The 90âs Kid begins in 2020, when a 35 year old former, well, 90s kid discovers a time portal in his apartmentâs pantry door. Fed up and bored with contemporary times, he goes in and emerges in July 1995. After spending some time in his beloved past and watching his younger self and his gang of friends live through 5th grade, our âheroâ Wes returns to the presentâbut not for long. Heâs got plans to improve his adult life by rectifying a few mistakes made in the past and setting a better course for himself that he hopes will end up giving him a better outlook. To do that, he enlists the help of his eleven year-old recent elementary school graduate, Jace, a kid obsessed with his smart phone, social media, and online video games.
They arrive in summer, with Wes assuring Jace that itâs just a âquick weekend getaway,â showing off the mall and his old movie theater among other places. Little does the kid know that his uncle has far schemier plans in the works, that will take him all across the desert city of Royal Valleyâand beyond. This is a story about the simple and the complex, from trying to fit in with a fifth-graders, playing with water guns in the neighborhood, and visiting an amusement park, to trying to avoid paradoxes and running from the mysterious, dangerous time-related entities that seem to be chasing the duo around.
But, hey, if Wes could master the Toys âRâ Us Toy Run and conquer childhood when he was young, surely he and his mind full of pop culture trivia will help get the two out of any bad situation, like the possible collapse of spacetime. If itâs all to prevent a crummy adulthood, itâs worth the risk.
Every episode is a fixed length, designed to read like a Saturday morning cartoon. While I wish it were a comic, I do still make plenty of artwork for it, with locations in a synth/vaporwave style.
I'm promoting the Tapas version of the story, but if you get into it, definitely check out 90skidstory.com for cool stuff like artwork, cast page, and playlists.
