Dracula's Curse THE PAGE!!!: Humor Me de ERIKKU!!!

1997

01. Little Mario Lost!- Early in the game, you can choose your Destiny! This is what happens when you play Dracula's Curse right after Super Mario Bros. 3!

02. Dracula is Dead- If you will remember the very boring half of the Beavis and Butthead Xmas tape, you may remember how Beavis saw his future. His tombstone read...'Here lies Beavis. He never scored.' This one sort of connects to my abbreviated Dracula's Curse story.

03. Sailor Sypha Part 1- In that Sailor Moon show, Sailor Jupiter used lightning, thunder, and other stuff to annihilate her enemies. In this show, Sypha Moon uses her Ball Lightning spell on a Bone Swordsman trying to mug her.

04. Sypha Moon Part 2 - In this episode, Sypha takes control of Dracula's scepter, which calls flames from the ground, and...and...you've gotta see this.

05. Kung Fool- What happens when you put Kung Fu in after playing Dracula's Curse!!!

06. Night of the Knights- Oh YEAH? You think a Skull Knight is easy?! Try four at once! CHARGE!

07. Halloween Havoc- This was my pic for the Halloween 1997 update. Some Kid dressed as Dracula, some guy dressed as Pentarou, a Fish Man dressed as Slogra, the Grim Reaper dressed as...SYPHA!, some generic Zombie dressed as Trevor, Cyclops ALSO dressed as Sypha, and a Bone Swordsman dressed as Grant, go trick or treating! BUT THE COUNT IS TRYING TO WATCH WCW MONDAY NITRO! IT'S STING!

08. Parodius Pango! (Kick the sun!)- Here's what it would (barely) look like if Slogra was made a playable character to the sequel of Sexy Parodius! The 'Gradius GUI' reads...'Speed Up' (Increases Slogra's jet propulsion...eeeww...), 'Missile' (Slogra dispatches little Slogras to run around and break things), 'Free Way' (Not used. Slogra shoots out fire shots opposite the way he is moving. From Thunder Force IV.), 'Spear' (Powerful piercing laser.), 'Options' (Makes little Slogra's fly alongside, delivering punishment.), 'Rib Shield' (From Simon's Quest, this temporary shield can deflect enemy fire!)

09. Battle Arena Nocturne-Den- This hand drawn funny is a spoof of the new classic, Battle Arena Toshinden. When I learned that you had to fight Trevor, Sypha, and Grant zombies in Symphony, I drew this! Trevor uses bug spray, (Sailor) Sypha flies, using her favorite move, and Grant actually gets a DOUBLE SHOT with his dagger!

10. Symphoney of the (Skull) Knight- Well, it's another hand-drawn! It's a phony Symphony of the night! Yeah, I know I misspelled Symphoney. (When I drew this, I thought that was the proper spelling for the word phony, as in fake.) Trevor, Grant, Sypha, and Alucard look on as Dracula conducts, the Vampire Bat plays the triangle, ditto the Phantom type, the Medusa Head plays the flute (HOW?), the Flame Ghost uses the trumpet, Cyclops has gong duty, the Harpy plays---THE HARP!, the Grim Reaper also does the trumpet, and the Skull Knight plays...the Bone Dragon King...?

11. Thanks For Nothing- My Thanksgiving pic! A Thanksgiving war ensues when, all at once, Slogra and Grant fight for the turkey, Simon shows up in the dining room, a Skull Knight wants to carve, the Bone Dragon King makes a terrible pun, the table points out that I used the blood plop form Dracula's second CV3 form to use as wine, which the Count promptly gets drunk off of, and Dracula's second CV1 form makes a cameo.

12. Kung Fool 2- What you might see when you come home from playing Kung Fu Master while playing Dracula's Curse...

13. Dracula X Mas- Ha ha haha haaa! My Christmas pic. Maria asks if you got your Symphony of the Night (I did!), while Count Dracula gave Alucard an ATARI 2600!! Hilarious! Can't you just FEEL the pain on Alucard's face?!

1998

14. B-Day- The pic for the first anniversary of CV3DCTP! Who's partying? (copied from the 1998 party special)

Past Cool Characters of the Week! Maria, The Grim Reaper (Dracula X), Fire Demon, The Blue Bat, and Puweyxil! The Male CcotW's:"!!!!!!!!!!" Maria: "Boys..."
Infamous Fan Art! The Skull Knight!
Cool Character for eternity! Slogra!
The CastleVania 3 cast! Trevor C. Belmont, Sypha Belnades, Grant DaNasty, (the Skull Knight). Trevor: "Um, Sypha? Who is this? Friend of yours?" Syph: "His 32 bit-ness is scaring me..."
Anime Characters! Penpen and Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion! Penpen: "Ack!" Asuka: "(says something in Japanese)"
Whothe!? Pentarou, the Blue Venus Weed, and some tall white haired guy! Who IS that???? :\ Venus Weed: "Happy birthday, mister castlevaniadungeonmaker, happy birthday tooo yooouu..."
That goofball in the lower right corner! KURT KALATA!!!* "You stupid Venus Weed! MY page's anniversary was months ago!"

*Hey, that's what Kurt called himself! I'm not trying to be mean!

15. ID5- My 4th of July pic! I was pressed for time on this one. I made it on, well, the 4th of July! Independence Day! I started from scratch, making all the buildings and putting in the lights. Here, one of those HUGE alien ships descends upon New York (my Bronx??) once more, charging up for another thermonuclear blast to wipe out CV3DCTP once and for all. Slogra beats it (he's outta there, I mean), and Firebrand from Demon's Blazon follows suit. Then Sachiel, the beloved 3rd angel form Neon Genesis Evangelion, is like 'pshh "A bootleg AT Field?" If you don't watch NGE "...you just missed out on 1/4 of your..." anime life. (The Absolute Terror Field, AT Field is like a barrier, a shield, a force field angels can produce to attack and defend.)

16. HEATERZ- (This picture was originally known as "Challenging Gromit.") Years ago, like, March of 1998, Da Dungeon displayed a joyful animated GIF from this dude called Gromit, of his Nintendo Wasteland. On the left of the banner sized GIF (getting any ideas, Gromit?), Mega Man. On the right, Trevor C. Belmont. I supposed Mega Man was the representative of his page. The sitting duck, Trevor, from CastleVania III, I took to be representing my site. Mega Man peeps one pellet from his arm cannon. It hits Trevor and he gets bounced back, spurting blood inexplicably from many directions. It ends there. Since then, I swore revenge.

"...she said, 'Don't let others suffer for your personal hatred." ---Akagi Ritsuko, Neon Genesis Evangelion

No...that's not right.

Don't get mad, get odd. ---Eric Roman

Yeah, that's it. I do believe. I got Contra Hard Corps for the spinning Genny, rocked it, and still enjoy it. So I let Browny in on this war between 3rd party (and/or) Internet site developers. Here, in a GIF which is bigger, size wise (100k) and size wise (2 to 3x Gromit's), Browny, a KONAMI character from Contra Hard Corps, lands on the scene, says "PLAYERHATER!!" (Trev's a player, and the Man Blue is hating him), and finally lets Mega Gromit have it with his pulse rifle. Then Mega Gromit detonates in a sensible way, like any other robot (from Contra HC) would. I even made it even more Contra-ish by using inverted colors for more effect! Now, I don't hate Mega Man; I like the games. It's just that I've got to do something when the Flame of Ambition from the Ultimate Evil guide invades another......host...

17. Riddle of the Spears- Here's a GIFt I made for the dude at the CastleVania Bloodlines site! As you may, or may not know, the first big creature you face is called the Armor Battler, and it carries an axe in one hand, and a trident-resembling spear in the other. Wait a minute...a trident-resembling spear? Who do you think of when you hear the term trident? Anta Baka?! No! Not Eric Lecarde, but SLOGRA!!! Of course! So anyway, I was playing Bloodlines on the computer and this is what happened...really! Not!

18. Blunder Force III- The Thunder Force series is the most rockingest, if I could coin the term, rockingest shooter series in THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE!!! Gradius, Nemesis, and Parodius are madd enjoyable, but Thunder Force? I CANNOT WAIT FOR THUNDERFORCE V PERFECT SYSTEM TO BE RELEASED FOR PLAYSTATION! I WILL GET THE IMPORT WHEN IT GETS HERE FIRST! [9-26-98: Hey, like I said!]

So anyway, I was playing Thunder Force III with the emu so I can get a graphic of the (Golden) Gargoyle boss of the Planet Hydra stage. Suddenly this dude Slogra comes along with his pal, the Gargoyle Bat. In the end, I said to the Gargoyle "Take care of that..." and I was able to get my graphic!

19. Stridex- Something I made for NeoStrider's Strider Zone! It seems as if Slogra was wearing Strider colors (nah), so Strider had to put the smack down. Or...the slice up!
[6-2-2001: In a 1999 interview, Kurt Kalata told me that someone had e-mailed him saying that Slogra was in Strider. As it turns out, it was indeed this picture. It's strange that that kid bought it even though it isn't 100% perfect.]

1999

20. DCTPBDAYII- Extremely awesome collage for the second year anniversary of DCTP in 1999! A triumph of pre-Photoshop MS Paint bitmap collagery. Who was partying in 1999? (copied from the DCTPII party special)

Past Cool Characters! (few and far between!!!) Gaibon and some Dark Knights!
Infamous Fan Art! The Skull Knight and Dragon Skull Cannon! Skull Knight: "Whoothe...?" Dragon Skull Cannon: "HELP! I'm getting drowned out by non-KONAMI employees! By the way, who's the goofus?"
Cool Character for eternity, Slogra!
Cast of Vania 3! Trevor C. Belmont shows off his cape, Sypha Belnades thinks she recognizes someone, Grant DaNasty styles his new gear, and the actual Adrian F. Tepes is here! Awesome gear, Grant!
The feeble-witted ferryman from Slogra's First Date, Spanky!: "I'll take you to a place which might be interesting for you! Hoo hoo hoo gee hee hee!"
Angels of Evangelion! Asuka Langley Sohryu, Rei Ayanami, and Sachiel! Radicool Robotoids! Evangelion Unit 3 and the EBA SHIRRIZU! Eva 5 Mass Production Model!
Death is here as well! That can't possibly be a good sign!
Dracula: "Man, this bites..."
Utter decimation of Mole Men, or Flea @%*#^&! is abundant here, folks!
Straight from J+A's CV Page is John (Christopher B.) and Audra (Sonia B.)! "It's a Flea *CENSORED*!" "Gotta catch 'em all!"
A Dark Knight assists in the hunt!
Whothe?
The MSX Penguin ignites the candles with a bomb, Kid Dracula hits on Rei (Kid Dracula: "err...I have my own video game!" Rei: ". . . " ), Fang from Contra Hard Corps glares at some doofus peeking behind his armored shoulder (Fang: Hey doofus, quit peeking from behind my shoulder!"), and Parodius' torpedo ridin' bunny woman Akane takes a shine to the minister of celebrations!
Taking a break from a repeating ordeal with Gromit, Contra's Hard Corp's BROWNY!!!: "Let's Party!" "Playerhater!"
Megaman's head or Gromit: ". . . "
People who shouldn't even be here!!!!!!! Slogra's Game Boy Counterpart from CastleVania II's Belmont Revenge!!!!!
That goofball behind Fang! KURT KALATA!!!
The guy next to the Skull Knight, ???? ?????!!!!!!!!!: *smirks* "... do these guys know how to party, or what?"

See last line of entry # 16 14 for finishing note.

21. 4th of July 1999- By me. Simon's flag-whip concept by Andy. Ever played Joe and Mac: Caveman Ninja for the Super Nintendo? No? Then you won't know what's going on here! Notice that I got the EXACT number of stars and stripes on Simon's flag-whip, and that was only accidental! I mean, I made the flag from scratch! All characters here are of Super NES games in the glorious 1991-1992 era! And now, an anecdote: During the explosions, I could've rocked both the CD and Mp3 for CV7's "The Tragic Prince" on the boom box and computer respectively, but no...I was waiting for the only worthwhile scene at the end of Deep Impact, relaying between the living room and my room to see, on (WPIX) Channel 11, the last 4th of July fireworks for this 1000-year bracket. I saw Deep Impact when it first came out, and I was none too impressed until the end. And later re-unimpressed when that stupid couple of youngsters survived the Secando Impacto...what a lame movie. The cost: 1998's Adult admission price at Bay Plaza, and in 1999, One 4th of July experience. I hate that movie. Good thing I got the fireworks on VHS! :D

22. E.CV.W. (Extreme CastleVania Wrestling)- One night, Andy and I were just talking when suddenly, out of the blue, I shouted "GENIUS TIME!", like Schemer did on Shining Time Station. What if the Cast of Vania infiltrated the wrestling scene? Andy and I went (NOT!) to Konami HQ in Japan, and these are our findings. If you find similar occurrences, please, let us know.

23. I DID IT!!!- This door poster for Halloween1999 was done in under 30 minutes. Perhaps you could tell. Here, a vicious Slogra towers over defeated members of the Monster in my Pocket Ripoff Squad: Pikachode, Chortle, Carlmander, Hurtmuchan, and many obscure others beneath his hind talons.

24. THE BOMB- Slogra and Gaibon encounter a Bob-bomb from Super Mario Bros. 3! "I said boom-boom-boom let me hear you say wayo!" All I've got to say about this one is... aaaaah, the magic of Photoshop!

25. Thanksgiving 1999- This year's done-very-rapidly Thanksgiving picture. Slogra says..."Have a Happy Thanksgiving!" He knows he will, as he will dine on that turkey Pikachode from The Monster In My Pocket Ripoff Squad Show. The creature designs for Digimon and Monster Farm are better anyway.

26. Christmas 1999 - I took this photo of the private street in the architectural marvel that is Rockefeller Center with one purpose in mind...to stick CastleVania characters into it! That's the "giant Christmas tree" in the background. And yes, those are two guys in the background getting assaulted by the blue gargoyle and the Skull Knight. More, though cheap, Photoshop tricks included!

2000

27. The Final Enemy- There were two really nasty monsters in 1999. One was a really evil insect who would have caused a shutdown of computers worldwide once the CPU clocks struck 12:00AM on 1-1-2000. That one was called the "2-K-Y Bug", or something like that. I've sworn to never say it properly. But perhaps the BIGGER evil was the collective monster of The Monster In My Pocket Ripoff Squad (The Imperial). Call me crazy, but I think this picture shows why we survived the 2KY Bug. We're working on the latter. "A Happy New Year!"

28. The Doo- In my first attempt at JN Style CV Humor, this hours-in-the-making bit tells a sad tale of Alucard's poverty. He's broke, so he tries to sell off his hair formula to the Skull Knight and his friend. Watch it...the Skull Knight is BACK!!! The idea for this one was followed through recently; I always believed that Al's CV3 hair style looked like an afro... By me.

29. Monster in My Pocket Ripoff Squad: The Imperial 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
August 1999. I was purely inspired when I obtained my very own copy of Animerica Volume 7 Issue 7. This was the first issue with huge coverage on the Poky-Mahn phenomenon. I was so inspired by it, I took a black marker and exacted revenge with the rest of Konami's cast! Watch and be amazed as your favorite CastleVania characters attack your favorite Pokey-Mahn characters using a multitude of weaponry! 1. The table of contents. 2.-->6. Coverage, and part of an Interview. 7. ...Gunbird characters?!

30. The Castle Bathroom; DCTP IV00I Precursor Edition- Scope out this title replacement/greeting I made for The Castle Bathroom's Christmas update! DCTP historians will relish in the beautiful continuance of it all.

2001

31. Froggie- As your extreme prejudice eliminates widlife in the Ground Water Vein, you come across a bunch of pretty normal Frogs and Toads hanging around, chillin'. Have you ever stopped for once to think about THEIR thoughts and THEIR fears? I have. Then I annihilated them.

32. Why does Slogra get a Shrine and Gaibon doesn't?- That silly Gaibon! Will he ever learn?! I made this transparent GIF for a fly new Slogra site on the horizon, Slogra's Shrine!

33. HEATERZ 2001 1 - 2
In February of 2001, all I wanted to know was the reason why little CV site upstart "The Keep of Trav the Impaler" looked as horrible (and purple) as it did. After e-mailing the author a pretty much all-together (and, in retrospect, I guess pretty nasty) inquisition, I received a really messy reply along with a complementingly pixellated JPG image of self-tailored Contra homophobia. In his reply to my question four, regarding his blurry, sword-toting, bikini trick vampire mascot Camilla;

4. AND WHY, OH WHY did you just counterclockwise rotate a picture of a reclining bikini chick and do what you did to it?! You insulting my intelligence or something?!

he stated;

>>4. Every master needs his mistresses. If you have a problem with Camilla,
>>take it up with her sword. It'll be over quicker than you think.

Sicking imaginary friends on me is he? Very well, then. Early on March 5, 2001 I constructed part two of my next masterpiece, HEATERZ 2001, and preceded that with part 1. As you can see, there was much more effort put into it (and due to the color dynamics, it had to be saved as a high quality [and large-sized] JPG, the "...format of choice..." for all of Trav's SotN sprite rips). Keep in mind I'm no Photoshop wiz...yet. Like most artists, I'm in rare form at the early hours of the morning. Mike Erickson will say the same.

The red dude making himself discreet is Super Ghouls & Ghosts' Red Reamer! Blood by Wacom Graphire Tablet amateur Eric Roman! Slogra comin' at you with THA BEAK from Symphony of the Night, part two lines inspired by Ryu's Street Fighter II victory blurb, featuring terrible arcade grammar inspired by Japanese MegaDrive Gradius clone, Zero Wing ("ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!" "YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME!")!

In conclusion, I have a history of getting even, and in (what was supposed to be) the final and Senior Year of DCTP, my most evil side had begun to emerge...just wait until the 'Special' Olympics...

34. For Chuck (PM version)- From one end of the emotional spectrum to another. Let it be known that the death of a beloved pet is no laughing matter. When Bastadge (aka Rory) told me that his dog of 9 1/2 years, Chuck, died, I pondered over what I could do to brighten him up some. He was after all, one of the triggers for Slogra's First Date. So I made these exclusively for him on the 4th of July 1999. It's a CastleVania II ending which shows Simon kneeling and Gaibon respectfully crouching as a regretful Slogra puts the final touches on Chuck's grave. The PM version is a grayscale, moonbathed evening of the same scene. I've gotten his permission to post these recently, since after all, they are both cool as tributes and cool as pics.

35. Estan Listos?- Are you ready? As Pentarou hunts down some guy who took a wrong turn and somehow ended up in The Bronx, special guests Hikaru and Kid Dracula have just been informed by special guest Babs Bunny that the annual birthday celebration for DCTP would be occuring slightly sooner than planned... and Hikaru's not too happy about it. (I confess...I whipped this one up as I was laying down the next B-Day pic in advance...unlike DCTPBDAYII, I don't plan on spending 11 straight hours on it. And so you know, while there was planning for it, there was tragically no DCTPBDAYIII.)

36. Slogra Wing (Former Part)- FORGET what you heard about retarded dancing babies, and FORGET what you heard about Macarena macaroni, Alley Mickbeal, and Ricky Martin! THIS is the latest craze that's sweeping the underground nation of videogamers far and wide... ZERO WING is where it's at! AT LAST! A fad for US. Zero Wing, a trashy shooter by this exant company, has one of the most poorly translated introductions in VIDEO GAME HISTORY! Go here and learn all about what would ultimately lead up to this chance encounter between Slogra and the man they call...CATS. Woa, now wait a minute, Slogra, I...don't...think that's how Captain worded it...

37. Up YOURS, Drac!- Just...edge the finger pixels a little bit...done! This one's pretty straightforward.

38. DINO (KNIGHT) CRISIS 2 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Another BAAGEN sale at Asahiya Bookstores ends, and in an issue of PlayStation D (10/20/2000, Vol 155), I get a Japanese PlayStation demo disc packed with those notorious dating simulations and a promo video for Dino Crisis 2! SOURCE MATERIAL! PSM Player ON! Output AVI! Export image as BMP! Save PSDs as Slogra Crisis 1 thru 4 and EDIT! DONE! GENIUS! PURE GENIUS, SAID ANDY COSTELLO!!! He he he. You'll get a kick outta these, especially if you've played the game, 'cuz I sure as heck haven't.

39. E.CV.W. 2- Remember E.CV.W. (# 34 23)? Shortly after that came out, I began work on the next installment, but set it aside for sprite reasons. Or some wizz like that. Anyway, after ripping the "Exhibition" loading screen with 'Mean' Gene Okerlund from WCW Nitro for the PlayStation, I decided I should just wrap it up and show the bloody thing. CHECK OUT! The CastleVania IV Horsemen (Andy's suggestion), Frank Snow with Medusa Head, a Mask-ed Wrestler, and Degeneration Death! (I'm sure I could've made him look more like DX, but hey...I WANNA POST THIS NOW!) WOW! IT'S 'Mean' Gene Okerlund, 'Hollywood' Hulk Hogan, Andy Costello, and Eric Roman! Featured bunny girl is Hikaru from Konami's import Parodius strategy game for the PlayStation, Paro Wars! And if Eric's punchline seems a bit dated to you, it's because 92% of what you see was etched in bitmap format long BEFORE WCWWF, known then as WCW, was bought by WWF. Bret Hart rules. This one's for you, Owen! WOOO!

40. Dizknee Adventures 1- Whipped this one up soon as I posted to the site about the CastleVanianess of a certain Dizknee videogame. At the end of the ghost house level, you'd normally find the Ghoul Guy from the start of the stage, but... seems as if we have a...little... problem. (Also, check out the original, without onlookers.)

(Yeah, I know I'm being sheisty.... Having produced the first SotN Drac beast sprite
on the web, but not making it readily available as an individual image. Bwa ha ha.)

41. Jet Moron 1 - 2
One of the coolest gifts I've ever received from my friend Jason was Jet Moto for the PlayStation in Xmas 1997. LOVE that game! Jet Moto stood several laps ahead of the first F-Zero... that is until I played F-Zero X. But anyway, this is a very cool game with a very cool soundtrack. First off, we see main character Dakota after crashing headlong into a palm tree. Slogra, of all people, gives her a few words of encouragement. Next, Dakota speeds towards the finish line...and hits a bump along the way. This is the 80th Humor Me in this section (there are actually over 130 pics total), which has got to be some kind of boffo record. (Note 2k9: This refers back to when all of the Humor Mes were in one ever-growing tower of links.)

42. The Great Book of Dinosaurs- This scan of a favorite childhood dinosaur book probably explains why I like Slogra so much.

43. Simon ACTs up!- Early in The CastleVania Dungeon's second year, Kurt reported seeing a Dinosaur Knight lookalike in Actraiser, one of the SNES' great launch titles. Well, a few years later I must now report seeing SIMON BELMONT in Actraiser as well! WHO WILL SURVIVE THIS VIDEO ARMAGEDDON! (Actraiser Dino vs. Slogra, anyone?)

44. Great Balls A'fire!- Like the sub says, let's take it back to the old school on this one, baby! I say it like that because this one has the same feeling and structure as some of my earliest works. Good thing the PlayStation emulators now work, too. This one's straight up potty humor, fit for CastleVania: Rough Sex in the Moonlight.

45. Yap that fool! [THE SYPHA MOON REMIX!!!]- What did M.O.P. say? "Take names off! Take things off! Take chains off! Take rings off! Bracelets and jah! Fame came off! Ante up! Yap that fool! Ante up! Kidnap that fool! Get 'em-get 'em- get 'em! Hit 'em-hit 'em-hit 'em! Yap 'em! Jap 'em! Yap 'em! Jap 'em!" The Skeletal Swordsman from Sypha Moon has returned for more fun! Unfortunately for him, so is a pyromaniac Sypha! Just like the sub says, it indeed is the Sypha Moon Remix!!! Dare to compare. Large (?!) file warning.

46. S&M- (Add this one to my Masterpiece file. Pic credits to random Sailor Moon sites.)
In 1994, DiC, responsible for distributing The Real Ghostbusters and other cartoons, made the brilliant mistake of shooting live action Sailor Moon segments to stick into their Sailor Moon marathon. And just as brilliantly, they got Tia Browsh to play the part. However, what they didn't know was that there was someone else on his way to the studio, and he crashed the taping, as you can see. Large file warning.

47. Gaibon's Crest- If steps 1 through 3 of the Respect Gaibon movement were the Groovy-Type Stuffs about him and the subsequent button, then Humor Me number 90 47's definitely step 4. Aerial Gargoyle and Grewon the Lioness from Capcom's Demon's Crest are about to mix it up when SUDDENLY!!! Konami vs. Capcom 2, anyone? Heh heh heh...I was listening to the Ice Palace stage theme on ZSNES as I was finishing this one up...

48. Domain of Sloraa- In keeping with the tradition of poorly-spelled creature names in everyone's favorite evolution game E.V.O., our dino hero Bocon inadvertently steps into the terrain known as the Domain of Sloraa! Check it out! (USELESS PROTIP: Title is based off "SLOGRAA'S DOMAIN", the title of a VHS-C I recorded while in Puerto Rico during 1996. I was there for all of 3 days.)

49. Super Simon World II: Sloggy's Island- Heh heh heh. I've been reading these 4-panel Super Mario manga books I got at BookOff the other week, so I've been having a Super Mario World revival of sorts. That game is absolutley phenomenal. Then I got to thinking...what if Yoshi were to be replaced by Slogra and Mario...GAIBON STRIKES AGAIN!!! RESPECT GAIBON!!!

50. Ghost House- SMW/CastleVania crossover number two! Could this be the real reason why Yoshi was afraid to enter the Ghost House in the first place? Find out in this convincing ZSNES glitch.

51. Bubble Bobble: Count Drunkula!- Bubble Bobble RULES. I had this one planned waaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, like in the fine summer of 1997, when I was first getting into emulation (and when Nesticle still had that colorful icon). At that time I had also released a picture montage of Drac's nasty 5-headed "Medusa King" form, and that's when I realized it would be nuts to see how it would look if Drac was to get drunk off the Bubble Bobble boss' wine bottles, and it only seems fitting that it should be the hundreth listing here. As I was building this one, inspiration struck once again. It's not just Dracula getting drunk this time!!! (Perhaps the blue one should be paying attention...)

52. Kung Fool III: Bloody Masterpiece- And you thought Mortal Kombat was cool. What's wrong with you? Finally, Karate Dan or whatever the heck his name is from that Kung Fu NES game, with the help of a few of his friends from DCTP, is ready to face the boss of stage 1! Meanwhile, two friends play a game of catch. Blood & gore galore!

53. Alucard vs. Alucard- For some reason, CV3's Alucard wants Gunbird's Marion, but Gunbird 2's Alucard just ain't havin' it. Letterboxing it was more of an afterthought. I made the canvas area bigger just to have more room for the time and by-line stamps, but accidentally made it better in the process.

54. CastleVania InVades New York (I love CVNY): Stage 4- I made this in April, not originally as a Humor pic, but as a PhotoShop experiment in a group of CastleVania in New York images. Since this was so well received at The CastleVania Dungeon's message board, I decided to release it here. How many CastleVania characters can you find?

55. "A Knight's Tale"- Here, Sir Grakul, flanked by the Ostrich and Heron from Joust, challenge the Super Mario Kart team! Originally submitted to the Super CastleVania IV page.

56. Bullface sez...- It was the later half of July 2001 when I finally decided to give CastleVania 64 another chance; I had last left off at the dreaded Nitro Run and, this time, somehow managed to complete it! The thrills and spills of the chore would be chronicled in an amusing thread on The CastleVania Dungeon Forum. Your reward for finishing the run was one of the best parts of the game: the inert body of the giant bull in the middle of the coliseum came to life for one absolutely awesome battle to the death! With mad props for the game finally due after years of bashing, I put this together and hit it with Triumph style. ;] (I like how the bullcrud came out; drawn in Photoshop on the Wacom!)

57. CastleVania: Bumpy Night Prelude- A slam of the ghastly PSM cover that attempted to pigeonhole Symphony as one of those chick-saving games...BAH!!! Parodius' Akane and Super C's Red Falcon included for additional excellence.

58. Alucard Ozbourne- For some reason, I saw tough-guy Alucard in Abnormal Freak's Ozzy signature at the Dungeon Forum...

2002

59. DCTP Ate My Balls III- Sypha, Trevor, and Grant check out Andy's DCTP Ate My Balls when Alucard strolls up. Once again, Al's mouth gets him in trouble as Sypha proves she really does have balls. OF LIGHTNING AND FIRE!!!

60. HOW ARE YOUR MERRY CHRISTMAS, B!TCHLAD'N?!- The severely delayed XMas 2001 pic, in which we see Alucard finally moving up along the console ranks. This past holiday, he got a Super NES with a Super Scope! After I got my SNES in 1991, my next step up was the PlayStation in 1997, and as DCTP historians know, that was something Alucard did not get during that XMas after the Symphony...what could he possibly get this year??? Look's like we'll have to wait until the next holiday season to find out...

61. Political Cartoon- (Intended for November '01 release, but didn't find the time to add the finishing touches... whatever they were.) I think it should be pretty obvious what is going on here and why...but as an aside, it appears that Simon has done a more effective job of reaching Usama than any of Bush's 'rousing' speeches... My turn...

SIMON! NOW IS THE TIME TO REVENGE THE CITY!!!
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING!!!

2003

62. DCTPVI- Header image for DCTP, circa the sixth anniversary. As DCTP had bitten it in the previous October, there wasn't really anyone around to celebrate the 6th-year party, save for my Mariko and the Skull Warrior, whom I'd decided to sick on Sypha, Trevor, and Molly for some reason. '-' Jorge Fuentes provided Sypha, Thaddeus Trevor, and Moll's recolored from her appearance in a Sailor Moon RPG. The picture also served as a shameless(?) ad for what I was pushing as my next huge Flash'terpiece, Nemesis: Nightmare from Our Side.

2004

63. PlazaVania- It was a chilly, snow-laced night as I regarded the Plaza Hotel imposing through shadowy trees near Central Park South. It reminded me of the opening to a CV game, so I attempted to catch the sight with my new digital camera. I slapped the Bloodlines heroes onto it and was at a loss for an amusing caption when inspiration struck: let the DCTPeeps figure it out! I could showcase their takes in a new Humor Me section; visitors would come up with loads of CV hilarity based on simple instructions! Thus was Operation DCTP born. However, rather than visitors sending their pics directly here, all of the participation occurred on the forums I made the rounds of at the time. I considered the Operation a bust as a result and quietly put it away. The End...?

2006

64. Super CastleVania Retcon- After barely managing to survive the horrors and brutalities of his new 16-bit outing, Simon arrives at Stage B-3 hoping for a break. Thousands of Japanese Super CastleVania carts are recalled as a result. (As DCTP Memory Cards may remind, a small bit of 2000's warm season was spent trying to decipher the origin of Slogra's original name, BERIGAN. In the spring of 2006, the shocking truth was revealed in a scan of his page from Konami's official and fully-illustrated Akumajo Dracula guide. As the blurb beneath the name suggests ["...like a bird without wings..."], BE-RI-GA-N is merely writeplay on their word for the certain sea bird; PE-RI-CA-N! DAMN!!!)

65. DCTPIX- While Ralphy's Trevor was manning it up in honor of DCTP's ninth anniversary, I put together this 'lil Flash illustration to commemorate the day.

66. Happy CastleVVeen!- Erichter Belmont is BACK!!! This radical pic was put together for the frontside of DCTP for Halloween of 2006!

2009

67. DCTP B-Day 11+1- For the 11th anniversary of DCTP, I decided to apply my nary-used Madd Frash Skillz (Slick Money!) into making one super-sweet animated B-Day card! Unfortunately, it was the night before that the idea had begun to solidify! Despite giving my all the next day (and a little more after that), I was unable to make my deadline and placed it on The Shelf. A year later, though, I'd have another shot at it; the ultimate result was pretty damn sweet, I hope you'll find.

Who's jammin' to Dracula's Curse: THE WAVMIX!!!???

BUNNYGIRL!!! Akane from Parodius!
True Man Blue, Gaibon!
The Monster, gettin' FunkFrank-y!
The REAL Alucard!
Browny's checkin' the scene!
The always-awesome Leviathan from CastleVania III!
One of my favorite fiends, the Axe Man!
Count Dracula is happy to be here, for a change!
Sypha Belnades is shakin' it!
Nathan Graves isn't too sure of himself around the enormous...
Lesser Demon from Akumajo Densetsu! Fear the TRUE Leviathan!!!
...like Maria Lenard, first Cool Character of the Week!
Another Cool Character Alum, the awesome Sword Lord!
Mega Man's head remains defeated!
Phalanx stops by from Capcom's awesome Demon's Crest to say hi!
Flame Demon does the bounce!
"Streets Belmont" stays holdin' it down!
One guy you haven't seen here in a while, the Bone Chucker from CV-DOS!
The Uber Skull Knight from Harmony of Dissonance!
SLOGRA IS THA MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!
Fish Man'll make ya...JUMP, JUMP!
Trevor C. Belmont does The Mario!
Skull Knight is NUMBER ONE!!!
Up in the air, check out my first CastleVania problem, Phantom Bat!
Waiting for the right moment to strike, The Grim Reaper!
Grant DaNasty rides that chandelier Otting-style!
Big Bad Phantom Bat is jammin'!
~~Malachi~~ Cthulhu chills!
...and finally, with the sweet swerves, the Bone Dragon King does his thing!

DCTP B-Day 11+1 rocked the frontside right on time from May 27th (less than ten minutes before the stroke of midnight!) to June 21st.

68. ID6- Step aside, Slogaibon! Team Controdius is up to the task in this nifty image for ID4 in 20IX! Not content with his retreat a decade ago, even Firebrand is striking back! (Another image not finished in time for last year. Perhaps it was for the better; Slog was originally on his own!) Patriotic Grim Reaper makes a cameo, courtesy Dracula.

69. Liddy and Maria BASE- One fine day, the CV chickies were hangin' out in the park and happened to notice a famliar face. Who knew they were fans? Poor CATS...

Created: December 16, 2007
Debuted: June 7, 2009
Last Edited: January 26, 2011 11:17AM EST