I used to draw a character who had a mullet back in 1988, he was some kind of super-human vigilante with a big gun. He was also my central character in the endless dystopian future campaign we were running in middle school. He was in a love triangle between his ordinary girlfriend & a cloned bioroid pop sensation called MIKI. They lived in a super-dimensional fortress which was based on the SDF-1 from Robotech & MEGA-CITY 1 from Judge Dredd. Anyhow, in 1988 everyone had a mullet & no one even knew what the damn thing was called anyhow. It was just the hairstyle that men worth knowing had. Around this time, i had a mullet with lines, just like the characters in this new picture called "DUBBL DRAGN" (which i beat in the arcade on 1 quarter in 1988). The story of Double Dragon is set in a post-apocalyptic version of New York City, five years after a nuclear war, where gangs and criminal organizations have taken control of the city.
Mike Patton doesn't have a mullet here, but he has the short side patch with lines. Even though this came out in 1990, this is pure 1988, the world just wasn't ready yet.
I might have to get lines again.
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I had a mullet with lines too...
It's funny the mullet thing... a couple of years ago people were getting a mullet and made sure they called it an "ironic mullet" just to be retro,,, but the character Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2 revived a genuine appreciation of a more subtle mullet. A subtle mullet does look pretty nice if you've got some facial hair to go with it.
-Robert Adam Gilmour
Yeah, what the hell was the deal with the flood of post apocalyptic flicks in the 80's? Did John Carpenter's Escape From New York set that off? I think low budget film makers realized you could just film an entire movie in some abandoned factory lot and call it a "post apocalyptic sci fi" and generate interest.
YEah, that's exactly it. You need a warehouse for some sets and some open desert and you're set.
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