PUZZLE #13: Mini-Marching Bands

PUZZLE #13

MINI-MARCHING BANDS

This next puzzle of mine is Marching Bands, as made famous by Brendan Emmett Quigley. I know it's smaller than the usual ones, but I've tried making a full 6-band puzzle which didn't quite work out, so I made a smaller one to compensate. Anyway, here are the directions:

The answers in this grid march both across the Rows and around the Bands. Each row contains two answers, clued in order. Their dividing point is for you to determine, except in Row 5, where the two answers are separated by a black square. The answers in each Band will be entered clockwise, staring at a lettered square (A-D) and ending in the space below that square. The dividing points in each band's string of words are also for you to determine. Each square will be used twice; once in a Row's word, and once in a Band's word.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the answer in Band "D": A two-word video game character who would fit this puzzle's "mini" theme quite nicely.

ROWS
1) Payton or Melrose
    Award-winning graphic novel series by Jeff Smith
2) Spanish frog
    Cache
3) Actress who played the Invisible Woman twice
    Art made up of computer text
4) Paint layer
    Fear & Loathing _____ Vegas
5) One half of an ice cube grabber
    Manga/anime character whose alter ego is the "King of Games"
6) Fred's job in Science Court, for short
    Don't give away
7) _____ the Fourth Wall (comedic web series reviewing comic books)
    "Gimme Some More" rapper
8) "Muffin-top" material
    Group of eight
9) You might get rid of these with Dr. Scholl's Freeze-Away (I didn't get paid for this blatant plug of a product I don't use!)
    Shakespearian commotions

BANDS
A) Sleeping with Ghosts band
     Grape drinks favored by M*A*S*H's Radar (and plenty of crosswords)
     Apple product first released in 2010
     What you need to sip up the second answer in Band "A"
     Tracy Chapman's debut single
B) 1997 Don Bluth animated film
     Irritate
     Metallic blue?
     Jane Goodall saw chimpanzees use one in 1960
C) Sheepish sounds
     You're looking at it right now!
     Writ requiring someone to testify
D) The FINAL ANSWER (see directions for more details)

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com before March 15th and I'll place your name on a list of solvers when I post the answers to this puzzle. You can also use those e-mail addresses to give me feedback/comments on my puzzle or send me the FINAL ANSWER to last week's stumper (which you can solve here with an easier version here). If you want a version of this puzzle you can print out, head below the break for just that!