When all the strips are lined up, rather than 3 per week at most, it becomes a lot more obvious that it was a weird time where everything was changing. I’m piecing all the specifics of this era together, but it’s getting hazy. I’m 20 years old when these strips are drawn. I’ll be just shy of 39 when they post to RIS. I guess this is just one of those days where it feels discomforting.
I’m definitely still in my slump of that era. The typeface tells me immediately that Harvest made the Captain Shotgun strip and the Marvin Gaye strip. The middle one is me and doesn’t ring funny in any way right now.
I’m looking forward to this chapter ending and getting into The Cancelled Years, which ditches a lot of the reality-based jokes for a more experimental long form thing for a bit. In true Flatliner style it does fizzle out into nothing and things return to normal, but it’s there. For a while I had forgotten that the chapter that follows that had even existed, so that will be an interesting read.
