GD 216 panels

[q99]

Gold Digger 216 had an abnormally high number of panels that I found hilarious without even needing to know the wider issue context.


So without further adieu,







The *worst* kind of disappointment!




Magic destroyed cloths? Sister to the rescue!



Bam! With a cannon!



*Hate* twins!





Speaks for itself.


All from Gold Digger 216 by Fred Perry! Put out by Antarctic Press (The actual issue plot has to do with fighter jets and stuff ^^)

Comments

[sagrada]

Wait...that blonde hair...those those nigh-invisible spectacles...could it be...?

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/square_small/9/94709/1556455-adrian_andrews_1.png It is!!!

This plot is thicker than soup mixed with sour cream.

Gold Digger is just weird to me. The guy behind it has an actual way with words, and timing, and character voices and personality beats and so on, things I'm doubtful to ever have even basic competency in, and that's not even getting into the very expertise and real-world knowledge that shines through so many of the stories.
But every time I read bits and pieces of it it feels bizarrely like a fan-work, like if some people who knew some setting inside and out and were really excited about it made a webcomic based on this shared entusiasm. There's this familiarity and I-cannot-describe-it sort of intimacy, where that lady liking Transformers maybe a shade too much both makes perfect sense AND is just out of nowhere.

It's got that undefinable Internet Style down, where small matters like what X is a fan of has subtly greater precedence than what Old World literary values have taught me to expect. It's like Homestuck, but less loopy. That might be a symptom of it just running for so long and developing so many characters and so much detail, or maybe just a sign that I'm approaching this from staggering ignorance.

Anyway, thanks for uploading these. I don't understand it but it's enjoyable.
Edit: also it is 'ado', not 'adieu'. Apologies for the niggling, stuff like that needles me for some fool reason.

[q99]

-Wait...that blonde hair...those those nigh-invisible spectacles...could it be...?-

While there's a lot of references, Gina isn't one of them. She predates Adrian by a couple years.

-There's this familiarity and I-cannot-describe-it sort of intimacy,-

Oh, definitely, I think that's part of the appeal. The characters feel very unguarded, we know their hobbies and so on.

-That might be a symptom of it just running for so long and developing so many characters and so much detail, or maybe just a sign that I'm approaching this from staggering ignorance.-

It was like this before it was a long-runner ^^ I mean, it can go a good time without major references, but it had a robot made of 5 smaller robots called the 'Vaultron force' back around issue 20.

One of it's big storylines early-ish on, Time Warp, had a chapter that was flat-out Evil Dead reference.


And since you mention internet style, I'll also comment this was the case when the 'net culture we know really wasn't around. I mean, the thing started in '91! (As a one-shot, the series in ernest in '93)

[sagrada]

So possibly before I was even born, this was being printed. That's...staggering. Wait, I used that already, hmm...incredible, yeah.

And yeah, I don't mean to imply that it's drawing from that, just that it somehow FEELS like something I'd expect to come from a passionate internet subculture. I dunno, whatevs. And yeah "She's Adrian!" was just a joke. If anything the inspiration might even have been the other way around, considering how freaking long it's been going.
I suppose it springs from the same kind of thinking that brought us Dr. McNinja, Axe Cop and the Great Eternal Crossover in superhero comics.

[q99]

-So possibly before I was even born, this was being printed. That's...staggering. Wait, I used that already, hmm...incredible, yeah. -

Yep. And heck, think about it- at the time, it'd be one of the *only* things done in such a style! It and the other comic AP put out, Ninja High School.

-And yeah, I don't mean to imply that it's drawing from that, just that it somehow FEELS like something I'd expect to come from a passionate internet subculture.-

Certainly a passionate popculture type.

-And yeah "She's Adrian!" was just a joke. If anything the inspiration might even have been the other way around, considering how freaking long it's been going. -

Hm... though, you know...

Link to the free GD archive. Issue 133. The 'Phoenix Wright' issue ^^

-I suppose it springs from the same kind of thinking that brought us Dr. McNinja, Axe Cop and the Great Eternal Crossover in superhero comics.
-

Definitely a lot less so than them, but yea ^^

[bewareofgeek]

As q99 mentioned, GD predates Phoenix Wright by a good nine years. Indeed, Gina (a female globe-trotting archaeologist) actually predates TOMB RAIDER by 3 years.

And remember this. With the exception of the occasional backup story and some of the early coloring, this book has been done by ONE MAN. For over 200 issues and 20 years. There are only 2 or 3 other comics in the West that can say that.

And NONE of those books have their own OVA (also animated by the same guy, solo).

As for the tone... Fred is one of us. He's a HUGE geek. :)

[q99]

-this book has been done by ONE MAN. -

More like one comic machine in the *shape* of a human!


-For over 200 issues and 20 years. There are only 2 or 3 other comics in the West that can say that.-

I think the only competitors are Savage Dragon and Usagi Yojimbo... and GD's passed up UY in issues.

[bewareofgeek]

You can also make a claim for Cerebus (Gerhart only did backgrounds)

[q99]

Ugh, yea, I like to forget that one but I guess it's in.