This here would be the one and only appearance of the 8-bit Yellow Demon. As you can see, I hadn't started using Photoshop yet to resize some of my more cumbersome sprites, as is evidenced by the ugly resizing of that sprite. I suppose I could just go back and fix it, but I think it's a useful reminder to only resize in Paint by whole number increments.
Now, one of the inherent problems I soon realized with the Author pretending to be Mega Man, is that he's the friggin' Author. There are only so many interesting storylines you can tell with an omnipotent main character. Battle getting too hard? Enemies too difficult? Snap your fingers and they cease to exist, end of problem. And the audience will never get a sense of danger from the comic when you know that nothing bad can happen.
Though, to be fair, I think the audience eventually realized that while bad things do happen to the characters in the comic, they never actually die. Or if they do die, they're always brought back somehow. The downside to this is that much of the suspense of the storylines is diluted when you know nothing really bad will happen. I suppose that's one of the reasons to end the comic when I did. Eventually, the storylines would become boring and repetitive, since you know that no matter what happens, everyone will survive in the end. (You hear me, Marvel?)
Anyway, I knew the Author couldn't hang around in the comic much longer, but I needed him to replace Mega Man. The simplest solution, therefore, was to just have Mega Man return. You know, I'm not exactly sure how Mega Man was able to kill this Yellow Demon in one blow, but I suppose that begs the question, why didn't he do the same thing when he and Proto Man face off against the next Yellow Demon? I suppose it's the same thing that happens to super awesome powerful NPC's when they join your party in an RPG and suddenly can't do any of those cool things anymore.
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