Everything on my body, including my eyebrows, still aches from moving. Instead of the usual back and leg problems, my hands caught the most hell thanks to the speed-shovelling technique I used to get vehicles free from the snow and ice. My hands don’t just ache but they snap, crackle and pop enough to fool people into thinking that Bobby Badfingers is throwing a gig in the same room. I keep stretching the fingers and that is probably why they’re getting better. I shoveled some snow today and the pain came right back for a while. I may have just returned to the internet last week, but I’ll have to stay low-profile for a while and let my hands heal properly heal.

From the moment I got into making things for M.U.G.E.N. (that customizable fighting game that people are now making random-assed videos from and poppin’ it on the YouTube) I had a mental list of things that I’ve always wanted to make or recreate in it. I finally finished one yesterday: the Shaw Brothers Studio introduction.

The logos and text were made with screenshots of the Celestial/Dragon Dynasty DVDs but the rest comes from my pathetic attempt to recreate the graphics. It’s not much, but something about having that kick off a fighting game that makes me smile. If you have M.U.G.E.N. and want to give it a try, download the intro here and read the instructions to learn how to install it. If you don’t have M.U.G.E.N. and want to learn more about it, go here.

Here’s a quick post of random things I’m up to at the moment:

1.) ‘That thing’ that I was working on but only mentioning in a vague manner like Peter Potamus is now done. Click the pic over there to get all the info and I’ll have a post all about this later on in the week. If you know me, try not to act too surprised that I drew a background.

2.) Random pics that I haven’t forgotten about for other people: Snake-Eyes v.1 (currently in loose pencils), a kunoichi from the Punisher arcade game and a redrawn Martha from Combatribes because the old one turned out horrible.

3.) ScrollBoss’ first 2008 update hits tomorrow with a MUGEN version of Shinobi’s first stage, a review of Toaplan’s Knuckle Bash and some other random things. And damn me for not taking a pic of the Knuckle Bash cabinet when All American Comics had it in their store a few years ago. I think the cabinet is the only thing that tells you what the hell the characters’ names are. The Shinobi stage isn’t 100% perfect, but it’s better than the one wiped out by the horrific HD crash from a few years ago. I am NOT going to spend more of my life trying to record the timing of the little squirmy ninja hostage kids for a stage that, honestly, no one else is really going to give a crap about. At least it’s done and I can take it off the W.I.P. page.