I guess you can tell how old this comic is because it's still called Twitter* and not X.

Also, I like how Bill's PC is undoubtedly one of those great old beige CRT-monitor models, and yet there's social media. (You young'uns might have a hard time believing that there was an age when social media didn't exist.)

Fun fact: The Pokémon Bill gets transformed into is different across media that depict this event. The original games never specify what Pokémon he is; they just use one of the generic minisprites that were used for the party menu screen back then (which is how I chose to depict him in this comic). Later remakes show him having specifically turned into a Clefairy and then a Nidorino. And in the anime... he's just stuck in a Kabuto costume for some reason. And has green hair and a British** accent.

(The early Pokémon anime was so weird.)

*I hope nobody minds that I essentially never use X anymore and took it off my list of ways to contact me. I barely used it anyway, and lately I've been more into BlueSky, which is a lot like a more sane version of X. Social media is so stressful. I can basically only handle two platforms at a time, maximum.

**Extra fun fact: Across Japanese Pokémon media, Bill is consistently portrayed speaking with a Kansai dialect. The Kansai dialect is notoriously difficult for American English localization teams to work with because it carries cultural nuances that don't really match anything in America. Sometimes a Kansai dialect is translated as an American Southern accent because both have the vague connotation of being more rustic and rural. This is what the translators did for Bill in the Pokémon Adventures manga. I just think it's kind of odd that the translators instead gave him a British accent in the anime.

 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, after all.

I just thought it was funny that Lass says that first line in the games, but then (like all Lasses) she already has little cutesy Pokémon. This Lass must be wanting a different vibe.

 What if there were PokéVampires in the Pokémon world?

In that case, can I get bitten by a Metagross? Because being part-Metagross would be rad.

This comic also makes me wonder what would happen if a human got hit with a Pokémon move.

It... would probably just hurt really bad. (That seems to be what the Legends series implies, anyway.)

I could go on a whole weird rant about how I don't understand why vampires are so maligned in fiction. It's actually a pretty awesome deal. All you have to do is make a little blood donation, and you're immortal, and have supernatural powers, and can change into a bat and bats are adorable. Nothing wrong with that. As much as I'm not into the Twilight franchise, I feel like that's one thing it actually did right, portraying a mortal falling into the company of vampires as a positive thing. That's a message I also tried to get across in Thunder Girl (and in the sequel I've been planning, which introduces a vampire protagonist)--don't hate on things just because they're different and/or your society has conditioned you to hate them. You could be missing out on something amazing.

 In all fairness, Thunder Wave is actually a pretty useful TM because paralysis is one of the more effective status conditions (doesn't wear off, 50% chance your opponent can't do anything on their turn, major Speed reduction). I just was amused by the idea of finding a lame item in the grass and the game text being all excited about it. 

On that note, I'm planning a full writeup of my thoughts on Pokémon Legends: Z-A after I finish the game (I'm about halfway through, and so far, I'm mostly really liking it with just a few quibbles), and one of the things I think the game did right was the real-time rehaul of the battle system, and how it actually makes non-attack moves way more useful in the main game as opposed to them mostly seeing use in the multiplayer (and battle facility) metagame. I'll go more into detail about that in the writeup, but suffice for now to say that I really want to see more of this style of battling in future games.

 I feel like a criminal organization that tries to recruit preteens is either extremely shady or extremely desperate. Also, that is the worst marketing copy I've ever seen. "Hey kids! Don't you want to come be evil with us?! Don't tell your parents!"

... Although, considering the overall track record of its Grunts, I'm not surprised Team Rocket has a similarly incompetent PR department.

 I don't get Blue. He talks a tough game and then sends out a Pokémon whose only move is Teleport. It's like he's not even trying to become Champion.

 Seeing as it's Thanksgiving and all, and birds are dinosaurs are birds, I thought I'd give you your daily dose of nightmare fuel. I have such a weird sense of humor.

But really, one of my paleoart soapboxes is that, while I love fluffy dinos as much as the next avant-garde paleo geek, extant birds actually have a wide range of feathering schemes, and some of them just have weird bald heads and that's okay. I enjoy playing around with saurian integument and trying to see how speculative I can get.

Fun fact: Those fleshy ridges on a turkey's neck are called caruncles. Turkeys can flush blood to their caruncles and make them turn redder, and it's thought that they may aid in helping turkeys recognize individuals based on differing caruncle patterns. 

Just remember, guys, nothing makes the ladies flock to you like bright red wrinkly skin, a large wad of flesh dangling from your nose, and emitting low-pitched noises from that air sac in your chest.

... In all honesty that's probably not the weirdest thing a guy has ever done to attract a girl.