Can I have the link to your Deviant Art page?

http://punchysonichu.deviantart.com/

Sadly, I have no Battletoads fan art. Yet.

Actually, there was a comic in Nintendo Power magazine around the time Battletoads was released that did have their origins as being humans who got turned into the Battletoads via the malfunction of some virtual reality system they invented. They were probably supposed to be more like college students, though, than tweens. (Note: There's no mention of this in any of the games as far as I know, so I don't personally accept it as the canon explanation of their existence.)

In the comic, they were video game testers. According to some editors on the Battletoads Wiki, the Nintendo Power comic is considered canonical, although I remain skeptical: there is no mention of their human origins in the primary sources, and the comics themselves seem to preclude their own origin story. According to the comics, the Battletoads video game franchise existed PRIOR to the game tester's metamorphisis; the testers simply fused with a trio of video-game creatures whom, we might infer, already had their own independent origin story. In other words, the comic was about people PLAYING Battletoads, people who were then sucked into the game's world as the result of a jealous hacker and MAGIC. But how did these in-game Battletoads come into being? Does the Wiki really expect us to believe that the in-comic video-game Battletoads were THEMSELVES game testers at Psicone Corp? Game testers who were playing a game involving in-comic in-game in-game Battletoads, who were game testers playing in-comic in-game in-game in-game Battletoads, who were game testers playing in-comic in-game in-game in-game in-game Battletoads, and so on, ad infinitum?

I'm pretty sure an origin story that requires it's own nested origin story to explain itself violates numerous laws of physics. How ridiculous!

Anyway, even if the comics are canon, the fact remains that a- the 'toads are not lumpy tweens and b- subsequent to their transformation, the Battletoads moved to outer-space, where they could serve as bodyguards for Princess Angelica; at no point did they live on Earth and lead double lives as regular human beings.

It's Battletoads all the way down.

That's a pretty great but terrifying Deviant site. I hope Boomer gets a copy of that portrait for his doghouse.

Thank you! The Boomer portrait is kinda old and I didn't spend much time on it (as you can see, there's no background and the fur isn't very detailed). I've done pencil fanarts of Boomer before (I'm much more comfortable with pencil and ink than I am with acryclic paint), and I've been thinking of doing a new, better painting of our doggie, when I find the time.

I'm still trying to find my "niche" in the DA community; it's very much a casual thing at the moment. It seems like my horrible pony scribbles get more views and better feedback than the more thoughtful, carefully executed pieces, like the one I did of Rabbi Menachem. So that's something to think about.

Maybe I should just say fuck it and start painting SFW fetish art? I've got this idea for an inflated, age-regressed, gender-swapped Kaa that I think might go over pretty well...

David Wise wrote some of my favorite episodes of Transformers. Useless Trivia: He's known for recycling his plots. Some of his TMNT episodes have identical plots to his earlier Transformers episodes.

He wrote "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide," didn't he?

He's a pretty cool guy. If you run into him, ask about his never-produced Batman: The Animated Series script where Batman became a suicide bomber.

The creation of Battletoads and the following campaign to make it look like a good game are the closest that video games have ever come to a bonafide war crime.