
Bomb Story: Lurking Adam never made it to see the light of day. In fact, he never even made it out of the trenches of the drafts folder. If you look closely, the illustration is still lacking and incomplete - in that sense, it's a rare one for Adam Bomb Squad. '80s babies know: Lurking Adam parodies one of the Rainbow Brite characters.| Background Story: Originating in Scotland as ""tartan,"" we now call this pattern of crisscrossed lines ""Plaid."" Growing up in Southern California during the '80s and '90s, plaid beach volleyball shorts were always in our purview, thanks to labels like Mossimo and Stüssy. When we elevated to making cut-n-sew apparel like button-ups in the early 2000s, plaids made their way into our language as a nod to both the surf culture of the West Coast and Polo's influence on the East. In fact, every plaid speaks to a different subculture. Buffalo plaids were woven into the early New York hip-hop lumberjacks. Shadow plaids on swap meet Pendletons. And The Hundreds plaids, for all.