Here's a period piece. 1990 was the year of Madchester and 'Baggy' - possibly the last time pop music ever came up with anything new and interesting - everything since has merely been a machine processed pastiche of what has come before. (Headline: Grumpy middle aged cartoonist declared modern pop music stagnant shock!)
The ecstacy-fuelled second summer of love had managed to drag on for a third year, left the fields around the M25 and had now gone mainstream in the pubs and clubs of provincial Britain, to the point where even The Daily Mirror had taken notice of rave culture. The costume Richard is wearing is actually a toned down version of the stuff one of the print apprentices at the branch of Kall-Kwik printing I was working at was wearing at the time - the trousers in particular are a perfect reproduction.
Fractals at the time were seen as a gateway to enlightenment. Today, of course, we use them to generate CGI explosions in Hollywood movies.
I always wondered if Sammi ever gets to go out with Richard.... still this was another strip I did laugh at. Most newspaper comic strips were rather bland and unfunny, Millie was a breath of fresh air.
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