One thing that amuses me about fictional settings with more advanced technology than the era in which the fiction was created is how they almost always get the direction of technological progress completely wrong. Mid-20th-century sci-fi confidently predicted that we'd be living on the Moon with our jetpacks and robot butlers by now--but they never expected the Internet or 3D printing or cringe-y generative AI. (Although, the first Pokémon games came out right on the cusp of widespread cell phone development, so in Gen II the PokéGear is a rather prescient smartphone analogue.)
Also I just realized that Red's hat design changes in these earliest comics. Not sure why. I guess I was still easing into the aesthetic of the series and hadn't quite settled on a design for Red that would be something I wouldn't mind drawing literally hundreds of times.
You might also notice that in this series, one side of Red's jacket collar is perpetually turned up. That's an inside joke; for some reason that tends to happen to me when I wear collared tops. No idea why.
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