The characters Ranklechick and Pumpernick first appeared in Reality Check!?
Yes, Ranklechick and his pal, the three-legged cat, Pumpernick first appeared in issue 3 of the original Reality Check! series (later this became chapter 3 of the collected edition of Reality Check!). In Reality Check!, Ranklechick was an Internet Ghoul who escaped onto the Virtual Internet System, much to the delight of Catreece. I think, looking back now, I placed Ranklechick and Pumpernick in Reality Check! because I really wanted to make these two little guys their own series, and I became impatient.
