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Sprite Stuff: 'Sleepy' Estes, the 'Mad Bull'

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Just me dicking around with sprites again. This time took a pose from someone's "Mike Haggar" mugen sprites (with their permission) and made it into one of my favorite 'guilty pleasure' anime characters.

How to describe the old anime OAV series 'Mad Bull 34'? 
It's almost as if Frank Miller (Post-Sin City) somehow traveled back in time to help craft an anime set in New York (or how the Japanese envision it) of the late 80's/early 90's. It's frikkin' ridiculously over-the-top... the first episode alone is pure 'balls-to-the-wall' blood-spattered lunacy. Like every Post-Dirty Harry 'Renegade/Vigilante Cop' movie all mixed into one, with ZERO political correctness and all out of SHITS to give. Pure guilty (so bad it's good) pleasure.

And even THAT description probably doesn't even begin to do it justice. ;p

And at the crazy center of it all... is this guy... this one-man army... John 'Sleepy' Estes... nicknamed the 'Mad Bull'.

He's like someone managed to genetically splice Dirty Harry (or Mike Hammer) with the Punisher... and gave this creation the body of Mike Haggar from the 'Final Fight' games. He's exceedingly violent, redefines the term 'Police Brutality', somehow has access to weaponry only the National Guard/Military tends to have access to, is a humongously perverted (and raunchy) lech, and somehow manages to keep his badge at the end of the day (much to the chagrin of his superiors). And he's partnered (Lethal Weapon-style) with this more 'By-the-Book' Japanese-American officer, Daizaburo. The Murtaugh to Sleepy's Riggs.

At least... at the beginning.

Supposedly the manga that inspired this insanity is much more developed and restrained than the anime... apparently.

Made this using the aforementioned Haggar sprite, (made by the incredibly talented Acey) editing the face and mixing it with the clothing and color palette of crooked cop 'Edi/Eddie E.' of Final Fight fame.

Hope it looks good.


EDIT: Made a new pose from the Haggar sprites, meant to be an action/animation pose. Mainly to see if I could make another pose for the big crazy bastard. Enjoy.
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Great-5's avatar

Thought this was a buff Axe Cop for a second.