So, after not being active here in a long while, I'm back...with some new material! OK, so it's not "Sonic Excelsior" or the Shadow music video (the music video is about a play-time minute or so from completion and the series is still in development). What is it?

Well, for several years now I've been kicking around the idea of a sprite series. Something fun, with a little action... You know, just all around enjoyable. Then, there are all these ideas I've been kicking around. "What if Sonic got a hold of a whole bunch of cash?" "How the heck do Shadow and Shade get along anyway?" (There's practically no interaction between them in Dark Brotherhood!!)...all these little things swimming around in my imagination. It all came to a head when I went to Mystical Forest Zone to browse sprites and I took a good look at Clyent Nite's Ashura sprites. "What kind of character would this guy be?" "What kind of powers would he have?" ...For those of you unfamiliar with the in's and out's of the Sonic multiverse (yeah, it's multi, babe), in a couple of the Genesis Sonic games, there's a glitch where if you mess around a certain special way in debug mode, Sonic turns green and black. This is known as "The Ashura Glitch." A few people out there have actually taken this one step further and made sprites based around this, giving the glitch a life of it's own in a way.

So, I downloaded the Ashura sprites, finally finished my Shade sprite sheet (I'd started it last fall because I couldn't find any suitable for animation on the web, and I sort of fell off the boat), and ended up spending two months of my life making a nearly 30 minute sprite cartoon. This isn't going to be a flash-in-the-pan, one-off thing, though. I have plans to continue this series until I run out of steam. So, if you enjoy the first episode of "Sonic Ignition" (the last two parts of which are coming tomorrow, 3/26/11), stick around for more...unless my old, rickety laptop decides to die on me before I get a new one (It's nearly 6 years old and showing it's age...but I'm unbelievably broke right now). If not...that's OK too...

And remember, a sprite in the hand is worth...wait...why would you have a sprite in the hand?! Silly peoples...