![]() Though it seems like Mac and her step-mother Alice don't really get along, when Alice is about commit suicide, Mac is visibly distraught, calls her "mom" (perhaps for the first time), and tells Alice she loves her in a desperate attempt to dissuade the woman from pulling the trigger, while also trying to wrestle the gun away. Anguished Declaration of Love: Platonic example.Pretty much confirmed for Mac when she and KJ kiss in issue #25 a kiss which the previously homophobic Mac actually initiates. However, the flash-forward in issue #13 of her kissing Mac seems to suggest this about Mac. In issue #17, KJ tells Mac that she thinks she might be a lesbian, though the ambiguity disappears later when she decides she really is. Ambiguously Gay: Played with a couple of ways.At first, Mac is both closeted and disgusted by any hints of homosexuality, but once KJ holds a knife to a doctor's throat telling him to save Mac or die, Mac starts falling for her. ![]() for them to think they might be hiding in a basement. ![]() In issue #30, they finally succeed, as with the Adult/Teen war over, there are no travelers to steal Tiffany's walkie-talkie, i.e. Alternate History: The four grown-up counterparts of the girls that show up in issue #26 say that they've made millions of attempts to rewrite the time stream and prevent the girls from finding the time machine in issue #1, but always fail.Alien Invasion: An oversimplification of the world, though it's perfectly natural for young girls primed by pop culture to grab this interpretation and run with it.In issue #5 we find out where they've gone. Alien Abduction: Everyone in Stony Stream is vanishing into thin air.Adults Are Useless: Worse than useless.Unfortunately for him she has never liked him much, thinks he's a total creep for even thinking of such things at a time like this and wants nothing to do with him - shortly before the invaders kidnap them both and render the whole idea moot anyway One high school boy sees the invasion as his big chance to finally get the girl of his dreams. Adam and Eve Plot: Thoroughly subverted.The main protagonist Erin is actually the least actiony and most naive of the bunch, though she's picking it up as she goes along Action Girl: All the girls qualify, to varying degrees.Accidental Murder: FutureClone!Erin's time displacement field kills an innocent bystander before she can warn him away.Mac's parents also appear to be abusive to some extent, or at least neglectful.When 2016!Erin calls herself fat, 1988!Erin replies "that sounds like something Dad would say." Erin's father can be this way, at least verbally, according to her twelve year old self.Most people still got their music on LP or cassettes and their news from newspapers which were still delivered by Free-Range Children in the predawn darkness. CD players were still a relatively new and exotic technology. Personal computers were still rare and the internet was just a pipe dream. ![]() It was also the high watermark of analog culture. The Cold War was still going on amid a great deal of fear-mongering that the Soviets were actually winning. 1988 was the election year marking the end of the Reagan administration.
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