My main influences for my comic, POW! Right in the Nostalgia is basically my own childhood love of various video games, toys, movies, music, comics, and so on...
Characters talk a lot about things from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s I remember fondly, but also point out the silliness of some things.
Honestly, one of the biggest influences for my comic is the movie Clerks initially since that is a big part of the movies and cartoon series...the characters standing around talking about some geek culture thing. Like in the first movie, the main characters talk about how the Rebels possibly killed a ton of innocent contractors on the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi.