Explain your avatar

[Thumpalumpacus]

Just as the title reads -- what is your avatar, and why did you choose it?

Mine's a Kandinsky painting, I like his stuff. Also, I change avs pretty regularly.

[Kingpin]

Mine is me. Chose it so people can put a face to the words. Maybe print it out and throw darts at it. Whatever floats your boat

[robvalue]

My avatar is "Just Jack" from the Wii game Madworld. He has a chainsaw permanently attached to his arm, to help with his main occupation (killing people). It's one of my favourite games of all time.

I chose him because I love video games, especially violent ones. He represents the loopy maniac inside me that loves harmless fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV2QAuSJJHI

[abaris]

My avatar is a puppy - for everyone being in the unclear.

I've chosen it because I love dogs and because it hurts me that I can't have one right now because of work related time constraints.

[Exian]

This is from one of my earlier threads where I was deciding on an avatar. Here's the reason I gave then. Shouldn't have changed much.

I ended up going with Howard the Duck. Here's why:

A few months back, my daughter and I picked up Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. The story of the game covers two big events in the comics: The Secret Wars and The Civil Wars. Two story arcs I haven't read, so I did some reading up.

Oh SPOILERS!!! I guess.

At the end of the Civil Wars, it's decided to assign a government sanctioned Avengers Team to each state, in what's called the 50 States Initiative. Each team is made up of superheroes who have registered with the government. Having read this, my daughter and I got super excited because this means Ohio must have its own Avengers Team. How flippin cool! So I find a web page with the list of states and their assigned Avengers Team. New York has The Mighty Avengers lead by Iron-Man, New Jersey has the Last Defenders-- this is getting pretty exciting. My daughter and I are speculating who we think we got as we scroll through.

Finally, we get to Ohio and who do we have? Howard the Duck...and we don't have a team name...

So we adopted our northeast Ohio sports mentality and decided to love him no matter how terrible it is. And we do.

So for an atheist forum, I thought it would be appropriate to have my avatar be my own personal and state wide savior, Howard the Duck. Cleveland needs a hero.

I've updated it since. I found a nice piece of line work from the creator and decided to use that as the base for my avatar. I drew it up, colored it, and animated it in a program called PyxelEdit. Lots of fun. I've made a few more for the kids, and even made a Toothless gif for my big Sis.

[Lucanus]

Mine's a phage: a virus that infects bacteria. Those things were instrumental in the birth of molecular biology. Plus, they're just adorable. My girlfriend once told me they look like guys with HUGE DICKS

[Thumpalumpacus]

She's got quite the imagination.

[Minimalist]

Mine's a phage: a virus that infects bacteria. Those things were instrumental in the birth of molecular biology. Plus, they're just adorable. My girlfriend once told me they look like guys with HUGE DICKS

Say what?

[Lucanus]

She's got quite the imagination.

Yeah that was a different picture

[brewer]

My dog(s). Main focus after retirement.