Adam-Geddon

Released in January 2017 as the opening Garbage Pail Kids series of the year, Adam-Geddon brought the brats directly into end-of-the-world catastrophes. It marked the seventh thematic run since Topps committed to a twice-yearly schedule in 2014, landing on store shelves around presidential inauguration day with John Pound packaging art and logo styling by Colin Walton. The company pulled back on the checklist size for this outing, shrinking the base set down from 220 stickers to 180 cards organized into nine apocalyptic categories. Doom-laden children such as Cultish CARL, Nasty NOAH, and Four Horse- MANNY weathered extraterrestrials, deluges, and cataclysms, but outside creations like Brent Engstrom's bobbing kid and Fred Wheaton's vampire kid were excised before release when Topps felt they wandered away from the survival theme.

Pack contents were reshuffled to standardize cards per foil wrapper across configurations, settling on eight cards each for collector, hobby, and everyday retail packs. Retail and collector boxes arrived with twenty-four packs inside, but buyers hunting through big retail chains encountered a wide spread of options, from blister packs housing Adam Bomb's Armageddon stickers to jumbo fat packs holding nineteen base cards, three green parallels, and two exclusive Classic Adamgeddon cards. Five-pack blaster boxes also returned to store shelves with three exclusive bonus reprints inside, offering Bathroom Buddies at Target locations and Gross Bears in Walmart boxes. Overall manufacturing numbers plummeted, leaving total print production down twenty-eight percent when measured against the preceding Prime Slime Trashy TV release.

Parallels stayed faithful to bodily fluid splatters, starting with green Puke borders falling one per retail pack and black Bruised borders dropping in every collector pack. Yellow Pee splatters showed up at one in four Target gravity feed packs, while numbered parallels like blue Spit, stamped to 99 copies, and red Bloody Nose cards, limited to 75 copies, were reserved exclusively for collector packs. Fool's Gold borders, numbered to 50, were seeded across every pack style at one in 51 packs, though jumbo retail wrappers halved those odds to one in 26. Collector boxes also held an exclusive ten-card Best of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election insert set, which took existing artwork and paired it with fresh character monikers.

For hit seekers, each collector box promised a single hit, though pulling top cards across the entire run proved noticeably steeper than in previous years. Original sketches enlisted thirty-eight artists who produced standard sketch cards in retail and hobby boxes, shaped sketches and dual artist panoramics in collector packs, and panoramic sketches tucked into jumbo packs. Artist autographs, limited to twenty-five copies each across ninety subjects, appeared at one in 168 packs across product lines, while twenty patch cards featuring ten a/b variations, each numbered to 50 copies, landed at one in 36 collector packs.