GD 216 panels

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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

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-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)

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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.

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