My all-time favorite is the smiling & bowing ashigaru.

But honestly I feel most smileys we have feel a little outdated (they belong to the age where people need to spend 2 seconds to load a 8 kb gif picture), and many of them are rarely being used. I wonder whether we can look forward to a new set of emoticons?

I was born in Taiwan, so I'd like to mention this set called "onion heads" done by a Taiwanese artist.
http://www.gyps.tyc.edu.tw/gy500/rex...ic/index1.html

What's your favorite emoticon sets?

I cannot draw comics, but I can use some photoshop. So if we decide on a new set but decides to keep the Bowing Ashigaru, I can PS the hat on an existing bowing model.