interest in Go Nagai's works, so I casually said: "Gimme something Mazinger."

Muddying the water further, my fursona in Conrad's writing is a tanuki.

Oy vey.

This calls for some brainstorming...

EDIT: So, I've taken the all-important first step. Check out my Scraps to see the Beginning of the Legend... [link]