Hell yah man! Your making progress for sure. Your text placement could be better and the size of the newer one is a bit big but good anyways.
Just keep creatin and maybe read some tuts..i never really go by tuts but i take techniques from each and try to incorporate them into my stuff. Yah and keep postin your stuff, you will usualy get some good pointers from the gfx'ers on here.
good to hear lol. i was at court the other day paying a ticket. i had to fight it lol. stupid garbage people <.< and nyc state of law sucks. no wonder they're broke.