I can’t recall if The Ames Curve was a well known successful sad-boy band or just a local one. I don’t really care to recall. Music from this era was all bad from the top down, and my opinion counts because I still like the ska and swing music that was popular about five years prior to these strips.
The other poster is the main girl from Love Hina, a very generic anime that I liked for some reason. Thankfully these days there’s a shudder and a wretch that are born and must escape from my soul whenever anime is brought up, with exceptions being few and far between. I don’t recall if Flatliner touches on our trips to various Anime conventions back in those days, but the sense memories will never dissipate. “It smells like the game room…”
The Blast-O-Butter flavor of popcorn exists to this day, and is maybe more disgusting now?