Well, cool, I kind of felt guilty for liking Bogart, I knew there was something fishy about him, little did I know HOW fishy.
You know it's weird, I created Mr_Kidney to eventually turn out to be a bit of a fetishist, a la Spankling, hence his deranged comics, but I fucked up too quickly and my plans were foiled.
I don't think you should offer the Spankling name up, it has too much history and we've grown to know and love it (in a completely platonic way). I couldn't accept you as Bogart, It'd be like my Gran dying, then inhabiting the body of my sister, I'd be looking at my sister, and she'd be telling me to stop smoking and asking me why I have to put so much gel in my hair.
just keep using Spankling, Bogart can fall by the wayside, he can pop up randomly like Kurashima and Geniu$. Granted, you had an act to keep up, but every now and then you'd post something truly great and completely serious, so, we all respect you anyway, but you could probably do with a more serious character, although I fear Boorite will take your place as the punchline to most comics.
OR!
you could ask Brad to switch the nicknames, you could keep all your old comics and Spankling could become just another SC phantom, like Tobor and Dr Pedantic.
(although, I've never been let into the Dr Pedantic password club)