A "!dead city radio*" strip - assuming there's another one- features DCR characters and situations as applied to modern day events. Since the story happens in 1997-98, !dead city radio strips are totally non-Canonical. They're also whatever aspect ratio happens to work with the subject, and they're filed here, to make things less confusing to the reader.

Quality's a bit lower than usual, but I have an ATC page to work on today, and the idea of exerting more than the most minimal effort to tackle the fearsome testosterone-belching fountain of ignorance that is Pittsburgh Sports is pretty unappetizing.

Panel one was swiped from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (go go google image search for Pittsburgh Fireworks). I doubt there'll be a display regardless of the outcome of today's game - it's winter and fireworks were very much a "Pirates Won / Pirates Lost / There's No Pirates Game This Weekend" thing in the late 90s, so it's in keeping with the "feel" of DCR more than it is with the current state of city affairs.

* The bang in !dead city radio plays on the technological angle. I could just as easily have made it "Not Dead City Radio," but that would invite comparisons to Ninja High School. And DCR:NHS::Crash:Project A-Ko. One of the many things I won't be referencing in the strip - unless I do a bit about the amazing disaster that was every other student in my Cartooning And Dynamic Anatomy class. I turned in eight pages of ATC while one guy did a bad NHS parody (!) and another freely copied "anatomy" out of a spiral-bound wad of Wildcats back issues.... and those are the good parts.