A Pokemon Sprite Comic Image sources: https://www.spriters-resource.com/game_boy_gbc/pokemonyellow/sheet/15848/ & https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evolution_of_Sprite_Bottles.JPG
Design Leak... Based on a pic from this article
NC was one of the comics series ran by SMBHQ before they shut down. I originaly wasn't going to link to them, since they're silly, but I've reconsidered. The comics were the hear of the site, & a major attraction back in the day, so here's a link to an archived mirror of The Neglected Characters, with a few extra comics made after the webmaster moved away from SMBHQ. And here's a link to an archive of the original site's comic page. I'll probably come back later & try to link up individual comics, assuming any survive. It looks like many of them weren't actually archived. :(