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About

Kid Radd was a psuedo-sprite comic written by Dan Miller that ran from 2002-2004. Although popular amongst gamers during the mid 2000's, the comic has since fallen into obscurity. Kid Radd has been often praised for it's humor, plot, and graphic style which often featured animated comic panels. Kid Radd was written in HTML in order to allow for faster load times for slow internet connections, which has, unfortunately, resulted in some incompatibilities with modern web browsers. Kid Radd is both an homage and parody to old 8-Bit games, often poking fun at features such as collision-based damage from enemy characters. Kid Radd even to this day is the subject of many fan-games starring the fictional video game character.

Origin

Kid Radd was inspired by other famous sprite comics at the time such as 8-Bit Theater and Bob and George. Dan Miller was frustrated by the long loading times of sprite comics, and then his brain went into "nerd mode." Rather than creating the entire comic as a whole image, the characters and backgrounds were made as individual images, and were placed accordingly with HTML. In addition, to prevent any accidental spoilers, each panel was detached from other panels in a single strip, and the reader would have to click on "Next" to jump to the next panel.

The actual character of Radd was based off of Jake from the game Totally Rad.