Let me guess, you remember Tia Carrerra from Wayne's World too? (Schwing!) One of Joe's big inspirations was Bengus, the character designer for Capcom who created some of the iconic Street Fighter and Darkstalker character designs who in turn was inspired by guys like Jim Lee and the early Image guys, as we all manga and anime.
lol, I saw her first in Showdown in Little Tokyo though, even more Schwing!!! lol Cool, didn't know that about Bengus, guess Streetfighter was the first taste of manga for many of us.