I did this already with another Deadpool comic, and thought I might give it another go. I'm certainly no demographic or target marketing genius, but I enjoy trying to see things from that perspective, including reading comics with an eye for "new reader friendly"-ness and "young reader friendly"-ness. Considering a young male age 16 for a ballpark number, but also considering the fact that anything he may have encountered younger than middle school is effectively a wash, what exactly is the appropriate date range for pop culture/current event awareness to make humorous references effective? Or, asked another way, what if you threw a joke and nobody came?
This time from Deadpool Team-Up #890, by James Asmus, Micah Gunnell, Rob Stull, and John Rauch
Richard Gere urban legend, circa 1985
aged = 25 years
Great Recession, 2007
aged = 3 years
John McClane in Die Hard, 1988
aged = 22 years
The Facts of Life TV sitcom, 1979
aged = 31 years
Hamster Dance internet meme, 1999
aged = 11 years
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