Dork Age/Newspaper Comics


 * For a while in The Sixties, classic comic strip Dick Tracy tried to capitalize on the ongoing Space Race by sending its characters TO THE MOON! One character even got married to a "Moon Maid". After the moon landing, however, the moon, and most of the sci-fi elements, were dropped from the strip, and Dick Tracy went back to old-fashioned crimefighting...

... only for the strip to almost immediately stumble into a second Dork Age with its faux-Blaxploitation/"street-wise" '70s style, including Groovy Grove, a "cool" sideshow freak with a body literally shaped like a corkscrew. (His body was a groove, see?)
 * For Better or For Worse is widely considered to have ended on one of these. Then restarted on another.