T. K. Arispe

 Here's a seminal moment in Oak's character development (although whether that's a good thing is... up for debate). I always found it weird that he tells you he only has three Pokémon left and doesn't explain what happened to the other ones. Like, did he release most of his Pokémon when he stopped being a Trainer? Or maybe they were trying to imply that Oak regularly gives his former Pokémon away to new Trainers (and as this was before Pokémon breeding was a thing, eventually he'd run out of Pokémon)?*

Whatever the case, I'm sure it wasn't... this.

I really enjoyed making Oak's expression progressively more psychotic.

I recently showed these comics to my 10-year-old niece and barely got a chuckle out of her. I'm starting to suspect I'm the only one who understands my sense of humor. I'm not really surprised.

*If this is the case, it's weird that he only has three level 5 Pokémon left, and this also implies that he's given away like, a level 100 Gyarados to a newbie trainer at some point? Why is it that he conveniently only has three extremely weak Pokémon left by the time you roll up to his lab?**

**The real explanation for all of this is that this is just a video game and I am putting way more thought into in-universe logistics than the development team intended.