« Dude, We're Totally Lost In Thargoid Space | Main | GameSetLinks: Weekend Leftovers, Innit? »

COMIC: 'Our Blazing Destiny' - Animal Crossing!!

[Our Blazing Destiny is a weekly comic by Jonathan "Persona" Kim about our society, cultural postdialectic theory, and video games. And about lovesick dramas between little super-deformed animal people and little super-deformed people-people.]

This week, Persona's words of wisdom are as follows: "I liked Animal Crossing better on the Gamecube than on the DS for some reason. I think there was something nice about leaving messages behind for a theoretical other player to see, presumably someone that lived in the same house and could access the game anytime. Of course, in my case, there was no other player so I was leaving clues behind for no one, except for occasional asshole friends who would come and chop all my trees down and bury mounds of trash everywhere.

I originally had in mind a more wispy color style for this comic but then soon realized that I didn't really know how to color like that. I think I should go up to the mountains and rededicate myself to learning how to draw wispy lines and delicate colors from women living in rock cabins who draw yaoi doujinshi while fighting bears and eating salmon!"

It is a game about animals and people mating in the forest! Get it??

[Jonathan "Persona" Kim is sometimes a character animation student at the California Institute of the Arts, other times a ninja illustrator, but in his heart, a true comic artist looking for his destiny in the sea of stars. His path on the torrid road of comics include a quarterly manga on The Gamer's Quarter and his website on the awesome collective, Mecha Fetus. Excitement is burning!

Comments

You left the R out of the URL for Gamer's Quarter...

I'm trying to come up with a joke about a "one-eyed monster" but nothing has come to me yet.

I knew from panel 2 the punchline had to do with Blanca's face, but then again who wouldn't have? XD

Man I have had so much fun with Blanca's face, and much kudos to this comic. I love this guy's work... keep 'em coming!

Nice touch on the lighting. Almost looks like a filter or a lighting layer. Though, knowing you, I know you did everything pain stakingly by hand.

I remember when me and some friends all had the Gamecube version, and the animals used to travel back and forth between our towns a lot. When Blanca first turned up, we sat for ages trying to decide what to turn her into. I had loads of suggestions- Darth Vader, a Stormtrooper, but they all got nixed. Then I had to go home.

Later that week Blanca turned up in my town painted as 'a black man'. Nice.

Post a comment



If you enjoy reading GameSetWatch.com, you might also want to check out these CMP Game Group sites:

Gamasutra (the 'art and business of games'.)

Game Career Guide (for student game developers.)

Games On Deck (serving mobile game developers.)

Indie Games (for independent game players/developers.)

GamerBytes (for the latest console digital download news.)

Worlds In Motion (discussing the business of online worlds.)


Weekly Archive

GameSetWatch is an alt.video game weblog from the people who run:



Copyright © 2008 Think Services