Trivia / Mulberry

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: Peter admittedly didn't mean "My Fat Lady" replacing Leslie Jones with a cross-dressing Tracy Morgan to seem like a spot-on Take That! on Leslie's usual SNL persona, as he didn't see any of her sketches^note or those of Kristen Wiig or Kate McKinnon, for that matter before writing it.
• Channel Hop: Every Mulberry story released from December 2012-August 2019 remains exclusive to BANG! Magazine, except for "GameSaw" and "A Terrible Fate".
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: "Disney Adventures" has an intentionally dim Alpha-5 explain to Mulberry and her friends that Disney owned Power Rangers in "the early 2000s", until Saban Brands helped it become "the only major property to escape the Vault". The timeframe disregards Disney's involvement with Power Rangers seasons from Mystic Force (2006) to RPM (2009), while Alpha's use of "major" might sound dubious to readers who define the word broadly enough to encompass such properties as every DiC Entertainment show^note Disney owned DiC from 1995-2000; DHX Media acquired the company in 2012 or Studio Ghibli films ^note Disney dubbed and distributed almost every one from Castle in the Sky to The Wind Rises, plus the movie that led to Ghibli's founding, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in the US from 1998-2016; theatrical distribution rights for the Japanese versions and Disney's dubs shifted to GKIDS in 2011, and home media rights in 2017.
• Creator Backlash: When "Prison Broke" came out, Peter Paltridge wrote on the Toon Zone forum that he didn't consider it one of his favorite Mulberry comics. In fact, he kept putting off finishing it, so he could start making more interesting Platypus Comix stories. However, unlike other Mulberry comics that displeased Peter, he couldn't remove this one from the Mulberry archive, since it contains the conclusion to "Scary Berry".
• Development Hell: Peter hoped that Mulberry would have her own newspaper comic someday, but had trouble finding someone to syndicate her. Apparently, the strip would go something like this. The comics featured in BANG! each run about as long as normal stories, except with the reader-submitted content breaking them up.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: All of the Mulberry comics published in BANG! Magazine, except for "Hielten Sich Für Captain Kirk", "The Game of Life", and "GameSaw", achieved this status when the BANG! website lost the option to purchase digital copies of issues. Considering how many of them take inspiration from outdated trends or old news stories, it seems unlikely that Platypus Comix will post the remaining comics.
• Missing Episode: Several, but the absence of "Suddenly Mulberry" sticks out the most. After its removal, "Mulberry's 2004 Fall TV Preview" became the oldest comic in the Mulberry archive. A few obvious signs exist that something came before it: the cover reads, "the second one", and Mulberry acknowledges the comic's interrupting her actual first arc.
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • "Mulberry Killed the Brenda Starr" sees Mulberry and her friends consider buying the former Portland, Oregon headquarters of the periodical The Oregonian, which recently lost those offices due to cuts performed by the corporate sponsors.
  • "Things I Actually Saw at Rose City Comic-Con" recreates occurrences and experiences that Peter had at the eponymous convention.
  • Peter based the Microapartment building owner's scheme in "Game of Homes", to build an apartment building with no parking lot or individual kitchens, on the activities of the proprietor of a complex in Portland.
• Technology Marches On: "Miraculous Adventures of Ledyba And Meowth Noir" uses an older Pokémon GO interface, with a "Nearby" page showing six Pidgeys, as opposed to a "Sightings" page showing one Pidgey.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Peter has released a list of abandoned Mulberry stories.
  • Peter once planned to make a sequel to "Faces and Places #1", starring Far East Movement. Since he reportedly did not have time to make drawings for such a comic, he retooled this concept into an article in which he pretends to interview Far East Movement.
  • September 2013 would have seen the release of "Thanks, Obama!", in which Mulberry tries to defend Barack Obama from common complaints, only to discover him spying on her. Peter announced it on the same day that he gave release dates to the Keiki finale^note which would get indefinitely pushed back later and the Free Spirit (2014) premiere, but the government shutdown made the script already seem dated.