#Radi skull and devil doll series#

Joe Sparks just made a minor comeback last year with his video Coffee with Friends, but his latest work has not yet approached that of his heyday. All can be found on YouTube and at Joe’s website.

#Radi skull and devil doll series#

Later episodes of the Radiskull and Devil Doll series feature further songs, all of which I’ve still got here on my 20-year-old mp3 player. I still have my Radiskull and Devil Doll tee shirt. The animation may be rudimentary by today’s standards, but we ate it up back in the day.

In Radiskull’s initial appearance, he first threatens to murder his entire audience, then drinks a giant cup of boiling coffee before beginning to sing and rap with his pal Devil Doll. He liked skulls and metal music, thus was born Radiskull. Flash video was new and interesting, and Joe Sparks was one of the pioneers syncing audio with Flash animation for. When you watched videos, you’d often need to download and play them in local players rather than streaming. Welcome to my new segment, Internet Classics, in which we meet Radiskull.īack in 1999 or 2000, before YouTube, good internet animation was relatively rare. Despite his squeaky voice, he is a skilled rapper, also possessing a number of useful demonic powers. It’s not all Chocolate Rain and Leeroy Jenkins, but today, I’m bringing sexy back. Devil Doll is Radiskulls adorable little demon friend. Hence, much of the nascent interweb’s original hilarity is entirely unknown to a younger generation.

But the meme-riddled internet moves pretty quickly, and many of the internet’s original viral sensations have sunk into near obscurity. There’s classic literature, there’s classical music, and older films are considered classics.