Comix Zone—Super Hero Logo 1995

Comix Zone oozes with the spirit of the 1990s.  Typically, media and art made at the midpoint of a decade (example 1995-1996) sets the gold standard for the spirit of the decade.  1990 is too much like the 80s and 1999 is too much like the mighty Ohs.  Comix Zone is a key note from the SEGA™ Genesis lineup. The music, the outfit of our hero, and style sings of the 1990s grunge movement.

1995 was when video games were offline, not-monitored, and gamers could trade, sell, or lend their truely private property of a game to their friends without interference or observation from Big Sister™.    Power ups were simple and achievements were personal, instead of being a public document for the various Videogamer-Corps™. 


Of vexillological note, when the protagonist of the story, Sketch Turner, gets his superhero power up, a unique logo appears on his chest: it is a red semi-circle with an ×, that appears on a white shirt.   The livery of our superhero is white,
black, and red.  He has black tights with boots, a white shirt, and a red cape.  Turner also dons sunglasses and is able to blast all baddies on the screen, with a comic zap.

When Turner is in normal mode, he is a Kung Fu master of the 1990s sort.  The pants and haircut are of the Niffertastic Nineties™.

The bad guy logo also appears on the bombs in some of the abandoned ships.   It is red painted face outline of a man with hat, sunglasses, and long mustache.

Comix Zone is one of the few original masterpieces with original content, rather than being an established pop-icon or a spinoff of some other established property, like the Amazing Man Spider, Mr. Bat Ma'am, or the X-Them. 

Sonic the Hedgehog 2020 Headband

Sonic the Hedgehog was family friendly, nostalgic wonder spark.  Most movies based on video games flop.  Typically the fans and Hollywood directors are out of sync.  But finally in 2020, the directors got it right.

Finally 1990s get some respect, as a separate decade from the semi-tacky 1980s.  Reason being, the first Sonic video game was released in 1991.  Likewise, the star of this movie Jim Carey was able to soar to top shelf of comic spirits.  Although the movie was set in modern times, 2020, Sonic and Carey are class clowns from the 1990s that took up a big chunk of people free time, and made a momentous comeback in 2020.

Of vexillological note is the headband that Sonic wears in the movie.  The logo design is modified black and white pattern based upon the intro screen from his first game, back in 1991.

Sonic the Hedgehog is of the original Platformer—basically a jump and run to side action game.  These type of games are continually remade each generation.  The basic plan of the game is to run to a goal, via an obstacle course, using the simple rules of gravity, power ups, and of course timing the right time jump at the right moment.

 

Green Hills Police Badge, Montana—Sonic the Hedgehog 2020

Green Hills was originally the round of levels, where we Sonic came into existence back in 1991.  Thirty years since conception, this flagship character from SEGA was live on with a hit movie: Sonic the Hedgehog 2020.

During a credit scene, a welcome sign to Green Hills can be seen, in glorious 16-bit 1990s video glory.

Checker Flags in Sonic the Hedgehog movie 2020

The checker pattern is associated with Sonic the Hedgehog, as this pattern can be found all throughout the game.  In the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film, several real life checker flags could bee seen is several scenes.  In his burrow underground, Sonic has an kind of altar of checker flags, that can be seen in a montage, when we see what his daily life is like.

To the left, notice the crossed checker flag lamp that Sonic gets in his new bedroom above his new besties.  Sonic has a big smile, as he gets comfy in his new bedroom, that is above ground.

When Sonic is in the bar, he grabs a pennant streamer that just happens to have checker designs.  The image has been flipped to 'right side up.'  Thus the people in the bar look normal and Sonic zooming around the bar is running on the ceiling.

The Pentagon Flag - Sonic the Hedgehog movie 2020

In 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog movie, an original and imaginative flag for the US Pentagon appears during the meeting of generals.  The design of the flag does not match to the official seal in our universe, but in this alternate sector of the Multiverse it is the official flag.

The Sonic Pentagon flag is on a field of navy blue with the colours of yellow and neon blue.  Neon blue makes up the rings and outer dimensions of the Pentagon shape, while the yellow hash marks fill in the Pentagon in four levels with broken spaces at the mid-points of the flag. In the outer ring it is written THE PENTAGON *** THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ***—the US flag is also visible on the left side of the seal on the wall.

Alex Schibli American-Swiss Heritage Flag

Besides Liberty Island, there is another island in NYC that has its own monument, Rat Island.  It was recently purchased by Alex Schibli in 2011 at an auction for $176,000.  Now the Goddess of Liberty has some stiff competition, Rat Island has a statue of William Tell—a folk hero of Switzerland.

In American consciousness Tell is portrayed only as playful archer to shoots an arrow at an apple seated on a person's head.  However, for Switzerland, Mr. Tell is a folk hero a kin to King Arthur and Robin Hood all wrapped into one.

When the New York Post interviewed the owner of Rat Island, Alex Schibli, he was wearing a unique Swiss-American fusion flag: see video below.  Schibli's flag has a lower-fly canton with 26 Swiss crosses on the field, arranged the four rows of: 6-7-6-7.  The 26 Crosses represent the 26 Cantons of Switzerland.

Rat Island is also home to three flags: New York State, the US flag, and the flag of Switzerland.  However, Rat Island is missing a flag for the island itself.

During the interview with the New York Post in 2018, Schilbli was wearing a shirt that contained a unique US-Swiss fusion flag.

He was also making a statement that the monument on Rat Island is a 'sister statue' sight to Liberty Island.  Like Yin and Yang, the Statue of Liberty represents the freedom all Americans, while the statue of William Tell represents one American's point of pride.  However, NYC's Statue of William Tell is completely within NYC's official waters, unlike Liberty Island which is actually in NJ's waters.

A Walmart Flag

Walmart issued a flag for itself sometime before July 31, 2018.  It is most likely that this flag was created in 2017.  It is a vertical tribar flag of grey-blue, navy-blue, grey-blue.  In the center is the Walmart * in yellow.

The original leaflet advertises the Walmart's capacity to send money across the world.  Walmart is only a business, yet its economic lifeblood pulsates all across America and the planet.  No doubt Walmart has a larger economy than some third world nations.

Walmart rose the global dominance as did once the too Hudson Bay Company.  However, Walmart started in Arkansas.  Perhaps a nick for this coorporation could the Dixie Bay Company.